What We're Reading Now
Sep 01, 2011
IRANIranian nuclear bid could provoke attack: Sarkozy
AFP – August 31, 2011
France's President Nicolas Sarkozy warned on Wednesday that Iran's alleged attempts to build long-range missiles and nuclear weapons could lead unnamed countries to launch a pre-emptive attack. Few answers in murders of Iranian nuclear scientists
Jonathan Manthorpe, The Vancouver Sun – August 31, 2011
Someone is going to murderous lengths to disrupt Iran's nuclear development program. But the conviction and sentencing to death this week of a young Iranian, Majid Jamali Fashi, after he confessed to having been recruited by the Israeli intelligence agency Mossad to kill an Iranian scientist, Massoud Ali Mohammadi, sheds little clear light on what is going on.
NORTH KOREA
Iran: Parliament speaker to visit North Korea
The Associated Press – August 31, 2011
Iran says the speaker of its parliament will visit North Korea to discuss "expansion of cooperation" with Pyongyang. The trip underlines the close ties between the two nations.
Suspected North Korean cyber attack highlights dangerous “mist and haze” affecting cyber security
Indiana University – August 31, 2011
Media reports of a suspected North Korean cyber attack against a South Korean bank raise fresh concerns about threats to cybersecurity. However, according to an Indiana University Maurer School of Law cybersecurity expert, reporting on this event reveals confusion and controversy about what such incidents mean in policy and legal terms, which heightens the growing dangers in this area.