World-News

By Reuters

Russian Foreign Ministry warns new sanctions could harm bilateral relations between the two powers.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article32166.htm



Killing Iran s Children

Are the Sanctions ''Worth It?''

By Dave Lindorff

Iranians suffering from cancer, MS, kidney disease or other diseases. many of them children, are reportedly being prevented from getting needed medicines because of US sanctions.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article32167.htm



Inventing an Iranian Threat

By Stephen Lendman

Washington and Israel target the Islamic Republic relentlessly. Longstanding war plans await implementation. Media scoundrels and right-wing think tanks support it. They are paid to endorse ravaging one country after another.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article32291.htm



Plot to Provoke War with Iran Thwarted by Navy Analyst

By Juan Cole

The Neocons have glommed onto Mitt Romney and will come to power if he does, and they still desperately want a war on Iran.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article32285.htm

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Israel s Iran threats: Blackmail by suicide?

The Nation
by Robert Dreyfuss

08/22/12

Israel, along with its American partisans, is trying to get what it wants by threatening to commit suicide. Israel, nearly everyone agrees, would have to crazy to attack Iran. And Israel, nearly everyone also agrees, isn t crazy. There s a kind of Catch 22 involved here, which is why the chance that Israel will bomb Iran s nuclear facilities is as close to absolute zero as things can get in politics. The Catch 22: only a crazy prime minister would order Israel to bomb Iran, and Netanyahu isn t crazy. So Netanyahu must have something else in mind. After all, bombing Iran would be a catastrophe for Israel...

http://tinyurl.com/8gnf5fn



Baiting the bear

Antiwar.com
by Philip Giraldi

08/23/12

I confess that I cannot quite understand the campaign by the neoconservatives and also a number of leading Democrats to vilify Russia and confront it at every opportunity. The Cold War has been over for more than 20 years, but some appear to want to revive it...

http://original.antiwar.com/giraldi/2012/08/22/baiting-the-bear/


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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By Reuters

The United States still believes that Iran is not on the verge of having a nuclear weapon and that Tehran has not made a decision to pursue one, U.S. officials said on Thursday.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article32132.htm



Iran to Make own WMD if Israel Delivers Airstrike: expert

By RIA Novosti

''The United States does not want this airstrike to be delivered before the presidential election. They [the U.S.] are restraining Israel.''

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article32130.htm



Decision To Attack Iran is Almost Final: Israel TV

By Times of Israel staff

Netanyahu and Barak reason that ''we may have reached the moment of truth'' after which it would be too late to stop Iran, and that "the price of an attack is far lower than the price of inaction.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article32149.htm



Bomb Iran Fever

Pepe Escobar

The whole convoluted premise for an Israeli attack on Iran turns out to be bogus.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article32148.htm



Israel s 'Bomb Iran' Timetable

By Ray McGovern

Obama s silence regarding a public warning speaks volumes to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article32158.htm



Majority of Israelis oppose strike on Iran

Forty-six percent say that Israel should not attack Tehran s nuclear plants; support for prime minister drops to 34% from 46% three months ago.

http://is.gd/g87NoI



Ex-CIA Analyst: The Real Reason Israel Wants To Strike Iran Before US Election

By Michael Kelley

McGovern believes that Israel s primary goal is to ''have Iran bloodied the same way we did to Iraq'' so that Iran "would no longer be able to support Hamas and Hezbollah in Gaza, Lebanon, and elsewhere.''

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article32190.htm



Persian Gulf States Are Telling Their Citizens To Leave Lebanon 'Immediately' As Syrian War Spills Over

The UAE received information about its nationals being targeted ''because of the difficult and sensitive circumstances in Lebanon.'' Saudi Arabia cited ''reported threats to kidnap Saudi citizens'' in Lebanon, according to BBC News.

http://is.gd/TVEqJ6



Israel to strike Iran as window of opportunity narrows?

Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak and the country s new ambassador to China, recently discussed precise estimates of Israeli casualties, and the timeframe of a possible war with Iran. A hypothetical war with Iran would probably last a month, and include about 500 estimated Israeli casualties from Iranian missile strikes, Vilnai told Israeli newspaper Maariv on Wednesday.

https://rt.com/news/israel-strike-iran-nuclear-739/




Bibi s Secret War Plan

By Richard Silverstein

In the past few days, I received an Israeli briefing document outlining Israel s war plans against Iran.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article32201.htm



Israeli 'document' on Iran attack leaked

An American journalist and blogger on Israeli affairs, says he has been given a leaked document which outlines a plan for an Israeli attack on Iran s nuclear facilities.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-19271083



US Punched Bibi, Barak in the Face

By Attila Somfalvi

The US hit Israel s most sensitive nerve: The pride in its military power.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article32206.htm



With an attack on Iran less likely, Israel s leaders add fuel to the media s fire

Senior Haaretz analyst Amos Harel says a recent comment by the U.S. army chief made it clear that Obama has had enough of Netanyahu and Barak s antics. They, however, could still attack just to show they can.

http://is.gd/hEC8z7



Netanyahu is Preparing his Nation for War

Israel war talk fails to ignite U.S. debate

USA Today Editorial

Netanyahu s timing, speculative but logical, is that he sees the American political campaign as a moment of maximum leverage.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article32254.htm



War Fever As Seen From Iran

By Pepe Escobar

So it s time for something completely different and totally absent from Western corporate media; sound Iranian minds rationally analyzing what s really going on behind the drums of war regarding Iran, Turkey, the Arab world and across Eurasia.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article32262.htm



The March of Folly

By Uri Avnery

NOTHING COULD be more scary than the thought that this duo, Binyamin Netanyahu and Ehud Barak, is in a position to start a war, the dimensions and outcome of which are incalculable.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article32382.htm


From Information Clearing House

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Inside Israel, Talk of Attack on Iran Grows Louder
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2012/08/14

'Not Humane': US Sanctions Prevent Iran Earthquake Aid
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2012/08/14-0

Israel s Iran War Talk Aims at Deal for Tougher US Policy
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2012/08/16

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This weekend Netanyahu and Barak lost Israeli debate on attacking Iran
http://www.ufppc.org/us-a-world-news-mainmenu-35/11159/

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An Israeli strike against Iran is bound to go nuclear
http://lewrockwell.com/raimondo/raimondo179.html



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Video

Texas Congressman Ron Paul says the US is ''obsessed with'' keeping Iran under illegal sanctions, while pushing for furthering the embargoes in, what he calls, an "act of war" against the Islamic Republic.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article32086.htm



Central Bankers Agenda: Obama Sanctions Against Iran Over Gold

By Susanne Posel

Obama has made his position clear. He is using the might of the US military to stop Iran from further devaluation of the US dollar.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article32081.htm



Ordinary Citizens, The Silent Victims Of Anti-Iranian Sanctions

By Kourosh Ziabari

''When you put on sanctions on a country, it's an act of war and that's what this is all about.''

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article32077.htm



Saudi Arabia 'to Shoot Down' Iran-Bound Israeli Planes

By RIA Novosti

Saudi Arabia has threatened to shoot down any Israeli aircraft over its airspace en route to or from Iran, the Israeli newspaper Yedioth Ahronoth reported on Thursday.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article32129.htm

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New York Declares War on Iran
http://lewrockwell.com/raimondo/raimondo177.html



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By Times of Israel staff

The former Mossad chief Efraim Halevy hinted Thursday that the moment of truth on Iran s nuclear drive was now imminent.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article32064.htm



No imminent threat of a nuclear-armed Iran, experts say

Nonproliferation experts and Middle East analysts are skeptical of Israeli claims that the Tehran regime is so close to building a nuclear weapon that time is running out for a peaceful resolution of the decades-long standoff.

http://is.gd/xzJnyn


From Information Clearing House

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The Magical Neocon Crystal Ball
http://lewrockwell.com/spl4/neocon-crystal-ball.html

The US must conform to the natural map of the Middle East
http://lewrockwell.com/buchanan/buchanan257.html



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Mofaz, who led his Kadima party out of the coalition last week, declared that Kadima wanted no part in ''operational adventures'' planned by Netanyahu, which he said would endanger Israelis.

http://is.gd/Vw3Jrv



Netanyahu s ex-deputy warns against attacking Iran

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's ex-deputy said on Tuesday the Israeli leader s attempt to recruit hawkish rebels from former coalition partner Kadima was aimed at boosting cabinet support for striking Iran.

http://is.gd/lVQaWS



A War for US Public Opinion as Israel Alleges Iranian Terrorism

By Tony Karon

Their bodies were hardly cold before Mr Netanyahu was insisting that the attack was ''unquestionably'' the work of Iran.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article31984.htm



Stop War on Iran

Video Documentary

A feature length documentary film responding to the failure of the American mass media to provide the public with relevant and accurate information about the standoff between the US and Iran, as happened before with the lead up to the invasion of Iraq.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article32001.htm



Is Israel Fixing the Intelligence to Justify an Attack on Iran?

By Ray McGovern

The likelihood of hostilities with Iran before the presidential election in November is increasing. Beware of ''fixed'' intelligence.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article32034.htm



The Power of War Propaganda on Iran, and How It Works: 80% of Americans think Iran s nuclear program threatens the US

By John Glaser

Unfortunately, such widespread and impenetrable false beliefs in the realm of foreign policy, means that the political leadership can pretty easily launch a war if and when they decide to do so and whether it is warranted or not.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article32048.htm



Panetta: U.S. prepared to implement ''other options'' to prevent nuclear Iran

''If they (Iran) continue and if they proceed with a nuclear weapon, ... we have options that we are prepared to implement to ensure that does not happen.''

http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/world/2012-08/01/c_131754339.htm



Netanyahu 'Determined to Attack Iran' Before US Elections

By Times of Israel

The report added that Netanyahu and Defense Minister Ehud Barak believe Obama would have no choice but to give backing for an Israeli attack before the US presidential elections in November.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article32244.htm



Ryan Adviser Calls On Congress To Authorize War With Iran

By Zack Beauchamp

If we are unwilling as a nation to state that we will act to prevent Iran from acquiring a nuclear weapon, that conclusion should solidify support for what would then become the inevitable Israeli strike.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article32247.htm



Appeal to Non-Aligned Leaders Meeting in Tehran

By Veterans for Peace

Israel s leaders regard the period between now and the U.S. election on Nov. 6 as the most opportune time to virtually guarantee U.S. support for such an attack. And the continuing buildup of U.S. forces in the area of the Persian Gulf strengthens the impression of U.S. readiness to provide it.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article32248.htm


From Information Clearing House

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Romney to Back Israel s ''Right to Strike Iran,'' Aide Says

Ashley Parker, The New York Times News Service: ''In a speech here Sunday evening, Mitt Romney plans to assert that he respects Israel s right to take pre-emptive action to prevent Iran from developing nuclear capabilities that could be used for a weapon. Dan Senor, a senior Romney foreign policy adviser who helped orchestrate Mr. Romney s stop here, told reporters in a briefing before the speech that Mr. Romney would express, several times, that it was 'unacceptable' for Iran to develop the capability to build nuclear weapons.''

http://truth-out.org/news/item/10581-romney-to-back-israels-right-to-strike-iran-aide-says



In Hiroshima s Shadow

Noam Chomsky, Truthout: ''The current escalation of the, 'undeclared war,' against Iran increases the threat of accidental large-scale war. Some of the dangers were illustrated last month when a US naval vessel, part of the huge deployment in the Gulf, fired on a small fishing boat, killing one Indian crew member and wounding at least three others. It would not take much to set off a major war.''

http://truth-out.org/opinion/item/10660-in-hiroshimas-shadow

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US presents Israel with Iran strike plan

Southern California Press-Enterprise

07/29/12

An Israeli newspaper reported Sunday that the Obama administration s top security official has briefed Israel on U.S. plans for a possible attack on Iran, seeking to reassure it that Washington is prepared to act militarily should diplomacy and sanctions fail to pressure Tehran to abandon its nuclear enrichment program. A senior Israeli official, speaking on condition of anonymity to discuss confidential talks, said the article in the Haaretz daily was incorrect...

http://tinyurl.com/bstwstk



US Congress approves new sanctions on Iran

Huntington Herald-Dispatch

08/01/12

Congress voted Wednesday to slap sanctions on Iran s energy, shipping and financial industries, convinced that increasing the economic pressure on Tehran will derail its suspected nuclear weapons program. The House overwhelmingly passed the bill 421-6 and a short time later, the Senate approved it by voice vote. The measure now heads to President Barack Obama for his expected signature...

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Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

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Iranian Leader Says War May Happen Within Weeks
http://lewrockwell.com/orig11/clabough11.1.html



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''We do have a plan to close the Strait of Hormuz,'' state media quoted General Hasan Firouzabadi as saying on Saturday. "But Iran, acting rationally, will not close the corridor through which 40 per cent of the world's energy passes, unless its interests are in serious trouble," he said,

http://is.gd/9xHJGC



War in August? US sends fourth aircraft carrier and dozens of underwater drones towards Iran

The United States has already sent three massive aircraft carriers to the waterways outside of Iran, including the USS Enterprise, the USS Dwight D. Eisenhower and the USS Abraham Lincoln, and will now add the USS John C Stennis to that fleet in August.

http://rt.com/usa/news/war-sub-drone-iran-066/



MI6 admits to covert operations against Iran

In his second public speech since he was appointed to the head of MI6, Sawers told senior civil servants in London that MI6 agents had been actively engaged in conducting covert operations against Iran.

http://is.gd/xoG1WE



Why Iran Should Sue US at International Court of Justice

By Franklin Lamb

The US-led sanctions violate international humanitarian law due to the negative health effects of the sanctions on the civilian populations. This renders the sanctions illegal under international customary law.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article31847.htm



UK spy chief s Iran warning may go too far

Britain s foreign spy chief has reportedly warned that Iran is two years away from acquiring nuclear weapons, but analysts said he was assuming Tehran is actually developing the bomb.

http://is.gd/CN26fu



How Britain s Top Spy is Beating the Drums for War on Iran

By Michael Higgs

Sawers is building the case for an attack against a supposed unstoppable menace. The parallels with Iraq are truly staggering, but don t be fooled.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article31882.htm



Military Doesn t Think Iran s Missiles Will Reach U.S. After All

This means Americans can sleep safely: The Pentagon doesn t believe an Iranian ICBM will obliterate the East Coast any time soon.

http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2012/07/iran-missiles/



US won t allow Iran to shut down Strait of Hormuz, Panetta vows

The U.S. military will not allow Iran to shut down the Strait of Hormuz, Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta said Wednesday, adding that if Iran tries to disrupt the vital waterway, they will be defeated.

http://is.gd/P2qJSf



Persian Gulf Primed to Explode?

By Kaveh L. Afrasiabi

The Persian Gulf is hostage to the geostrategic calculations of, on the one hand, a Western superpower and its local client states and, on the other, a traditional regional power with growing military prowess.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article31943.htm



Journalism v. Propaganda

By Glenn Greenwald

The US and Israel blame Iran for the suicide attack in Bulgaria, but offer no evidence for the accusation.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article31948.htm



Iran in ''open war'' with Israel

President Shimon Peres said Monday, as he pointed the finger at Iran and Hezbollah for last week s bombing in Bulgaria that killed five Israelis.

http://is.gd/rWzHoV


From Information Clearing House

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Massive military buildup in the Persian Gulf
http://www.brasschecktv.com/videos/iranus-sabre-rattling-1/massive-military-buildup-in-the-persian-gulf.html

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At the precipice of war

CounterPunch
by Ben Schreiner

07/16/12

The familiar menace of U.S. war drums have resumed at a fevered pitch, as Iran finds itself once again firmly within the Pentagon s cross hairs. According to multiple reports, the U.S. is currently in the midst of a massive military build-up in the Persian Gulf on a scale not seen in the region since prior to the 2003 U.S. invasion of Iraq. The military surge reportedly includes an influx of air and naval forces, ground troops, and even sea drones...

http://www.counterpunch.org/2012/07/16/at-the-precipice-of-war/


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

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10 Years Since Downing St. Memo: Is It Happening Again?
http://www.commondreams.org/video/2012/07/24



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A US navy ship that had been slated for decommissioning has been sent instead to the Gulf to help mine-clearing operations, the US Fifth Fleet based in Bahrain said, the latest move in a gradual US build-up as tensions with Iran smoulder.

http://www.jpost.com/IranianThreat/News/Article.aspx?id=276589



Gaming An Iran War: How Washington Plans For Aggression as Part of a Reelection Campaign

By Danny Schechter

Sometimes strategists seek to provoke the very responses they decry. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article31808.htm



There Will be H... to Pay for NATO s Holy War

By Pepe Escobar

Washington, London and Paris have tried, twice, to twist the UN Security Council into yet another war. They were blocked by Russia and China. So plan B was to bypass the UN and launch a NATO war.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article31805.htm


From Information Clearing House



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http://lewrockwell.com/buchanan/buchanan251.html

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EU Embargoes Iran over the Nuke Issue

By Akbar E. Torbat

The US has exaggerated the danger of Iran s nuclear program to the point that no one with common sense can believe it.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article31795.htm



Iran Can Sue US And Israel Over Threats

By ICH

Professor Francis A. Boyle has made a proposal to the Government of Iran that it sue the United States, the United Kingdom, France, Israel and other European States over the current crisis in the Persian Gulf that creates an imminent threat of igniting World War III.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article31790.htm



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Israel s military chief said in an interview published Wednesday that he believes that Iran will choose not to build a nuclear bomb, an assessment that contrasted with the gloomier statements of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and pointed to differences over the Iran issue at the top levels of Israeli leadership.

http://is.gd/VAdSMh



We will put your boats to the bottom of the Gulf, America warns Tehran

The Pentagon disclosed that it has for the first time sent an amphibious vessel, the USS Ponce, into the region that could be used to transport a landing force. It has a capacity of about 900 troops.

http://is.gd/eHkayJ



Iran to use mines, missiles to shut Hormuz

Tehran has a range of other weapons it can use to close down the vital oil artery. These include the hard-to-detect Chinese EM-52 ''rocket mine'' that's triggered by the distinctive magnetic our acoustic signature of a ship, such as a U.S. aircraft carrier, and then launches a propelled 600-popund warhead at the target.

http://is.gd/ivRCKp



Iran missiles can hit all US bases in region

A senior Iranian commander says the country s missiles can obliterate the US military bases in regional countries within minutes of an attack on Iran.

http://is.gd/IWxgvU


From Information Clearing House



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Die neuen Sanktionen der EU und der USA bringen Iran unter Druck, der als Reaktion womöglich die Straße von Hormus blockieren könnte.

http://www.heise.de/tp/artikel/37/37204/1.html



Konflikt mit Iran

US-Truppenverstärkungen am Persischen Golf 2012.
http://www.heise.de/tp/artikel/37/37353/1.html



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