December 22, 2024

What to do about the Iranian threat

By Alireza Jafarzadeh
A multitude of foreign policy challenges, perhaps chief among them how to deal with the ayatollahs’ regime in Iran, awaits President-elect Barack Obama.
The global consequences of a nuclear-armed theocratic regime with an extremist, expansionist ideology were not lost on candidate Obama. He expressed a keen awareness that as president he must confront Tehran’s […]

Iran Looms As Nuclear Party Crasher

Few crises are more dangerous than a forced entry into the nuclear weapons club by an outlier nation. Iran seems determined to
ruin the honeymoon of the next American president by doing just that. 
Saturday, Aug. 2, 2008
by James KitfieldMissiles flare through the skies above Iran. U.S. and British warships stage all-hands-on-deck maneuvers in the Persian Gulf. […]

Appeasing Iran’s Mullahs

By: Kazem Kazerounian
Iran’s lobbyists in Washington are celebrating the White House announcement that U.S. Undersecretary of State William Burns will attend talks in Geneva between the EU foreign policy chief Javier Solana and Iran’s negotiator Saeed Jalili.
However, many political observers are puzzled by the unexpected change of heart of the U.S. administration of George W. […]

Exile group claims Iran is developing nuclear warheads

By MARC CHAMPION
The Iranian opposition group that first exposed Iran’s controversial nuclear-fuel program has given the United Nations’ nuclear watchdog details of what the group says is a working nuclear-warhead-development facility.
The facility at Khojir, a defense-ministry missile-research site on the southeast edge of Tehran, is developing a nuclear warhead for use on Iranian medium-range missiles, […]

Inside Iran’s secretive Qods Force

Claude Salhani
Since 2003 Iran has spent billions of dollars in Iraq, mobilized vast government resources and unleashed the Qods Force of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, all in an effort to spread its hegemony and the Islamic revolution, according to sources in the Iranian resistance. In a speech U.S. President George W. Bush delivered on […]

Iran Counter-Proliferation Act of 2007; H.R. 1400

110th CONGRESS
1st Session
H. R. 1400
AN ACT
To enhance United States diplomatic efforts with respect to Iran by imposing additional economic sanctions against Iran, and for other purposes.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE AND TABLE OF CONTENTS.
(a) Short Title- This Act […]

Lautenberg Measure To Penalize U.S. Companies Doing Business With Iran Introduced

Senator Takes Action To Make American Companies Like Halliburton Cut Business Ties With Iran
Michael Pagan (202) 228-6393
Wednesday, March 28, 2007
WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Sen. Frank R. Lautenberg (D-NJ) introduced a measure to deter subsidiaries of U.S-controlled companies from doing business in Iran.
“We cannot knowingly allow U.S. companies to do business with terrorist states like Iran. […]

Stop Arming Iran Act (Introduced in House); H.R. 1441 IH

110th CONGRESS
1st Session
H. R. 1441
To prohibit the sale by the Department of Defense of parts for F-14 fighter aircraft.
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
March 9, 2007
Ms. GIFFORDS (for herself and Mr. PEARCE) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the
Committee on Foreign Affairs, and in addition to the Committee on Armed Services, for a period […]

Remarks by Mr. Mohammad Alafchi at the UN Plaza NYC

Mr. Mohammad Alafchi
President of American Iranian Association- New York
October 13, 2004
UN General Assembly is once again meeting soon to address various issues of concern to the world body. Among these issues would certainly be proliferation of weapons of mass destruction and status of human rights. There are only a handful of countries that both of […]