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Crashed Drone Was Part of Fleet Spying on Iran

US considered a retrieval mission, but decided against it

(Newser) - The CIA drone that was lost in Iran over the weekend is part of a fleet that has been spying on Iran for years, US officials tell the AP . The US has a number of stealth aircraft at a base in Shindad, Afghanistan, as part of an effort to establish...

Crashed Drone Could Spill Our Secrets

Officials say it was on a CIA mission

(Newser) - The drone that crashed in Iran this weekend was on a CIA mission, US officials say , and some now fear that it may reveal US secrets to Tehran or its allies, China and Russia. The RQ-170 Sentinel drone—the same type used in the Osama bin Laden raid—features sophisticated...

Iran Embassy Raiders Stole Invasion Plans—for D-Day

Protesters 68 years too late to thwart Allied invasion

(Newser) - The Iranians who ransacked the British embassy in Tehran last week made off with some documents labeled "Most Secret" that outlined plans for a massive invasion involving the UK and the US. The intel comes nearly 70 years too late, however: The stolen documents dated from 1943 and outlined...

Mystery Blasts: Part of Covert Iran War?

CIA, Mossad may be orchestrating attacks

(Newser) - Explosions have crippled Iranian gas pipelines and military facilities . Car bombs and gunshots have killed Iranian nuclear physicists . A computer virus stopped centrifuges from enriching uranium. All part of a Western/Israeli shadow war against Iran? Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barack denies it , but some analysts say the CIA, Mossad, European...

US: 'No Indication' Iran Shot Down Drone

Tehran says it has seized downed aircraft

(Newser) - The situation continues to come unglued in Iran : Tehran, under increasing international scrutiny over its nuclear program, says that it has downed a US spy drone in the eastern part of the country. A US official, however, tells Reuters , "There is absolutely no indication up to this point that...

Panetta to Israel: 'Just Get to the Damn Table'

Defense Secretary says military action should be 'last resort, not the first'

(Newser) - Leon Panetta delivered a harsh rebuke to Israel yesterday, saying that it needed to take steps to end its increasing isolation in the Middle East—starting with reviving peace talks with the Palestinians. “Just get to the damn table,” Panetta said at a pro-Israel forum in Washington, according...

UK Shuts Iran's Embassy, Kicks Out Diplomats

Iranian officials have 48 hours to leave London

(Newser) - The UK today announced "the immediate closure" of Iran's embassy in London following yesterday's invasion of the British embassy in Tehran—and it's not the only embassy to close. The AP reports that Norway has elected to shutter its embassy in the Iranian capital over security...

Mystery Iran Blast More Devastating Than Reported

Some dozen buildings destroyed during suspected 'volatile procedure'

(Newser) - The mysterious explosion at an Iranian military base west of Tehran earlier this month was far more devastating than initially reported, reports the New York Times . Satellite images of the site reveal destruction across a sprawling complex of some dozen buildings. “It was pretty amazing to see that the...

Iranians Storm British Embassy
 Iranians Storm British Embassy 
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Nov 29, 2011 9:01 AM CST

Iranians Storm British Embassy

Hostages may have been taken

(Newser) - Hard-line Iranian students stormed the British embassy in Tehran today, surging past riot police, scaling the compound’s walls, and pelting the buildings inside with rocks and petrol bombs. They then pulled down the British flag, burned it, and replaced it with an Iranian one, the semi-official Mehr News Agency...

Drones and Cyberwar: Obama Doctrine Calls for Silent War, Writes Roger Cohen


 The Obama 
 Doctrine: 
 Silent War 
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Nov 28, 2011 1:12 PM CST

The Obama Doctrine: Silent War

War on Terror has gone 'undercover': Roger Cohen

(Newser) - Make no mistake about it, there is an Obama Doctrine—but you won’t hear about it from the man himself. That’s because it’s a “doctrine of silence,” writes Roger Cohen in the New York Times . “America has decided that conventional wars of uncertain outcome...

Merciful Female Acid Victim Denied Compensation

Iranian courts decide attacker's pardon cancels payout

(Newser) - After Amenah Bahrami agreed to a pardon , the rejected suitor who blinded her by throwing acid in her face got to keep his eyesight. Now, the Iranian courts have decided that he gets to keep his cash as well. Majid Movahedi, who was minutes away from having acid dropped in...

CIA Spies Captured in Middle East

Officials fear they will be executed

(Newser) - More than a dozen CIA spies have been caught in Lebanon and Iran over the last six months, and the US worries they’ll be executed—or already have been. "If they were genuine spies, spying against Hezbollah, I don't think we'll ever see them again,"...

US Fears Iran Helping Libya With Chemical Weapons

Iran says US is just hating

(Newser) - The discovery of artillery shells filled with deadly mustard gas discovered at two locations in Libya has US intelligence agents scrambling to uncover where the nation obtained those shells. The leading candidate? Iran, reports the Washington Post . “We are pretty sure we know," said a senior US official....

Israel Behind Blast at Tehran Missile Base: Official

Explosion kills Iran's missile chief; country calls it accident

(Newser) - An explosion at a missile base outside Tehran this weekend killed at least 17 people and decimated the structure. But while Iran says the blast was an accident, a Western intelligence official tells Time not to believe it: It was the work of Israel’s Mossad agency, the official says,...

To Thwart Iran, US Plans to Sell Bombs to UAE

Bunker busters would be ideal for, say, taking out a nuclear facility

(Newser) - With the world growing nervous about Iran’s allegedly accelerating nuclear weapons program, the US is drawing up plans to sell thousands of “bunker-buster” bombs to the United Arab Emirates, sources tell the Wall Street Journal . Abu Dhabi’s ruling family, the al Nahyans, is seen as one of...

Iran: We Won't Retreat 'One Iota' on Nuclear Push

Meanwhile Russia rules out sanctions

(Newser) - Mahmoud Ahmadinejad issued a defiant statement today denying a UN report that Iran was on the brink of acquiring nuclear weapons, and insisting that it would not change its behavior. “This nation won't retreat one iota from the path it is going,” he told a crowd in...

Iran on Brink of Nuclear Capability: Atomic Energy Agency

 Iran on Brink of 
 Nuclear Capability 
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Nov 7, 2011 7:55 AM CST

Iran on Brink of Nuclear Capability

IAEA: No weapons yet, but nation 'could move quickly'

(Newser) - Iran now has all the technical know-how needed to make working nuclear weapons—thanks to the technical assistance of scientists from the former Soviet Union, Pakistan, and North Korea, reports the Washington Post . Officials at the International Atomic Energy Agency, which is due to release a report on Iran later...

Brits Steel for Possible US Strike on Iran: Report

Israel also gears for attack, Iran vows 'heavy' response

(Newser) - Talk of striking at Iran's nuclear enrichment program is rapidly heating up in Israel—and apparently the US. Not only is Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu trying to gather support for such attacks, but Britain's armed forces are working on contingency plans to support the US, should America...

Soccer Players Suspended Over 'Ugly' Butt Squeeze

Two Iranian players fined $37K as well

(Newser) - Some rear action has landed cheeky soccer players in trouble with Iranian officials. Two players are being fined $37,000 each and suspended from their Persepolis team for a celebratory "butt squeeze" following a goal against Damash Gilan in a televised game. The "shameless act upset, angered, and...

Suspect Pleads Not Guilty in Saudi Murder Plot

Manssor Arbabsiar says US invented the plot as a political tool

(Newser) - The Iranian-American accused of conspiring to kill the Saudi Arabian ambassador to the US pleaded not guilty today at a federal court. Manssor Arbabsiar, 56, faces charges of conspiracy to murder a foreign official, conspiracy to use a weapon of mass destruction, and conspiracy to commit an act of terrorism,...

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