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GEOEYE SATELLITE IMAGE VIA ASSOCIATED PRESS This Sept. 26, 2009 file satellite image shows a facility under construction inside a mountain located about 20 miles northeast of Qom, Iran. Iran has begun uranium enrichment at a new underground site that is well protected from possible foreign airstrikes, a leading hard-line newspaper reported Sunday.
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In this photo released by China's Xinhua News Agency, Iranian Navy personnel take part in their naval maneuvers dubbed Velayat 90 on the Sea of Oman, Iran, on Wednesday, Dec. 28, 2011. (AP Photo/Xinhua, Ali Mohammadi)
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Illustration: Iran by Alexander Hunter for The Washington Times
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Iranian Navy personnel take part Dec. 28, 2011, in their naval maneuvers dubbed Velayat 90 on the Sea of Oman, Iran. (Associated Press/Xinhua)
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Adm. Habibollah Sayyari, Iran's naval chief, briefs the media in Tehran on Thursday, Dec. 22, 2011, about a 10-day naval exercise in international waters beyond the strategic Strait of Hormuz. (AP Photo/Fars News Agency, Hamed Jafarnejad)
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** FILE ** Iran claims this photo shows the U.S. RQ-170 Sentinel drone, which Tehran says its forces downed. (Associated Press)
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Zalman Shoval, a senior adviser to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and a former ambassador to the U.S., says Middle Eastern nations, with the exception of Israel, will lose confidence in the U.S. if Iran develops nuclear weapons. (J.M. Eddins Jr./The Washington Times)
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Ruins of homes destroyed by Iranian artillery during the Iran-Iraq war of 1980-88 remain standing in Mandali, a mixed Kurdish-Arab city about 60 miles northeast of Baghdad. (Associated Press)
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Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton and Treasury Secretary Timothy F. Geithner announced new sanctions against Iran on Monday for the purpose of pressuring Tehran to halt its suspected nuclear weapons program. The Treasury Department also named the Central Bank of Iran as a primary money-laundering "concern." (Associated Press)
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** FILE ** In this Tuesday, April 8, 2008, file photo released by the Iranian President's Office, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, center, visits the Natanz Uranium Enrichment Facility some 200 miles (322 kilometers) south of the capital Tehran, Iran. (AP Photo/Iranian President's Office, File)
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**FILE** The Bushehr nuclear power plant, outside the southern city of Bushehr, Iran, is seen here on Aug. 20, 2010. (Associated Press)
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Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Iran's supreme leader, warned Israel and the United States on Thursday to expect military response if Iran's nuclear facilities are attacked. (Associated Press)
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Israeli government minister Uzi Landau likens European leaders' efforts to get Iran to curb its nuclear program to Britain's early “appeasement” diplomacy with Adolf Hitler. (Associated Press)
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Illustration: Iran sanctions by Greg Groesch for The Washington Times
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WARNING: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says a nuclear Iran would be a "grave threat" and is trying to persuade his Cabinet to support a pre-emptive attack. (Associated Press)
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Illustration: Iran influence by Greg Groesch for The Washington Times
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Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's agreement on the prisoner swap shifted Israel's focus "on much more troubling fronts - in distant Iran and in the Arab revolutions around us," a journalist wrote. (Associated Press)
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Illustration: Iran nukes by Alexander Hunter for The Washington Times
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Marjane Satrapi's adaptation of her graphic novels about growing up during Iran's 1979 Islamic Revolution has been called a "serious attack on the religious beliefs of Muslims" by a Muslim imam.
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Marjane Satrapi's adaptation of her graphic novels about growing up during Iran's 1979 Islamic Revolution has been called a "serious attack on the religious beliefs of Muslims" by a Muslim imam.
