Iran

The Republican presidential candidates gathered yesterday in Dearborn, MI for the first debate including candidate Fred Thompson.  While most of the discussion focused on economic issues, [...]

I reported last week about the vote on the Lieberman-Kyl amendment, recommending that the US government designate the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps as a terrorist organization.  While [...]

The Senate voted this morning on the politically charged Lieberman-Kyl amendment about Iran’s alleged destabilizing presence in Iraq.  At a critical time when Congress should be [...]

Yesterday, Iranian President Mahmouhd Ahmenajad spoke at Columbia University.  His appearance was met with controversy and intrigue around our country.  Everyone was so upset that Columbia would [...]

Iran has been all over the news again this week.  It seems that much of the building tension around US relations with Iran exploded in outrage at President Ahmadinejad’s controversial visit [...]

In the midst of escalating tensions between the US and Iran, IAEA Director General Mohamed El-Baradei has become a somewhat controversial figure.  The Washington Post recently published a [...]

It is hard to believe how much in our world has changed since the events of September 11th. I do not intend this post to paint a rosy picture of the world before the towers fell, only to mark how [...]

The Washington Post printed a Peace Action West letter in response to last week’s article about the “failure” of diplomacy with Iran: Room for Diplomacy on Iran Regarding the [...]

Earlier on this blog I commented on Sen. Hillary Clinton’s attack on Sen. Barrak Obama and his stance on nuclear weapons. Frankly, I believe (like many of you) that neither candidate has fully [...]

Barack Obama’s statement, last Thursday, that he would not use nuclear weapons “in any circumstance” to fight terrorism in Afghanistan and Pakistan and drew criticism from chief [...]