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The latest remarks from Admiral Mike Mullen, America's most senior officer who serves as chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, appear to indicate a consensus among the military's top brass that a strike on Iran would be highly inadvisable.
By David Blair
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Posted 5/7/2008 @ 0:16:48 GMT
Tehran Returns to Hard Line on Nuclear Activity
Iran yesterday sought to quell speculation that it was about to bow to inter-national demands for a -suspension of its nuclear programme, insisting that the more conciliatory tone adopted in remarks in recent weeks did not amount to a surrender. Two days after Ali-Akbar Velayati, a senior adviser to Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Iran's supreme leader, said Tehran should consider -taking up aspects of an offer made by world powers last month, he appeared on television to clarify the interview he had given to a local newspaper.
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By The Financial Times
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Posted 4/7/2008 @ 13:18:53 GMT
Iran Responds to World Powers' Nuclear Offer
TEHRAN -- Iran on Friday handed world powers its 'constructive and creative' response to their letter outlining proposals to end the five-year standoff over its contested nuclear programme. 'The Islamic republic has prepared and presented a response to the letter of the six countries with a constructive and creative view and a focus on common ground,' top nuclear negotiator Saeed Jalili was quoted by state television as saying.
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By Thomson Financial News
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Posted 4/7/2008 @ 8:41:11 GMT
Peace Laureate Urges Iran, U.S.: Work it Out
TEHRAN, Iran -- Nobel laureate Shirin Ebadi urged Iran and the United States yesterday to find a peaceful resolution to the standoff over Tehran’s nuclear program, warning that military action would harm both countries’ people.
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By The Associated Press
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Posted 4/7/2008 @ 8:37:23 GMT
Will the U.S. Open an Office in Iran?
WASHINGTON -- With President Bush trying to burnish his diplomatic credentials on a series of fronts, the State Department is pushing the envelope by suggesting it may be time to open a permanent American presence in – of all places – Tehran.
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By The Christian Science Monitor
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Posted 3/7/2008 @ 21:51:21 GMT
America Softens Stance on Iran's Nuclear Programme
America and its allies have quietly watered down their stance on Iran's nuclear programme, pledging no more economic sanctions if Tehran keeps its enrichment of uranium at present levels.
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By Telegraph
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Posted 3/7/2008 @ 21:21:44 GMT
Iran's Great Game
In the famous fairy tale, the Persian Queen Scheherazade strings out stories for a thousand and one nights until her matricidal husband, the king, finally accepts her in his household. On Tuesday, as I sat listening to Manouchehr Mottaki, Iran's genial foreign minister, come up with yet another enticing response to the latest Western proposal for halting the country's alleged nuclear weapons program, I wondered again whether Tehran was taking a tactical cue from its ancient forebear.
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By Newsweek
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Posted 3/7/2008 @ 16:51:9 GMT
No Proxy War with Iran
Israel and the United States are starting to look like two anxious children trying to decide how to deal with a schoolyard bully, Iran. Each appears to be whispering encouragement to the other to go kick the bully in the shins, but each is so terrified of the consequences that neither wants to go first.
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By Los Angeles Times
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Posted 3/7/2008 @ 15:41:6 GMT
Iran Panic? Talk About It With the Experts
MoJo writer Laura Rozen asked an Israeli intel correspondent, an Iranian American activist, an arms expert, a former peace negotiator, and an anti-war intellectual: (Thursday Update: You can read some final thoughts from the forum participants at a follow up thread here.)
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By Mother Jones
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Posted 3/7/2008 @ 15:25:43 GMT
He's No Decider, He's a Ditherer
Conventional wisdom holds that George W. Bush's foreign policy failed because the president -- who famously called himself "the decider" -- is too, well, decisive. Bush's reckless, impulsive decision to invade Iraq, the argument goes, opened the door for Iran's ascendancy, distracted the United States from pursuing al-Qaeda more effectively in Afghanistan and Pakistan, diverted Western attention from a worsening relationship with Russia and so on.
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By The Washington Post
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Posted 3/7/2008 @ 9:32:52 GMT
Wives Outnumber Singles in Tehran Sex Trade
Tehran -- More married women are involved in sex-work in Tehran than single females, while the age of those working has come down and now ranges from 15 upwards, Iran's Sarmayeh newspaper said on Wednesday quoting academic research.
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By AFP
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Posted 3/7/2008 @ 8:47:39 GMT
Iran Eyes Death Penalty For Web Crimes
TEHRAN -- The Iranian parliament is set to debate a draft bill that could see the death penalty used for those deemed to promote corruption, prostitution and apostasy on the Internet. MPs voted yesterday to discuss as a priority the bill that seeks to "toughen punishment for harming mental security in society." In addition to such crimes as rape and armed robbery, for which the death penalty is already applicable, it includes "establishing Weblogs and sites promoting corruption, prostitution and apostasy." Under Iranian law, the standard punishments for these crimes are "hanging, amputation of the right hand and then the left foot as well as exile."
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By Agence France-Presse
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Posted 3/7/2008 @ 8:31:19 GMT
U.S. Military Chief Warns Against Any Attack on Iran
At a news conference, Admiral Mike Mullen refused to reveal any substance from his recent meetings in Israel, which came shortly after Israeli forces had conducted an extensive exercise that many interpreted as preparation for an air strike on Iran's nuclear facilities. But Admiral Mullen warned that any "destabilizing acts" could have unpredictable consequences, and it would be difficult for the United States to respond.
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By Newsmax
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Posted 3/7/2008 @ 8:23:55 GMT
Bush Keeps Up Pressure on Iran
President Bush said Wednesday that the United States still strongly preferred diplomacy as it confronts rising tensions and uncertainty over Iran, but that, as always, “all options are on the table.”
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By The New York Times
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Posted 2/7/2008 @ 12:45:43 GMT
Spy Games in Iran
NEW YORK -- In the new cold war between America and Iran, the United States appears to be running some limited covert operations across the Iranian border. But according to knowledgeable sources, this effort shares the defect of broader U.S. policy toward Iran -- it is tentative and ill-coordinated, and it undermines diplomacy without bringing serious pressure on the regime.
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By The Washington Post
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Posted 2/7/2008 @ 9:5:56 GMT
Stopping Iran
Twenty-seven years ago this month, the Israeli Air Force launched a surprise attack on Iraq's Osirak reactor. The mission was complex. Israel had to fly over hostile territory, Jordan and Saudi Arabia, undetected in order to reach the Iraqi reactor. Once there, they had to destroy Osirak and get out. There was good reason to believe that not all of the pilots that left Israel that day would return home.
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By North Star Writers Group
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Posted 2/7/2008 @ 9:0:51 GMT
Iranian Leaders Offer Nuclear Hope
The beating of the war drums over Iran may get most of the attention, but there are growing signs, also, of progress towards a possible diplomatic solution to the nuclear standoff. This week, the top foreign policy adviser to Iran's Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, declared that Iran could respond favorably to the latest deal offered by Western negotiators, which he described as acceptable "in principle."
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By Time
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Posted 2/7/2008 @ 8:56:6 GMT
Iran Says Offer is Acceptable 'In Principle'
A senior adviser to Iran’s supreme leader indicated on Tuesday that Tehran could look favourably on the recent international offer put to it, describing the proposal as acceptable “in principle”. Ali-Akbar Velayati, a former foreign minister who advises Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Iran’s top leader, on international issues, said it was “expedient” for Iran to resume nuclear negotiations on the offer made by the five permanent members of the United Nations Security Council plus Germany.
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By The Financial Times
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Posted 2/7/2008 @ 8:45:56 GMT
Iran Appears to Warm to Diplomacy
Iranian Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki said Tuesday that prospects for a military attack by either the United States or Israel on the Islamic republic before the end of the Bush administration are "almost nil," and he dismissed a recent Israeli military exercise and warnings from Washington as "psychological warfare."
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By Washington Post
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Posted 1/7/2008 @ 16:23:28 GMT
The Last Resort: Consequences of Preventive Military Action Against Iran
Accepted wisdom suggests that preventive military action against Iran's nuclear program would entail significant risks and uncertain prospects of success. Much of the public debate surrounding these risks and uncertainties has focused on strictly military-technical considerations. Although important, these issues do not address the key political and contextual questions underlying any discussion of prevention and deterrence. For example, how would Iran -- and the international community -- respond to military strikes? Would such action convince the regime to permanently abandon its nuclear activities, or would Tehran simply rebuild? And what effect would such action have on subsequent diplomatic or military efforts?
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By The Washington Institute for Near East Policy
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Posted 1/7/2008 @ 11:36:7 GMT
Iran Ready to Strike at Israel's Nuclear Heart
Iran has moved ballistic missiles into launch positions, with Israel’s Dimona nuclear plant among the possible targets, defence sources said last week. The movement of Shahab-3B missiles, which have an estimated range of more than 1,250 miles, followed a large-scale exercise earlier this month in which the Israeli air force flew en masse over the Mediterranean in an apparent rehearsal for a threatened attack on Iran’s nuclear installations. Israel believes Iran’s nuclear programme is aimed at acquiring nuclear weapons.
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By Times
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Posted 1/7/2008 @ 11:26:44 GMT
Ex-Agent Says CIA Ignored Iran Facts
A former CIA operative who says he tried to warn the agency about faulty intelligence on Iraqi weapons programs now contends that CIA officials also ignored evidence that Iran had suspended work on a nuclear bomb.
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By The Washington Post
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Posted 1/7/2008 @ 8:46:5 GMT
Pentagon Official Warns of Israeli Attack on Iran
WASHINGTON -- Senior Pentagon officials are concerned that Israel could carry out an attack on Iran's nuclear facilities before the end of the year, an action that would have enormous security and economic repercussions for the United States and the rest of the world. A senior defense official told ABC News there is an "increasing likelihood" that Israel will carry out such an attack, a move that likely would prompt Iranian retaliation against, not just Israel, but against the United States as well.
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By ABC News
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Posted 1/7/2008 @ 8:34:14 GMT
'Ahmadinejad Was Ttarget of X-ray Plot'
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was the target of an 'X-ray plot' when he attended a UN-sponsored global food summit in Rome earlier this month, Iran's former ambassador to Italy, Abolfazl Zohrevand, claimed Monday.
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By The Jerusalem Post
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Posted 30/6/2008 @ 8:49:20 GMT
Iran Sentences Israel Spy to Death
An Iranian court sentenced to death an Iranian businessman on charges of spying for Israel after a two-day trial, media said. The Tehran court handed down its sentence at a time of high tension between Israel and the Islamic Republic amid speculation of a possible Israeli attack on Iran's nuclear installations.
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By Reuters
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Posted 27/6/2008 @ 9:32:28 GMT
Smoke Signal to Iran
If North Korea blows up the cooling tower at the Yongbyon nuclear reactor as scheduled today, it will be more than a photo- op. Look carefully and perhaps you'll see curling from the smoking ruins a brief message from the United States to Iran: Pay attention.
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By The Star-Ledger
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