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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Strikes have been carried out against two targets linked to Iran in Baghdad on Thursday, U.S. officials told Reuters. The officials, speaking on the condition of anonymity, declined to give any further details.

When world leaders meet with Iranian leaders in Istanbul Friday, topic No. 1, of course, will be Iran’s nuclear program. But a variety of present and former security officials, members of Congress and others say the United States and other western nations are paying too little attention to a problem of near-equal gravity: Iran’s open support of terror and criminal groups all over the world. Not since the fall of the Soviet Union has any nation so aggressively pursued alliances with bad actors in so many places worldwide, acknowledged Reuel Marc Gerecht, a former CIA officer who focused primarily on...

AFP - the Sweden ambassador to Iran, Mrs Gunilla von Bahr, met today her iranian counterpart because Teheran had decided to blame Sweden for a cartoon published in a swedish paper where Muhammad was drawn standing with a dog's body. The story just showed up. Updates available soon. Be ready for the second episode of Muhammad's cartoons global jihad.

Iran: a ticking nuclear bomb By Larry Elder Jan 26, 2006 Iranian President Mahmoud "the-Holocaust-is-a-myth" Ahmadinejad does not deny his intentions. He stated that Israel should be "wiped off the map." And "God willing, with the force of God behind it, we shall soon experience a world without the United States and Zionism." The part about wiping Israel off the map received widespread attention. But our mainstream news media seemed less interested in the other part of Ahmadinejad's speech, in which he looked forward to a "world without the United States." Bellicose statements from Iran are certainly nothing new. "The...

Happy Nowruz to each + every one of my fellow Iranians: I want to talk to the Iranian-Americans who come to this website. Guys, we are celebrating the beginning of spring, and our traditional New Year. We're enjoying our Haft-Seen and our gaz and pashmak and enjoying our 2500+ year old tradition. In the meantime, we have adopted a new homeland, the USA. Now, whatever we may think of USA's foreign policy (oh, sure, we disagree with some of the policy, and we question some of the others) but no person who is fair is going to dispute that USA...