Iran now has 11,000 centrifuges enriching uranium, President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad says. Ahmadinejad reported the figure at a meeting with the country's Supreme Leader, the Ayatollah Ali Khameini and senior regime officials late Tuesday. It is Khameini who makes the decisions about nuclear policy, and who has complete control over nuclear development technology projects.
"Oh Bashar's mother," they chant, "your husband's being fried in hell. You and your son are following too." The men are in good spirits. They have been driven back from the capital, but their offensive did better than anyone expected. And they are preparing for another go. What if the rebels win? I
A branch of the Al-Qaeda terror group based in Sinai claimed responsibility on Wednesday for the repeated attacks on the pipeline carrying gas from Egypt to Jordan and Israel. The claim of responsibility by the group, which calls itself “Supporters of Jerusalem”, came three days after the pipeline was blown up for the 15th
A video produced by the Temple Institute in Jerusalem, has apparently turned the Arab world upside down, sparking claims of "insults" to Egypt's new president and prompting the Temple Institute to clarify its motivations for creating the 90-second film. The Temple Institute is an educational, not-for-profit organization dedicated to the Biblical commandment to build
Iran's UN envoy accused Israel on Wednesday of plotting and carrying out last week’s suicide bomb attack on a bus in Bulgaria in which five Israeli tourists were killed. Five Israelis were killed when a terrorist blew himself up near a bus that was carrying Israeli tourists in Burgas. Israel accused Iran and Hizbullah
Amid intensifying violence in Syria, concern is mounting that al-Qaeda is trying to change the nature of the conflict against President Bashar al-Assad’ regime and is resorting to suicide bombings to “hijack” the revolution, the New York Times (NYT) reported on Wednesday. According to the NYT, while the Syrian opposition continues to deny any
General Masoud Jazayeri, deputy chief of staff of the elite Iranian Revolutionary Guards, warned Arab countries of funding or arming Syrian revolutionaries, while stressing the Islamic Republic’s support for Bashar al-Assad’s regime. “Syria’s allies will not allow Bashar al-Assad’s regime to be toppled and will deal fatal blows to the enemies of Damascus,” Jazayeri
All Turkey’s border gates with Syria are to be closed from Wednesday, an official from the Turkish Customs and Trade Ministry told Reuters, in response to worsening security conditions. Syrian rebels seized control of several gates on the Syrian side of the frontier over the last week in their 16-month-old uprising against President Bashar
The first draft of a U.N. treaty to regulate the $60 billion global arms trade was slammed on Tuesday by activists as having “more holes than a leaky bucket” as negotiators scramble to reach a consensus by Friday. One person every minute dies from armed violence around the world, and arms control activists say
Syrian President Bashar Assad should attack Israel, says an Iranian newspaper considered the mouthpiece of the Supreme Leader. Iran is concerned that the fall of Assad's regime will cost the Islamic Republic its closest ally and could ignite anti-Syrian elements in Lebanon, base of the Iranian-funded Hizbullah terrorist organization and political party. The
