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U.S. Nuclear Arsenal Down to 5,113 From Cold War High of 31,000-Plus
By Tom Diemer - Politics DailyDuring the Cold War, it was top secret information. But times change and the Obama administration disclosed Monday that the United States has 5,113 weapons in its nuclear arsenal, a coming clean that the government believes will strengthen its hand in the fight against nuclear proliferation. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, at the United Nations for a review of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, said it is "in our national interest to be as transparent as we can about the nuclear program of the United States. We think that builds confidence." Iran, one of the countries causing ...
Which Leaders Rock Our World? Drumroll, Please ...
By David Knowles - AOL News(April 23) -- President Barack Obama is still the world's most respected leader, according to a new six-country poll. Released today by France 24 and Radio France Internationale, the Harris Interactive Poll asked 6,135 adults between the ages of 16 and 64 who live in the United States, Britain, France, Italy, Germany or Spain to name their favorite world leaders. Seventy-seven percent of those surveyed chose Obama, which is one percentage point higher than when Harris Interactive asked the same question in November. Getty Images President Obama and the Dalai Lama rank at the top of a new ...
Earthquake Causes: From Lunar to Looney
By David Moye - AOL News(April 20) -- Although scientists are working nonstop to learn all they can about earthquakes, some people already have the answers. At least they think they do. For instance, one Iranian cleric is blaming all the recent earth-shaking activity in Mexico's Baja California, Chile and Haiti on booty-shaking women flaunting their sexuality. Courtesy the Rev. Brian Keneipp The Rev. Brian Keneipp says the recent rash of earthquakes is karmic payback for the violent way NASA's LCROSS rocket gashed into the moon's surface. According to Fox News, Hojatoleslam Kazem Sedighi, a senior Iranian cleric, ...
Mischievous Hackers Go After World Leaders
By Carl Franzen - AOL News(Jan. 5) -- The Web sites of two world leaders were taken down in the past day for two surprising reasons: Mr. Bean and Michael Jackson. Late Monday night, someone slapped a message on Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's official site that pleaded to God for the leader's death in 2010, strangely mixing celebrity references with cold threats. "Dear God," the statement read, "In 2009 you took my favorite singer – Michael Jackson, my favorite actress – Farrah Fawcett, my favorite actor – Patrick Swayze, my favorite voice – Neda," a reference to the first name of a ...
Iran and the Disappearing Deadline
By Joseph Schuman - AOL News(Jan. 5) – In the parlance of diplomacy, there are soft deadlines and there are hard deadlines. And then there is Iran. The Obama administration's autumn threats to impose new sanctions if Tehran didn't compromise on its nuclear program by year's end have all but disappeared now that 2010 is here. That underscores the strong impression that the United States and its allies lack the leverage to carry them out. But it may also signal new patience with a regime that is increasingly under fire at home. The administration, backed by Britain, France and Germany, has been trying to rally the ...
Reform Leader's Nephew Among Dead in Iran Clashes
By not in system - AOL NewsTEHRAN, Iran (Dec. 7) - Iranian security forces fired on stone-throwing protesters in the center of the capital Sunday in one of the bloodiest confrontations in months, opposition Web sites and witnesses said. At least five people were killed. Some accounts of the violence in Tehran were vivid and detailed, but they could not be independently confirmed because of government restrictions on media coverage. Police, who denied using firearms, said dozens of officers were injured and more than 300 protesters were arrested. The dead included a nephew of opposition leader Mir Hossein Mousavi, ...
Day of Reckoning Looms for Iran
By Joseph Schuman - AOL News(Dec. 24) -- Anti-government protests escalated in Iran even as authorities issued tougher threats to shut them down, as a day of reckoning for a re-energized reform movement loomed this weekend. The government on Thursday banned memorials for the late Grand Ayatollah Hossein Ali Montazeri that had been planned for the town of Kashan, south of Tehran, and warned that all public commemorations for the respected dissident cleric would be limited to the holy city of Qom and Montazeri's hometown, Najafabad. The ban and warnings come a day after police used tear gas and pepper spray on ...
The Difference One Ayatollah Might Make
By Joseph Schuman - AOL News(Dec. 21) -- The death of Grand Ayatollah Hossein Ali Montazeri may prove to be a turning point for Iran's embattled reform movement. It may mark the moment when the surging wave of discontent overwhelms the country's remorseless theocratic leadership -- or one when the outrage crests and then recedes. The funeral procession on Monday for Montazeri, who was an architect of Iran's mullah-led system before he became one of its most outspoken dissidents, drew tens of thousands of mourners and protesters to the holy city of Qom, south of Tehran. Montazeri, 87 years old, apparently died of ...
Iran, Under Pressure, Takes Prisoners
By not in system - AOL NewsWhen the going gets tough, the Iranians get prisoners. Or so it would seem from the Revolutionary Guard's seizure of five British yachtsmen in the Persian Gulf amid an escalating standoff over Iran's nuclear program. The office of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Tuesday said the sailors could be prosecuted if the government determines they meant to "violate the national security" of Iran, the Fars News Agency reported, as translated by The Associated Press. AFP/Getty Images Iranian Revolutionary Guards seized five British sailors as they were en route from Bahrain to the start of a race ...
How Iran Wins Friends and Influences People
By Joseph Schuman - AOL News(Nov. 23) - Iran is at the top of its diplomatic game. The U.S. has staunch allied support for a tougher line on Tehran's nuclear ambitions, including at least nominal backing from Russia and China. The U.N.'s nuclear watchdog agency last week reported the latest evidence of Iranian deception. And domestic unrest continues to undermine the country's claims to theocratic democracy. Yet Iran still counts powerful friends on its side and seems no closer to facing potent international sanctions. Today Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad visits a welcoming Brazil, an influential power among the ...
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