Posts Tagged ‘Iran’
Posted by seumasach on July 16, 2009
Jason Ditz
Campaign Iran
14th July, 2009
14 members of the Baloch separatist group Jundullah will be publicly executed tomorrow in Iran, according to the state news agency. The 14 were convicted of involvement in a 2006 terrorist attack in the Sistan and Balochistan Province and will be executed in the provincial capital of Zahedan.
In the attack, members of Jundullah dressed as police blocked off the main highway near Zahedan. When the traffic stopped the militants opened fire, killing 22 civilians and injuring six others. The group took credit for the attack days later, the first major attack in what has become a multi-year campaign of attacks on civilians and government workers in Iran’s restive southeast.
Since then the group has launched a myriad of attacks, including a high profile Shi’ite mosque bombing in Zahedan just days before June’s Iranian election. The mosque was partially destroyed in the attack, and at least 30 were killed.
Though Balochistan has seen its share of separatists on both the Iranian and Pakistani side of the border over the years, few groups have committed random violence on as massive as scale as Jundullah. Part of the explanation for how those group sprang out of virtual anonymity in late 2005 into one of the largest terrorist organizations in Iran is direct support it received from the US government, beginning in 2005 and continuing at least into 2007. The US was attempting to undermine the Iranian government through support of domestic opposition groups.
source: antiwar.com
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Posted by seumasach on July 16, 2009
There is litle sense left in US strategy- I thought they wanted Iranian gas for Nabucco. The failure of their covert operations in Iran has obviously hurt: now they’re just hitting out wildly.
antiwar.com
15th July, 2009
In a high-profile policy address before the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR), Secretary of State Hillary Clinton declared that the US wouldn’t not hesitate to use its military to “defend our friends, our interests, and above all, our people” during the segment discussing Iran.
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Posted by seumasach on July 14, 2009
PressTV
14th July, 2009
Russia will not back tougher sanctions against Iran over its nuclear activities in exchange for a new arms cuts deal with the US, a foreign ministry official says.
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Posted by seumasach on July 14, 2009
This is rather sensational news which seems to point inexoarably towards detente between the USa and Iran. The US would have preferred a different regime in Iran but their orange revolution has obviously failed. Will we see convergence nonetheless?
M.K.Bhadrakumar
Asia Times
15th July, 2009
How a trans-Caspian gas pipeline project came to be named after the 19th-century Italian Romantic composer Giuseppe Verdi’s famous opera Nabucco remains obscure. The opera is based on a Biblical story about the tragic plight of persecuted Jews exiled from their homeland by the Babylonian King Nebuchadnezzar. Maybe, the opera’s enchanting story of love and struggle or its tendency toward melodrama was considered an apt metaphor for the acute Caspian energy rivalry.
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Posted by seumasach on July 10, 2009
Arguably, a new element of tension appeared by a conscious strategy by the Obama administration to insert a wedge between Medvedev and Prime Minister Vladimir Putin and create a rift within the Kremlin. To quote noted Russia-watcher Peter Lavelle, “Either Obama believes he has already mastered Russian politics … or he is being given some very bad advice … In Russia today, it is simply impossible to play Medvedev off against Putin. Both represent the same policy approaches, including foreign policies, but in different ways.”
“Biden’s remarks didn’t actually warrant a Russian rebuttal. But Moscow probably decided to put Obama’s hawkish deputy on the mat while the boss was in town to balance to some extent the mischievous briefings given by White House officials, touting a growing US-Russia convergence over Iran, which of course was exaggerated hype.”
So Obama tried to put a wedge between Putin and Medvedev and between Russia and Iran: both failed miserably as anyone with any grasp of Russia diplomacy at all could have predicted. As with the interventions in Iran and Honduras, the old box of tricks is still being used, but they just don’t work anymore.
M.K.Bhadrakumar
Asia Times
11th July, 2009
The Cold War may or may not be lurking in the shade, but the mystique of Russian-American summitry lingers. In an event packed with animated passions in the run-up to it, and loaded with history, as the summit in Moscow on July 6-7 indeed was, what ultimately matters is the morning after.
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Posted by seumasach on July 10, 2009
Petras is one of the very few on the left to view Obama’s strategy objectively. He is right to stress that global conditions are no longer favourable for US intervention: we are witnessing, before our very eyes, the end of empire.
James Petras
Atheo News
9th July, 2009
The recent events in Honduras and Iran, which pit democratically elected regimes against pro-US military and civilian actors intent on overthrowing them can best be understood as part of a larger White House strategy designed to rollback the gains achieved by opposition government and movements during the Bush years.
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Posted by seumasach on July 8, 2009
The meaning of Biden’s sabre-rattling now becomes clear: it’s part of a fiendishly clever scheme to put a wedge between Russia and Iran. It’s becoming an amusing spectator sport watching the cretinous US leadership trying to cope with the reality of their ebbing power.
PressTV
8th July, 2009
The Russian Foreign Ministry spokesman has said the recent remarks by US Vice President Joe Biden, who said Israel has the right to attack Iran, have surprised Moscow.
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Posted by seumasach on July 6, 2009
“..what better way to solve all the ills of US society — lack of secure health care, poverty, violence — than dismantling the MIC and initiating a foreign policy based on peace rather than war?”
Eric Walberg
Axis of Logic
2nd July, 2009
June was a busy month for two of Washington’s real ‘Axis of Evil’. Venezuela’s Chavez completed his nationalisation of oil and Iran’s Ahmedinejad stemmed a Western-backed colour revolution, leaving both bad boys in place, muses Eric Walberg
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Posted by seumasach on July 3, 2009
M K Bhadrakumar
Asia Times
4th July, 2009
In the annals of Russian-American summitry, Moscow has never before choreographed a welcoming ceremony for the visiting United States president in this fashion. The dramatic run-up to the arrival of US President Barack Obama in Moscow on Monday underscores the complexities of the context in which the two countries are going through at the summit.
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Posted by seumasach on July 1, 2009
M.K.Bhadrakumar
Asia Times
1st July, 2009
Twitter can now revert to its plan to shut down its Iran services and attend to maintenance work. Twitter goes into recess pleased that it probably embarrassed a resurgent regional power. The United States government owes Twitter a grand salute for having done something where all other stratagems of war and peace failed in the past three decades.
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Posted by seumasach on June 30, 2009
Tehran’s « green revolution » is the latest version of the « color revolutions » which have allowed the United States to impose subservient governments in several countries without needing to use force. Thierry Meyssan, who advised two governments facing this type of crisis, analyses this method and the reasons for its failure in Iran.
Thierry Meyssan
Voltairenet.org
27th June, 2009
« Color revolutions » are to revolutions what Canada Dry is to beer. They look like the real thing, but they lack the flavor. They are regime changes which appear to be revolutions because they mobilize huge segments of the population but are more akin to takeovers, because they do not aim at changing social structures. Instead they aspire to replace an elite with another, in order to carry out pro-American economic and foreign policies. The « green revolution » in Tehran is the latest example of this trend.
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