“Iran” on The Daily Caller

“Ha,” renowned Middle East expert Barry Rubin replied when asked by The Daily Caller if Israelis believe President Obama has their back in the face of the Iranian nuclear threat, as he recently publicly proclaimed. (more)

Any future Iranian attacks in response to threats by Israel or the West will be much more complex and devastating than the recent terror attacks in India and Bangkok, the Islamic regime warned Saturday. (more)

The war hawks are circling the Potomac. The drum-beating and saber-rattling is growing louder. Calls for the United States to intervene militarily in yet another Middle Eastern country are being repeated with increasing frequency. (more)

Iran’s largest telecom company has obtained a powerful surveillance system from a Chinese manufacturer. Despite the boycott from Western companies, Tehran will be able to monitor landline, mobile and Internet communications of potential dissidents. (more)

The high cost of gasoline has become a political football in this fully ramped-up campaign season, yet with the price of gas expected to top $4.00 per gallon nationally in the coming months, American consumers deserve facts about gas prices and not more political rhetoric. Regrettably, both sides of the political aisle are pointing fingers even though most people don’t really understand the various factors that influence gas prices. (more)

Iranian officials claimed a victory over the U.S. Wednesday, saying the superpower backed down with its decision to not penalize 11 countries that have bought Iranian oil. (more)

Vermont independent Sen. Bernie Sanders, who is leading an effort to crack down on “excessive” Wall Street speculation, said that President Barack Obama’s decision to veto the Keystone XL pipeline has not contributed to high gas prices by sending the wrong message to traders in oil futures markets. (more)

On Tuesday, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei put to bed any speculation on the possibility of a negotiated solution to Iran’s nuclear program. The Islamic regime’s supreme leader, in his Iranian New Year address to the nation, informed the world that Iran will not surrender to international pressure to halt nuclear enrichment. (more)

It was Winston Churchill who first used the term “the crunch” in that way. It refers, of course, to a crisis when a leader has to make a judgment. It is when lives, perhaps millions of them, hang on the outcome of the decision the leader makes. (more)

If Israel decides to conduct a military strike on nuclear sites in Iran, it will be the end of the Jewish state, said Iranian Foreign Minister Ali Akbhar Salehi on Thursday. (more)

The head of Iran’s Basij paramilitary force says his country has no choice but to destroy America in order to build an ideal society. (more)

The Iranian newspaper Kayhan reported Thursday that in the first minutes of any American conflict with Iran, “Israel and all U.S. interests around the world will be targeted.” (more)

Can the U.S. handle another major conflict in the Middle East? Currently U.S. officials fear that Israel is planning a multi-faceted attack on Iranian nuclear capabilities that could spark a massive retaliation from Tehran, NBC News reports. A conflict between the two nations could become a regional conflict that would force the U.S. to intervene to defend Israel and our interests. (more)

A report from the Green Experts of Iran, an opposition group with sources inside the Islamic republic, has provided details of the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps’ connections to drug trafficking, money laundering and counterfeiting. The report confirms an interconnected web of criminal enterprises, run by the Guards and often facilitated by Iranian diplomatic consulates, intended to fund the Iranian military’s worldwide terror operation. (more)

Iran has improved its ties with al-Qaida as part of a campaign to target Western interests around the world that could lead to a spectacular attack in Europe, The Daily Telegraph has learned. (more)

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell called on Congress to step up its pressure on Iran, recommending lawmakers draft a resolution “authorizing the use of force.” (more)

As former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney stepped up his criticism Tuesday of President Obama‘s equivocal response to Iran’s aggressive moves against Israel, leading Democrats ramped up their rhetoric as they struggled to defend the president. (more)

WASHINGTON (AP) — Republican candidate Mitt Romney says that if he were president, he would combine diplomacy with “a military option” to stop Iran from acquiring nuclear weapons. (more)

During an appearance on the “Jay Severin Show” on Boston’s Talk 1200, real estate mogul and media personality Donald Trump predicted that President Barack Obama would start a war with Iran for the sole purpose of winning re-election in November. (more)

An Iranian dissident group funded and armed by Israel was responsible for the deaths of several Iranian nuclear scientists during the past four years, confirming accusations by Iran’s leaders, United States government officials told NBC. (more)