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Iran's Majlis mulls banning Samsung products over insulting teaser
A senior lawmaker says Iran’s Majlis is considering a plan to cut off the country’s economic transactions with South Korea’s Samsung in reaction to the company’s anti-Iran teaser.
Head of Majlis Energy Committee Arsalan Fat’hipour said the double-urgency plan, aimed at imposing a complete ban on buying all Samsung products, would make the company regret making the insulting...
Iran has uranium for 4 nukes, builds US-reach missiles - Israel
An image grab taken from footage broadcast by Iran's state-run Arabic-language Al-Alam TV on August 20, 2010, shows an image from an undisclosed location of what Defence Minister Ahmad Vahidi said was the test firing of the Iranian surface-to-surface missile Qiam, entirely designed and built domestically and powered by liquid fuel, a day before Iran was due to launch its Russian-built first nuclear...
Americans to rally against war with Iran
A large number of US-based organizations plan to hold a national day of action to demand "No war, no sanctions, no intervention, no assassinations against Iran."
A large number of US-based anti-war organizations have planned a nation-wide demonstration to demand Washington stop its warmongerings against Iran.
According to the StopWarOnIran website, “No war, no sanctions, no intervention,...
US nuclear submarine and destroyer enter Red Sea
Two ships of the US Navy, the nuclear submarine USS Annapolis and the destroyer USS Momsen have passed through the Suez Canal into the Red Sea. Although their destination is confidential, they are now getting dangerously close to the Persian Gulf.
The ships’ passage was a major operation for the Suez administration as due to safety reasons they had to close off the canal to all other traffic and...
Merkel to sway China against Iran
German Chancellor Angela Merkel
Despite Beijing’s outright refusal to join the EU and US-sponsored unilateral sanctions on Iran’s oil industry, German Chancellor Angela Merkel has arranged a visit to China to convince the country to reduce Iranian oil import.
A German government source told a news briefing on Tuesday that “It is in German interests that China does not raise its imports...
US vs Iran, coming this May!
Iranian Troops
Depending on how soon military contractors can get to work on a massive US Navy “mother ship,” a colossal sea vessel could be stationed outside of Iran as early as this May.
At a Department of Defense briefing at the Pentagon this weekend, authorities confirmed that the USS Ponce, a massive marine carrier currently docked off the Atlantic coast of Virginia, will undergo work to be...
War in Iran would mean WWIII
A huge picture of Iranian supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei is erected between a Sajjil (R) and Qadr-F (L) missiles
The military build-up and economic sanctions against Iran are designed to unleash a global war from the Mediterranean to China with unpredictable consequences, warns Michel Chossudovsky, Director of the Centre for Research on Globalization.
Tensions between Iran and the West are...
Israel ‘master of puppets’ in US Iran onslaught
Flag-draped family at a rally at the Capitol in Washington, May 22, 2011
America’s frenzy over “diabolic” Iran has its roots not on the Potomac riverside, but rather on the banks of Tel Aviv’s Yarkon River: appeasing the US Jewish community has become an inevitable idiosyncrasy of the US presidential campaign.
When America beats the drums of war over Iran, it may not always be driven by the...
Pentagon seeks new superbomb for Iran
Having considered the toughness of the rock-hidden Iranian nuclear facilities, America’s Nutcracker military command has decided to save jaw and develop a new conventional superbomb, since the US still plans to do the job in Iran without nukes.
Washington has once again reminded Tehran that it has the military capability to crack Iranian hard-target nuclear sites with conventional weapons, leaking...
West could target Russia, China next
A senior political analyst says Moscow and Beijing should not just sit by and watch the current anti-Iran threats and moves by the West as they are bound to be the next targets, Press TV reports.
“People like Russia and China had better figure out that if they just sit there and let these things happen, eventually they’ll be next,” Webster Griffin Tarpley, author and historian, said in an...
Iran finalizes bill to ban EU oil exports
Iranian lawmakers aim to ban all oil exports to European countries in response to the oil ban against Iran.
An Iranian lawmaker says the Majlis (parliament) Energy Committee has finalized a draft bill to stop the country’s oil exports to EU member states in reaction to the bloc’s recent decision to ban oil imports from Iran.
Nasser Soudani, deputy chairman of the committee, said on Saturday...
US and Israel revive largest joint anti-missile drills
Israeli and American officials put plans for a massive missile drill mysteriously on this month, but now the exercise, originally slated for this spring, will be scheduled for October 2012.
The drill, which will also signal a surge of American troops to Israel by the thousands, will mark the biggest test of its type for both nations. As tensions worsen between the US and Iran — as well as Israel...
BP exempted from US ban on Iran oil
Shah Deniz gas field
BP Plc, UK, and EU have reportedly convinced US lawmakers to exempt a BP-led project from the newly- proposed Washington sanctions on Iran.
This is a clear indication that the West is pushing for stricter embargoes on Tehran without harming its own economy.
US senators have discussed provisions that could bar companies like BP from working with the National Iranian Oil Company...
US troops waltzing into Libya while setting up Iran
It was recently reported that 12,000 American troops were in Malta waiting for “deployment” to Libya. Who do they think they are sending all those troops into a country they have no business entering? Who gave them permission? Do the American people even know their troops have invaded yet another country?
Did they get a UN Resolution giving them permission to INVADE the country? No, they...
Isfahan, Kyoto named sister cities
Iranian historical city of Isfahan and Japan’s Kyoto have been named sister cities on the sidelines of the meeting held at the Japanese cultural week in Isfahan.
While Iran and Japan have many common beliefs in culture such as hospitality, patience, respecting family and friendly manner, the decision was made to boost the two nations’ cultural ties, expressed Japan’s ambassador to...