Scott Peterson
Journalist and Photograph at The Christian Science Monitor
Journalist, The Christian Science Monitor; photographer, Getty Images; author of Let the Swords Encircle Me: Iran–A Journey Behind the Headlines
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5 days ago |
csmonitor.com | Scott Peterson
As Iran reeled from waves of Israeli military attacks last week, President Donald Trump posted a message demanding Tehran’s “UNCONDITIONAL SURRENDER!” in nuclear talks. After five rounds of indirect negotiations, the White House had demanded strict limits on Iran’s nuclear program that, to Iranian officials, did in fact amount to surrender. And that summoned bitter echoes of past humiliation that still resonate in the Iranian psyche today – and affect decisions to be flexible, or to dig in.
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5 days ago |
csmonitor.com | Scott Peterson |Anna Mulrine Grobe |Dina Kraft |Taylor Luck
The United States struck three key nuclear sites in Iran overnight, leaping into Israel’s eight-day military campaign against Iran with bunker-buster bombs, in a dramatic American attack that could reshape the Middle East for decades to come. President Donald Trump said the U.S. attack “totally and completely obliterated” what remained of Iran’s nuclear program, after more than a week of pummeling by Israeli airstrikes.
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1 week ago |
csmonitor.com | Scott Peterson |Shoshanna Solomon
After Israel launched its unprecedented air strike on Iran’s nuclear program June 13, dramatic video soon emerged of critical oil and gas infrastructure that was also targeted. In Tehran, flames engulfed an oil depot and a refinery that were struck by Israel. The vast South Pars gas field – the largest in the world – was also targeted. Iran’s oil and gas exports have slowed to a trickle.
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1 week ago |
csmonitor.com | Scott Peterson
Morning had just dawned on Sunday when an inquisitive Iranian girl awakened to war. Looking out her Tehran window, 7-year-old Tooba was amazed to see a large plume of smoke rising from a nearby neighborhood. It was the result of one of hundreds of Israeli airstrikes on Iran that began Friday, targeting nuclear and energy facilities, and decimating the top echelons of Iran’s military elite.
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2 weeks ago |
csmonitor.com | Scott Peterson
Choosing war over diplomacy, Israel early Friday unleashed waves of airstrikes against Iran, targeting its nuclear program and ballistic missile forces, and assassinating top commanders and key nuclear scientists. Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu declared a “decisive moment” in Israel’s bid to prevent Iran from ever acquiring a nuclear weapon. But the raids also risked prompting Tehran to decide to actually create such a weapon, some experts warned.
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