Opinion: The Iranian Mood
by Iran.us News Robot
on 06/18/2013 - 04:00 pm
Category: Iran News
Asharq Al-Awsat -- The election of Hassan Rouhani—a moderate, pragmatic conservative around whom the forces of reform were united in the recent Iranian presidential elections—was a surprise according to many Western reports trying to analyze whether there will be change in Iran. However, the fact is there were indications pointing to this result.
The scenes of jubilation and great joy witnessed in many Iranian cities, including Tehran–especially among the middle class–after the announcement of the result, as well as the high election turnout, may demonstrate a number of things. The most important of these is that there is a changing ...
What next for Iran?
by Iran.us News Robot
on 06/18/2013 - 04:00 pm
Category: Iran News
MarketWatch -- They say that Xerxes, the king of Persia, was depressed for the remainder of his days after his invasion of Greece — the largest Europe ever faced from Asia — ended in defeat.
The career of Persia’s current autocrat, Ali Khamenei, has reached that point.
No, Iran’s supreme leader is not known to be on Prozac, and the president-elect he now faces is not the liberal antidote the Islamic Republic’s condition requires. Yet the Iranian people have effectively told the grand ayatollah what Xerxes eventually told the remnants of the armada he had originally unleashed into the horizon: Retreat.
Iran boots indigenous missile precision
by Iran.us News Robot
on 06/18/2013 - 04:00 pm
Category: Iran News
A high-ranking military commander says Iranian experts have enhanced the precision of domestically-designed and manufactured Khalij-e Fars (Persian Gulf) supersonic anti-ship ballistic missile to 8.5 meters.
Commander of the Aerospace Division of the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) Brigadier General Amir-Ali Hajizadeh said Iranian defense experts have increased the precision of the missile to less than 8.5 meters, down from the previous figure of 30 meters which was registered during its successful test in July 2012.
He noted that the delivery of Khalij-e Fars anti-ship ballistic missiles to the IRGC naval fo ...
Israel won't accept less than total halt of Iran's nuclear enrichment
by Iran.us News Robot
on 06/18/2013 - 04:00 pm
Category: Iran News
Haaretz Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Tuesday that Israel will not accept Iranian uranium enrichment at any level.
"We cannot accept anything less than the total cessation of all enrichment of nuclear materials at all levels, removal from Iran of all enriched nuclear material, closure of Iran's illicit nuclear facilities," Netanyahu said during a meeting with Canadian Foreign Minister John Baird.
"Until Iran meets these demands, pressure must be stepped up and Iranian nuclear program must be stopped. Period."
Netanyahu warned against the new Iranian President ...
