Tag: Iran’s Nuclear Program

Tag: Iran’s Nuclear Program

Iran’s Elections: Vote Yes or No, Just Be Sure To Vote

Iran’s Elections: Vote Yes or No, Just Be Sure To Vote

The Iranian leadership has a talent of mobilizing people when it is needed. From the 8-year Iran-Iraq war (1980-1988) when many Iranians under 16 (the legal age of military recruiting), falsified their birth certificates to volunteer in the “Holy Defense”, to the mass support of Iran’s nuclear program and high turnouts in lots of elections, the people’s presence has always emboldened the leadership’s authority in the international arena and increased its bargaining power.

Iran Weathers The Not So Crippling Sanctions Storm

Iran Weathers The Not So Crippling Sanctions Storm

This year at the UN General Assembly Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu threatened Iran with a military attack to prevent Iran from becoming what he calls a nuclear state. This is nothing new to Iran. 34 years after Iran’s revolution the country is constantly facing threats and the recently hyped nuclear issue is just such a pretext. Because even when Iran’s nuclear program was halted, threats kept on coming as we saw in the Iran-Iraq war which lasted 8 years.