Iran Is Paranoid and Israel Is Not (You’re Kidding, Right?)19 Mar 2010Summary:
“A country whose political culture is characterized by paranoia.” What country would that be? Israel, which has claimed victim status through seven decades of vicious land grab? The United States, which has devastated Iraq pretending to look for imaginary weapons of mass destruction? source: MRzineread more
Powell Says New Sanctions on Iran Won?t Stop Nuclear Program19 Mar 2010Summary: Powell
Former U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell said new sanctions on Iran to persuade it to stop enriching uranium won?t work because the Islamic republic is ?determined to have a nuclear program.?. He made the distinction between nuclear programme and nuclear weapons and called for negotiated settlement. source: Businessweek read more
Will There Be A False Flag Operation To Implicate Iran?19 Mar 2010Summary: Roberts
The next step will be a staged “terrorist attack,” a “false flag” operation as per Operation Northwoods, for which Iran will be blamed. As Iran and its leadership have already been demonized, the “false flag” attack will suffice to obtain U.S. and European public support for bombing Iran. The bombing will include more than the nuclear facilities and will continue until the Iranians agree to regime change and the installation of a puppet government. The corrupt American media will present the new puppet as “freedom and democracy.” source: Crooscurrents.orgread more
Iran?s Natural Gas Riches: US Knife to the Heart of World Future Energy18 Mar 2010Summary: A major realignment in the world?s energy economy ? one where there will be a continuing diminished role for the US ? Washington?s blustering rhetoric about democracy and peace and war on terror or alleged Iranian nuclear weapons can be seen as a desperate attempt to conceal its fear that it stands to be a big loser. Encircling Iran with wars and threatening gas supplies to possibly the world?s top future gas customer ? China ? is the real deal. US actions are more accurately seen as putting a knife to the energy arteries of a world economy that it will no longer be able to dominate. source: Global Researchread more
Ambassador: IRI supports ME without WMD18 Mar 2010Summary: akhoundzadehAkhoundzadeh said that Iran always supports a Middle East without nuclear and mass-destruction weapons and tries to establish justice, peace and security in the region and the world. source: IRIB News Agencyread more
5+1 group should avoid repeating mistakes: Rafsanjani18 Mar 2010Summary: Ali Akbar Hashemi RafsanjaniThe Expediency Council chairman also stated that Iran does not seek anything beyond its own rights and neither should the 5+1 group. source: Mehr News Agencyread more
UN: Noruz can promote world peace18 Mar 2010Summary: nowruzTEHRAN - On the eve of the first International Day of Noruz, the United Nations secretary general expressed hope that ?people around the world will draw on this festival?s history and customs to promote harmony with the natural world and foster global peace and goodwill.? source: Tehran Timesread more
The Iran Threat in the Age of Real-Axis-of-Evil Expansion18 Mar 2010Summary: In short, while nuclear-armed Israel and its patron commit aggression, dispossess, and threaten more of the same, they have managed to transform nuclear-weapons-free Iran into the “threat” that the UN and IC worry about. source: Monthly Reviewread more
Iran ready for nuke fuel exchange inside country18 Mar 2010Summary: Iran has said it is ready for a one-shot nuclear fuel exchange on its own soil, edging closer to the conditions of a plan drawn up by the UN atomic watchdog last year as major powers mulled a new round of sanctions. source: Afp, Ap, Tehran/ Beijing read more
This US-Israeli Crisis Has Yet To Peak: Diverging Interests Never Clearer17 Mar 2010Summary: NarwaniEvery time Obama has sought to advance his Mideast agenda, Israel has managed to put a new cog in his wheels. The US president started off his term insisting that Arab-Israeli peace be dealt with before Iran’s nuclear issue, and has had to reverse his plan due to Israeli pressures. source: Huffington Postread more
Brazil steps between Israel and Iran17 Mar 2010Summary: Lula Lula and Obama had seemed to be in synch on Iran, starting from their meeting on the sidelines of a Group of Eight plus five meeting in L’Aquila, Italy, nine months ago. Then, Obama even encouraged the Brasilia-Tehran dialogue, as long as Brazil pressed on Iran the commitment to a strictly civilian nuclear program. That’s exactly what Lula told Ahmadinejad when they met in Brazil. It is the Obama administration’s position that has substantially hardened. source: Asia Timesread more
Final destination Iran?16 Mar 2010Summary: Hundreds of powerful US ?bunker-buster? bombs are being shipped from California to the British island of Diego Garcia in the Indian Ocean in preparation for a possible attack on Iran. source: The Herald Scotlandread more
Cartoon of the week: Iran and Israel – spot the difference16 Mar 2010Summary: Israel—a country that has not signed the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty—has a secret stockpile of nuclear weapons, as revealed 23 years ago by Israeli nuclear technician Dr Modecai Vanunu, for which service to humanity he was sentenced to 18 years imprisonment. Since his release in 2004 he has been held by the Israeli government under severe restrictions which prevent him from leaving Israel or, without permission, his home town. He is forbidden any communication with foreigners. Israel is one of only three countries along with India and Pakistan, which is not a signatory to the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty(NPT), and is widely believed to possess several hundred nuclear warheads, as well as the means to deliver them. When the International Atomic Energy Agency for the first time on 19 September 2009 called on Israel to join the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty and open up its atomic sites to international inspection, the response was predictable: refusal to cooperate in any way. source: Stop Warread more
Iran’s spies show how it’s done14 Mar 2010Summary:
The dramatic arrest of Abdulmalik Rigi, Iran’s most wanted man, on February 23 continues to be shrouded in mystery. But with information and insights gleaned from security sources in Tehran, Asia Times Online can reveal some of the most intricate background details leading to this stunning arrest. source: Asia Timesread more
UN Iran sanctions may take until June: Kouchner14 Mar 2010Summary: Kouchner A U.N. resolution on new sanctions against Iran may not be ready until June and if a vote on it fails, European states could take unilateral measures instead, French and Finnish ministers said on Sunday. source: Reutersread more
Saudi Arabia not to influence China on Iran14 Mar 2010Summary: Robert Gates US Defense Secretary American efforts to build momentum for a fresh round of sanctions against Iran have hit a snag following the visit to Riyadh by U.S. Defence Secretary Robert Gates. source: The Hinduread more
Politicizing the IAEA against Iran13 Mar 2010Summary: Natanz plantOn February 18, 2010 the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) issued its latest report on Iran?s nuclear program. The tone of the latest report, as well as its speculations and unfounded allegations, are in sharp contrast with those in the past issued under the former IAEA Director General Mohamed ElBaradei. The new Director General, Yukiya Amano, has set aside ElBaradei?s cautious approach and measured tone and uses blunt language. But, while the blunt language is not a problem, the fact is that, as the latest report indicates, the IAEA is being transformed from an objective international organization to a politicized one to be used by the United States and its allies to advance their agenda regarding Iran?s uranium enrichment program. source: AntiWar.comread more
Israel?s Lobby Imposes Crippling Sanctions on America ? Again12 Mar 2010Summary: Iran is a signatory to the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty and there?s no evidence that it is anywhere near producing nuclear weapons. Non-signatory Israel, with its vast secret arsenal of nuclear weapons ? likely built with uranium stolen (but never paid for) from the United States ? suddenly demands rule of law from America. Laws drafted by AIPAC. source: AntiWar.comread more
Iran wants help from a friend11 Mar 2010Summary: An unusual alliance has been unveiled after Iranian President Mahmud Ahmadinejad revealed that the recent arrest of Abdulmalik Rigi, leader of the Sunni terrorist group Jundallah, was made possible with intelligence cooperation from Afghanistan and Pakistan. source: Asia Timesread more
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