The United Nations nuclear watchdog declared on Monday that it had reached a “dead end” in its year-long effort to get Iran to clarify whether it covertly researched the development of a nuclear weapon.

Russia halts cooperaton with NATO, says it won’t install nukes but might sell anything to Syria that Assad asks.

With a $5 billion allocation in hand from Tehran, the Syrian delegation was bidding for the most advanced products of Russia’s munitions industry.

Western scientists intrigued by photos from Iran’s nuclear site
International Herald Tribune
Barbed wire and antiaircraft guns ring a maze of buildings in the Iranian desert that lies at the heart of the West’s five-year standoff with Tehran over its program to enrich uranium.
It is a place of secrets that Iran loves to boast about, clouding the [...]

On this Santa Cruz, California TV Show, Becky Johnson and Lee Caplan examine the videos and other evidence of Rachel Corrie’s death, including IDF footage of the incident.

The US National Intelligence Estimate on Iran, published in December, 2007 caused a major stir and serious reconsiderations among American allies in the Mideast and elsewhere by saying that Iran had stopped its nuclear weapons program in 2003 and was not likely to develop nuclear weapons in the forseeable future.