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.
Posted by seumasach on December 23, 2008
So it’a OK for the US to set up missile systems in countries neighbouring Russia, but not OK for Russia to sell missiles to countries bordering countries the US has invaded.
22nd December, 2008
U.S. officials say they want answers from Russia on whether it is selling advanced surface-to-air missiles to Iran. The U.S. insists such a move could threaten American troops in Iraq and Afghanistan.
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Posted by seumasach on December 21, 2008
TEHRAN, December 21 (RIA Novosti) – Russia has started the supplies of components for S-300 air defense systems to Iran, a senior Iranian lawmaker said on Sunday.
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Posted by smeddum on December 1, 2008
Ahmadinejad blasts West
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Source ::: THE PENINSULA
DOHA: Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad yesterday called for developing an alternative economy in the face of the “total failure” of socialism and capitalism.
Addressing the plenary session of the International Conference on Financing for Development here, Ahmadinejad hit out against the “capitalist bloc”.
“Knowing (the problem) is the best way to address the problem. The capitalist bloc is facing an impasse in its philosophical, cultural and economic arena”, he said. Read the rest of this entry »
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Posted by seumasach on November 15, 2008
Cailean Bochanan
15th november, 2008
Ever since 9/11 and the subsequent invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq, the world has been suspended between two possible outcomes: on the one hand, a reinforced US hegemony and on the other a sort of counter-globalisation movement at the core of which lay the reassertion of national sovereignty in the face of empire. Even as the coalition got bogged down in both Iraq and Afghanistan, the terrifying possibility remained of an escalation towards global war provoked by an attack on Iran, and at certain points this scenario may have been a lot closer to becoming a reality than the wider world realized. In addition, the collapse of the Anglo-American financial system opened the possibility of a wave of financial chaos spreading out from the imperial heartlands destabilising the world economy and inaugurating a neo-feudal dark age. The aggressive and arrogant stance of Washington and London and doubts about European leadership, in particular, left one fearing what further cards the empire had left to play. That has now been clarified: they have none.
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Posted by seumasach on November 15, 2008
The multipolar world is no longer a theory or an aspiration: it is a reality unfolding before our eyes.
Kaveh Afrasiabi
On the eve of the United States presidential elections, a landmark visit to Tehran by the head of Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) has been widely regarded in the Persian Gulf region as a major diplomatic overture toward Tehran by the US-backed oil sheikdoms.
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Posted by seumasach on November 9, 2008
“Obviously, how we approach and deal with a country like Iran is not something that we should, you know, simply do in a knee-jerk fashion.” said Obama, reacting in knee-jerk fashion
“Obama, speaking at his first press conference since winning Tuesday’s presidential election, also said the Islamic Republic must stop supporting “terrorist organizations.”
I would suggest that it is Anglo-america which has to stop supporting terrorist organisations.
Iran’s pursuit of nuclear weapons ‘unacceptable’: Obama
CHICAGO (AFP) — US President-elect Barack Obama said on Friday that Iran’s pursuit of nuclear weapons was “unacceptable” and he would “respond appropriately” to a congratulatory letter from President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.
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Posted by seumasach on October 20, 2008
TEHRAN, October 20 (RIA Novosti) – There are no political obstacles in the way of the completion of the $1 billion Bushehr nuclear power plant being built by Russia in southern Iran, a Russian deputy foreign minister said on Monday.
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Posted by smeddum on October 19, 2008
China blocking US anti-Iran efforts
Fri, 17 Oct 2008 07:07:03 GMT Press TV
Bushehr nuclear power plant
China has hampered US efforts to convene permanent UN Security Council members plus Germany to discuss new sanctions against Iran. Read the rest of this entry »
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Posted by smeddum on October 11, 2008
Dealing with Iran’s Not-So-Irrational Leadership Monthly Review 17/09/08
by Kouross Esmaeli and Ramin Karimian
Nothing expresses the widening gap between the mind frames of the Iranian ruling elite and their Western counterparts more than the headlines in their respective newspapers. The American media, above all, have unilaterally resolved the intelligence questions over Iran’s nuclear program. The New York Times leads the pack with articles and even editorials that assume Iran is building a nuclear bomb.1 The American media, once again, are doing damage control for their President — in this case, for the Bush Administration’s embarrassing Iran policy, especially after the December 2007 National Intelligence Estimate’s assessment that Iran abandoned its weapons program in 2003. Western reporting on Iran’s nuclear program is based on the underlying assumption that the Iranians are irrational in their policy-making, therefore Iran is a nation with whom diplomacy is a waste of time. A nuclear Iran has been framed by the Israeli hawks as an “existential threat,” the framing adopted by the American media as well: Iran is a suicide-bombing nation. If allowed to build a nuclear bomb, they will strap it on and destroy Israel even if it means the destruction of their own country and its 70 million inhabitants.2 The logical way to deal with such irrational self-destructive characters is to preempt them by destroying them. This logic looms behind Western news about Iran and remains a possible rationale for a military attack on the country. Read the rest of this entry »
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Posted by smeddum on September 27, 2008
Iran Resolution Shelved in Rare Defeat for AIPAC
by Jim Lobe Antiwar.com
In a significant and highly unusual defeat for the so-called “Israel Lobby,” the Democratic leadership of the House of Representatives has decided to shelve a long-pending, albeit nonbinding, resolution that called for President George W. Bush to launch what critics called a blockade against Iran. Read the rest of this entry »
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Posted by seumasach on September 24, 2008
24th September, 2008
Foreign ministers from the six major powers have called off talks to discuss further sanctions against Iran over its nuclear program.
US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and her counterparts from Russia, China, France, Britain and Germany were to hold the meeting in New York on Thursday to consider more pressure on Tehran.
“There is not going to be a P5-plus-one ministers meeting” on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly, State Department spokesman Sean McCormack told reporters on Tuesday.
The decision came after Russia complained of US plans to “punish” it, AFP reported.
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