On Aug. 6, 2007, Iran’s state-run television announced that Iran has begun the large-scale domestic production of an indigenously designed combat aircraft. Dubbed the Azarakhsh (Farsi for “lightning”), the aircraft is reportedly designed for close air support. Iran's defense minister, Mostafa Mohammad Najjar, was quoted in state-run media as saying, ...read more

If President Bush is getting cold feet about launching an attack on Iran, Vice President Cheney might be arranging things so that he’ll have no choice. That’s the most eye-opening headline about Iran in a whole slew of them last week, coming after two months of, well, not much. In March, the ...read more

Q.: What about Iran? A.: I'm desperately looking for the time to visit Iran while that's still possible. But my take, from reading and talking to overseas Iranians, of whom there are more than a million in North America alone, is that attacking it would be insane. One reason is that ...read more