Middle East
War on Iran has already begun. Act before it threatens all of us
They don't give up. After a decade of blood-drenched failure in Afghanistan and Iraq, violent destabilisation of Pakistan and Yemen, the devastation of Lebanon and slaughter in Libya, you might hope the US and its friends had had their fill of invasion and intervention in the Muslim world. It seems not. For months the evidence has been growing that a US-Israeli stealth war against Iran has already begun, backed by Britain and France. Covert support for armed opposition groups has spread into a campaign of assassinations of Iranian scientists, cyber warfare, attacks on military and missile installations, and the killing of an Iranian general, among others.
Israel wages war on Iranian scientists
Iranian doctor assassinated after examining rape victims, says his son
The son of an Iranian doctor who was killed after examining the rape victims of the country's 2009 unrest has spoken for the first time about the motives behind his father's assassination. Abdolreza Soudbakhsh, a physician and professor at Tehran university, was shot dead by men on a motorcycle as he left his office last September.
Iran accuses Israel and US of assassinating scientist
Iran denies attack targeted nuclear scientist
Iranian nuclear scientist shot dead in Tehran
Iran claims Mossad link to scientist’s death
Iran's intelligence chief today claimed that more than 10 people arrested in connection with the killing of a nuclear physicist last year were linked to Israeli spy agency the Mossad. Heidar Moslehi revealed few new details to bolster the claim, made a day earlier, that Tehran's investigation into the killing had led its agents to infiltrate the Mossad