Salem-News.com News Feed for articles tagged with iran www.salem-news.com 2013 The Iranian government caught two "spies" who worked for the CIA and Mossad recently. The two men were hanged Sunday morning, the information of the capture and hanging came from the Iranian state news Press TV. http://salem-news.com/articles/may222013/cia-mossad-dp.php http://salem-news.com/articles/may222013/cia-mossad-dp.php Wed, 22 May 2013 01:11:00 PDT If an elected official uses their power to force Americans into a war with Iran on behalf of Israel, they are not working in the American interest. They are in fact committing treason; a crime or extreme act against one's sovereign or nation. http://salem-news.com/articles/may212013/iran-threatened-tk.php http://salem-news.com/articles/may212013/iran-threatened-tk.php Tue, 21 May 2013 21:37:00 PDT Tomorrow the Senate plans to vote in support of Israeli strikes on Iran. They are expected to pass S.Res.65, which urges that if Netanyahu decides to bomb Iran, the U.S. should provide full support. http://salem-news.com/articles/may212013/iran-attack.php http://salem-news.com/articles/may212013/iran-attack.php Tue, 21 May 2013 18:40:00 PDT Joseph Bidden, the US Vice president, announced that we are ready for direct negotiations and the ball is in Iran court. A few days later on Feb. 7th Ayatollah Khamenaei announced that the ball is in the US court and the US should look for a meaningful negotiations. http://salem-news.com/articles/april142013/iran-negotiations-ns.php http://salem-news.com/articles/april142013/iran-negotiations-ns.php Sun, 14 Apr 2013 10:32:00 PDT Barack Obama, it's suggested, had a marvelous opportunity in 2009 – having won the world's attention and expectations - particularly that of the Arab world – that he would change the course of American involvement, influence and dominion in the Middle East. In the event, what has transpired has fatally fallen short of what had been dreamed about. http://salem-news.com/articles/april132013/oyster-world-ba.php http://salem-news.com/articles/april132013/oyster-world-ba.php Sat, 13 Apr 2013 23:18:00 PDT Yesterday's Senate Finance committee hearing on bill 521 was scary. There was no attempt to hide the fact that 521 is an Israeli bill. They had scheduled the hearing so that a certain high Israeli official could be there to testify. http://salem-news.com/articles/april112013/ri-anti-iran-rd.php http://salem-news.com/articles/april112013/ri-anti-iran-rd.php Thu, 11 Apr 2013 16:27:00 PDT A strong earthquake measuring 6.1 on the Richter scale struck the town of Kaki near the southern Iranian city of Bushehr. At least 33 people were killed, and more than 850 were injured in the quake that hit the town of Kaki, some 90 kilometers southeast of Bushehr, at 4:22 pm local time on Tuesday. http://salem-news.com/articles/april092013/iran-quake.php http://salem-news.com/articles/april092013/iran-quake.php Tue, 09 Apr 2013 20:56:00 PDT A US Navy jet fighter has crashed into the Persian Gulf near the aircraft carrier USS Dwight D. Eisenhower, but the crew members survived the crash, the Navy has said. An engine failure presumably caused the F/A-18F Super Hornet’s crash on Monday, The Associated Press reported. http://salem-news.com/articles/april082013/navy-crash.php http://salem-news.com/articles/april082013/navy-crash.php Mon, 08 Apr 2013 19:27:00 PDT Watch out for a shift in war hawks. Before the Iraq war, at least a dozen in the U.S. Administration and major media spread enough propaganda to silence the majority of Americans. These hawks, acting more on behalf of Israel than America had a natural shill in the Iraqi Ahmed Chalabi who fabricated evidence about WMDs and al Qaeda in Iraq. http://salem-news.com/articles/april072013/shift-war-hawks-pb.php http://salem-news.com/articles/april072013/shift-war-hawks-pb.php Sun, 07 Apr 2013 23:32:00 PDT It is time to stop being Israel's Bitch! I renounced my US citizenship and the United States of Hypocrisy refused to acknowledge my right, our right, to self-determination. http://salem-news.com/articles/march272013/iran-media-ko.php http://salem-news.com/articles/march272013/iran-media-ko.php Wed, 27 Mar 2013 18:09:00 PDT Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei made this frank and reasonable statement that reminded me that Iraq also consistently denied it had WMDs but the Clinton and Bush regimes dismissed the denials (although they may have known the truth). Khameni said the best way to resolve the standoff would be for the West to recognize Iran's right to enrich uranium and agree to a monitoring process to ensure that it won't be used for weapons. http://salem-news.com/articles/march212013/listen-to-iran-mm.php http://salem-news.com/articles/march212013/listen-to-iran-mm.php Thu, 21 Mar 2013 23:30:00 PDT The U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) yesterday met with family members of Baha’is unjustly imprisoned in Iran. These family members seek to highlight the status of their family members and friends who have been persecuted and imprisoned solely for adhering to their faith. http://salem-news.com/articles/march132013/iran-religion.php http://salem-news.com/articles/march132013/iran-religion.php Wed, 13 Mar 2013 13:35:00 PDT Sanctions have been an important feature of the US foreign policy toward Iran since the victory of the Islamic Revolution in 1979. However, the evolution of international unilateral sanctions is a relatively new development (which has taken place since 2006). http://salem-news.com/articles/march122013/iran-sanctions-fm.php http://salem-news.com/articles/march122013/iran-sanctions-fm.php Tue, 12 Mar 2013 15:30:00 PDT Iranian and Pakistani leaders have inaugurated the construction of a much-delayed section of a $7.5bn gas pipeline linking the two neighbors, defying the threat of US sanctions. President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad launched the project with Asif Ali Zardari Monday, hailing the agreement as a blow to US-led sanctions targeting his country's oil and gas sector. http://salem-news.com/articles/march112013/pipeline-me.php http://salem-news.com/articles/march112013/pipeline-me.php Mon, 11 Mar 2013 21:10:00 PDT Americans for Peace Now (APN) today released the following statement with respect to two new AIPAC-backed legislative initiatives on Capitol Hill: Today members of the House and Senate will be meeting with AIPAC supporters. One of the goals of these visits will be to tell members of Congress what is "pro-Israel" when it comes to Iran. http://salem-news.com/articles/march052013/apn-aipac.php http://salem-news.com/articles/march052013/apn-aipac.php Tue, 05 Mar 2013 15:53:00 PST In Vengeance—Not a very Enlightened Strategy for Success, Richard Edmondson notes Vanunu's latest Message and 2nd Global Day of Action. So far, the only known Public Action to HELP FREE Vanunu is happening in California during the L.A. TIMES Festival of Books ... http://salem-news.com/articles/february232013/free-vanunu.php http://salem-news.com/articles/february232013/free-vanunu.php Sat, 23 Feb 2013 13:04:00 PST The new round of nuclear negotiations between Iran and the P5+1 group of world powers including the US, Britain, France, China, and Russia plus Germany, are less than 10 days away. Western countries say the most important demand of the P5+1 from Iran is to close down its nuclear facility at Fordow in return for lifting of certain sanctions against Iran. http://salem-news.com/articles/february212013/iran-talks.php http://salem-news.com/articles/february212013/iran-talks.php Thu, 21 Feb 2013 12:39:00 PST Azadeh, a graduate law student from Tehran University attending Iran’s Third Annual Hollywoodis reminded her interlocutors, of the damming admissions last week by two US politicians: It would be a defense lawyer’s worst nightmare to have one's clients, in this case the Vice-President of the United States and the outgoing Secretary of state confess so publicly to serial international crimes against a civilian population? http://salem-news.com/articles/february122013/iran-us-fl.php http://salem-news.com/articles/february122013/iran-us-fl.php Tue, 12 Feb 2013 18:19:00 PST Afghanistan says it will continue to purchase oil from Iran despite the US pressure on Kabul to stop oil deals with Tehran. http://salem-news.com/articles/february042013/afghan-iran-oil.php http://salem-news.com/articles/february042013/afghan-iran-oil.php Mon, 04 Feb 2013 19:03:00 PST America, the country that arrests decorated Marine combat veterans over Facebook posts, and destroys families for possessing a natural plant, marijuana, is politically attacking Iran again. This time, it is over an 8-year sentence from a man the U.S. government itself has dubbed, Iran’s “Hanging Judge”. http://salem-news.com/articles/january282013/uscirf-iran.php http://salem-news.com/articles/january282013/uscirf-iran.php Mon, 28 Jan 2013 11:43:00 PST Pre-emptive strikes were something unheard of prior to Israel's using them to cripple any power in the Middle East that might eventually be used against Israel. http://salem-news.com/articles/january262013/preemtive-strike-pb.php http://salem-news.com/articles/january262013/preemtive-strike-pb.php Sat, 26 Jan 2013 18:24:00 PST An explosion deep within Iran’s Fordow nuclear facility has destroyed much of the installation. The blast trapped about 240 personnel deep underground, according to a former intelligence officer of the Islamic regime. http://salem-news.com/articles/january252013/iran-struck-ri.php http://salem-news.com/articles/january252013/iran-struck-ri.php Fri, 25 Jan 2013 11:53:00 PST By contrast [to Senators Corker and McCain, the only opponent’s cited] former Secretary of State Colin Powell, who was chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff during the Gulf War, called Hagel “superbly qualified,” in an appearance Sunday NBC’s “Meet the Press.” “I think he's had a very, very distinguished public service record that he can stand on.” A maverick in an era of gridlock, Hagel riled many of his GOP colleagues for not supporting President Bush's conduct of the Iraq war. He alarmed senators on both sides of the aisle with his views on Iran and criticism of the power of the “Jewish lobby” in Washington. http://salem-news.com/articles/january142013/hagel-powell-mm.php http://salem-news.com/articles/january142013/hagel-powell-mm.php Mon, 14 Jan 2013 00:01:00 PST As Americans, many of us regard middle eastern countries like Saudi Arabia, Pakistan and Iran with a mixture of reluctant fascination and fearful repugnance. http://salem-news.com/articles/january122013/atefeh-gypsy-tg.php http://salem-news.com/articles/january122013/atefeh-gypsy-tg.php Sat, 12 Jan 2013 20:18:00 PST Reports persist about US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton having been injured in a recent plane crash kept secret from the public because it happened in Iran. http://salem-news.com/articles/january022013/clinton-plane-crash-tk.php http://salem-news.com/articles/january022013/clinton-plane-crash-tk.php Wed, 02 Jan 2013 15:56:00 PST At present, about 30 countries are directly or indirectly responsible for the prolongation of the ongoing crisis in Syria. This is the main reason why despite “outward” efforts by the United Nations, the crisis in the Arab country is expanding in dimensions with every day passing by. http://salem-news.com/articles/december262012/syrian-oppositioon.php http://salem-news.com/articles/december262012/syrian-oppositioon.php Wed, 26 Dec 2012 20:04:00 PST Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini returned to Iran after 14 years in exile and set out to destroy the secular opposition forces. These included the Communist Party of Iran, which had been instrumental in bringing down the shah. http://salem-news.com/articles/december182012/new-pharaoh-ch.php http://salem-news.com/articles/december182012/new-pharaoh-ch.php Tue, 18 Dec 2012 16:01:00 PST On November 27 an Associated Press story by George Jahn proclaimed “Exclusive: Diagram suggests Iran working on bomb three times the force of Hiroshima”. George Jahn is the same AP writer who in July 2011 spread a tale about an electrical-engineering student assassinated on a street in Tehran. http://salem-news.com/articles/december142012/ap-lies-again-rd.php http://salem-news.com/articles/december142012/ap-lies-again-rd.php Fri, 14 Dec 2012 14:06:00 PST Mordechai Vanunu received the disappointing but not unexpected news from Israel's Interior Minister, regarding his historic appeal seeking to revoke his Israeli citizenship. http://salem-news.com/articles/december122012/vanunu-revoke-ef.php http://salem-news.com/articles/december122012/vanunu-revoke-ef.php Wed, 12 Dec 2012 13:29:00 PST Iranian media reported Tuesday that their naval forces have successfully hunted down an American Scan Eagle surveillance drone. The aircraft reportedly violated Iran’s airspace while on an espionage mission over the Persian Gulf island of Khark on the southern coasts of Iran. http://salem-news.com/articles/december072012/drone-caught-kz.php http://salem-news.com/articles/december072012/drone-caught-kz.php Fri, 07 Dec 2012 23:06:00 PST