DiarySource: London Review of Books
June is never a good month on the plains. It was 46ºC in Fortress Islamabad a fortnight ago. The hundreds of security guards manning roadblocks and barriers were wilting, sweat pouring down their faces as they waved cars and motorbikes through.

So November 4 in Iran is over. Iranians all over the country came out in big and small numbers yet again to demand that their rights be granted and that the government stop its oppression. They chanted slogans, marched through the streets and showed that they still exist.
Neda's mother: She was 'like an angel' - CNN.comSource: CNN
The night before she was killed on the streets of Tehran, the woman the world would come to know simply as Neda had a dream. "There was a war going on," she told her mom the next morning, "and I was in the front."
Israel Navy Captures Arms ShipSource: The New York Times
JERUSALEM (AP) -- Israeli naval commandos seized an arms ship Wednesday near Cyprus that was carrying missiles and anti-tank weapons from Iran to Hezbollah guerrillas in Lebanon, defense officials said.
What Really Prompted Iran to Build the Qom Enrichment Facility? Source: CounterPunch.org
The Obama administration claims that construction of a second Iranian uranium enrichment facility at Qom began before Tehran's decision to withdraw from a previous agreement to inform the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) in advance of such construction.
Blackwater involved in Bhutto and Hariri hits: former Pakistani army chiefSource: Tehran Times
TEHRAN - Pakistan's former chief of army staff, General Mirza Aslam Beg (ret.), has said the U.S. private security company Blackwater was directly involved in the assassinations of former Pakistani prime minister Benazir Bhutto and former Lebanese prime minister Rafik Hariri.
Iran wages lonely war on terrorSource: Asia Times
The timing of the attack on the Ali ibn Abi Talib mosque in the eastern Iranian city of Zahedan in the Sistan-Balochistan province bordering Pakistan was by no means casual. Zahedan is a Sunni city.
Russia's 'Nyet' And America's Naivete. 10-14-09. 07:14 PM ET Source: Investors Business Daily Editorials
Geopolitics: America's new clout from the Nobel Peace Prize somehow didn't persuade Russia to help pressure soon-to-be-nuclear-armed Tehran. But then, for nearly 20 years Moscow has been helping Iran go nuclear.
The U.S.-Iranian TriangleSource: The New York Times
NEW YORK - France and Germany fought three wars in 70 years before the bright idea dawned of enfolding their problem into something larger: the European Union. The United States and Iran have not gone to war but have a relationship of psychotic mistrust.
Iran warns Israel of "last breath" if it attacksSource: Reuters
TEHRAN - Iran's defence minister warned arch-foe Israel on Monday against launching any attack on the Islamic Republic, saying it would only speed up the Jewish state's own demise.
West Raps Iran Nuclear SiteSource: Wall Street Journal
PITTSBURGH -- The leaders of the U.S., France and Britain charged Iran has built a secret nuclear facility designed to give the Islamic republic the ability to build an atomic weapon, a revelation that significantly raises the stakes in the West's intensifying face-off with Tehra …
U.S. to Accuse Iran of Having Secret Nuclear Fuel Facility - NYTimes.comSource: The New York Times
PITTSBURGH — President Obama and the leaders of Britain and France will accuse Iran Friday of building a secret underground plant to manufacture nuclear fuel, saying it has hidden the covert operation from international weapons inspectors for years, according to senior administ …
AP NewsBreak: Nuke agency says Iran can make bombSource:
Experts at the world's top atomic watchdog are in agreement that Tehran has the ability to make a nuclear bomb and is on the way to developing a missile system able to carry an atomic warhead, according to a secret report seen by The Associated Press.