Posted by seumasach on November 20, 2013
20th November, 2013
The upper house of the US Congress has acceded to the White House’s request to delay a vote on additional sanctions against Iran, as the Islamic Republic and six other countries are set to resume their nuclear negotiations in the Swiss city of Geneva.
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Posted by seumasach on November 13, 2013
9th November, 2013
Two years after the revolution that ousted Muammar Gaddafi, Libya is close to becoming what is called ‘a failed state’. Who is responsible for this, and are there ways to put things right?
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Posted by seumasach on November 11, 2013
Thierry Meyssan
11th November, 2013
Although the Geneva Conference, in June of 2012, had set the foundations for peace in Syria, the war resumed for a year and a half. 100,000 deaths later, the foreign powers who planned and fueled the conflict have finally admitted defeat. Moscow and Washington are therefore planning to convene a new conference in Geneva to enact the victory of the Syrian Arab Republic.
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Posted by seumasach on November 5, 2013
Jim Lobe
5th November, 2013
WASHINGTON – On the 34th anniversary of the seizure by Iranian militants of the US Embassy in Tehran, a growing number of experts here believe Washington and the Islamic Republic may be moving toward detente, if not rapprochement.
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Posted by seumasach on November 4, 2013
Thierry Meyssan
4th November, 2013
The media coverage of the war in Syria examines only military, diplomatic and humanitarian action. It ignores profound transformation. However, one does not survive a sea of violence without changing profoundly. From Damascus, where he has lived for two years, Thierry Meyssan describes this evolution.
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Posted by seumasach on November 4, 2013
Victor Kotsev
4th November, 2013
The Israeli operations in Syria and the Gaza strip that took place almost simultaneously last week demonstrated just how fraught with tensions the relationship between the United States and Israel has become and how unpredictable and dangerous the period ahead is.
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Posted by seumasach on November 4, 2013
4th November, 2013
Rebel forces massacred 45 Christians in the west-central Syrian town of Sadad, according to Syrian Orthodox Archbishop Selwanos Boutros Alnemeh.
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Posted by seumasach on November 4, 2013
Turkish MP Calls on Erdogan Gov’t to Change Policy on Syria
3rd November, 2013
TEHRAN (FNA)- Most of the advocates of military aggression against Syria have accepted the necessity for the political settlement of the Syrian crisis, a Turkish legislator said, urging the government of Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan to change its hostile policies towards Syria.
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Posted by seumasach on November 3, 2013
3rd November, 2013
London, Asharq Al-Awsat—Iran and China will reach an agreement to unblock up to EUR 22 billion of Iranian assets, mainly from oil export revenues, as a result of Iranian parliamentary speaker Ali Larijani’s high-profile visit to China last week, Iranian media are reporting.
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Posted by seumasach on November 3, 2013
30th October, 2013
The Obama administration is working hard to head off a wrecking ball from Congress and the Israel lobby aimed at sabotaging negotiations between Iran and the P5+1. The talks, which resume in November, also include direct talks between the United States and Iran. The key issue: members of the House and Senate are trying to force-feed the administration yet another round of anti-Iran sanctions, at the very worst possible moment.
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Posted by seumasach on November 3, 2013
12th October, 2013
Editor’s note: This statement has been issued ahead of the new round of the 5+1 group with Iran jointly by the following NGO’s: Campaign Against Sanctions and Military Intervention in Iran, Organization for Defending Victims of Violence, Society for Chemical Weapons Victims Support, Tehran Peace Museum
The comprehensive US/EU sanctions attacking the lifeline of Iranian economy is a criminal war of choice against the Iranian population. Far from the claims of sanctions as diplomacy aimed at the resolution of the conflict over Iran’s nuclear programme, sanctions are inflicting, both by design and default, unendurable pain and destruction on Iranian people, Iran’s infrastructure and civil society institutions.
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