Did the three suspected Iranians terrorists in Bangkok reenact a scene from the early 1920s silent film comedies — the Keystone Kops featuring clumsy and incompetent fictional policemen? At first look, it would seem so. On Monday, Feb. 13, an explosion shattered a house in Soi Pridi Banomyong 31, in the Klongtan district of Bangkok, […]

With the winds of Israel-Iran war looming, albeit thus far primarily in the media, many observers speculate whether Israel will launch an attack on Iranian nuclear installations. With the Holocaust as a fresh memory, Israelis do not take lightly the Iranian leadership’s repeated threats to wipe Israel off the map. In 1929 Adolph Hitler used […]

Was it an accident that on January 11, 2012 in the Seyed Khandan neighborhood of northern Tehran an Iranian nuclear scientist was killed when a bomb was attached to his car by two passing motorcyclists? The fact that this attack was operationally similar to an attack on an Iranian nuclear scientist a year earlier suggests […]

It took only 30 seconds of a gunfight at the O.K. Corral, in Tombstone, Arizona on October 26, 1881 to make history, when only Wyatt Earp remained standing at the end of a seven-man gunfight. One hundred thirty years later, is the world facing yet another historic gunfight, this time in the Strait of Hormoz, […]

Ahmad Rezaee (31) an Iranian national was found dead on November 12, on the floor of room 23 on the 18th floor of Gloria Hotel on Sheikh Zayed Road in Dubai. When discovered, he had already been dead for three days, with a copy of the Holy Koran laid out next to his body. Unconfirmed […]

The League of Arab States has issued an ultimatum to Syria: cease all hostilities against your rebelling citizens by November 16, or face expulsion from the League. This is not a token threat: The next move could be an Arab military intervention condoned by the League. On Monday, November 14, the League announced that it […]

To bomb or not to bomb Iran’s nuclear installations, that is the question asked by many world leaders following the UN International Atomic Energy Agency report which provided the smoking gun: Iran is developing nuclear weapons. Inevitably President Ahmadinejad immediately rejected the report. The summary of his response is: defiance defiance defiance. Immediately after the […]