Iranians help reach Iraq cease-fire
30 Mar 2008
Summary: BAGHDAD ? Iranian officials helped broker a cease-fire agreement Sunday between Iraq’s government and radical Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr, according to Iraqi lawmakers. source: USA Todayread more

Iraq Crisis Threatens Bush-Petraeus “Surge” Strategy As Bankrupt
29 Mar 2008
Summary: Central to the Bush-Petraeus Iraq strategy is to pacify and confuse American public opinion during the 2008 elections, an approach Gen. Petraeus calls “slowing down the American clock” to gain time for the counterinsurgency to continue. This week’s events in Basra suggest that US strategy is collapsing amidst its own contradictions. source: Hoffington Postread more

Iran urges end to Iraq fighting, says helps US
29 Mar 2008
Summary: Maliki & SadrIran called on Saturday for an end to fighting between Iraqi government forces and Shi’ite Muslim militants to remove any “pretext” for U.S. troops to stay in Iraq. source: Reutersread more

Gaddafi says Arabs should not alienate Iran
29 Mar 2008
Summary: DAMASCUS, March 29 (Reuters) – Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi urged fellow Arab leaders on Saturday to improve ties with non-Arab Iran, saying it was not in their interest to antagonise the Islamic republic. source: Reutersread more

Israel sees dwindling chance of US strike on Iran, despite nuclear ‘smoking gun’
28 Mar 2008
Summary: Although the US and Israel believe they have found a “smoking gun” in Iran’s enrichment of uranium, the chances of a unilateral US strike are seen as “remote,” according to JTA news service. source: Global Researchread more

A great leap backward
28 Mar 2008
Summary: RamadaniOnce again, the occupiers have miscalculated the depth of resentment in Iraq. And once again, the occupation is seen by many Iraqis as a divisive force, the root of the bulk of the violence. For most Iraqis, it is the occupation which threatens to ignite civil war. Only an end to the occupation and complete withdrawal can put Iraq on the long and tortuous path of rebuilding its tormented lands. source: The Guardianread more

Iran denies Bush’s charge of meddling in Iraq
28 Mar 2008
Summary: TEHRAN (Reuters) – Iran has said the United States is trying to shirk its own responsibility by blaming Tehran for problems in Iraq, where U.S. forces are supporting an Iraqi government crackdown on Shi’ite militants. source: Reutersread more

Police refuse to support Iraqi PM’s attacks on Mehdi Army
28 Mar 2008
Summary: The Iraqi army has either met stubborn resistance from Mehdi Army fighters or soldiers and police have refused to fight or changed sides. “We did not expect the fight to be this intense,” said the officer from a 300-strong commando unit source: The Independentread more

Hillary Clinton’s Iraq Lies
28 Mar 2008
Summary: Back in October 2002, Obama publicly acknowledged that “Saddam poses no imminent and direct threat to the United States, or to his neighbors” and that “even a successful war against Iraq will require a U.S. occupation of undetermined length, at undetermined cost, with undetermined consequences.” He also recognized that “an invasion of Iraq without a clear rationale and without strong international support will only fan the flames of the Middle East, and encourage the worst, rather than best, impulses of the Arab world, source: AntiWar.com read more

Tenet’s War
28 Mar 2008
Summary: PratherAccording to Risen, back in 2000, under President Clinton, the CIA sent a “Russian defector” to IAEA headquarters in Vienna with slightly modified “technical designs for a TBA 480 high-voltage block,” a semi-critical component of certain “Russian-designed” nuclear weapons, with instructions to give them to the Iranian delegate to the IAEA. source: AntiWar.com read more

Die Strategie des bsen Spiels
27 Mar 2008
Summary: Am 10. Dezember 2007 hat das ARD-Fernsehen in seiner vom Sdwest-Rundfunk (SWR) produzierten Sendung ‘Report Mainz’ einen Beitrag ausgestrahlt, dessen Funktion darin besteht, den iranischen Prsidenten Mahmud Ahmadinedschad mit der deutschen ‘rechten’ Szene in Verbindung zu bringen und damit ein weiteres Mal am Bau des Iran-Feindbildes mitzuwirken. source: Arbeiterfotografieread more

Fear lame duck Bush may attack Iran persists
27 Mar 2008
Summary: Rep. Jim McDermottRep. Jim McDermott (D-Wash.) suggested that the president may choose to back such an attack in part to ensure a Republican victory in the election this November. source: final call.com newsread more

McCain and Cheney target Iran
27 Mar 2008
Summary: McCain & Cheney“I don’t see that much difference between what’s going on right here and what went on with Iraq. It’s these little words that kind of creep into these speeches.” source: The Real Newsread more

5 Ex-Chief US Diplomats: Open a dialogue with Iran
27 Mar 2008
Summary: James BakerATHENS, Ga. (AP) ? Five former U.S. secretaries of state on Thursday urged the next presidential administration to close the Guantanamo Bay prison camp and open a dialogue with Iran. source: APread more

“If you thought George Bush was bad when it comes to the use of military force, wait till you see John McCain.”
27 Mar 2008
Summary: If McCain does not win, the financial and political interests and backers who made Bush president and handled him through his presidency might have enough patience to sit through a Democratic presidency with less aggressive (but not halted) implementation of their plans. However, I fear that they might not have that patience and that we will see an expansion of the Iraq war into Iran or Syria before the Bush presidency is over should McCain not emerge as his successor. source: opednews.comread more

A Less than Grand Strategy: NATO’s New Vision, The Preemptive Use of Nuclear Weapons
26 Mar 2008
Summary: A few months ago, a report was published entitled “Towards a Grand Strategy for an Uncertain World: Renewing Transatlantic Partnership”. It was written by five generals and it proposes a new vision for the NATO alliance and a strengthening of ties between the United States and the European Union. On the whole, the report contains an unabashed support for increased militarism and an arrogant endorsement of continuing Western hegemony throughout the world. The “Western way of life” must be preserved at all costs and those source: Global Researchread more

Iraq implodes as Shia fights Shia
26 Mar 2008
Summary: A new civil war is threatening to explode in Iraq as American-backed Iraqi government forces fight Shia militiamen for control of Basra and parts of Baghdad. source: The Independentread more

Freedom Rider: Bomb, Bomb, Bomb, Bomb, Bomb Iran
26 Mar 2008
Summary: It took a force of rebellious generals and senior intelligence officers to thwart the Bush regime?s plans to attack Iran, just a few months ago. But the Bush/Cheney war criminals are intent on an armed assault on Iran before the clock runs out on their terms in office. House Judiciary Committee Chairman John Conyers is once again making noises about possible impeachment, but only after Bush?s planes and missiles hit Iran. source: Black Agenda Reportread more

US moves towards engaging Iran
26 Mar 2008
Summary: The coming few weeks are going to be critical in the standoff between the United States and Iran as the upheaval in the Middle East reaches a turning point. And all options do remain on the table, as the George W Bush administration likes to say, from military conflict to a de facto acceptance of Iran’s standing as the region’s dominant power. source: Asia Times Onlineread more

Averting war with Iran: A matter of trust
26 Mar 2008
Summary: With approximately 10 months remaining of US President George W. Bush’s second and final term of office, a nervous world wonders whether Bush will authorize a military strike on Iran to neutralize what he believes to be a nuclear weapons program camouflaged behind the 1968 Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty. source: Online Journal read more

Iran threatens legal action over U.N. sanctions
26 Mar 2008
Summary: Ban Ki-moonUNITED NATIONS (Reuters) – Iran has threatened legal action against Western states to seek compensation for losses it said it had suffered from U.N. Security Council sanctions over its nuclear program. source: Reutersread more

US deploys more war machines to Persian Gulf
25 Mar 2008
Summary: An American nuclear submarine has crossed the Suez Canal to join the US fleet stationed in the Persian Gulf. source: Iranian wsread more

Iran protests to UN over ignoring international law by Security Council
25 Mar 2008
Summary: New York, March 26, IRNA —Iran on Wednesday protested to United Nations Secretary-General over negligence of the international law by the Security Council in passing resolutions against Iran. source: IRNAread more

Bush Closer to Bombing Iran
25 Mar 2008
Summary: FallonWas Cemtcom Commander Fallon pushed out for opposing a new war of aggression against Iran? source: Alternet.orgread more

Op-ed: U.S.-Iran relations
25 Mar 2008
Summary: Ongoing isolation and diplomatic sanctions does not help the Iran-US atmosphere. We should demand a workable solution, or at least a dialogue, to promote the peaceful co-existence of our two countries. source: Middle East Timesread more