NIAC Urges US-Iran Descalation in Iraq
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Sunday, December 29, 2019 CONTACT: Mana Mostatabi | 202.386.6325 x103 | [email protected] NIAC Urges US-Iran Descalation in Iraq Washington DC – In response to reports that the U.S. has carried out military strikes against an Iraqi militia after a rocket attack that claimed the life of an American civilian contractor, NIAC’s Senior […]
Iran News Roundup 01/18
Israel acknowledges Iran has yet to decide to pursue a nuclear weapon Israeli officials will reportedly present an intelligence assessment next week that Iran has not yet decided to pursue a nuclear weapon. This comes as the Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Gen. Martin Dempsey visits Israel next week. Additionally, Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak […]
Iran News Roundup 01/17
U.S.-Israel missile defense drill cancelled as concerns grow over Israeli attack against Iran Senior military officials announced that the largest joint US-Israel missile defense drill has been postponed (Reuters 01/15). Israel officially claimed this was due to budget cuts, but some U.S. and Israeli officials said the exercise was mutually postponed to not inflame tensions with […]
Iran News Roundup 01/13
CIA memos uncover Mossad “false flag” operations A series of CIA memos, written during the George W. Bush’s administration, describes how Mossad agents, pretending to be American agents and carrying US passports, reportedly recruited the terrorist group Jundallah to carry out a covert war against Iran (Foreign Policy 01/13). U.S. sends warning to Iran’s Supreme […]
Will the Obama Administration Listen to Gates or Neo-Cons?
As a Bush Administration holdover, Defense Secretary Robert Gates has largely avoided Republican attacks. A Republican working in a Democratic administration, Secretary Gates seems to enjoy broad support on both sides of the aisle, and his policy recommendations are generally approved of enthusiastically by both political parties. His recent comments on Iran, however, have the […]
Israeli Official’s Call for Imminent Iran Blockade is Really a Call for War
Hyperbole reached new heights this week when Israeli Finance Minister Yuval Steinitz told the Council of Presidents of Major Jewish Organizations on Monday that a blockade will be necessary in two to six months to give “Iran a deadline to change its behavior.” Steinitz, a member of Benjamin Netanyahu’s Likud Party and a former protégé […]
Military Attack on Iran: A Combination of Ignorance and Naivety
As always, those who talk about what US policy towards Iran should look like, are already prepared for failure of current US policy. Now Senator Joe Lieberman is preparing to “up the rhetorical ante” on Iran and endorse military actions if sanctions fail In an excerpt of what his staff has labeled a “major policy […]
Iran’s Bond-Villain Plan for Naval Superiority
Iran has purchased a super-advanced speedboat and is going to use it to sink an American warship in the Persian Gulf! Well, we don’t know for sure that they’re using it to sink an American warship, but they’re definitely up to something. Actually, there’s not even any evidence that the boat is for military purposes; or […]
Iran at a Crossroads – LIVESTREAMING Here
UPDATE: It’s confirmed, we’ll be Livestreaming our conference here at niacINsight tomorrow. So tune in between 9:00 and 2:00 to see what’s happening! Iran used to be a pretty black-and-white issue. You either wanted war, or not. Diplomacy, or not. Regime change, or not. Those days of simple choices between two clear opposites–they’re long gone. […]
Neocon Think Tank: US Should Prepare for Nuke War with Iran
Most people outside of Washington DC probably don’t hear about the neoconservative Heritage Foundation very often. It’s true that the “golden age” of neoconservatism is long gone, so groups like theirs sometimes have to resort to extraordinary and often spectacular measures for their work even to get noticed. I would like to believe that the […]
Merry Christmas. Bomb Iran.
Stunning. That’s the only word to describe what was printed in the once-respected op-ed page of the New York Times today. Alan Kuperman argues in his op-ed titled There’s Only One Way to Stop Iran, that In the face of failed diplomacy, eschewing force is tantamount to appeasement. We have reached the point where air […]
There is a military option on Iran — and it stinks
This came to us from an Iran analyst that we work closely with here in DC: ================================================== Included in today’s Wall Street Journal is an op-ed from Gen. Chuck Wald (U.S. Air Force four-star, retired) arguing for serious consideration of military action against Iran if diplomacy fails. The crux of the general’s argument is below: “Of […]