Iran-Pakistan-India gas pipeline is on28 Apr 2008Summary: Pepe Escobar: Asian countries create interdependent energy economy with Iran, despite US opposition:
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has met with Pakistan’s president, Pervez Musharraf, and the prime minister, Raza Gilani, to discuss the construction of a gas pipeline from Iran to India. source: The Real Newsread more
Hypocrisy Par Excellence28 Apr 2008Summary: Israeli threats to “destroy the Iranian nation” in a retaliatory strike should Iran attack Israel seems perfectly acceptable to the US State Department. However, its spokesman, Sean McCormack, is voicing his strong condemnations against the Iranian officials when they respond in kind. How hypocritical is that? source: Intellectual Discourseread more
Iran holds key to India’s energy insecurity28 Apr 2008Summary: In the rapidly intensifying international energy game, Iran holds a master key to the most staggering roadblock to India’s economic growth – energy insecurity. With the issue of energy cooperation expected to dominate talks on Tuesday between visiting Iranian President Mahmud Ahmadinejad and his hosts in New Delhi, a new chapter in India-Iran relations is on the horizon that will likely bring the two countries closer together on a long-term basis. source: Asia Times Onlineread more
Rabbi leads interfaith delegation to Iran27 Apr 2008Summary: Rabbi GottliebFor the first time, an American rabbi will be traveling to Iran Tuesday on a mission of interfaith dialogue and understanding. source: JPostread more
Iran looks eastward27 Apr 2008Summary: The visit of the Iranian president Mr Mahmud Ahmadinejad to Islamabad may be the first step towards inaugurating a new chapter in Iran?s geopolitical vision. And the reason behind this could be Iran?s economic compulsions: it has a resource that needs to be exported to develop its national economy to the level where it can be recognised as a regional power. In an era of pipelines, geopolitics is no longer linked to invasions. From the point of view of trade, westwards of Iran, the markets for its product are small; source: Pakistan Daily Timesread more
Hillary Strangelove27 Apr 2008Summary: A presidential candidate who lightly commits to obliterating Iran – and, presumably, all the children, parents, and grandparents in Iran – should not be answering the White House phone at any time of day or night. source: The Boston Globeread more
What did Israel bomb in Syria?27 Apr 2008Summary: Pepe EscobarLast week’s allegation by the US government that an Israeli air strike in Syria last September hit a nuclear facility being developed with the cooperation of North Korea has drawn strong denials from the Syrian government. The real problem here, says The Real News Analyst Pepe Escobar, is that the air strike, and the claims made about it months later, have never been properly investigated by mainstream media. source: The Real Newsread more
Iran discusses package of nuclear proposals with Russia27 Apr 2008Summary: JaliliTEHRAN, Iran (AP) ? Iran and Russia on Monday discussed the outlines of “serious proposals” aimed at assuring the international community that Tehran’s nuclear program is peaceful, state media reported. source: The Associated Pressread more
IAEA deputy chief in Iran for more nuclear talks27 Apr 2008Summary: Heinonen TEHRAN, April 28 (Xinhua)—Deputy Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Olli Heinonen has arrived in Tehran for more talks over Tehran’s nuclear program, Iran’s Press TV satellite channel reported on Monday. source: China Viewread more
Is War With Iran Imminent? This time, it’s more than a rumor?27 Apr 2008Summary: The indications of an imminent attack ? the latest incident, the steady stream of accusations coming from the U.S. regarding Iranian influence in Iraq, the nuclear charade, etc. ? have suddenly taken a more ominous turn with the recent statement of America’s top military officer that the U.S. is weighing military action against Iran. source: AntiWar.com read more
London needs a mayor for peace26 Apr 2008Summary: LivingstoneGiven the stakes in this election, it is absolutely crucial that the peace vote is mobilised. Please encourage all your friends and family, colleagues, and your local communities to turn out and use their votes to ensure that, on 1st May, London elects a Mayor for peace. source: CASMIIread more
US warns Iran of retaliation over Iraq action26 Apr 2008Summary: America’s top military officer has ratcheted up the pressure on Iran by issuing an unusual public warning that the Pentagon is planning for ?potential military courses of action?. source: Times on lineread more
Joint Chiefs Chairman Says U.S. Preparing Military Options Against Iran24 Apr 2008Summary: MullenThe nation’s top military officer said today that the Pentagon is planning for “potential military courses of action” against Iran, criticizing what he called the Tehran government’s “increasingly lethal and malign influence” in Iraq. source: Washington Postread more
A US Casualty of war, A threat to World Peace: Clinton Dehumanised24 Apr 2008Summary: The shameful exposition by the American presidential hopeful, Hilary Clinton, of her mass genocidal intentions towards Iranians was tragic proof of the dehumanising impact of warmongering on an elite western mind. It is said that humanity is the first casualty of war and this has been starkly clear, not only in the murderous boasting of the presidential candidate?s preparedness to ?totally obliterate? an entire nation, to prove her appeal as the American president, but worse still, in the meek and acquiescent res source: CASMIIread more
Petraeus promotion an ominous sign of possible war with Iran24 Apr 2008Summary: The promotion of Gen. David Petraeus is another ominous sign that the Bush administration may attack Iran. President Bush is nominating Petraeus, Commanding General of the Multi-National Force in Iraq, to replace Adm. William Fallon as head of Centcom: U.S. Central Command, which oversees the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. Fallon was forced to resign last month after his outspoken opposition to an attack on Iran. Petraeus, by contrast, has been heating up the rhetoric against Iran. source: The Progressiveread more
Petraeus Promotion Frees Cheney to Threaten Iran24 Apr 2008Summary: The nomination of Gen. David Petraeus to be the new head of the Central Command not only ensures that he will be available to defend the George W. Bush administration’s policies toward Iran and Iraq at least through the end of Bush’s term and possibly even beyond. source: Antiwar.com read more
India and Iran: Getting Friendly?23 Apr 2008Summary: “Iran is the litmus test for India’s foreign policy,” says former diplomat Rajiv Sikri. “India and Iran have been allies historically, and India’s interests are bound with Iran’s. If India cannot take a free stand on Iran, it can hardly hope to claim an independent foreign policy.” source: Timesread more
Behind TV Analysts, Pentagon?s Hidden Hand23 Apr 2008Summary: Hidden behind that appearance of objectivity, though, is a Pentagon information apparatus that has used those analysts in a campaign to generate favorable news coverage of the administration?s wartime performance, an examination by The New York Times has found. The effort, which began with the buildup to the Iraq war and continues to this day, has sought to exploit ideological and military allegiances, and also a powerful financial dynamic: Most of the analysts have ties to military contractors vested in the very war policies they are asked to assess on air. source: The New York Timesread more
New momentum for US-Iran dialogue23 Apr 2008Summary: New momentum for United States-Iran dialogue on Iraq has been generated as a result of this week’s Kuwait summit of Iraq and its neighbors. It will likely trigger a cooling of tensions between Tehran and Washington in the near future after several weeks of vitriolic exchanges. source: Asia Times Onlineread more
Sister Hillary23 Apr 2008Summary: It seems Hillary Clinton has sacrificed her conscience to ambition … She announced her readiness to reduce 70 million innocent Iranian lives to ashes so that she could imagine her picture in the White House. Hillary?s lust for ambition will never be satisfied; on the contrary, it seems to grow more inflamed with the prospect of mass murder. After all, this is nothing new to her. source: CASMIIread more
Cowboys and Iranians22 Apr 2008Summary: The American Establishment would never have given Bush Cheney Inc. the green light to invade Iraq if the stakes were not so high. The only problem is that they were sold a cheap occupation that now is approaching two trillion dollars in costs, which in actual fact are not costs, but a transfer of American taxpayer money into the coffers of the military industrial complex. source: iranian.comread more
Despite Iraq, America’s love affair with war runs deep22 Apr 2008Summary: At a distance I continue to find Obama one of the most exciting and potentially able men to run for the American presidency in a generation. His capacity to transform America’s self-image and world image is colossal. But to do so he must confront America atavistic love affair with war, and that will be hard. source: The Guardianread more
‘Obliteration’ threat to Iran in case of nuclear attack22 Apr 2008Summary: Speaking as voters went to the polls in the Pennsylvania primary, she said: "I want the Iranians to know that if I'm the president, we will attack Iran" if it attacks Israel. Barack Obama accused her of sabre-rattling, saying this was the kind of language that had been used by the Bush administration over the last few years and was not helpful. source: The Guardianread more
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