VOA News – Iran Claims US Faked Video Showing Gulf Standoff

VOA News – Iran Claims US Faked Video Showing Gulf Standoff
Iran and the United States are now trading allegations about a recording of the a confrontation between U.S. Navy warships and Iranian Revolutionary Guard speedboats in the Strait of Hormuz earlier this week. The incident took place shortly before President Bush left for his visit to the Middle East. The president has described the Iranian actions as a provocative act. VOA Correspondent Challiss McDonough has more from our Middle East bureau Cairo.

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Nathan Gonzalez: Five Reasons to Engage Iran

Nathan Gonzalez: Five Reasons to Engage Iran
It seems that with every news cycle comes yet another attempt by the Bush administration to pave the way for a war with Iran. As if we weren’t facing enough problems in Iraq, there seems to be a degree of laziness across the political spectrum when it comes to understanding Iran’s political culture and finding ways to engage diplomatically without sacrificing our interests.

In my new book, Engaging Iran: The Rise of a Middle East Powerhouse and America’s Strategic Choice, I shed light on how Iran is a much more complicated (and potentially friendly) country than our media would like to portray it. Here are just five reasons to engage Iran diplomatically sooner, rather than later: MORE—>