WASHINGTON - Israel “shall prevail” if forced to fight Iran, “an evil, cruel and morally corrupt regime” bent on controlling the Middle East, Israeli President Shimon Peres said in Washington Sunday.His speech to a powerful pro-Israel lobby charged up the atmosphere for ...

Russia will do its best to prevent a war in Iran, prime minister and presidential candidate Vladimir Putin has said.“We will do everything possible to prevent a military conflict either in Iran or around it,” Putin told editors-in-chief of several leading foreign newspapers in his ...

The U.S. ambassador in Russia Michael McFaul denied on Thursday that the U.S. base in Kyrgyzstan would be used in case of a military conflict with Iran.“Manas Transit Center contributes to help stabilize and secure Afghanistan and will only be used for that purpose,” McFaul wrote in his ...

Talk of war is in the air. In the US, one can hardly pick up a newspaper or magazine, or tune in to a public affairs show without encountering speculation about hostilities with Iran. The conservative right is fairly clambering for conflict, and even parties not normally associated with them - the ...

NEW YORK - An Israeli attack on Iran’s nuclear sites would be a highly complex operation requiring at least 100 planes, according to a report published Monday in The New York Times, which also said that the Jewish state lacks the military capacity to do so.Citing American defence officials ...

The United States is reportedly putting pressure on Pakistan to allow Washington to establish intelligence bases in the country’s Balochistan province to gather intelligence on Iran, Indian media reported on Wednesday.According to a report published by The Times of India, the US Congress has ...

WASHINGTON  - Sanctions and diplomacy may yet persuade Iran to give up its nuclear program, as its leaders have shown a rational “cost-benefit approach” in their calculations, senior US officials said.The top intelligence officials suggested Tuesday that military conflict with Iran ...