A few pictures from Iran, taken by ordinary people and posted to Instagram
The IAEA’s Nuclear Report — Not All Sources Are Equal (Part 2)
Scott Lucas writes for EA Worldview. The Iranian State agency IRNA may seem an unusual place to continue an analysis of the International Atomic Energy Agency’s report on the Iranian nuclear programme. After all, IRNA is known more as a megaphone for the regime or a faction within it than as a site critiquing latest news. [...]
Iran Snap Analysis: The IAEA Nuclear Report — Serious, But Not That Serious….
Our take-away line at this point: “The report is more serious for Iran than previous IAEA findings but not as serious as Western officials were spinning it.”
WSJ: Iran to Pare Food, Gas Subsidies
Moves to Withdraw Supports on Basics Appear Risky for Ahmadinejad; Showing Sanctions’ Strain
L.A. Times: Ban on Iranian pistachios is boost for California farmers
New U.S. trade sanctions linked to Tehran’s nuclear program remove a competitor from the domestic pistachio market.
NYT: In a Computer Worm, a Possible Biblical Clue
Deep inside the computer worm that some specialists suspect is aimed at slowing Iran’s race for a nuclear weapon lies what could be a fleeting reference to the Book of Esther, the Old Testament tale in which the Jews pre-empt a Persian plot to destroy them.
Business Week: Senior China official calls for stronger Iran ties
Li Changchun told Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in Tehran that Beijing wants to “cooperate with Iran to seize the opportunities to consolidate and develop bilateral relations in various areas,” Chinese state broadcaster CCTV reported Wednesday.
Foreign Policy: 6 mysteries about Stuxnet
We know it’s a sophisticated piece of malware, one that experts say could only be produced by a high-powered team with insider knowledge of industrial software.
Iran confirms massive Stuxnet infection of industrial systems
Stuxnet, considered by many security researchers to be the most sophisticated malware ever, was first spotted in mid-June by VirusBlokAda, a little-known security firm based in Belarus. A month later Microsoft acknowledged that the worm targeted Windows PCs that managed large-scale industrial-control systems in manufacturing and utility companies.
Iran’s Turbulence Beneath
As the main stream media slip back into their pre-2009-Iran-presidential-election coma of blissful ignorance, the story is no longer about the courageous Iranian protesters facing their government and revealing to the world how their government torments and terrorizes them. The now almost decade long story about the threat of the Iranian nuclear program has started [...]













