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An attack on Iran remains a terrifying possibility, as a desperate flight forward by the Anglo-American coalition from an already hopeless situation in Iraq.
Iran Speaks Up
Posted by seumasach on February 10, 2010
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Erdogan backs Iran’s nuclear work, rejects arms
Posted by seumasach on January 14, 2010
14th January, 2010
Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan has thrown his weight behind Iran despite recent threats by Washington for new sanctions against Tehran.
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Iranian Scientist Assassinated as US Steps Up War Threats
Posted by seumasach on January 13, 2010
Bill Van Auken
13th January, 2010
Massoud Ali Mohammadi, one of Iran’s leading nuclear scientists, was assassinated in Tehran Tuesday, just two days after the top US military commander in the region announced that the Pentagon has drawn up plans to bomb Iranian nuclear sites.
The killing and the ratcheting up of military threats are indicative of the deepening international tensions over the Iranian nuclear program. While the US, Israel and other Western powers have charged Tehran with seeking to obtain a nuclear weapon, Iran has insisted repeatedly that its nuclear programs are for peaceful purposes only.
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Another Iranian Revolution? Not Likely
Posted by seumasach on January 8, 2010
Flynt Leverett and Hillary Mann Leverett
5th January, 2010
THE Islamic Republic of Iran is not about to implode. Nevertheless, the misguided idea that it may do so is becoming enshrined as conventional wisdom in Washington.
For President Obama, this misconception provides a bit of cover; it helps obscure his failure to follow up on his campaign promises about engaging Iran with any serious, strategically grounded proposals. Meanwhile, those who have never supported diplomatic engagement with Iran are now pushing the idea that the Tehran government might collapse to support their arguments for military strikes against Iranian nuclear targets and adopting “regime change” as the ultimate goal of America’s Iran policy.
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Iran Willing to Perform Nuclear Exchange in Turkey, Turkish FM Offers to Help Resolve Diplomatic Standoff
Posted by seumasach on January 6, 2010
Jason Ditz
25th December, 2009
In yet another indication that the third party enrichment scheme isn’t quite dead, the Iranian government indicated today that it would be willing to transfer its nuclear material to Turkey and make the exchange there.
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Obama and New York Times Working to Give Solidity to Groundless Iran Nuclear Weapons Charge
Posted by seumasach on January 6, 2010
Stephen Gowans
5th January, 2010
I have no idea whether Iran has a secret nuclear weapons program, and neither does the Obama administration, but that hasn’t stopped Obama’s advisers from claiming that Iran remains determined to develop nuclear weapons. Nor has it stopped The New York Times from working with the Obama administration to create the impression that Iran has a covert nuclear arms program, despite the country’s insistence it hasn’t, and absent any compelling evidence it has.
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U.S. Intelligence Found Iran Nuke Document Was Forged
Posted by seumasach on December 30, 2009
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Gareth Porter 28th December, 2009 U.S. intelligence has concluded that the document published recently by the Times of London, which purportedly describes an Iranian plan to do experiments on what the newspaper described as a “neutron initiator” for an atomic weapon, is a fabrication, according to a former Central Intelligence Agency official. |
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MKO admits involvement in Iran’s protests
Posted by seumasach on December 30, 2009
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Ahmadinejad: West not brave enough to come clean
Posted by seumasach on December 26, 2009
25th December, 2009
President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad says some Western countries are using Iran’s nuclear program as a pretext to put pressure on the Islamic Republic.
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Lula Wants World to Know Brazil Is Iran’s Good Friend, Nukes and All
Posted by seumasach on December 8, 2009
Renata Giraldi
8th December, 2009
Brazilian diplomats believe that the administration of president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva plans to expand Brazil government’s outward signs of support and solidarity to Iranian President, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.
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The bootstrap theory of propaganda
Posted by seumasach on November 27, 2009
Stephen Gowans
23rd November, 2009
U.S. politicians are, through assertion and repetition, attempting to create as common knowledge the idea that Iran has a nuclear weapons program and that the last presidential election in Iran was fraudulent, even though there is no evidence to back either claim.
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