29/11/07

Ahmadinejad hits back after ‘nuclear spy’ cleared
by Staff Writers
Tehran (AFP) Nov 28, 2007
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad hit back on Wednesday after an ex-nuclear negotiator he accused of spying was cleared of espionage, calling for the publication of documents exposing the official.
www.spacewar.com/reports/Ahmadinejad_
hits_back_after_nuclear_spy_cleared_999.html

Iran builds new longer-range missile
by Staff Writers
Tehran (AFP) Nov 27, 2007
Iran announced on Tuesday that it has built a new missile with a range sufficient to put Israel and US bases in the Middle East within easy reach, amid rising tensions over Tehran’s contested nuclear drive.

Defence Minister Mostafa Mohammad Najjar said the new “Ashura” missile had a range of 2,000 kilometres (1,240 miles) — the farthest in Iran’s arsenal, state media reported.
www.spacewar.com/reports/Iran_builds
_new_longer-range_missile_999.html

Holbrook’s Revelation
By Jeff Berg
What this writer found more revelatory came out when Mr. Holbrook held forth on the subject most on everyone’s mind these days. I.e. Whether or not the U.S. will bomb Iran and its people. The first intriguing fact is that he did not speak of this action in terms of the U.S. nation bombing Iran. He spoke of it in terms of the Bush Administration bombing Iran. That an Ambassador of his calibre chooses his words very carefully I think goes without saying. For this reason I found this purposeful differentiation between the nation of the U.S. and its government deeply interesting
www.countercurrents.org/berg291107.htm

The Runaway Politics of Insanity: After Iraq, Iran Too?
By Bill Strickland
BC Editorial Board
www.blackcommentator.com/255/255_cover
_politics_of_insanity_Strickland_ed_bd.html

Iran, The U.S., And The Twisted Path To Confrontation
By Jim Miles
Book Review: Bitter Friends, Bosom Enemies – Iran, the U.S., and the Twisted Path to Confrontation By Barbara Slavin
www.countercurrents.org/miles291107.htm

Olmert, Bush hold private meeting on Iran 28 Nov 2007 Prime Minister Ehud Olmert held his second private White House meeting of the week with President [sic] George Bush on Wednesday to try to translate the summit’s momentum into a more effective effort to thwart Teheran’s nuclear drive
www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=11955
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28/11/07

Israeli PM, Bush to hold private meeting on Iran:
Ehud Olmert will hold his second private White House meeting of the week with President George Bush on Wednesday to try to translate the summit’s momentum into a more effective effort to thwart Teheran’s nuclear drive.
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Ahmadinejad: Israel doomed to collapse:
 ”It is impossible that the Zionist regime will survive. Collapse is in the nature of this regime because it has been created on aggression, lying, oppression and crime,” Ahmadinejad said after a Cabinet meeting, according to state-run television.
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Iran claims new missile:
The successful development of the Ashura missile, which Iran claims has a range of 2,000 kilometres, was announced by Defence Minister Mostofa Mohammed Najjar. France immediately condemned the announcement and gave warning that the West needed to be “extremely vigilant with regard to Iran’s actions and intentions.”
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Impeach Cheney, Bush and Pelosi!
By Ted Lang
It is Pelosi who now represents Cheney-Bush’s most powerful and effective enabler and supporter. Pelosi is now a vital part of the Cheney-Bush crime machine. She is an accessory before, during and after the fact. And she assuredly supports the AIPAC/Cheney-Bush crime machine’s intended and unwarranted, unconstitutional invasion of Iran.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article18786.htm

Distorting Fascism to Demonize Iran
By Ismael Hossein-zadeh
In their frantic drive to pave the way for a military strike against Iran, leading figures in the neoconservative pro-Israel lobby have embarked on a vicious campaign of demonizing that country by comparing it with the early years of Nazi Germany and its President, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, with Hitler.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article18788.htm

Turning down heat in Iran By Bill Corcoran 27 Nov 2007 As most people know, the Bush White House has been rattling sabers about the possibility of using military action on Iran, and the administration’s propaganda arm, Fox News, has virtually come out calling for a military strike on Iran using retired military officers to supposedly give credit to an air strike on Iran’s nuclear facilities. Why couldn’t the same diplomacy be used with Iran which has been used with North Korea to turn the heat down?
www.chicagotribune.com/news/opinion/let
ters/chi-071127iran_briefs,0,3941717.story

SUMMIT NOTEBOOK Tensions rise between Iran, Syria
Houston Chronicle – United States
Iran feels it is an implicit target of the Annapolis conference, believing
it aims to stem its influence in the region. Damascus made clear it has its
own …
www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/world/5334107.html

IAEA tight-lipped on Iran’s nuclear fuel claims

Vienna (AFP) Nov 26, 2007 – The UN atomic watchdog declined to comment Monday on claims by Iran that it was now in a position to make its own fuel for a 40-megawatt heavy water research reactor under construction in the centre of the country. The International Atomic Energy Agency was similarly tight-lipped on a statement from Tehran, which said that the IAEA had formally closed two key dossiers in its long-running inv …
www.spacewar.com/reports/IAEA_tight-li
pped_on_Irans_nuclear_fuel_claims_999.html

IRAQ: Detentions Escalate in Diwaniyah
Ali al-Fadhily*, Inter Press Service
Detentions have become commonplace in Iraq, but now more than ever before people are being detained after being accused of membership in “militias supported by Iran.” “Hundreds of our men were detained and accused of being militiamen supported by Iran,” Mahmood Allawi, a 50-year-old lawyer from Diwaniyah, 160-kilomtres south of Baghdad, told IPS. “We are Arab Shiite and Iran is as much an enemy to us as America! It is Iran that we fear most after our leaders were killed by the so-called ‘Iranian supported’ militias,” Allawi said (…) U.S. officials claim that the military has been actively fighting against members of the Mehdi Army militia of anti-occupation cleric Muqtada al-Sadr. People here told a different story to IPS. “If they mean the Mehdi Army then they know them well because they worked together for about two years now,” Abdul Kazem Hussein, a former Iraqi officer who fled to Baghdad from Diwaniyah recently told IPS. Hussein claimed that the U.S. military had been using members of the Mehdi Army to carry out attacks on Sunnis in Baghdad, as well as areas south of Baghdad, like Diwaniyah. “But they are detaining hundreds of people who have always been afraid of being drilled to death by Mehdi Army murderers,” Hussein explained, alluding to a practice used by Mehdi Army members of using electric drills to torture Sunni men they capture. “They are detaining those who have not accepted the influence of Iran in the city,” Hussein said…
www.uruknet.de/?p=38656

27/11/07

Ahmadinejad offers to be an observer at US presidential election 27 Nov 2007 Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has offered himself as an observer in next year’s presidential ‘election.’ The proposal came in a speech to volunteers with the Basij, a pro-government militia. He said he was prompted by a belief that Americans would vote against the current administration in a truly free poll.
www.guardian.co.uk/uselections08/story/0,,2217495,00.html

Officer: Iraq Groups Supported by Iran 26 Nov 2007 There’s been no letup in attacks and weapons-smuggling by Iranian-backed Shiite militants in some parts of Iraq’s capital, the area’s top U.S. commander said Monday. The comment by Army Col. Don Farris contrasts with suggestions in recent weeks that Iran was slowing the flow of bombs, money and other support to Shiite extremists in Iraq.
ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5g1kAR
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Iran builds new longer-range missile: report 27 Nov 2007 Iran has built a new longer-range missile named “Ashura” with a range of 2,000 kilometres, (1,240 miles), the defence minister announced on Tuesday, Fars news agency reported.
www.africasia.com/services/news/newsitem.php?
area=mideast&item=071127062554.gdbaubnq.php

As Halliburton CEO, Cheney Evaded US Law To Do Business With Iran
By JimSwanson
In an interview with Fortune Magazine’s Nina Easton, Dick Cheney conceded that as Halliburton CEO he opposed unilateral sanctions on Iran, even though he now strongly supports them. Cheney explained that as a private sector official, …
progressivenewsdaily.com/?p=1125

Mottaki, Berri discuss Lebanon
Tehran Times – Iran
TEHRAN (Press TV) — Iran’s FM Manuchehr Mottaki and Lebanese Parliament
Speaker Nabih Berri exchanged views on developments in Lebanon and the
region on …
www.tehrantimes.com/index_View.asp?code=157924

Officer: Iraq Groups Supported by Iran
The Associated Press –
WASHINGTON (AP) — There’s been no letup in attacks and weapons-smuggling
by Iranian-backed Shiite militants in some parts of Iraq’s capital, the
area’s top …
ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5g1kARb
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FLASHBACK: As Halliburtion CEO, Cheney Evaded US Law To Do …
Think Progress – Washington,DC,USA
In an interview with Fortune Magazine’s Nina Easton, Dick Cheney conceded that as Halliburton CEO he opposed unilateral sanctions on Iran, even though he …
thinkprogress.org/2007/11/26/cheney-halliburton-iran/

Iran fights back against sudden chill of isolation in Arab world
Ha’aretz – Tel Aviv,Israel
Several days ago, President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad called King Abdullah of
Saudi Arabia and Bashar Assad of Syria, and on Monday, Foreign Minister
Manouchehr …
www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/928526.html

News & Views 11/26/07
By dancewater(Cervantes)
Iraq’s most influential Shiite politician said Sunday that the US had not backed up claims that Iran is fueling violence here, underscoring a wide gap on the issue between Washington and the Shiite-led Baghdad government. …
warnewstoday.blogspot.com/2007/11/news-views-112607.html

Annapolis Conference & Syria’s Truth
By Aaron Mannes
If Syria switched teams, from its current alignment with Iran to the US aligned Arab states led by Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Jordan, and the Gulf states, it would be a diplomatic masterstroke. It would isolate Iran and cut loose its key …
counterterrorismblog.org/2007/11/annapolis_conference_syrias_tr.php

We should Nuke Israel
Posted: 28 Nov 2007 01:38 AM CST
by Chris Cook
We Should Nuke Iran, by Michael Cohen
This amazingly ignorant, hateful, and frankly criminal article has been redacted. I have placed “Israel” where the murderous and racist author, Michael Coren originally wrote “Iran.” Likewise other slight alterations have been performed. There is, in what remains of this country Canada, hate crime legislation. Unlike Mr. Coren’s, and his Toronto Sun publisher’s heroes in the United States, Canadian media is expected to live up to certain standards. Promoting hatred and proposing the destruction of human life fail miserably to live up to the expected, and legislated, mandates for publishers. I recommend those offended by Mr. Coren’s modest proposal write the Sun, Coren, and the CRTC. Mr. Coren can be reached here
www.atlanticfreepress.com/index.php?option
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