WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Iran is the No. 1 challenge to the United States, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said on Thursday after the Islamic republic’s leadership vowed no compromise with the West in a standoff over its nuclear programs.
You just know this is going to get nasty in the near future: TEHRAN (Reuters) – President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said on Thursday Western countries were vulnerable and would suffer more than Iran if they continued to try to impede its attempts to develop nuclear technology, local media reported. Speaking a day after it became clear […]
President Bush said Tuesday that democracies only reach their potential when women are allowed to fully participate in society, singling out Iran, North Korea and Myanmar as nations that are suppressing women’s basic rights. “America will help women stand up for their freedom, no matter where they live,” Bush said at a White House celebration […]
ABC NEWS WASHINGTON Mar 6, 2006 (AP)- Unless Iran executes a dramatic about-face and suspends all its nuclear activities, the U.N. Security Council will intervene “quite actively,” a senior State Department official said Monday. The message to Iran is that it has “crossed the international red line” and engaged in unacceptable enrichment activity “and there […]
AFP Reports AL-AHMADI, Kuwait (AFP) – Kuwait announced that it had made a major gas find in the north of the emirate that promised to sharply reduce its dependence on imports from the other Gulf states. “We can say now that Kuwait has entered the world of natural gas,” Energy Minister Sheikh Ahmad Fahd al-Sabah […]
Well I have been wondering where China would fit into the entire Iran debacle and now we might know: China is hastening to complete a deal worth as much as $100 billion that would allow a Chinese state-owned energy firm to take a leading role in developing a vast oil field in Iran, complicating the […]
It will be interesting to see how the administration tries to downplay this report: United Nations inquiry has called for the immediate closure of America’s Guantanamo Bay detention centre and the prosecution of officers and politicians “up to the highest level” who are accused of torturing detainees. The UN Human Rights Commission report, due to […]
Bloomberg has this interesting yet troubling piece of news regarding Bush’s new budget: Feb. 6 (Bloomberg) — Under President George W. Bush’s new budget, the federal deficit would decline gradually until 2010 and then start rising again, as the full impact of his requested permanent tax cuts and other proposals is felt. Bush’s budget for […]
Here is an interesting story about a blogger who has now found himself not welcomed in the United States: Bloggers have no privacy and should expect noneâ€â€Âa lesson painfully learned by a Canadian citizen who was recently turned away after U.S. border guards Googled him and pored over his blog to discover where he lives. […]
An agreement has been reached in the six party talks with North Korea. It still is lying short of a non-proliferation agreement but is considered a major stepping stone in progress. North Korea says they will abandon their weapons program but maintains the right to nuclear energy. The part that is not leaving me wondering […]