Iran: US options limited
15 Feb 2008
Summary: With the recent NIE assessment rendering a military strike politically untenable, US options seem to be limited to engagement with Iran. source: Oxford Analytica – The World Next Weekread more

Hashemi: Iran determined to develop peaceful nuclear program
15 Feb 2008
Summary: Iran’s senior presidential advisor Mojtaba Samareh Hashemi says Iran will continue development of its peaceful nuclear program even if the UN Security Council decides to issue more sanctions against it. source: Mathabaread more

Japan says it supports Iran?s cooperation with IAEA
15 Feb 2008
Summary: Japan has said it supports Tehran?s cooperation with the UN nuclear watchdog the IAEA. source: Thaindian Newsread more

Event advocates peace between U.S. and Iran
15 Feb 2008
Summary: America has the power to overthrow any government in the world, but what comes next?” he said. “An American attack on Iran would set off a series of events that would devastate American national security. source: Daily Loboread more

The War Party Targets Obama: They’ll never let him become president
15 Feb 2008
Summary: Obama has emerged as the antiwar candidate, constantly driving home the point that he ? unlike the Senator from New York ? had the judgement to doubt the veracity of the President’s case for war from the get-go. source: Anti War.Comread more

Teachers and the War
14 Feb 2008
Summary: Stephen ZunesMany Americans would be surprised to learn that among the most important constituencies backing the Bush administration?s disastrous agenda in the Middle East and promoting anti-Arab policies has been the one million-strong American Federation of Teachers (AFT). The AFT leadership has gone so far as to make a series of public statements and push through resolutions with demonstrably inaccurate assertions in its defense of administration policy. A key constituent union of the AFL-CIO, the AFT ? which also source: Foreign Policy in Focusread more

Iran sanctions draft to be revised -Britain
14 Feb 2008
Summary: South Africa and other members of the Non-Aligned Movement insist that the IAEA’s investigation is relevant and want the council to wait until it has as much information as possible. source: Reuters North American News Serviceread more

Iran?s defense spending per capita among lowest in Mideast
13 Feb 2008
Summary: LONDON (IRNA)—Iran?s defense expenditure per capita remains among the lowest in the Middle East region despite having the second highest population behind Egypt, according to the new publication of Military Balance. source: IRNAread more

Iran-US talks on Iraq to be held in Baghdad
12 Feb 2008
Summary: Foreign Ministry spokesman Mohammad-Ali Hosseini said on Tuesday that the next round of Iran-US talks on Iraq is scheduled to be held in Baghdad. source: IRNAread more

The Folly of Attacking Iran: Lessons from History
12 Feb 2008
Summary: The Bush Administration continues its rhetoric of confrontation against Iran, including the threat of military force based on dubious claims that echo those used to justify the invasion of Iraq. Despite the National Intelligence Estimate (NIE) report by 16 U.S. intelligence agencies that Iran abandoned its nuclear weapons research in 2003, the White House continues to hype Iran as an imminent “danger”. Just Foreign Policy has released a new Web video that shows the dangers of such armed U.S. intervention and the dire n source: Just Foreign Policyread more

The US-NATO Preemptive Nuclear Doctrine: Trigger a Middle East Nuclear Holocaust to Defend “The Western Way of Life”
12 Feb 2008
Summary: Careful timing? The controversial NATO sponsored report calling for a preemptive nuclear attack on Iran was released shortly after the publication of the National Intelligence Estimate (NIE) report entitled Iran: Nuclear Intentions and Capabilities. The latter denies Iran’s nuclear capabilities. source: Global Researchread more

Inside Track: Close-Up on Clinton
12 Feb 2008
Summary: Clinton?s much-discussed support for the Kyl-Lieberman Amendment, which designates the Iranian Revolutionary Guard as a foreign terrorist organization, has prompted some critics, including Obama, to charge the senator with potentially providing Bush with the political pretext to take America to war with Iran. source: National Interestread more

Confronting Iran?
12 Feb 2008
Summary: BrzezinskiZbigniew Brzezinski: “Some people with good reason fear an Iranian-US military clash before Bush leaves office in 12 months time. [...] There are still some people in the administration of neo-con persuasion who seem to be tempted by what I believe is a suicidal inclination to compound the Iraqi problem by some sort of military action against Iran.” source: Khaleej Times Onlineread more

John McCain and the Neocon Resurgence
12 Feb 2008
Summary: McCainThe neocons and McCain do not disguise their belief that Iran must be dealt with by military means because diplomacy has failed. Indeed, one might well regard de-fanging Iran as their principal foreign policy objective, one that they share with the White House and the Israeli government. John McCain’s sentiment toward Iran is unrelentingly belligerent. source: Anti War.Comread more

Hosni Mubarak: ‘Anti-Iran action will jeopardize US interests’
11 Feb 2008
Summary: The Egyptian president called on G5+1 envoys to have more understanding and patience over Iran’s nuclear program. source: Press TVread more

‘New sanctions will undermine IAEA’
10 Feb 2008
Summary: AnsariThe Iranian ambassador to Moscow has said imposing new sanctions on Iran by the Security Council will only undermine the IAEA’s authority. source: Press TVread more

UN nuclear chief hails “good progress” with Iran
9 Feb 2008
Summary: The UN nuclear chief urged western nations to start direct negotiations with Iran, instead of using sanctions and military threats, to solve the crisis. “Confidence building can only be attained by direct negotiations,” ElBaradei said. source: China Viewread more

Iran calls for new regional security paradigm
9 Feb 2008
Summary: ISLAMABAD, Feb 8: Iran has blamed foreign intervention for instability in the region and called for a new security paradigm based on expulsion of foreign forces and regional cooperation. source: Dawn.comread more

Another Act of War
9 Feb 2008
Summary: In June of 2004, a neo-crazy media sycophant at Reuters (Charbonneau) reported that unidentified “diplomats and nuclear experts” had told him that “an experimental high-tech intelligence technique developed by the United States” had detected what sounded like the whine of gas-centrifuges, spinning at supersonic speeds, operating “somewhere” in Syria. source: Anti War.Comread more

No justification for Iran sanctions
9 Feb 2008
Summary: Your editorial ignores a long history of breached nuclear contracts and broken promises of Western countries, including the United States, that form the background to Iran’s rightful insistence on mastering the nuclear technology for purely peaceful purposes. source: Boston Globeread more

A Strike in the Dark
8 Feb 2008
Summary: There is evidence that the premptive raid on Syria was also meant as a warning about?and a model for?a premptive attack on Iran. source: New Yorkerread more

Iran shakes pillars of nuclear accord
8 Feb 2008
Summary: Little attention has been given to the various, intended or unintended, implications of the UN Security Council’s actions against Iran, often under the lame argument that “inaction is not an option”. But improper action is equally, if not additionally, harmful. source: Asia Timesread more

A Strike in the Dark
8 Feb 2008
Summary: There is evidence that the premptive raid on Syria was also meant as a warning about?and a model for?a premptive attack on Iran. source: New Yorkerread more

Two comparisons between Turkey and Iran
8 Feb 2008
Summary: Turkey’s economy is dependent on the IMF, its foreign policy on the US, its domestic policy on the EU, its military forces on the NATO, its stock market on hot money coming from abroad. So, one cannot help admiring countries that are not dependent on outside resources, such as our neighbour Iran. source: CASMIIread more

ElBaradei hails Iran cooperation progress
8 Feb 2008
Summary: The UN nuclear watchdog chief Mohamed ElBaradei said Iran has made breakthrough to resolve the dispute over its nuclear program. ElBaradei told the Kuwaiti-based daily al-Rai, published on Wednesday, that Tehran is expected to to have more cooperation with the International Atomic Energy Agency. source: Al Bawabaread more