Up until now, I've been thinking the US has been making a big stink about Iran's nuclear programme over nothing: just another superpower hoping that their enemies will not be given their inalienable right to improve their lot. However, I've been reading more on the subject, and it looks like there may very well be a sinister undercurrent to Iran's ( Read more... )

See what happens when the US advocates a policy of pre-emptive strikes? Now, Binyamin Netanyahu is advocating a pre-emptive strike against Iran if they haven't been dissuaded to stop their nuclear reserach in a couple months. Although he is no longer prime minister of the country, he was back in 1996, and I think it likely that he could get elected ( Read more... )

Last week, the International Atomic Energy Agency released an independent report stating that Iran was not, in fact, developing nuclear weapons. This report corroborates almost everything Iran has said about its nuclear programme since 2003. However, the US is claiming that the report is wrong, and Iran is developing nuclear weapons, even though I ( Read more... )