War With Iran Has Already Begun Bipartisan support for sanctions spells bloodshed to come by Nathan Fuller, May 24, 2012 Print This | Share This On Friday, 93% of the U.S. House of Representatives affirmed a resolution escalating America’s already aggressive position on Iran from “crippling” sanctions to a zero-tolerance policy on nuclear weapons. The Congressional Research [...]
Bin Laden Files Debunk Neocon Hysteria Over Iran The claim of a deal between Iran and Al-Qaeda has been discredited by former officials in the wake of publication of documents from Osama bin Laden’s files. May 10, 2012 | The U.S. Treasury Department‘s claim of a “secret deal” between Iran and Al-Qaeda, which had become a [...]
US Officials Worried Israel’s Unity Deal Raises Prospect of Iran Strike The Likud-Kadima unity government might neutralize opposition to Israeli strike by John Glaser, May 10, 2012 Print This | Share This Top officials in the Obama administration are worried that Israel’s recent deal to form a national unity government between the Likud and Kadima parties raises the [...]
Opposition to Iran war gaining momentum By Kourosh Ziabari link http://www.presstv.ir/detail/240364.html Several prominent academicians, peace activists, artists, journalists and even Nobel Prize laureates have stood shoulder by shoulder with the international organizations to voice their dismay and alarm at the renewed war rhetoric of Israel against Iran and its possible plans for launching a military [...]
link to interactive map- a must to look at to see the real position http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/interactive/2012/04/2012417131242767298.html Doha, Qatar - US military bases continue to form a strategic envelope around Iran, although the American withdrawal from Iraq at the end of 2011 may have changed the regional balance somewhat towards Iran’s favour. While US forces [...]
Few men have spent more time at the intersection of nuclear weapons and international politics than Swedish diplomat Hans Blix. As the former head of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) and then chief United Nations weapons inspector, Blix was at the centre of events when he publicly contradicted claims from the administration of former US [...]
Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has often been perceived as unwilling to negotiate with the US [REUTERS] Washington, DC - In January 2009, just before Gary Samore left his position as Vice-President for Studies at the Council on Foreign Relations, he summed up his rather cynical view of how Iran would conduct negotiations. “The logical position [...]
Iran and Israel: Comparing military machines Assessing statistics for the two regional rivals at the heart of the Middle East dispute over nuclear arms. Ben Piven Israel, the US, and some European powers have alleged that Iran aims to build nuclear weapons to complement its conventional arms, but Tehran says its current programme is for peaceful, civilian purposes. Regardless, [...]
Below is a link to an excellent interview with Ray McGovern a former CIA analyst. He of course as a CIA employee reported directly to a President nd is an acknowledged expert in the field. Although this is only short you get a god sense of what is happening with the dissemination [...]
It has been reported that Israel plans to attack Iran after US presidential elections in November [GALLO/GETTY] While Iran’s nuclear programme has been at the centre of foreign and economic policy debates for months, what seems unclear is the precise nature of the threat it might pose. Is Iran striving for nuclear latency (the ability [...]
by Dariush Gilani 21-Apr-2012 link http://www.iranian.com/main/2012/apr/all-quiet Checking out the US media recently I have noticed a dramatic downturn in anti-Iran rhetoric. Now that the Israeli leaders got what they wanted from the Obama administration, in terms of more weapons and money and a relief from forced negotiation with Palestinians, the scare tactic about nuclear Iran has [...]
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad visits the Natanz nuclear enrichment facility in this April 8, 2008 file photo. (Reuters/Presidential official website/HO) By Rachelle Younglai and Timothy Gardner WASHINGTON (Reuters) — Iran‘s trading partners are looking for ways to avoid being hit by US sanctions on Iranian oil transactions that take effect mid-year, with Turkey looking for [...]
Irainian Ship Photo by: Glenn Klasner Amid nuclear talks, Iran warns of cutting oil to more EU states Recent Iranian measures against Britain, France, Greece and Spain, meant as pre-emptive retaliation ahead of an EU oil embargo that is due to go into effect in July. By The Associated PressTags: Iran nuclear Iran threat link http://www.haaretz.com/news/middle-east/amid-nuclear-talks-iran-warns-of-cutting-oil-to-more-eu-states-1.425548 Iran’s oil minister [...]
A mural in Tehran, Iran, depicts Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, left, and his predecessor, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, the father of the revolution. (Photo: Shawn Baldwin / The New York Times) The US and Iran Are Talking. Why Is the New York Times Peddling Iran Islamophobia? Friday, 20 April 2012 11:00By Robert Naiman, Truthout | News Analysis Support Truthout’s [...]
Is Peace Getting in the Way of Our War Plans? By David Swanson http://warisacrime.org/content/peace-getting-way-our-war-plans What a bizarre circumstance this is. The irrational Iranians are behaving too reasonably. The unmovable Iranians seem to be compromising too readily. This past weekend, the United States and other major nations finally spoke with Iran. In [...]
Iran’s chief nuclear negotiator Said Jalili gives a press conference on April 14, 2012 as Iran and six world powers open talks on Tehran‘s disputed nuclear program in Istanbul, Bulent Kilic / AFP / Getty Images Why Netanyahu’s Afraid of Diplomacy by Trita Parsi Apr 17, 2012 2:00 PM EDT Netanyahu and Obama [...]
Report on Iran’s Nuclear Fatwa Distorts Its History by Gareth Porter, April 19, 2012 Print This | Share This The Barack Obama administration’s new interest in the 2004 religious verdict, or “fatwa,” by Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei banning the possession of nuclear weapons, long dismissed by national security officials, has prompted The [...]
By Sherwood Ross (about the author) By Sherwood Ross The U.S. should end all aid to Israel if it attacks Iran, former U.S. Senator James Abourezk says. It should “tell Israel outright that both American money and American political and military support will end should it decide to drag America into another Middle [...]
Scene from “Porgy and Bess” on Broadway Iran’s Phantom Menace April 16, 2012 Exclusive: For years, a propaganda drumbeat has been rising to justify a war to stop Iran from building a nuclear bomb, though U.S. intelligence agencies say Iran isn’t building one and Iran’s Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei has decried nukes as a “great sin.” But [...]
If you go to http://truth-out.org/news/item/8523-after-constructive-talks-on-iran-nuclear-program-hopes-rise-for-diplomacy you can read a McClatchy article on the present position in the Iran diplomacy/war situation. It all sounds nice and neat. First there is the warhawk Obama and fellow European warmongers who would love nothing better than to bomb the living daylights out of Iran. As an aid to [...]
Saudi Arabia Dancing to Israel’s Tunes By Kourosh Ziabari April 14, 2012 “Information Clearing House” -— It is no longer a secret that the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia has joined forces with the United States, Israel and Britain to destabilize Iran. Saudi officials have openly stated their opposition to [...]
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu meets with President Barack Obama in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, March 5, 2012. (Photo: Doug Mills / The New York Times)An interview with academic and author Dr. Arshin Adib-Moghaddam on the consequences of a future war with Iran. War on Iran: America’s Next Catastrophe in the Middle [...]
Iran‘s chief nuclear negotiator Saeed Jalili has told Russian and Chinese diplomats he has come prepared for substantive negotiation. Photograph: Osman Orsal/Reuters The first international negotiations on Iran‘s nuclear programme for 15 months will get under way on Saturday in Istanbul amid increasing signs that Tehran is prepared to trade limits on its enrichment of uranium [...]
Women make their way down a street past a photo of Iran’s supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei outside of a mosque in Tehran, Monday, August 21, 2006. Why Washington’s Iran Policy Could Lead to Global Disaster Thursday, 12 April 2012 12:50By Juan Cole, TomDispatch | News Analysis Iran‘s supreme theocrat has repeatedly condemned the atom bomb [...]
Israeli leaders are regularly cited in western media calling for an attack on Iran‘s nuclear facilities [GALLO/GETTY] An Israeli attack on Iran is imminent; at least that’s what someone reading much of the Western media might think these days.As Iran continues to develop its nuclear energy programme, some policymakers and commentators in the west say [...]
Israel Afraid of Iraq’s US-Provided Warplanes That Israel feels threatened by Iraq – America’s intended client – is a monument to the failure of the Iraq war by John Glaser, April 09, 2012 Print This | Share This Recent U.S. military aid and arms sales to Iraq are fueling concern in Israel amid intelligence reports that Baghdad is increasingly [...]
Israel paves way to war with Iran Monday, 09 April 2012 Israel is paving the way to launch a military attack to destruct Iran’s nuclear facilities and infrastructure. Recent strategic reports in Israel anticipate that human casualties in the Hebrew state could be limited to just 300 persons if a [...]
US Offers to ‘Negotiate’ if Iran Surrenders; Thoughts on Negotiation Tactics; Obama Threatens War By Mike Shedlock April 09, 2012 “Information Clearing House” — President Obama has stepped up the rhetoric against Iran with an offer to “negotiate”. His offer is no offer at all, it is a demand to surrender. There will [...]
Iran/Israel locked in Mutual Assured Destruction (MAD) deterrence status By Franklin Lamb (about the author) opednews.com Beirut Mutual Assured Destruction (MAD), the doctrine of military strategy and national security policyin which a full-scale use of high-yield weapons by two opposing sides would effectively result in the potential annihilation of both the attacker and the defender becoming thus a war that [...]
Iran could recover from attack on its nuclear sites within six months, says U.S. report U.S. congressional report says Israel and U.S. do not know exact location of Iran nuclear facilities, which may be dispersed in such a way that an Israeli attack would not be successful. By Haaretz March [...]
Bombing for Ethnic Cleansing and Hegemony Rights by Edward S. Herman / March 28th, 2012 In this post-Orwell and post-Kafka age, Israel can threaten to bomb Iran to preserve Israel’s ethnic cleansing rights in Palestine, and the United States can put “all options on the table” in dealing with that dire Iranian threat in order [...]
Ehud Barak with German Defense Minister Thomas de Maiziere in Berlin, March 20, 2012. Photo by: AP Germany official: Meeting with Israel’s Barak left me ‘more concerned’ of war with Iran Defense Minister Thomas de Maiziere says feels some Israeli cabinet members do not give enough thought to the negative consequences that could develop in wake of a strike of Iran‘s nuclear [...]
“A war is no picnic” … Israel‘s Defence Minister Ehud Barak. Photo: AFP Take a bite out of Iran at your peril Paul McGeough March 25, 2012OPINION You’d have thought the reality of Afghanistan and Iraq might act as a break on the instinctive lunge by hawks to compare apples with oranges as they try to [...]
Iran, Israel: who hits first? 21 March 2012 Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu threatens on a daily basis to hit Iran’s nuclear facilities, which he considers as an ‘existential’ threat to Israel. American and Israeli experts try to justify the strike as a kind of self-defence. When literally applying the same [...]
By REUTERS ‘Iron Dome allotment can’t offer full protection’ By JPOST.COM STAFF link http://www.jpost.com/Defense/Article.aspx?id=263208 03/24/2012 17:13 Former defense minister Amir Peretz warns Israel will need double the number of planned batteries for full protection Former defense minister Amir Peretz said on Saturday that the number of Iron Dome rocket-defense batteries Israel plans to [...]
International Association of Democratic Lawyers Opposes Military Force Against Syria and Iran By davidswanson - Posted on 25 March 2012 by Marjorie Cohn | Smirking Chimp The International Association of Democratic Lawyers (IADL), a non-governmental organization having consultative status with the United Nations (UN) Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC), is dedicated to uphold international law, particularly [...]
An IAEA report presented little fresh evidence on whether or not Iran is trying to build an atomic bomb [GALLO/GETTY] Melbourne, Australia - Consider this: you are a willing outcast, with few longstanding and stable friends and a number of formidable enemies. How do you survive? By trying to convert your enemies to friends, or by [...]
Israelis Protest Against War on Iran by John Glaser, March 24, 2012 | Print This | Share This | Antiwar Forum Hundreds of Israelis marched in Tel Aviv on Saturday to protest against a possible unilateral Israeli military strike on Iran, as more Israeli citizens begin to reach out to Iranians. The protest sprung up independently after a Facebook campaign by [...]
Iraq ‘worked out well, you may recall … But then what does it matter with people’s goldfish-like memories?’. Illustration: Phil Disley War on Iran? It is too soon to reminisce about Iraq, let alone have a repeat The Class of 2002 are beating the drums on Iran, failing to learn from a war [...]
Iran sanctions bring unintended, unwanted results 23 Mar 2012 17:33 Source: Reuters // Reuters * Sanctions drive up oil prices, hurting global economy * Heightened economic pressure could make Iran more volatile * Little evidence Tehran deflected from nuclear programme By Peter Apps, Political Risk Correspondent LONDON, March 23 (Reuters) [...]
US, Europe, Israel Agree On Solid Intel: Iran Nuke Threat Far Off Solid, in depth intelligence confirms with high confidence Iran has no weapons program, but peace is still rejected by John Glaser, March 23, 2012 | Print This | Share This | Antiwar Forum The United States, European allies, and Israel all agree that Iran does not have a nuclear weapon, has [...]
Mark Kirk, R-Illinois 5 Politicians Pushing the US Closer to a Disastrous War With Iran President Obama may be pushing back against the “loose talk of war,” but Congress sure isn’t. March 16, 2012 | Republican candidates for president have made Iran a top issue in their attacks on President Barack Obama. While US and Israeli [...]
Israel, US Disagree on Timetable for Attacking Iran Israel says it “cannot afford” to wait for an Iranian nuclear weapons program, which intelligence says doesn’t exist by John Glaser, March 22, 2012 | Print This | Share This | Antiwar Forum Israel and the U.S. disagree on how soon a military attack on Iran would be necessary, Israel’s defense minister said [...]
Details of Talks With IAEA Belie Charge Iran Refused Cooperation Wednesday, 21 March 2012 10:36By Gareth Porter, Inter Press Service News | News Analysis Iran’s permanent representative to the IAEA, Ali Asghar Soltanieh, says that the February talks came close to a final agreement. (Photo: Dean Calma / IAEA)Vienna – The first detailed account of negotiations between the [...]
Statements made by Israeli Defence Minister Ehud Barak led analysts to say that the assassination of Zuhair al-Qaisi was not about direct prevention [AFP] Beer-Sheva, Israel - In response to the recent assassination of Zuhair al-Qaisi, the Secretary General of the Popular Resistance Committees in the Gaza Strip, along with another fighter, Palestinians fired rockets at [...]
Iran Leader: Israel, US Attacks Will Bring ‘Same Level’ Retaliation US Wargame Reveals Perils of Israeli Attack on Iran – Common Dreams staff Iran rang in the Persian new year Tuesday with a speech broadcast on live television by Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. Thousands jammed the Imam Reza mosque complex in the [...]
Israel Intelligence Agrees Iran Is Not After N-bomb: Report By Press TV March 19, 2012 “Press TV” – – Despite their saber-rattling, Israeli officials have generally accepted the US intelligence assessment that Tehran is not building a nuclear bomb, a report says. The Associated Press report said Sunday that although Israeli leaders have [...]
Not unsurprisingly everyone seems to know what Iran’s real capacity to build weapons is except the media that pushes the line that these evil people have nothing better to do than destroy the world as we know it. George Ikners ikners.com Israel [...]
“Expressing the sense of the PEOPLE regarding the importance of a peaceful resolution of differences and preventing the Governments of the United States and Israel from continuing/escalating the aggression/terrorism against the PEOPLE of the Islamic Republic of Iran.” I and other Veterans For Peace from Long Island will be lobbying members [...]
America and the Middle East: Psycho Warriors Who Deceive Humanity By Mahboob A. Khawaja, PhD March 18, 2012 “Information Clearing House” — In a knowledge-driven global culture of enhanced human communications and proactive visions for sustainable futuristic co-existence between Man and the encompassed Universe and divergent civilizations, we the educators and learners [...]
