The Threat From Iran

President Barack Obama’s challenge this year isn’t only from the Republican nominee for president. A much larger threat is Iran, which could attack Israel, and may try to make terrorists’ strikes against the United States.

ET, the new alien scaring global markets

(Reuters) - The United States is coming to be seen as a global threat, acting unilaterally with aggressive new market rules that critics say will hurt U.S. firms, foreign banks, and international markets in one swoop. The new buzzword in the financial world is "extraterritoriality", or ET. The idea that a government can exercise its authority beyond its borders. ...

Feb. 6, 1959: Titan Launches; Cold War Heats Up

1959: The United States successfully test-fires its first Titan I intercontinental ballistic missile. The threat of global nuclear holocaust moves from the plausible to the likely.

Obama says US, Israel 'in lockstep' on Iran

President Barack Obama on Sunday sought to reassure Americans over the threat posed by Iran, saying the United States was working "in lockstep" with Israel to bring Tehran to heel over its suspect nuclear program.

Group urges credible U.S. military threat to Iran

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States should deploy ships, step up covert activities and sharpen its rhetoric to make more credible the threat of a U.S. military strike to stop Iran's nuclear program, a bipartisan group said on Wednesday. Former U.S. politicians, generals and officials said in a report that the best chance of stopping Iran's suspected pursuit of nuclear weapons was to make ...

Obama reassures Americans over Iranian threat

WASHINGTON (AFP) — President Barack Obama yesterday sought to reassure Americans over the threat posed by Iran, saying the United States was working "in lockstep" with Israel to bring Tehran to heel over its suspect nuclear programme.

U.S. officials see increasing threat of domestic attack from Iran

Even as Al Qaeda's ability to attack the United States continues to diminish, Iran is more willing to attack the United States and American interests overseas, the top U.S. intelligence official told Congress on Tuesday.

Iran raid likely to drag in U.S. and hurt global economy

MUNICH (Reuters) - An Israeli raid on Iran's nuclear facilities would deliver a painful shock to the global economy, revive flagging Islamist militancy and possibly drag the United States into a regional war whether it backed its ally's attack or not. As if that prospect was not alarming enough, any doubts Tehran entertained about the wisdom of building a nuclear weapon would vanish the moment ...

Obama: 'Israel Undecided Over Iran Attack'

Barack Obama has said he believes Israel remains undecided about a possible attack on Iran, as the threat of war between the two nations continues to escalate.

U.S. officials fear increasing threat of attack from Iran

WASHINGTON, D.C. (MCT) — Even as al-Qaida’s ability to attack the United States continues to diminish, Iran is more willing to attack the United States and American interests overseas, the top U.S. intelligence official told Congress on Tuesday.