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Iran warns U.S. Navy to keep out of Persian Gulf

A senior Iranian military official threatened on Tuesday to take action if the U.S. Navy doesn't keep its aircraft carriers out of the Persian Gulf, according to a report by Reuters. The warning came from Iranian army chief ... continue

Iran Test Fires the “Altar” Radar Evading Surface to Air Missile

Iran claims to have fires a highly advanced surface to air missile known as the "Altar" or "Mehrab" today in the Persian Gulf. Iran has been practicing naval maneuvers in the strategic waterway all week in response ... continue

Rick Santorum Says He’s Ready To Bomb Iran

GOP presidential hopeful Rick Santorum is currently soaring in the polls (third place) and he's using that new found popularity to promote the bombing of Iran should they refuse inspectors access to their nuclear enrichment facilities. Speaking on ... continue

Obama White House Selling F-15′s To Saudi Arabia, Worth $30 Billion

The Obama White House today announced that a deal to sell $30 billion dollars worth of advanced f-15 fighter jets to the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia has been finalized. Obama has stated that the deal is meant ... continue

U.S. And France Threaten Iran Over Possible Hormuz Disruption

The United States and France warned Iran on Wednesday that closing the Strait of Hormuz would bring with it swift and direct punishment. The Strait of Hormuz is the world's most strategic oil transit channel and follows along ... continue

Iran Adultery Case Could See Woman Hanged, Rather Than Stoned

A woman in Iran sentenced to death on charges of adultery may yet be executed by hanging, rather than the original sentence of stoning. Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani's case provoked an international outcry, after Iranian courts sentenced the 43-year-old ... continue

Merry Christmas: Iran Prepares War Games Just In Time For The Holiday’s

Iranian officials on Saturday announced a 10-day war games effort that will take place in international waters just beyond the Strait of Hormuz, a strategic oil transportation hub at the mouth of the Persian Gulf. According to reports ... continue

Iran Starts Building a Nuclear Weapon, US and Israel Strengthen Resolve

Unites States Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Martin Dempsey have been showing a dramatically different side of US policy towards Iran in recent days. Where for the last ... continue

Iran Admits That Sanctions Are Hurting The Country

Iran has always played the defiant country, claiming all along that Western economic sanctions have had little effect on the country however that tone changed this week when the countries oil minister acknowledged that a lack of ... continue

Panetta: Iran Months Away From Nukes, Obviously a US and Israeli Redline

"Despite the efforts to disrupt the Iranian nuclear program, they have reached a point where they can assemble a bomb in a year or potentially less," said US Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta in a CBS interview, ... continue

Iran Claims They Hacked US Drone GPS System

The Iran military is now claiming that they didn't so much shoot down the recently fallen US RQ-170 as they hacked it's GPS system and tricked the plane into landing on Iranian soil. According to a military source: "By ... continue

Iran Seeking Nuclear Know-How, Anti Aircraft Missiles For Access To Downed US Drone

Iran is really asking for it...it being access to the United States stealth drone RQ-170 it managed to get last week/ Russian and Chinese sent military intelligence teams to Tehran for access but it seems as if ... continue

Finders Keepers as Iran Will Not Return U.S. Drone

It's finders keepers for Iran as its Revolutionary Guard announced that they do not have any plans of returning a U.S. surveillance drone that their armed forces captured. Iran's military earlier said that they have managed to shoot ... continue

Iran Shoots Down US Drone, Promises More Actions

Iran's military announced on Sunday that they have managed to shoot down a U.S. reconnaissance drone in the eastern part of the country. According to Iranian officials the plane was shot down for violating Iranian airspace. Speaking on Iran's ... continue

Iran arrests 12 undercover CIA agents, IRNA reports

The Islamic Republic News Agency said on Wednesday that 12 undercover CIA agents have been arrested in Iran. Parviz Sorouri, a senior Iranian official, was quoted by the agency as saying that the spies were attempting to spy ... continue

Various CIA Spies Caught In Lebanon And Iran

A new report has surfaced in which more than one dozen CIA spies are said to have been captured by Hezbollah officials operating in Lebanon and Iran. According to reports the CIA "spies" were paid informants who were ... continue

Waterboarding, Iran: Obama Takes GOP Candidates to Task on Comprehension of Complex Issues

With the debate over raising the debt ceiling late this summer, one point of contention regarding the GOP's stance that comes up over and over is comprehension of the issue at hand. At the time, The Onion brilliantly ... continue

United States To Sell “Bunker Busting” Bombs To UAE In Order To Fight Iran

The United States isn't the only country worried about Iran's accelerating nuclear weapons program, many foes of the Iranian nation in the area have issued their own proclamations of concern over the terrorist friendly region and now ... continue

Netanyahu is a “liar” – Sarkozy

French President Nicolas Sarkozy thinks that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is "a liar." In a conversation with President Barack Obama where Sarkozy was unaware of a live microphone, he said: "I cannot bear Netanyahu, he's a liar." Obama replied: "You're ... continue