Grand Ayatollah Hossein Ali Montazeri, Iran’s most senior dissident cleric, has died.
The microblogging site was down for nearly an hour, leaving millions in the eastern hemisphere tweetless.
A US man has become the longest-serving prisoner to be freed after DNA evidence proved he was innocent of the crime he was convicted of three decades ago.
“We have the capacity, and Iran is vulnerable,” insisted Charles F. Wald, a retired U.S. Air Force general who served as deputy commander of the U.S. European Command. “It’s totally false that we cannot attack Iran’s nuclear sites.”
There is only one nuclear power station under construction in Iran, and there are none that are operational.
Russia plans to start up Iran’s first nuclear power station in March 2010 to coincide with the Iranian New Year, two sources closely involved with the project told Reuters.
In Switzerland the soul-searching has begun following Sunday’s nationwide referendum in which voters surprisingly backed a plan to ban the construction of minarets.
Iran’s leadership seems frozen in time. Its rulers are still blaming the United States for their country’s many woes. But today, most Iranians no longer believe them. That’s why it’s tragic that the country’s brave reformers feel utterly abandoned by President Obama.
It is clear that Iran is headed in the direction of arming itself with nuclear weapons. It will soon join Pakistan as the second Muslim country in the exclusive nuclear-arms club.
Evangelical Christian and Jewish leaders are calling for immediate sanctions against Iran to discourage the government from developing nuclear weapons.
