Category Archives: Iran

In “Iran: New Revelations Tear Holes in Nuclear Trigger Story,” Gareth Porter follows up on his earlier report that “U.S. intelligence has concluded that the document published recently by the Times of London, which purportedly describes an Iranian plan to do experiments on what the newspaper described as a “neutron initiator” for an atomic weapon, [...]

On 14 December 2009, The Times of London trumpeted what it claimed were notes produced in early 2007 “from Iran’s most sensitive military nuclear project” documenting Iranian plans to build and test a neutron initiator, a key component of an atomic weapon. The article received widespread international attention and called into question the US intelligence [...]

Last night, Iran’s official news agency declared Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad the landslide winner of Iran’s presidential elections, reportedly carrying nearly two-thirds of the votes. This morning, amid widespread allegations of electoral fraud, Iranian presidential candidate Mir Hossein Mousavi issued a brief statement that I have translated to English here: In the Name of God [...]