Andy Borowitz: U.S. to Send One Troop to Iran

Andy Borowitz / Truthdig Apr 14, 2006 The political satirist reports on Rumsfeld's plan to punish the government of Iran for its nuclear ambitions by sending the one troop to Tehran. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Poll: Most Don’t Trust Bush on Iran

Staff / Truthdig Apr 14, 2006 Forty-eight percent support striking Iran if it continues down its nuclear course, but a majority do not trust the president to make the "right decision," according to an L.A. Times-Bloomberg poll. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Powell’s Iraq Admission Reverberating

Staff / Truthdig Apr 13, 2006 Colin Powell's controversial claim (made to Truthdig Editor Robert Scheer) that he never believed Iraq posed an imminent nuclear threat has renewed the debate about Powell's culpability in the Iraq debacle. Check out Vanity Fair's Chris Hitchens and Newsweek's Evan Thomas discussing the issue on "Hardball" or read Jane Hamsher's take at Firedoglake. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )

Iran Joins the Nuclear Club, Moves Toward Large-Scale Enrichment

Blair Golson / Truthdig Apr 12, 2006 Tehran successfully enriched uranium for the first time on Tuesday, and signaled its intention to expand the program rapidly. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Robert Scheer: Now Powell Tells Us

Robert Scheer / Truthdig Apr 12, 2006 Colin Powell told me that he and his department's top experts never believed that Iraq posed an imminent nuclear threat, but that the president followed the misleading advice of Vice President Dick Cheney and the CIA in making the claim. Dig deeper ( 4 Min. Read )

Revving Up for Airstrikes on Iran?

Staff / Truthdig Apr 9, 2006 Contrary to the official "diplomatic solution" line, Seymour Hersh reports that Washington is stepping up plans for a possible airstrike on Iran. According to Reuters, Hersh's story in the April 17 issue of The New Yorker reports that a former senior defense official said the planning was, in Hersh's words, "based on the belief that a bombing campaign against Iran would humiliate the leadership and lead the Iranian public to overthrow it." The ex-official reportedly added that he was shocked to hear the strategy. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Scott Ritter Argues That Iran Poses No Real Threat

Staff / Truthdig Apr 9, 2006 Former intelligence officer and United Nations weapons inspector Scott Ritter cuts through a recent L.A. Times story which claimed that "Iran could manufacture enough highly enriched uranium to build a bomb within three years." He provides a rather technical, but extremely convincing, argument for why it is unlikely that Iran could pose a nuclear threat anytime soon. (video: h/t Crooks and Liars) Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Nuke Expert: Some U.S. Officials Set on Hitting Iran

Staff / Truthdig Apr 1, 2006 A growing number of high level American officials have already decided they want to attack Iran, according to one of the world's leading nuclear proliferations experts. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Bush Was Warned Repeatedly on Aluminum Tubes

Staff / Truthdig Mar 31, 2006 Karl Rove kept the public from knowing before the 2004 election that Bush had been apprised "directly and repeatedly" that Saddam's infamous aluminum tubes might have been for conventional--not nuclear--weapons. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )

U.S. Envoy: Iran Supporting Iraq Insurgents

Staff / Truthdig Mar 24, 2006 The pretense has been shattered The US is explicitly accusing Iran of supplying money and training to anti-U fighters in Iraq . Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Iran Agrees to Talks With U.S.

Staff / Truthdig Mar 16, 2006 An Iranian security official announced today that Iran has accepted our request to engage in a discussion of Iraq's political future It seems that the White House has turned, hat in hand, to its latest "boogeyman" to save our bacon in Iraq See Juan Cole's "Fishing for a Pretext to Squeeze Iran". Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

The Making of the Boogeyman, 2006

Staff / Truthdig Mar 16, 2006 As part of Bush & Co.'s campaign to turn Iran into the next imminent threat, Condoleezza Rice calls Tehran a "central banker for terrorism." So, just to get this straight: Iran is the new Iraq, which was the new Afghanistan, which was the new Russia? Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )