Turkey’s Foray Into the Fertile Crescent – NYTimes.com

Talks in Kazakhstan between Iran and six world powers over Iran’s nuclear program ended optimistically. Both sides agreed to hold further talks in March.

Iran steps up arrests, torture, executions of dissidents: U.N.

Iran’s Lebanon arm

The Path To War

Iran Fiscal 2013 Draft Budget Projects 40% Drop in Oil Revenue

AP INTERVIEW: Iraq PM warns Syria war could spread

Pictures show construction on sensitive Iranian military site

U.S. official: Iraq continues to allow Iranian overflights to Syria

Iran’s Arak nuclear plant, capable of producing plutonium for nuclear weapons, became fully operational. At nuclear talks in Almaty, Western nations offered to relax financial sanctions on Iran in exchange for a halt in the development of its Fordow uranium enrichment plant.

US lawmakers seek to further isolate Iran with sanctions

According to Hossam Taleb Yaacoub, a Hezbollah member arrested last July in Cyprus, Hezbollah is “collecting information about the Jews…everywhere in the world.”

Iran’s nuclear plan: Arak’s air defences revealed

Iran Enters Nuclear Talks in a Defiant Mood

Talks between Iran and six world powers over its nuclear program restarted after eight months. Little progress is expected in negotiating an end to the program.

Stuxnet virus was deployed against Iran as early as 2007, researchers say

Kabul wants security guarantee; US says no

Palestinian security sources say IRGC personnel are currently in Gaza helping Palestinian terror groups to develop long-range missiles. Today’s report comes just over a month after Hamas reportedly tested improved missiles.

Exclusive: Iran said to deploy aging foreign tankers, avoiding sanctions

Iran’s negotiator – rigid ideologue close to Khamenei

Will Iran, Hezbollah go all out to boost Assad?

For Israel’s last military attaché in Tehran, ‘Argo’ is kid stuff

Iran announced it had found new deposits of uranium ore and had identified the sites for 16 more nuclear power plants. The Revolutionary Guard began a three-day ground and air military exercise, and claimed it captured a foreign “enemy drone” near the city of Sirjan.

US and British plans to seize Syria’s chemical weapons

Iran maneuvers for upper hand ahead of nuclear talks

New IAEA Report Shows Iranian Nuclear Advances

Israel working with Mediterranean countries to secure tourists

Iran appears to advance in construction of Arak nuclear plant

Cyprus Trial Spurs Call for E.U. to Act Against Hezbollah

Analysis: Iran economy far from collapse as sanctions tighten
