Iran

NOVANEWS American activist Rachel Corrie The City Council of Tehran has announced that a street in the Iranian capital will be named after the American activist, Rachel Corrie. During a session on Tuesday, the council ratified a proposal to name a street after the activist, who is viewed by many as an epitome of resistance against Israel, Fars news agency reported. According to the proposal, the 27th street of Tehran’s municipal District Six will be named after Rachel Corrie. Corrie, a 23-year-old American activist from Olympia, Washington, and a member of the International Solidarity Movement, was crushed to death in the Gaza Strip by an Israeli bulldozer on March 16, 2003, when she intervened to prevent a Palestinian home from demolition. The Israeli Army claimed her death was due ...

NOVANEWS   Early this month, a Congressional hearing was held on Capitol Hill to make recommendation to Israel-Firster Hillary Clinton to take the Iranian terrorist group Mujahideen-e-Khalq (MEK) off of the US terrorist list. The hearing was headed by Rep. Dana Rohrabacher (R-CA), Chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations. He is welknown politician on Jewish payrol and supporter of Taliban. Recently, he visited Iraq and demanded that Iraqi government should compensate Washington for eight years of country’s occupation. Watch a video below. Dana defended MEK’s terrorist actions by saying: “Any group that chooses to use violence to resist doesn’t make them right or wrong. Backing people who fight against tyranny is also something the U.S. sh...

NOVANEWS Russia’s envoy to NATO Dmitry Rogozin says the NATO is planning a military strike against the Islamic Republic to overthrow the Iranian government. Rogozin said in an interview with Russia’s Izvestia daily newspaper published on Friday that the NATO was pursuing a long-reaching goal of preparing an attack on Iran, adding that the alliance intends to change governments whose views do not coincide with those of the West. “The noose around Iran is tightening. Military planning against Iran is underway. And we are certainly concerned about an escalation of a large-scale war in this huge region,” Rogozin added. The Russian envoy further pointed out that Syria and later Yemen could be NATO’s last steps on the way to launch an attack on Iran. This comes as there are speculations that...

NOVANEWS By Patrick Seale It’s now widely accepted – and lamented – that US President Barack Obama failed dismally in attempting to make peace between Israel and the Palestinians. Defeated by Israel’s hard-line Prime Minister Benyamin Netanyahu, and by Israel’s friends in the United States – lobbyists, lawmakers and neo-conservatives – the president simply threw in the towel. What is less well understood is that Obama was also defeated in another major area of foreign policy – relations with Iran. When he came to office he vowed to ‘engage’ with the Islamic Republic, but this admirable objective was soon supplanted by a policy of threats, sanctions and intimidation aimed at isolating Iran, subverting its economy and overthrowing its regime. Israel and its friends led the campaign again...

John Glaser The United States government has been hyping a supposed link between Iran and al Qaeda operatives, positing in particularthat a “safe haven” in Iran exists as “six terrorist operatives form a network that funnels money and personnel from the Gulf to Iraq, Afghanistan, and Pakistan via Iran.” Leaving aside the limited evidence ever given for such accusations, has America any right to condemn others for engaging in exactly the behavior it engages in every day? Coincidentally, Iran condemns the U.S. for supporting anti-Iranian terrorism all the time. Do the accusations have merit? Take, for example, recent moves by U.S. officials to remove Mujahedin-e Khalq from its terrorism registry, which would qualify it to receive U.S. funding, despite what Iran calls “a compelling record o...

NOVANEWS Interview with Dr. Arshin Adib-Moghaddam By Kourosh Ziabari Arshin Adib-Moghaddam Dr. Arshin Adib-Moghaddam is a political commentator and lecturer in the comparative and international politics of western Asia at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London. He was born in the Taksim area of Istanbul to Iranian parents and raised in Hamburg/Germany. He studied at the University of Hamburg, American University and Cambridge. He is the author of The International Politics of the Persian Gulf: A Cultural Genealogy, Iran in World Politics: The question of the Islamic Republic and A metahistory of the Clash of Civilisations. He is an Honorary Fellow of the University of Cambridge’s European Trust Society and he was the first Jarvis Doctorow Fellow at St Edmund Hal...

NOVANEWS German weekly Der Spiegel, quoting an Zio-Nazi intelligence source, says last week’s shooting was first ‘public operation’ orchestrated by Tamit Prado. Zio-Nazi’s Mossad is behind the assassination of an Iranian nuclear scientist last week, the German weekly Der Spiegel reported, quoting “a source in IsraHell’s intelligence community.” Last week, Dariush Rezaeinejad, a 35-year-old member of the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran, was shot dead by two gunmen firing from motorcycles. This is the fourth attack on an Iranian nuclear scientist in the past year. In the previous cases, Iranian media outlets and spokesmen accused the Mossad, the CIA and MI6 of being behind the strikes. “This was the first public operation of the new Mossad chief Tamir Pardo,” an IsraHell intelligence o...

NOVANEWS Josh Fattal, Shane Bauer, both to stand trial on Sunday, were arrested with Sarah Shourd by Iranian forces in July 2009; Shourd was freed on bail in September 2010 and returned to the United States. Iran may release U.S. citizens detained on charges of espionage, their lawyer Masoud Shafiee told Reuters on Saturday, a day before a scheduled court session for the two coinciding with the second anniversary of their detention. Josh Fattal, Shane Bauer and Sarah Shourd were arrested by Iranian forces in July 2009 on suspicion of spying after crossing into Iran from Iraq. Shourd was freed on bail in September 2010 and returned to the United States. Under Iran’s Islam ic law, espionage can be punished by execution. “Tomorrow it will be two years since my clients were jailed … I bel...

NOVANEWS   TEHRAN (AFP) – A bombing of a pipeline carrying gas from Iran to Turkey early Friday was carried out by “mercenaries” in the pay of Israel and the United States, and forced a cut in supply, Iranian officials said.  ”The export of gas to Turkey has been temporarily halted after an explosion struck the pipeline” in northwestern Iran, spokesman for the National Iranian Gas Co (NIGC) Majid Boujarzadeh told the oil ministry’s news agency SHANA.  According to Iranian media, the explosion occurred near the Bazargan border crossing, close to the city of Maku in Iran’s West Azarbaijan province,  ”The bombing which left no casualties … occurred at the hands of Zionist and American mercenaries,” Maku Governor Hamid Ahmadian told the ISNA news agency.  Bourjarzadeh said repair work...