What could go wrong? The murderous Iranian regime announced yesterday that they would send two ships to Gaza this week. One ship will be filled with “relief workers.” Sure… Relief workers. (more)

OTTAWA (AP) — Iran’s nuclear program is of “critical concern” and will top the agenda when foreign ministers from the Group of Eight nations meet Monday to discuss global security, Canada’s foreign minister said. Foreign Minister Lawrence Cannon said he’ll press for stiffer sanctions against Iran when G-8 ministers assemble in Gatineau, Quebec for the meeting which begins Monday evening and continues through Tuesday. The United States and its Western allies have been pushing for a fourth round of U... (more)

Secretary of State Clinton made this comment while traveling in the Gulf region to drum up support for tough new international sanctions on Iran over the country’s nuclear program. “We see the government of Iran, the Supreme Leader, the President, the parliament is being supplanted and Iran is heading towards military dictatorship,” said Clinton. (more)

Gmail appeared to be unavailable to some users in Iran on Wednesday, the day before a government crackdown on anti-regime demonstrations. (more)

To help convince Beijing of the need to act, Hillary Clinton, the US secretary of state, is due to fly to Qatar and Saudi Arabia this weekend, in part to ­discuss assurances the Gulf states could give China that its oil and gas needs would be met during the sanctions period. (more)

A shipment of weapons from North Korea seized by Thai authorities last month were headed for Iran, according to a confidential report the Thai government sent to a U.N. Security Council committee. (more)

The Obama administration is increasingly questioning the long-term stability of Tehran's government and moving to find ways to support Iran's opposition "Green Movement," said senior U.S. officials. The White House is crafting new financial sanctions specifically designed to punish the Iranian entities and individuals most directly involved in the crackdown on Iran's dissident forces, said the U.S. officials, rather than just those involved in Iran's nuclear program. (more)

I guess we can say that Iran was for allowing John Kerry in to the country, before they were against it. Iran denied John Kerry access. Iranian legislators on Sunday decided to not allow a visit from Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman John Kerry (D-Mass.), according to Iranian media. “Members of the Iranian parliament’s Foreign Relations Committee (a subcommittee of the parliament’s National Security and Foreign Policy Commission) voiced opposition to the request after studying the issue,”... (more)

The script has already been written. The Iranian government is closely following a plotline in its quest to become the next nuclear weapons-armed state. And like most cliché thriller movies, the twists are predictable and yet a gullible bunch continues to fall for it. (more)

When does an uprising become a revolution? Throughout history, demonstrations, strikes and riots have brought crowds out on to the streets and threatened governments. In most countries a swift crackdown coupled with political concessions have usually contained popular unrest. But when violence is extreme, anger long pent up and regimes lose their nerve, a tipping point is reached and revolution sweeps the land. Has Iran reached that point? (more)