NEW YORK -- A confidential report from the U.N. nuclear agency says Iran has rapidly ramped up its nuclear activities in recent months. In a report Friday by the International Atomic Energy Agency, the watchdog group said that Iran has upgraded production...

Nothing new under the desert sun in Iran. The Islamist leadership is starting out 2012 with its usual jagged chin forward: • Iranian leaders, in the face of enhanced economic sanctions, have threatened to illegally block the Strait of Hormuz (through...