NIGHTWATCH: Syria, Iran, and the Regional Context

Syria-Iran: The Iranian news agency reported Ayatollah Khamenei on Tuesday criticized the US for interfering in Syria’s internal affairs, but said Iran would accept political reforms in Damascus. Khamenei said, “Iran’s stance towards Syria is to support any reforms that benefit the people of this country and oppose the interference of America and its allies …

Chuck Spinney: Israel, Not Iran, is Central Threat in Middle East

Robert Fisk: We’ve been here before – and it suits Israel that we never forget ‘Nuclear Iran’ The Ayatollah ordered the entire nuclear project to be closed down because it was the work of the devil Robert Fisk, Independent Wednesday, 25 January 2012 Turning round a story is one of the most difficult tasks in …

Josh Kilbourn: War Against Iran Has Been Underway

Is Iran Already Under Attack? Jeffrey Goldberg The Atlantic, Dec 2, 2011 Adam Chandler, the Goldblog deputy-editor-for-monitoring-Iran-obsessively-even-though-Goldblog-himself-also-monitors-Iran-obsessively, pointed out to me the other day that perhaps the West has already begun the attack on Iran’s nuclear facilities, that perhaps we ought to reframe this issue a bit. The attacks he mentioned are not the usual …

Robert Steele: Iran Arrests Twelve CIA Agents

Iran Reportedly Arrests Twelve CIA Agents EXTRACT: US officials confessed on Tuesday that Iranian intelligence forces and Hezbollah have unraveled the CIA’s spy network in Iran and Lebanon and arrested dozens of informants, severely damaging the intelligence agency’s reputation and ability to gather vital information on the two countries at a sensitive time in the …

NOW HIRING: CIA Beirut Station – Last Table in Back

Tip of the Hat to DefDog and Marcus Aurelius American spies outed, CIA suffers in Lebanon Associated Press, 21 November 2011 WASHINGTON (AP) – The CIA’s operations in Lebanon have been badly damaged after Hezbollah identified and captured a number of U.S. spies recently, current and former U.S. officials told The Associated Press. The intelligence …