Special to WorldTribune.com The Obama administration continues to say it is conducting a “serious review” of reports that Iran conducted another ballistic missile test. A U.S. official confirmed the Nov. 21 test of a nuclear-capable Ghadr-110 mid-range missile, AP reported on Dec. 8. Such a test would be a violation by Iran of UN Security […]
Special to WorldTribune.com Iran tested a new medium range ballistic missile in November in another violation of UN Security Council resolutions, a U.S. official said. Iran on Nov. 21 carried out a test of the Ghadr-110 missile near Chabahar, a port city in southeast Iran’s Sistan and Baluchestan Province near the border with Pakistan, the […]
Special to WorldTribune.com The Obama administration said Iran’s recent test of a new precision-guided ballistic missile violated United Nations sanctions, but will have no affect on implementing Teheran’s nuclear accord with world powers. The United States, Britain, France and Germany on Oct. 21 appealed to the United Nations Security Council’s Iran sanctions committee to take […]
Special to WorldTribune.com Iran tested a new medium-range missile capable of delivering a nuclear weapon just one day after the United States pulled its last aircraft carrier from the Persian Gulf. The USS Theodore Roosevelt left the Persian Gulf on Oct. 9. The U.S. will not have an aircraft carrier in the region until the […]
Special to WorldTribune.com The United States will not press Iran over its past nuclear activities since, through superior intelligence gathering, “we know what they did,” Secretary of State John Kerry said on June 16. Previously, the U.S. had insisted Iran answer a set of questions from the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) about its past […]
UNITED NATIONS — Truth is often stranger than fiction. The horrific events over eastern Ukraine, that of a civilian airliner being shot out of the skies by a high altitude Sam 11 missile, seem almost the improbable grist of a thriller novel or a pilot episode of the TV series 24. Add the fact the […]
John J. Metzler UNITED NATIONS — We are witnessing an intense geopolitical chess game over Syria. The players: Barack Obama, President of the United States, former Senator, and Chicago community organizer versus Vladmir Putin, President of the Russian Federation and former Soviet KGB intelligence operative. Moscow has just made a move which appears to have […]
John J. Metzler UNITED NATIONS — The situation in Syria has descended into a new level of Hell, as the civil war continues, refugees fleeing the country increase, and the fractured rebel groups have begun to turn on each other as much as fight the Assad family regime. The Security Council remains politically deadlocked and […]
Sol W. Sanders There was less than met the eye at the two-day summit of China’s Xi Jinping and President Barack Obama. Neither party was in a position to tackle the growing list plaguing the relationship between the superpower and the superpower-wannabe. That might or might not have been a product of their particular […]
Wesley Pruden A deep bow to our “friends” in the Middle East no longer satisfies Barack Obama’s White House. His new ambassador-to-be to the United Nations has a better idea. Samantha Power thinks the president should take a deferential knee. (It worked for Al Jolson, paying tribute to Mammy.) Mzz Power is nothing if not […]