13 April, 2009

YouTube Jews Undercover Iran
September 2004It’s not easy being a Jewish MP in an assembly that routinely calls for the destruction of Israel, but Iranian Jews’ rights are protected by …
www.youtube.com/watch?v=-fcDtmv5gmM

Israel Is Bluffing: Constant War Threats Against Iran Are Empty …
By Trita Parsi, Huffington Post
Israel does not have the military capability to successfully eliminate Iran’s nuclear program. But its threats are strangling diplomatic alternatives.
www.alternet.org/audits/136296/israel_is_bluffing:_constant
_war_threats_against_iran_are_empty,_but_still_dangerous/

Israel President Hints At Action Toward Iran
By Fred Stopsky
Israel President Shimon Peres employed aggressive language in discussing the actions of Iran and how their challenge might be met. In an interview with Kot Hai.
theimpudentobserver.com/world-news/i
srael-president-hints-at-action-toward-iran/

YID With LID: Iran Gives Obama The One-Fingered Salute
By Sammy Benoit
…the head of Iran’s Atomic Energy Organization said the country now has“around 7000" centrifuges installed at its Natanz facility, a significant jump from the 5600 the International Atomic Energy Agency cited in a February report. …
yidwithlid.blogspot.com/2009/04/iran-gives
-obama-one-fingered-salute.html

World powers must accept a nuclear Iran: Larijani
Tehran (AFP) April 12, 2009 – Iranian parliament speaker Ali Larijani said on Sunday world powers must accept the Islamic republic as a nuclear power as top officials vowed no let-up in Tehran’s sensitive uranium enrichment drive.
www.spacewar.com/reports/World_powers
_must_accept_a_nuclear_Iran_Larijani_999.html

Tomgram: Roane Carey, Will Israel Attack Iran …
By Chip
Sometimes, reading about the Middle East, or at least about Israel, Iran, and nuclear weapons, feels like your most basic broken-record phenomenon. As New York Times op-ed columnist Roger Cohen reminded readers recently, there’s nothing …
www.afterdowningstreet.org/node/41659

Support Israel to contain Iran | FresnoZionism.org
By Vic Rosenthal
A commenter on this blog recently asked (in effect), if you’re so smart, what would you do about Iran? How would it be different and better than what the.
fresnozionism.org/archives/1202

Psyche, Science, and Society “ Samuels: Israeli interests dictate …
By Stephen Soldz
David Samuels in Slate has a very interesting argument as to Why Israel Will Bomb Iran. In an odd way, it is refreshingly realistic in discussing the issue totally within the context of the national interests of the various actors. …
psychoanalystsopposewar.org/blog/2009/04/12/
samuels-israeli-interests-dictate-an-iran-attack/

12 April, 2009

POLITICO Live: Bayh talks tough on Iran – POLITICO.com
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Political news coverage from POLITICO.com on Congress and Capitol Hill. Blog postings in Politico Live from John Bresnahan, Patrick O’Connor, Josephine Hearn, Daniel W. Reilly, and Josh Kraushaar. Complete coverage of Iraq, Immigration, …
www.politico.com/blogs/politicolive/0409/
Bayh_talks_tough_on_Iran.html

Epoch Times – Iran President Dismisses Demand to Halt Atom Work …
By Reuters
Iran’s president again dismisses demands to halt nuclear work the West fears is aimed at making bombs.
www.theepochtimes.com/n2/content/view/15214/

World must accept a nuclear-powered Iran: Larijani | Sindh Today
By Sindh Today
Tehran, April 12 (IANS) World powers must accept Iran as a nuclear power as it has mastered the technology of uranium enrichment, parliament speaker Ali Larijani said Sunday. Now the 5+1 has no reason to deny or refuse Iran’s nuclear …
www.sindhtoday.net/world/86122.htm

PoliGazette “Peres hints at possible strike on Iran
By Michael van der Galien
Israeli President Shimon Peres had some unusually aggressive words for Iran Sunday, seemingly threatening military action if US President Barack Obama’s overtures to the Islamic republic fail to bear fruit, the Jerusalem Post reports. …
www.poligazette.com/2009/04/12/pere
s-hints-at-possible-strike-on-iran/

Senators push for more sanctions on Iran | American Conservative Daily
Sens. Evan Bayh and Tom Coburn on Sunday called for increased sanctions against foreign companies that do business with Iran, saying that such action is crucial to stunt the Middle East country’s push for nuclear weapons.
www.americanconservativedaily.com/2009/04
/senators-push-for-more-sanctions-on-iran/

Infidel Bloggers Alliance: Reported here before, Iran has Russki …
By Epaminondas
Israeli intelligence sources said Iran is completing modifications of the BM-25 ballistic missile, supplied to Teheran in 2007. They said Russian scientists and engineers were preparing the BM-25 (R-27 / SSN-6) for operational use in …
ibloga.blogspot.com/2009/04/reported
-here-before-iran-has-russki.html

Matthew Yglesias “David Samuels Says Bombing Iran Will Lead to a …
By myglesias
This is a world in which an Israeli attack on Iran is likely to be highly effective at curbing Iran’s nuclear program (which I doubt), a world in which such an attack would be secretly welcomed by the leaders of all the regimes in the …
yglesias.thinkprogress.org/archives/2009/04/david_ samu
els_says_bombing_iran_will_lead_to_a_palestinian_state.php

Global Voices Online “ Iran:”AP report on Iranian blogs is BIASED”
By Hamid Tehrani
Iran:”AP report on Iranian blogs is BIASED” … Full Category List. Cyber-Activism · Freedom of Speech · Governance · Iran · Media· Middle East & North Africa · Protest · Roundups …
globalvoicesonline.org/2009/04/12/iranap
-report-on-iranian-blogs-is-biased/

Official: Iran favors oil price between $75 and $80 | Home …
TEHRAN (Xinhua) — Iran’s Oil Minister Gholam Hossein Nozari told a press conference Sunday that the oil price between $75 and $80 would be favorable for Iran, the local ISNA news agency reported.
www.philstar.com/Article.aspx?articleId=
457124&publicationSubCategoryId=200

World powers must accept a nuclear Iran: Iran speaker – GEO.tv
TEHRAN: Iranian parliament speaker Ali Larijani said on Sunday world powers must accept the Islamic republic as a nuclear power as top officials vowed no let-up in Tehrans sensitive uranium enrichme.
www.geo.tv/4-12-2009/39684.htm

Iran plans largest air show ever | Iran news | Jerusalem Post
Military official warns of &quotdestructive response” if Islamic republic attacked. (The Media Line.)
www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=
JPost/JPArticle/ShowFull&cid=1239488115781

Iran detains 121 Afghans, foils human trafficking bid | Sindh Today
By Sindh Today
Tehran, April 12 (IANS) Iranian officials have foiled a major human trafficking attempt by detaining 121 Afghan nationals who had illegally entered the country, IRNA reported Sunday, quoting authorities. Six people have also been …
www.sindhtoday.net/pakistan/86049.htm

Crude prices could hit $60 in Q3 – Iran oil minister – Energy …
Cooperation between OPEC & non-OPEC producers may stabilise market– minister.
www.arabianbusiness.com/552317-crude
-prices-may-hit-60-in-q3---iran-oil-minister

Shirvin Zeinalzadeh: The Possibilities of US-Iran Talks | Enduring …
By Scott Lucas
On Friday, Scott Lucas wrote of Iran’s Pride in the speech of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on the country’s nuclear program. No surprise to the trained eye.
enduringamerica.com/2009/04/12/shirvin-
zeinalzadeh-the-possibilities-of-us-iran-talks/

Peres hints at possible strike on Iran | International | Jerusalem …
But hopes US talks soften stance of Admadinejad, who he says was hurt by Hizbullah arrests in Egypt.
www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename
=JPost/JPArticle/ShowFull&cid=1239488114997

Blogger becomes casualty of Iran cyber-wars | News Inventory
By admin
Omidreza Mirsayafi answered his own question. I don’t know, he wrote, but I know someday I will see its shadow falling on my land. Two and half years.
www.newsinventory.com/blog/news/world-business/
blogger-becomes-casualty-of-iran-cyber-wars.html

Dennis Ross’s Iran Plan | Campaign Against Sanctions and Military …
By www.campaigniran.org/casmii
When Dennis Ross, a hawkish, pro-Israel adviser to Barack Obama’s presidential campaign, was elevated in February to the post of special adviser on “the Gulf and Southwest Asia”—i.e., Iran—Ross’s critics hoped that his influence would …
www.campaigniran.org/casmii/index.php?q=node/7736