Markazi, Iran News

The Tehran Research Reactor where uranium enriched to 20 percent is used to produce medical isotopes.

The President of Iran has made a startling announcement... one sure to set alarm bells ringing throughout the White House, the Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad speaks during a ceremony to mark the 33rd anniversary of the Islamic Revolution, in Tehran's Azadi square February 11, 2012.

U.S. lawmakers have approved a Pentagon request for more than $81 million in funding to make improvements to a massive bomb designed to penetrate deeply-buried enemy facilities.

Shooting off his mouth again, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad threw down the gauntlet announcing Iran would soon highlight its nuclear breakthroughs.

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad delivers his speech under portraits of the late founder of the Islamic Republic, Ayatollah Khomeini, and Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei during celebrations marking the 33rd anniversary of the Islamic revolution in Tehran yesterday A defiant Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad vowed yesterday to ... (more)

In another display of infighting in the Islamic Republic's political arena, Parliamentary Speaker Ali Larijani has rejected recent statements accusing him of having vested interests in Qom that would disqualify him from running for a seat in the next Parliament.

Bunker Busters Aimed at Iran If you plan to bomb a nuclear enrichment facility built deep into a mountain, you need a really big bomb.

The Massive Ordnance Penetrator is the biggest bomb in the U.S. arsenal, capable of plunging through 60 feet of reinforced concrete and detonating 200 feet underground.

Iran will soon announce new "big" nuclear achievements, President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said Saturday on the occasion of the 33rd anniversary of the Islamic revolution.

The military's so-called Massive Ordnance Penetrator, a 30,000-pound bunker buster bomb, requires an "urgent" upgrade, according to Pentagon officials who are trying to ensure that 20 of the bombs are battle-ready -- possibly for use against Iran , though officials have been tight-lipped on potential targets.

Washington Post columnist David Ignatius created a tempest last week when he reported U.S. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta's prediction that Israel will attack Iran and its nuclear complex "in April, May or June." Ignatius's column was as startling as it was exasperating.

The United States is encouraging everybody to buy less Iranian crude, as little as possible, to find alternative sources of supply in the context of the economic squeeze, U.S. State Department spokesperson Victoria Nuland said at a daily briefing in Washington, U.S. State Department website reported.

IS IT all part of a carefully calibrated campaign of bluff and rumour intended to support tightening sanctions and bring Iran to the negotiating table, or is the ground really being prepared for an attack on Iranian nuclear facilities in the next few months? Perhaps it is neither and the people who count, yet to make up their minds, are frantically ... (more)

Opposition activists say Homs faces humanitarian catastrophe as essentials run out a Assad sends a brigade of T-72 tanks to Homs as reinforcements Wednesday afternoon a Turkish FM Davutoglu calls for international coalition to stop Assad's deadly crackdown a He is to meet Secretary Clinton in Washington and push a new Erdogan plan for Syria a ... (more)

TEHRAN On Wednesday, individuals, organizations, and political groupings called for a massive turnout for rallies that will be held on the 22nd of the Iranian calendar month of Bahman to commemorate the 33rd anniversary of the Islamic Revolution in 1979.

Judith Miller reports: The clock on Iran's acquisition of a nuclear weapon is ticking.

As Iran races ahead with uranium enrichment deep underground, the US has launched military exercises 'applicable' to the Strait of Hormuz Diplomatic sources say Iran is accelerating uranium enrichment as the United States and eight other countries stage a major amphibious exercise against a fictional nation that looks suspiciously like Iran, Gulf ... (more)

On January 29, Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta was interviewed on CBS news .A When asked about the situation with Iran, Secretary Panetta responded: "[I]f they [Iran] decided to [build a nuclear device], it would probably take them about a year A [and] a if they proceed and [if] we get intelligencea then.there are no options that are off the ... (more)

Vienna - Iran is believed to be expanding uranium enrichment activity deep inside a mountain, diplomatic sources said on Monday, a move likely to add to tension with Western powers that suspect Tehran is seeking nuclear weapons capability.

New sanctions imposed by the U.S. on Iran are intended to ratchet up the pressure on Tehran -- and perhaps take down the temperature of Israel , which is clearly worried about Iran's accelerated pursuit of nuclear weapons.