Posts Tagged ‘Iran’
Posted by seumasach on January 8, 2010
Flynt Leverett and Hillary Mann Leverett
AlethoNews
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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Posted by seumasach on January 6, 2010
Stephen Gowans
What’s Left
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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Posted by seumasach on December 30, 2009
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Gareth Porter
Global Research
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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Posted by seumasach on December 26, 2009
PressTV
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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Posted by seumasach on December 8, 2009
Renata Giraldi
Brazzilmag
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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Posted by seumasach on November 27, 2009
Stephen Gowans
What’s Left
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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Posted by seumasach on November 12, 2009
PressTV
11th November, 2009
A former Italian foreign minister says the United States cannot afford to isolate Iran as the Middle Eastern country can easily develop its economic ties with the European Union and Russia.
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Posted by seumasach on October 18, 2009
Huffington Post
18th October, 2009
See also:
Seymour Hersh: US training Jondallah and MEK for bombing preparation
A suicide bomber killed five senior commanders of the elite Revolutionary Guard and at least 26 others in an area of southeastern Iran that has been at the center of a simmering Sunni insurgency, state media reported.
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Posted by seumasach on October 16, 2009
Pepe Escobar
Asia Times
17th October, 2009
For the (Western) news cycle, what stood out from United States Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s visit to Russia this week was an “appeal for cooperation” and a “challenge” for Russia to open up its political system, embrace “diversity” and shelve Cold War thinking.
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Posted by seumasach on October 9, 2009
Glenn Greenwald
Salon.com
7th October, 2009
Ever since Iran reported the existence of its Qom enrichment facility to the IAEA, one central assertion has been repeated as fact over and over by the American media to make the story as incriminating as possible: namely, that Iran only disclosed this because they discovered they had been “caught,” i.e., they found out that the West knew of this facility and they thus had no choice but to disclose it. That assertion has been fundamental to the entire Iran drama. After all, if Iran voluntarily notified the IAEA of the Qom facility before it was even operational and thus agreed to have the facility inspected, it’s impossible to maintain the melodramatic storyline that Iran was planning something deeply nefarious here and got “caught red-handed.” The assertion that Iran was forced into disclosure is vital to the entire plot, and it’s been constantly repeated as fact.
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Posted by seumasach on September 30, 2009
M K Bhadrakumar
Asia Times
29th September, 2009
“Medvedev-watching” graduated from pure science to applied science during the four-day visit by Russian President Dmitry Medvedev to New York and Pittsburgh last week.
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