While Barack Obama disses the closest of US  allies, by both returning a bust of Winston Churchill, as well as barley acknowledging Gordon Brown’s visit, it appears that he is snuggling up to sworn enemies of the US. Kind of odd diplomacy, isn’t it? With news that Obama plans on lighten...

Jason Maoz writes: It would be easier to take Cohen’s reporting from Iran at face value if one weren’t acquainted with his biases and preconceptions, but by writing the following he sort of gave the game away even to readers less familiar with his history of sanctimonious posturing: &nbs...

(Pictured: Roger Cohen) New York Times columnist Roger Cohen wrote a piece earlier this week ("What Iran's Jews Say," Feb. 23) that brought to mind the naïve and insidious reporting by such legendary Times dupes as Walter Duranty and Herbert Matthews, whose whitewashing, respectively, of the Soviet...

"Iran is dying. The collapse of Iran's birth rate during the past 20 years is the fastest recorded in any country, ever. Demographers have sought in vain to explain Iran's population implosion through family planning policies, or through social factors such as the rise of female literacy. But q...

When Ayatollah Ruhollah Musavi Khomeini died in June 1989, he was the first ruler of Iran for more than 80 years to die peacefully at home in his native land, rather than in exile or at the hands of an executioner. Iranian government tributes hailed him as "the most divine personality in the history...

Image via Wikipedia Asia Times Online A provocative new satellite named Omid (Hope), which was launched by Iran last week, has certainly made its mark in space. For China, Omid represents an unusual opportunity, indeed a gift from Iran. The longstanding debate about China's role with Iran in space h...

November 1978 As the storm is about to break, Woollacott – in a typically astute piece of analysis – describes Iran's deep divisions with an eye on the instability to follow. He quotes one government supporter as saying: "The shah has become a symbol of everything wrong with Iran, that is why pe...

White House Transcript Of Barack Osama Hussein bin Laden Obama's First Presidential Phone Call: President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad: I don't wanna hear about no motherfuckin' ifs. All I wanna hear from your ass is, You ain't got no problem, Mahmoud. I'm on the motherfucker. Go back in there, chill them Je...

One economist says the relative calm is because almost everyone is hurt. When everyone suffers a setback, you don’t feel as bad about your setback. Dennis Prager took the media to task for focusing on the relative casualties in the fight between Israel and Hamas. So Israel has only lost four p...

Karmel Melamed reports: Businessman and philanthropist Ezri Namvar was once a pillar of the local Iranian Jewish community, a trusted friend to whom many in the community loaned freely and without fear. Now Namvar and his investment company, Namco Capital Group, Inc., are accused of losing as much a...