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Stuxnet worm 'increased' Iran's nuclear potential
Iran's nuclear potential may have been significantly increased by the Stuxnet
worm that is believed to have
infected the country's uranium enrichment facility
at Natanz in 2009 and 2010, new research claims. ...
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Roundup of the Iranian Press
Press roundup
provides a summary of the most important news reported in the Iranian press. We cannot confirm their accuracy.
Reporting here does not necessarily imply that we endorse the views expressed in ...
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Good-bye Dubai?
Every Spring and Summer, during a period of low pressure over the Persian Gulf, powerful winds known as
the “shamals and sharqi,” sweep down from the north and north east into Saudi Arabia, whipping up ever
more grains of sand as they head south and south west across the Arabian Desert....
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A Welcome Pause in the Craziness Over Syria
News that the US and Russia will hold a Syrian peace conference this month is
most welcome
and long overdue.As Benjamin Franklin so wisely noted:
“there is no good war, and no bad peace.”Moscow
has been calling for
such a conference for two years. But Washington rejected the...
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