17 April, 2009

Peres Rejects ‘Speculation’ of Attacking Iran — News from Antiwar.com
By Jason Ditz
On Sunday, Israeli President Shimon Peres rather directly raised the prospect of attacking Iran if the upcoming P5+1 talks, saying that if President Ahmadinejad didn’t soften the nation’s stance “we’ll strike him. …
news.antiwar.com/2009/04/16/peres-rejects
-speculation-of-attacking-iran/

Iran contrary | Stephen M. Walt
By Stephen M. Walt
Today, advocates of preventive war against Iran offer a similar set of claims, suggesting that Iran’s leaders are irrational religious extremists who would happily embrace martyrdom and take millions of fellow humans with them. …
walt.foreignpolicy.com/posts/2009/04/16/iran_contrary

Gates Greenlights Iran’s Bomb; Israel/USA Imperiled (FRC Blog)
By Chris Gacek
“Reporting from Washington — Amid increasing suggestions that Israel might attack Iran’s nuclear facilities, Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates warned this week that such a strike would have dangerous consequences, and asserted that …
www.frcblog.com/2009/04/gates_greenlights_irans_bomb_i.html

Ahmed Shihab-Eldin: First Iran, Now Arabs Going Nuclear (Q&A with …
By Ahmed Shihab-Eldin
First Iran, Now Arabs Going Nuclear (Q&A with Richard Falk) – The Huffington Post.
www.huffingtonpost.com/ahmed-shihabeldin
/first-iran-now-arabs-goin_b_187851.html

Parsi: A Deadline Of Diplomacy To Iran Will Only Militarize The …
By University of New Mexico/Talk Radio News Service
This morning the Middle East Policy Council held a discussion on the prospects of engagement between Iran and the United States, and the panelists expressed their concerns. Trita Parsi, the President of the National Iranian American …
talkradionews.com/2009/04/parsy-a-deadline-of-
diplomacy-to-iran-will-only-militarize-the-atmosphere/

16 April, 2009

Global Voices Online “ Iran:Delara,Teenage Artist, on Death Row
By Hamid Tehrani
In Savedelara we read that Delara, who is now 23 years old and jailed in Iran,faces death by public hanging for a murder that took place when she was 17 years old. Watch her paintings here. #. From Syria, An@s Online [Ar] reports that …
globalvoicesonline.org/2009/04/16/iran
delarateenage-artist-on-death-row/

Mere Rhetoric: Gates: Israeli Attack On Iran’s Nukes Will Cause …
US Defense Secretary Robert Gates warned against an Israeli military strike on Iran’s nuclear facilities, asserting that such a strike would have dangerous consequences, the Los Angeles Times reported on Thursday. …
www.mererhetoric.com/archives/11275559.html

The Spectator
Of all the many reasons to be wary of bombing Iran, one of the best is also one of the simplest: it won’t work. Or, rather, whatever advantage there may be in delaying Iran’s nuclear ambitions by a year or two is unlikely to be worth …
www.spectator.co.uk/alexmassie/3543741/bombing-
iran-counterproductive-and-unlikely-to-even-work.thtml

America in the World: US Defence Secretary suggests military …
By Tim Montgomerie
The LA Times is reporting that US Defence Secretary Robert Gates has told US Marines that any strike against Iran and its emerging nuclear capacities would be counter-productive in all but the short-term. Secretary Gates warned that a …
americaintheworld.typepad.com/home/2009/04/us-defence-
secretary-suggests-military-strike-on-irans-nuclear-capacit
y-would-be-counterproductive.html

Iran Diary: Things are Tough Here too. – BusinessWeek
By Stanley Reed
The other day I went out to what was supposed to be the high-tech pride and joy of Tehran, the Iranian capital. It’s about 40 minutes drive outside the city. There are some very fine projects going up such as…
www.businessweek.com/globalbiz/blog/europe
insight/archives/2009/04/iran_diary_thin.html

Obama’s back door to Iran ties | csmonitor.com
First create trust by seeking a deal on Afghanistan – it’s a mess for both.
www.csmonitor.com/2009/0416/p08s04-comv.html

Iran Sanctions Would Be Frozen By U.S. for Talks, Envoys Say …
April 16 (Bloomberg) — The Obama administration won’t impose additional sanctions on Iran if it freezes nuclear development work and joins talks over the future of its program, European diplomats said. Undersecretary of State William …
www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/
duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x3834468

Israel Matzav: Gates takes military option against Iran off the table
By Carl in Jerusalem
Amid increasing suggestions that Israel might attack Iran’s nuclear facilities, Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates warned this week that such a strike would have dangerous consequences, and asserted that Tehran’s acquisition of a bomb …
israelmatzav.blogspot.com/2009/04/gates-
takes-military-option-against.html

Iran says it is willing to build new relationship with U.S. …
Iran’s president on Wednesday sent the clearest signal yet that the Islamic Republic wants warmer ties with the US, just…
www.japantoday.com/category/world/view/iran
-says-it-is-willing-to-build-new-relationship-with-us

Sic Semper Tyrannis : “We wuz robbed.” Chalabi, Bush and Iran.
By turcopolier
“[Al-Hayat]: If you want to describe George Bush, then how would you describe him? [Chalabi]: A man with very little skill and knowledge. [Al-Hayat]: He did Iran a great service by toppling Saddam? [Chalabi]: Iran benefited from …
turcopolier.typepad.com/sic_semper_tyrannis/2009/04/
chalabi-admits-that-bush-was-duped-by-iran.html

Quake scientist predicts Iran will shake in late April – Short …
By Catherine Brahic
He says his team has detected the same unusual clouds above Iran. They predict that there will be a magnitude 5.0 to 6.0 earthquake at the end of April in southern Iran. According to Guo, the pressure that builds up in rocks before an …
www.newscientist.com/blogs/shortsharpscience/
2009/04/quake-scientist-says-iran-will.html

JPost.com | BlogCentral | Rosner’s Domain | Responding to Roger …
By Shmuel Rosner
A comprehensive response to Roger Cohen’s recent barrage of columns on Iran requires more time and space, but in the meantime, some of my friends at Contentions have already started dissecting his shady arguments and refuting them. …
cgis.jpost.com/Blogs/rosner/entry/roger_cohen_s_folly

In Defence of Marxism – Iran: A report from Tikoshin Plastics in …
Marxist website defending the ideas of Marxism as a tool for today’s labour movement, by the International Marxist Tendency.
www.marxist.com/iran-tikoshin-plastics-sanandaj.htm

Peres: Talk of strike in Iran unfounded | Iran news | Jerusalem Post
President’s remarks come after Gates warns against dangerous consequences of strike on nuclear sites.
www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=JPost/
JPArticle/ShowFull&cid=1239710700439

US warns Israel against attack on Iran
By admin
US Defense Secretary Robert Gates has cautioned Israel against launching a military attack on Iran to halt its nuclear program.
www.prisonplanet.com/us-warns-israel-against-attack-on-iran.html

Informed Comment: Global Affairs: On Iran’s Sincerity in Nuclear Talks
By Farideh Farhi
Michael Rubin of the American Enterprise Institute had a piece in the Wall Street Journal on April 12 that really got me wondering about the extent to which opponents of U.S. engagement with Iran are willing to twist the truth to make …
icga.blogspot.com/2009/04/on-irans-sincerity-in-nuclear-talks.html

Armenian News – PanARMENIAN.Net | Armenian News Agency – Final …
Net/ Final memorandum on construction of Iran-Armenia railroad was signed in Tehran by Iranian Minister of Roads and Transportation Hamid Behbahani and Armenian Minister of Transport and Communications Gurgen Sargsyan, TV5 TV channel …
www.panarmenian.net/news/eng/?nid=30500

‘Enough Fear’ Campaign Connects C.U. Students to Peers in Iran …
By Megan Carney
John Weiss’s seminar, History 2161: Iran and the World, together with the assistance of volunteer translators (an assortment of Cornell students and professors fluent in Farsi), worked to bring the “Enough Fear” campaign’s phone event …
cornellsun.com/section/news/content/2009/04/16/%E2%80%98
enough-fear%E2%80%99-campaign-connects-cu-students-peers-iran

Clinton: Offer to Talk Did Not Change US Demands on Iran — News …
By Jason Ditz
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton says that while the United States welcomes the proposed nuclear talks with Iran, it has not dropped its repeated demands that Iran abandon its uranium enrichment program. “We have not dropped or added …
news.antiwar.com/2009/04/15/clinton-offer
-to-talk-did-not-change-us-demands-on-iran/