Iran - The Source of Funding, Weapons and Technology Supporting Radical Islam
Iran has been singled out as the key problem the US is having in the middle East. Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, the president and mouth piece for the Ayatollah's, insist on the complete destruction of Israel. This one sticking point keeps the US and Iran from coming together by way of diplomacy and behind doors dealings. Diplomacy requires negotiation and a bit of give and take on both sides. This section on Iran is to highlight what is happening between the US and Ahmadinejad's Islamic State. As Iran makes the news we will post the stories and commentary below. Your opinion matters and we'd like to hear from you. Just scroll down below the form to get the latest on what Iran and Ahmadinejad is up to and what we're doing to keep them in check.
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Senior Iranian Commando Arrested in Iraq
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The U.S. military says it has arrested an alleged senior member of the Iranian security forces suspected of funneling weapons into Iraq.
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Iran test fires new surface to surface missile
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TEHRAN, Iran Iran successfully test-fired a new generation of long range surface-to-surface missile using solid fuel, making them more accurate than ...
US Designates Iranian Bank as 'Proliferator'
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The U.S. Treasury Department says the Export Development Bank of Iran is illegally helping the Iranian government violate United Nations sanctions.
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Iran 'opens naval base' near Gulf
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Iran has opened new naval facilities east of the Strait of Hormuz, the narrow entrance to the Gulf which is key to oil supplies, state media say.
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Iranian-Backed Terrorism Suspects Captured
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WASHINGTON Coalition troops in Iraq yesterday captured a suspected financier and four others associated with an Iranian-backed terrorist group believed ...
Special forces find proof of Iran supplying Taliban with equipment to fight British
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British special forces operating on the border between Afghanistan and Iran have uncovered fresh evidence that Tehran is actively backing insurgents fighting ...
Blueprints for advanced nukes sold
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A report compiled by a former UN arms inspector warns that an international smuggling ring that sold bomb-related parts to Libya, Iran and North Korea ...
Iran Turkey coordinate Iraq strikes
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A Turkish TV station is quoting a senior military commander as saying that Turkey and Iran have carried out coordinated strikes against Kurdish rebels ...
pressure Iran on nuclear issue
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The U.N. nuclear watchdog's report on Iran this week showed the international community must push for a faster response from Tehran over its nuclear program,...
Iran paid Iraq insurgents to kill UK soldiers
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Iran has secretly paid Iraqi insurgents hundreds of thousands of American dollars to kill British soldiers, according to a leaked government document obtained ...
Iran stops conducting oil transactions in U.S. dollars
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TEHRAN, Iran: Iran, OPEC's second-largest producer, has stopped conducting oil transactions in U.S. dollars, a top Oil Ministry official said Wednesday,...
New US Carrier in Gulf
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The U.S. Navy has temporarily added a second aircraft carrier in the Gulf as a "reminder" to Iran, but this was not an escalation of American forces in ...
Iranian president visit to Pakistan
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Iranian and Pakistani leaders resolved issues related to a multi-billion-dollar gas pipeline project opposed by the United States during the Iranian president'...
Iran Threat Real
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If any country takes the words of Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad more seriously than the United States, it is Israel. And that's not surprising:...
Justice tainted by western laws ayatollah
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Iran's chief prosecutor, Ayatollah Dori Najafabadi says that his country's justice is tainted by the west, and does not work.
"Justice in Iran does ...
British dealers supply arms to Iran
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Investigators have identified a number of British arms dealers trading with Tehran, triggering alarm among government officials who fear Iran's nuclear ...
Iranian Marked Weapons in Iraq
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BASRA The Iraqi Army discovered a large weapons and munitions cache in a house located in the Al Hyyaniyah area of Basra April 19.
Soldiers from the ...
Iranian Trained Special Groups Capturred
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BAGHDAD, Iraq Coalition forces captured a suspected Iranian-trained Special Groups commander and three other suspected criminals Sunday during operations ...
Iranian Afghan forces clash
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Afghan police clashed with Iranian forces at the southwestern border between the two countries, leaving one civilian dead and two Iranian officers wounded,...
Iran smuggling arms to Gaza by sea
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Iran has stepped up its efforts to smuggle weapons into the Gaza Strip by using floatable devices that it drops near the waters off the Gaza coast to be ...
Iran shells Northern Iraq
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Iranian artillery began shelling the villages in Sengeser sub-county and Pishder District of Sulaimani Province in Northern Iraq on Monday, a news service ...
Iraq Kurdish rebels threaten to attack Iran
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A Kurdish rebel group based in northern Iraq threatened on Sunday to launch bomb attacks inside Iran if Tehran fails to halt anti-Kurdish policies in the ...
Top Terrorist Emerges
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When Irans Brigadier Gen. Qassem Suleimani was leaving on a foreign mission a few years ago, his daughters begged him to bring back designer jeans.
It ...
Iran Fighting Proxy War in Iraq
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WASHINGTON Iran is engaging in a proxy war with the United States in Iraq, adopting tactics similar to those it has used to back fighters in Lebanon,...
US Navy deters Iran speed boats
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Apr 11 01:34 PM US/Eastern AFP
Three speed boats of unidentified origin approached a US patrol boat as it transited the Gulf but stopped after a warning ...
198 Dead and Over 600 Wounded US & British War Fighters-by the Iranians!
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The Pentagon released the figures confirming that Iran is actively taking part in Iraq. Combined with the Iranian Republican Guard soldiers that were ...
US Authorized to "Kill or Capture" Iranians in Iraq
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Fox News WASHINGTON U.S. soldiers have been given the green light to take whatever actions are necessary against Iranian operatives found inside Iraq ...
Iran Supplies Rockets to Insurgents in Iraq
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Sources in Tehran and Kurdistan disclose that, last month, two Iranian QW-1 and SA-7 missile consignments reached Iraqi insurgents allied with al Qaeda ...
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