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Republican Jews bash Obama
The Republican Jewish Coalition lashed out against Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama Monday, saying his policies and advisors posed threats to Israel and American Jews. “Sen. Barack Obama...
View ArticleThe World is Watching
The world is indeed watching today. Despite the United States recent economic woes, there is no doubt amongst serious observers that the country is still, by far the most powerful nation in the world....
View Article2/10: State Secrets
State secrets under Bush will stay that way. (Greenwald’s take) SAN FRANCISCO “" In a closely watched case involving rendition and torture, a lawyer for the Obama administration seemed to surprise a...
View ArticleObama to speak tonight
The time has come. Obama’s first speech to a joint session of Congress takes place tonight at 9 p.m., broadcast on all major television stations. Will he extend a hand towards Iran, following up on...
View ArticleMousavi supporters take to the streets over re-election ‘charade’
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad won Iran’s June 12 election with a whopping 62.6 per cent of the vote. His main opponent, Mir Hossein Mousavi called the result a “charade” and has demanded a re-run. “I...
View ArticleAhmadinejad compares riots to passionate soccer fans
Click on the link below to see President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad dance around answering Christiane Amanpour’s question regarding the safety of his opponent Mir Hossein Mousavi. There are conflicting...
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Images from an angry Iran
Blast will present its own exclusive coverage of the events in Iran, including an interview you’ll only see here. For now, we wish to share these images with you, which were sent to us by Gooya...
View ArticleIran protest turns deadly, Iranian student offers his opinion
TORONTO — While speaking to an Iranian Ph.D student at Ryerson University yesterday, I began to truly understand the magnitude of what is currently happening in Iran. These protests and demonstrations...
View ArticleIran’s religious leaders challenge election results
The protests of the young and old in Tehran have been more than inspiring. But real political reform isn’t taking place on the streets of Iran,‚ it’s taking place behind the scenes. A power struggle...
View ArticleA short rant on G8 apathy
The 2009 G8 summit in L’Aquila, Italy was a massive letdown. Personally, I didn’t expect much more. The G8 operates under the guise of real leadership, when really the summit has become nothing more...
View ArticleUS intelligence single out China, Russia as potential ‘cyberspace’ threats
In a report outlining the updated priorities of US intelligence, China and Russia were placed alongside Iran and North Korea on a list of nations that challenge US interests at home and abroad, the...
View ArticleAmerican woman arrives in U.S. after more than a year in Iranian prison
An American woman detained in Iran arrived back to the U.S. after more than a year. Sarah Shourd touched down in Washington D.C. early this morning from Dubai, according to Shourd’s media spokeswoman,...
View ArticleReleased hiker calls for peace
NEW YORK—Despite a near 14-month imprisonment, Sarah Shourd emerged from her Iranian captors promoting a message of peace. Shourd, 32, spent 410 days in a Tehran prison after she, her fianc©, Shane...
View ArticleWikileaks: An American’s perilous escape from Iran
Wikileaks. I know, I know, you’re probably sick of hearing about cables and embassies and what diplomat said what nasty thing about what leader. But, it’s only day four of nine in the latest Wikileaks...
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The Embassy Cables: Saudis fear Iranian missile strike more than terrorism
In a Wikileaks-leaked cable from the US embassy in Riyadh, the capital of Saudi Arabia, to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s office, Ambassador James C. Oberwetter reported in December 2006 that an...
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The Embassy Cables: Our friend Iran (in 1972)
An Iranian F-4 (Media credit/PressTV) Well, we knew this already, but a Wikileaks-posted cable from the US Embassy in Tehran in 1972 shows how the United States rushed to arm the Shah’s Iran,...
View ArticleIran attacker to lose ‘eye and an ear’
A while ago, a Saudi Arabian court enlisted the help of doctors to find out whether severing the spinal cord of a convicted criminal (as punishment for his crime) would result in his death. The...
View ArticleTop 5 Mid-East governments at risk of toppling
The Egyptians weren’t the first peoples in the Arab world to rise up against an oppressive government in 2011. Before that Facebook group was made, the people of Tunisia rose up against their (now...
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Battlfield 3 banned in Iran
A new report by the Associated Press claims that EA’s AAA shooter Battlefield 3 has been banned in Iran, where a portion of the game takes place. Citing fears that the game will spark further fear and...
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Iran captures American unmanned drone
On Sunday, Iranian news network Fars News Agency announced that an Iranian electronic warfare unit had downed and captured a American RQ-170 Sentinel, an unmanned aerial drone manufactured by American...
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Gas prices rise for 10th straight day
Gas prices, such as in this gas station in Chicago, have been on a steady increase over the past ten days. Around the country, people continue suffering at the pump as gas prices rise for the tenth...
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E3 2012: Splinter Cell Blacklist announced
LOS ANGELES — A wounded soldier is carried into a camp. Two comrades guide the savior into a tent. An Iranian flag hangs in the back of the cold and dark room. A third man approaches the player,...
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Flame, Stuxnet fanning the flames of cyber world war
This Blast Staff illustration includes an image of Flame code by Kaspersky from securelist.com, and Stuxnet code from f-secure.com This article is written anonymously, by The Green Geek, an IT policy...
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“Argo” review
The dullest part of “Argo,” Ben Affleck’s opening salvo for Oscar season, is the exposition he gives us at the very beginning. Affleck took two minutes to have a narrator explain the events leading up...
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Navid Negahban a.k.a Abu Nazir of “Homeland”: The Blast Interview
On one side, a gentle Iranian-born actor, on the other the Al-Qaeda mastermind named Abu Nazir on “Homeland.” A couple days ago, I had an engaging and memorable conversation with Navid Negahban, the...
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