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Iran s Persian Gulf gambit takes shape

By Kaveh L Afrasiabi

''Iran s message to [US President Barack] Obama is very clear: we are not another Iraq and have learned the right lesson from America s invasion of Iraq after bleeding it for years.''

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article31778.htm



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By Ray McGovern

George W. Bush, boldly asserted the right to launch the kind of preventive war banned at Nuremberg and in the U.N. Charter.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article31736.htm

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How a Nonexistent Bomb Cylinder Distorts the Iran Nuclear Issue

Gareth Porter, Truthout: ''For many months, the most dramatic media storyline on Iran s nuclear program has been an explosives containment cylinder that the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) says was installed at Iran s Parchin military base a decade ago to test nuclear weapons.... But unknown to consumers of corporate news, the story of the Parchin bomb test cylinder has been quietly unraveling.''

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90,000 forces from the four countries will take part in the land and sea wargames due to be held in Syria.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article31630.htm



How the Obama Administration Is Stalling Its Way to War with Iran

By Flynt Leverett and Hillary Mann Leverett

Obama s Iran policy priorities this way: the ''nuclear program, its impact on the security of Israel, and avenues for regime change.'' With such goals, how could his team do anything but play for time in the nuclear talks?

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article31637.htm



Hollywoods s New Hostage Thriller Glamorizes The Cia In Iran

By Danny Schechter

Once again, mindlessness leads to malice in a search not for truth but box office revenues.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article31659.htm



Congress on Iran: Iraq Redux?

Don t let your member of Congress use lies to justify action against Iran

Video

In a recent debate over a new round of sanctions against Iran, six members of Congress blatantly misrepresented the findings of November s IAEA report and what is known about Iran s nuclear program.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article31669.htm



Tell President Obama: We support diplomacy with Iran, not an unnecessary and costly war

The next week is critically important for those of us who want to avoid an unnecessary and costly war with Iran.

http://is.gd/diAGg2



U.S., Israel continue preparations for strike on Iran nuclear facilities

The website cites U.S. defense contracts and Israel s new military preparations, suggesting that 'all sides are getting ready for whatever may come.'

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China responds to exemption from U.S. sanctions

''China is always against one country s unilateral sanctions on another country, according to its domestic law. It is even less acceptable for such unilateral sanctions to be imposed on a third country,' said Hong Lei, speaking at a regular press conference.

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Iran Sanctions Will Halve Oil Sales But May Still Not Succeed

By Julian Borger and Saeed Kamali Dehghan

Embargo has led to huge increases in price of staple foods, while currency has lost half its value since 2010.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article31741.htm



The Oil Sanctions Against Iran

By Gwynne Dyer

Barack Obama will go on tightening the screws, because he dares not gamble that Netanyahu is only bluffing about attacking Iran at least until he has won re-election this November.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article31760.htm


From Information Clearing House

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Economic War Against Iran Continues; Still No Evidence of a Weapons Program
http://www.commondreams.org/video/2012/06/26-0

Getting Iran Sanctions Wrong
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2012/07/05-7



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Russ Wellen, Truthout: ''When dueling narratives clash and the subject is nuclear weapons, the sparks that fly could make flashing sabers seem dim in comparison. According to conventional thinking in the West, Iran is not abiding by the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) and restraining itself from all nuclear weapons activities. Thus, it should be denied its right to enrich uranium. But in the view of much of the rest of the world, the West is making little more than cosmetic efforts to roll back its nuclear arsenals.''

http://truth-out.org/news/item/9758-wests-idea-of-nuclear-disarmament-doesnt-include-itself



Deep-Sixing the China Option

Hillary Mann Leverett and Flynt Leverett, TomDispatch.com: ''America s Iran policy remains stuck in a delusion similar to the one that warped its China policy for two decades after China s revolutionaries took power in 1949, that Washington could somehow isolate, strangle, and ultimately bring down a political order created through mass mobilization and dedicated to restoring national independence after a long period of Western domination. It didn t work in the Chinese case and it s not likely to in Iran either.''

http://truth-out.org/opinion/item/9869-deep-sixing-the-china-option



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Three new reports conclude a U.S. or Israeli strike on Tehran s nuclear sites would have disastrous results.

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Romney calls Obama weak on nuclear Iran

For the second day in a row, presumptive GOP presidential nominee Mitt Romney labeled his rival weak on combating a nuclear Iran.

http://is.gd/FdrFjj


From Information Clearing House



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By Robert W. Merry

Like Roosevelt in his dealings with Japan, President Barack Obama has helped place Iran under severe strain of economic sanctions.

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By Stephen Zunes

A huge bipartisan majority of Congress has essentially told the president that nothing short of war or the threat of war is an acceptable policy.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article31577.htm



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Video and Transcript

If Mr. Netanyahu wants to pay for war, that s up to him. The Unites States should not, cannot and must not be dragged into a war by any other country which calls itself our friend.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article31406.htm



War With Iran Has Already Begun

By Nathan L Fuller

If you actually don t want war with Iran, you have to help end duopoly. You can t support either of the two establishment parties who feed the military-industrial complex and fear-monger voters into submission.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article31412.htm



Deal or no deal, Iran may be bombed: Israeli minister

A military strike against Iranian facilities is not out of the question, even though Tehran has reached agreement on a probe with the UN s nuclear watchdog, says Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak.

http://www.rt.com/news/iran-attack-israel-barak-962/



UK defence chiefs prepare for conflict with Iran over nuclear programme

Ministers on Britain s National Security Council have been advised there is still a ''25%-50% chance'' that the nuclear stand-off with Iran could result in a military conflict, the Guardian has been told.

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U.S. Hard Line in Failed Iran Talks Driven by Israel

By Gareth Porter

The U.S. rejection of the ''step by step'' approach in favour of a stance that leans heavily toward Israeli preferences leads to apparent contradictions in U.S. policy.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article31425.htm



US negotiator at P5+1-Iran talks visits Israel for 'consultations'

The senior American negotiator present at the recent talks between the major world powers and Iran in Baghdad has arrived in Tel Aviv for 'consultations.'

http://bit.ly/MNbORd



Pentagon has military plans ready to prevent nuclear Iran, says Panetta

The Pentagon has a plan ready for military action to prevent Iran from acquiring a nuclear weapon, but the United States and its allies remain focused on reaching a diplomatic solution, according to Defense Secretary Leon Panetta.

http://bit.ly/MRioWG



US troops imitate invasion of Iran with Arab allies

Around 12,000 troops from more than 19 nations are wrapping up a massive military training drill in the Middle East. But for some of those servicemen, these exercises might be just the beginning of something much bigger to come.

http://rt.com/usa/news/us-troops-iran-exercise-490/



Obama Ordered Secret Attacks On Iran s Nuclear Program

By Haaretz

Stuxnet worm was part of joint U.S.-Israel effort to sabotage computers that control Iran s nuclear enrichment facilities.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article31472.htm



Dagan: 5 minutes after Iran strike we are at war

Former Mossad Chief Meir Dagan has once again warned against the destructive consequences of a possible strike against Iranian nuclear site.

http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4238287,00.html



Sorting Out the Facts about Iran

By Ray McGovern

It s important to try to separate fact from opinion, taking our cue from the late Sen. Daniel Patrick Moynihan, who famously said: ''Everyone is entitled to his own opinion, but not his own facts.''

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article31518.htm



U.S. Rejected 2005 Iranian Offer Ensuring No Nuclear Weapons

By Gareth Porter

Britain vetoed the deal at the insistence of the United States. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article31517.htm



We have All But Declared War on Iran?

By Scott Shackford

More ammo to those who believe the White House is actually causing the leaks.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article31527.htm



''Netanyahu has Decided to Attack Iran Before the U.S. Elections in November''

By Michael Carmichael

Netanyahu s agenda is much broader than knocking out Iranian nuclear installations for his aim is to reshape the political landscape in the USA and Israel shifting everything to the far, far right in order to create a new comfort zone for religious fundamentalists.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article31695.htm



US and Israel to Hold Largest Ever Joint Military Exercise

By Aaron Kalman

Focusing on stopping ballistic missiles and featuring thousands of soldiers, the October drill will simulate simultaneous rocket fire from Syria and Iran.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article31700.htm



Eyeballing Iran? US Commissions 361 Cruise Missiles

By Yitzhak Benhorin

US Navy to get 361 new Tomahawk cruise missiles, most of which are meant for Fifth Fleet destroyers based in Bahrain. Meanwhile, pressure to mount military strike against Tehran is permeating presidential campaign.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article31702.htm



A War Israel is Just Begging for an Excuse to Start

By Gilad Atzmon

As much as Netanyahu and Barak are keen to launch a world war, it is far from being clear whether the Israeli masses are quite as keen to sacrifice themselves on the Jewish national altar.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article31961.htm


From Information Clearing House

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Congress 'Un-Declares' War with Iran
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2012/05/23

Obama Ordered Wave of Cyberattacks Against Iran: NYT
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2012/06/01

Economic Warfare Against Iran
http://www.commondreams.org/video/2012/06/07

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'Planning for attack on Iran s nuclear facilities intensifying in US and Israel'
http://www.ufppc.org/us-a-world-news-mainmenu-35/10999/

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The Washington Post gets tough with Iran

Antiwar.com
by Philip Giraldi

05/31/12

One can argue about whether Iran actually supports terrorism or not; the groups that The Washington Post is no doubt referring to would prefer to think of themselves as resistance movements against Israel, while Iran has itself been on the receiving end of terrorist attacks from Israel and the United States. None of Iran s regional allies that Washington and Tel Aviv describe as terrorists plausibly threaten the United States. But even conceding that point, there is much else that is questionable in the op-ed...

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Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

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Obama s cyberwar could lead to a military war
http://www.brasschecktv.com/videos/obama-watch-1/obamas-cyberwar-could-lead-to-a-military-war.html

US ignites cyber warfare through Stuxnet
http://www.brasschecktv.com/videos/war-is-a-racket-1/us-ignites-cyber-warfare-through-stuxnet-.html

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Will Heads Roll for the Stuxnet Leak?
http://lewrockwell.com/buchanan/buchanan246.html



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US Military Option for Iran is 'Ready': American Ambassador

By Michal Shmulovich and Greg Tepper

The United States has completed its planning for a military strike on Iran, the US Ambassador to Israel Daniel Shapiro said in remarks at a closed conference in Tel Aviv.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article31350.htm



Iran Strike Gains Support in Some Nations, Russia Says

Some countries favor more than ever using a military strike to stem Iran s nuclear ambitions, Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov said.

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From Information Clearing House

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US Iran Hawks in Congress in Some Disarray
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2012/05/18-0

Israel and the Neocons Mounting Pre-Emptive Strike on History
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2012/05/18



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Die Demonstranten verstehen sich als Opposition gegen die herrschenden Regierungen in Israel und Iran und fordern eine atomwaffenfreie Region.

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