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In Rush to Strike Syria, U.S. Tried to Derail U.N. Probe

by Gareth Porter | Aug 28, 2013

After initially insisting that Syria give United Nations investigators unimpeded access to the site of an alleged nerve gas attack, the administration of President Barack Obama reversed its position on Sunday and tried unsuccessfully to get the UN to call off its...

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Indictment of Iran for ’94 Terror Bombing Relied on MEK

by Gareth Porter | Aug 8, 2013

Argentine prosecutor Alberto Nisman based his 2006 warrant for the arrest of top Iranian officials in the bombing of a Jewish community center in Buenos Aires in 1994 on the claims of representatives of the armed Iranian opposition Mujahedin E Khalq (MEK), the full...

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Ex-Envoy’s Account Clarifies Iran’s 2003 Nuclear Decision

by Gareth Porter | Jul 31, 2013

Newly published recollections by the former French ambassador to Iran suggest that Iran was not running a covert nuclear weapons programme that it then decided to halt in late 2003, as concluded by U.S. intelligence in 2007. Ambassador Francois Nicoullaud recounted...

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No Evidence for Charge Iran Linked to JFK Terror Plot

by Gareth Porter | Jul 12, 2013

Alberto Nisman, the Argentine prosecutor who was prevented by Argentine President Cristina Kirchner from testifying before a U.S. House subcommittee investigating alleged Iranian terrorist networks in the Americas here this week, claimed in a recent report that Tehran...

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SOF Troops Still in Wardak as Joint US-Afghan Probe Continues

by Gareth Porter | Mar 12, 2013

Two weeks after Afghan President Hamid Karzai demanded the withdrawal of all U.S. Special Operations Forces (SOF) from Wardak province by this date, the issue remains suspended in negotiations between U.S. and Afghan governments. U.S. Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel...

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Former Insiders Criticize Iran Policy as US Hegemony

by Gareth Porter | Feb 26, 2013

“Going to Tehran” arguably represents the most important work on the subject of U.S.-Iran relations to be published thus far. Flynt Leverett and Hillary Mann Leverett tackle not only U.S. policy toward Iran but the broader context of Middle East policy...

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Bulgarian Revelations Explode Hezbollah Bombing ‘Hypothesis’

by Gareth Porter | Feb 18, 2013

WASHINGTON, Feb 18 2013 (IPS) - When European Union foreign ministers discuss a proposal to designate Hezbollah as a terrorist organisation, Bulgaria’s Foreign Minister Nikolay Mladenov will present his government’s case for linking two suspects in the Jul. 18, 2012...

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Iranian Bomb Graph Appears Adapted from One on Internet

by Gareth Porter | Dec 14, 2012

The suspect graph of a nuclear explosion reportedly provided to the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) as evidence of Iranian computer modeling of nuclear weapons yields appears to have been adapted from a very similar graph in a scholarly journal article...

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News Media Misled by IAEA Data on Sensitive Iranian Stockpile

by Gareth Porter | Nov 21, 2012

News stories on the latest International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) report suggested new reasons to fear that Iran is closer to a “breakout” capability than ever before, citing a nearly 50% increase in its stockpile of 20% enriched uranium and the installation of...

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Broadwell Defended Petraeus’ Village Destruction Policy

by Gareth Porter | Nov 15, 2012

Paula Broadwell, whose affair with Gen. David Petraeus brought his career to a sudden end last week, had sought to help defend his decision in 2010 to allow village destruction in Afghanistan that not only violated his own previous guidance but the international laws...

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