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Obama’s Delay, or Why Israel Might Nuke Iran

Obama’s Delay, or Why Israel Might Nuke Iran
By Chris Meserole
October 22, 2009 “Huffington Post” — So the generals are brewing, and the veterans are getting restive. Nine months after Obama’s inauguration, according to the Times, the military establishment is beginning to lose its patience with a president who has yet to commit to a coherent [...]

Ahmadinejad Vows to Avenge Revolutionary Guard Suicide Bombing

At least 29 people, including senior military officers and tribal leaders, were killed when a suicide bomber blew himself up at a meeting of the elite Revolutionary Guards in southeastern Iran on Sunday, the interior ministry said.
“Based on the information… as a result of today’s terrorist action… so far 29 people have been martyred [...]

John Bolton Suggests Nuclear Attack on Iran

John Bolton Suggests Nuclear Attack on Iran

By Daniel Luban
October 15, 2009 “Faster Times” – Oct 14, 2009 — This Friday, the American Enterprise Institute will host an event addressing the question “Should Israel attack Iran?” The event includes, among others, Iran uberhawk Michael Rubin and infamous “torture lawyer” John Yoo, but the real star is [...]

Ahmadinejad: Zionists Aim to Destroy Civilizations in Region

Ahmadinejad: Zionists Aim to Destroy Civilizations in Region
11Oct09

Disinformation about the Iranian “Threat”

Disinformation about the Iranian “Threat”
Friends,
Middle East scholar Juan Cole has an excellent piece, “Top Things you Think
You Know about Iran that are not True,” on his blog, “Informed Comment.”
http://www.juancole.com/2009/10/top-things-you-think-you-know-about.html
As he shows, all the claims about the much-ballyhooed Iranian “threat” are
fallacious.  Iran is not developing any covert nuclear arsenal.  It has not
threatened to launch a war [...]

Obama Makes Up IAEA Rules for Iran

Obama Makes Up IAEA Rules for Iran

Posted: 2009/10/04
From: Mathaba

By Ardeshir Ommani
The occasion of Tehran’s report to the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) on September 21, 2009 that it is in the process of building a low-capacity second uranium enrichment plant near the holy city of Qom provided President Barack Obama with a new opportunity to backtrack on [...]

The Lying Game: Drum-beating for War against Iran

The Lying Game: Drum-beating for War against Iran
How we are prepared for another war of aggression
New Statesman – 2009-09-20
by John Pilger

In his latest column for the New Statesman, John Pilger compares the current drum-beating for war against Iran, based on a fake “nuclear threat”, with the manufacture of a sense of false [...]

Obama Foreign Policy Advisor Calls For US to Shoot Down Israeli Jets

09-20-2009 • Gateway Pundit

Now Brzezinski, who advises Obama on foreign policy, is calling for the US to shoot down Israeli jets. Brzezinski is known to be anti-Israel.
The Weekly Standard Blog reported:
In a little noticed interview with the Daily Beast (presumably little noticed because serious people don’t read the Daily Beast), Zbigniew [...]

Israel planned Iran strike during unrest: Report

Press TV
As Iran was grappling with the post-election unrest, Israel was reportedly preparing to strike the country’s nuclear facilities, a US diplomatic source says.
According to the US diplomat who is based in Jerusalem (al Quds), Israel asked the US administration for a green light to attack Iran’s nuclear facilities and its other vital structures in [...]

Secret US-Israeli meeting to focus on Iran

Secret US-Israeli meeting to focus on Iran
Fri, 17 Jul 2009 18:40:17 GMT presstv

An Israeli warship arrives at an Israeli navy base in the Red Sea resort city of Eilat on July 15

Amid reports that Israel is preparing to bomb Iranian nuclear sites, political heavyweights in Washington and Tel Aviv make plans for a secret get-together.
Ria [...]

Our sanctions at work: 168 dead in Iran

Letter Written by: Jane Stillwater
Date of Letter: 2009-07-15
Sure, I know that there’s a big power struggle going on in Iran right now and that the politicos and the ayatollahs are playing tug of war over who will get control of what. But let’s focus on something else for right now — that the Iranian [...]

‘US forces attempt to hijack Iranian oil field’

Press Tv

American forces have attempted to take over an Iranian oil field near the country’s western border with Iraq, a security official says.
“US forces backed by tanks entered the Mousian area of the Dehloran County, laying around 100 meters of pipeline in Iranian territory,” the source, talking on condition of anonymity, said Monday.
The source added [...]

Secret Camera Leads to Arrest of Nine in British Embassy in Iran

Secret Camera Leads to Arrest of Nine in British Embassy in Iran

‘The government of Iran arrested 9 members of the British Embassy accusing them of taking part in anti-goverment demonstrations after they were filmed by a secret camera that had been placed, unbeknownst to embassy members, inside the British embassy, Last week Iran and Britain each expelled two [...]

Mousavi, Celebrated in Iranian Protests, Was the Butcher of Beirut

By Jeff Stein | CQ Politics

He may yet turn out to be the avatar of Iranian democracy, but three decades ago Mir-Hossein Mousavi was waging a terrorist war on the United States that included bloody attacks on the U.S. embassy and Marine Corps barracks in Beirut.
Mousavi, prime minister for most of the 1980s, personally selected [...]

Are the Iranian Protests Another US Orchestrated “Color Revolution?”

Is This the Culmination of Two Years of Destabilization?
by Paul Craig Roberts
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A number of commentators have expressed their idealistic belief in the purity of Mousavi, Montazeri, and the westernized youth of Terhan. The CIA destabilization plan, announced two years ago (see below) has somehow not contaminated unfolding events.
The claim is made that [...]

Are You Ready For War With Demonized Iran?

By Paul Craig Roberts
6-19-9
How much attention do elections in Japan, India, Argentina, or any other country, get from the US media? How many Americans and American journalists even know who is in political office in other countries besides England, France, and Germany? Who can name the political leaders of Switzerland, Holland, Brazil, Japan, or even [...]

H Res 560: Statement Opposing Resolution on Iran

June 19, 2009 Statement Opposing Resolution on Iran

Statement of Congressman Ron Paul
United States House of Representatives
Statement Opposing Resolution on Iran
June 19, 2009
I rise in reluctant opposition to H Res 560, which condemns the Iranian government for its recent actions during the unrest in that country. While I never condone violence, much less the violence [...]

Clinton Threatens to Attack Iran ‘The Way That We Did’ Iraq

Secretary of State Says US or “Some Other Enemy” May Launch First Strike Against Iran
by Jason Ditz, June 07, 2009 Anti War

Citing the disastrous 2003 US invasion of Iraq as an example, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton today warned that by continuing to refuse to abandon its civilian nuclear program, Iran was risking [...]

Media Disinformation and the “Iranian Threat”

Media Disinformation and the “Iranian Threat”
The great, international, demonic, truly frightening Iranian threat
by William Blum Source: The Anti-Empire Report

The United States is “facing a nuclear threat in Iran” — article in Chicago Tribune and other major newspapers, May 26

“the growing missile threat from North Korea and Iran” — article in the Washington Post [...]

Obama Admits to US Role in Iran Coup

President Admits to US “Role in the Overthrow of a Democratically Elected Iranian Government”
Source: AntiWar
While far from the focus of his historic Cairo speech today, President Barack Obama’s comments on America’s history with Iran have caused something of a stir, as he became the first sitting US president to publicly admit to America’s role in [...]