BY:Lord David Waddington
*Source:The Washington Times

The announcement that the United States would withdraw its troops from Iraq by 2011 caused much furor in Washington but it must have caused the ayatollahs in Iran even more excitement.

By LORD CORBETT OF CASTLE VALE
*Source: UPI Outside View Commentator

LONDON, Nov. 26 (UPI) -- Picture this: The year is 2011. President Barack Obama has managed to stabilize the housing and financial market chaos, but an adversary armed with nuclear weapons has demanded the U.S. military immediately remove its last two combat brigades from Iraq or see them ripped to shreds by a phantom army of insurgents.

By Lord Robin Corbett
Source: euobserver.com

EUOBSERVER / COMMENT - For more than five years the European Union has been unwittingly strengthening Iran's hand as it defies repeated demands by the UN nuclear watchdog and security council to halt its nuclear weapons developments.

By Reza Shafa

Mullahs' President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad nominated Sadeq Mahsouli to succeed Ali Kordan -- an infamous figure in the diploma-gate scandal -- as the next Interior Minister.

By Reza Shafa

The Mullahs’ regime has intensified its efforts to expand fundamentalism and terrorism abroad. The two examples below demonstrate the extent to which the mullahs have widened their reach to Eastern Europe and smaller countries such as Solomon Islands.

By Alireza Jafarzadeh
Source: Fox News

Just a week after the election and President-elect Obama’s reiteration that a nuclear armed Iran is “unacceptable,” the ayatollahs’ regime is putting its belligerence on display in back-to-back missile tests, hoping to exact concessions from the West.

By Reza Shafa

It is no secret that the Qods Force of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) is responsible for extraterritorial operations and as such, it will never turn a blind eye on the neighboring Afghanistan.

By Alireza Jafarzadeh
Source: Chicago Tribune

A multitude of foreign policy challenges, perhaps chief among them how to deal with the ayatollahs' regime in Iran, awaits President-elect Barack Obama.