World-News

He stressed that it is utterly absurd to adopt a position that the US has the right to dictate what happens in Iraq, as if Iran has nothing to say.

http://www.iran-daily.com/1385/2766/html/national.htm#s205344


From Information Clearing House



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Brzezinski

Falling fuel costs probably not a coincidence, oil traders say.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/16772560/


From Information Clearing House

A U.S. State Department official ruled out talks with Iran and said Tuesday that a second U.S. aircraft carrier strike group now steaming toward the Middle East is Washington's way of warning Tehran not to challenge America.

http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/2007-01-23-iran_x.htm?POE=NEWISVA


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Richard Perle says, ‘If strike on Iran required US participation for success, president would agree'.

http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3355234,00.html


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http://infowars.net/articles/january2007/230107Baiting.htm

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US Warns Iran to Back Down

A second US aircraft carrier strike group now steaming toward the Middle East is Washington's way of warning Iran to back down in its attempts to dominate the region, a top US diplomat said in Dubai Tuesday.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/012307A.shtml



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Asia Times
by Amandeep Sandhu

01/22/07

Even if there is no open military attack, a financial war on Iran has already begun, partly by squeezing Tehran’s access to international banking and partly by keeping the price of oil low. The political repercussions are already visible in the rising criticism of President Mahmud Ahmadinejad, amid fears of social unrest...

http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/IA23Ak01.html


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

The Democratic chairman of the Senate intelligence committee said on Monday he is concerned President George W. Bush could act against Iran despite uncertainties about Tehran's intentions in the Middle East. Senator John Rockefeller (D-W.Va.) also said he believes Japan could become a nuclear armed nation within the next six years in response to North Korea's test of a nuclear weapon and an aggressive military buildup by China.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/012207T.shtml



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=John+Rockefeller

War pimp alert: US under secretary of state

We won't allow nuclear Iran': Nicholas Burns says ‘There is no doubt Iran seeking nuclear military weapons; stationing of two battle groups in Persian Gulf is part of our response’.

http://tinyurl.com/3c5x2q



Iran prepares the public for possible military confrontation with U.S.

Iran conducted missile tests Monday as its leadership stepped up warnings of possible military confrontation with the United States. Hard-liners said an American attack would spark "hell" for the U.S. and Israel, with some threatening suicide attacks against U.S. forces.

http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2007/01/22/africa/ME-GEN-Iran-US.php



Iran's guards start wargame

IRAN'S Revolutionary Guards launched war-games in central Iran today and said they would test two models of home-made missiles, state radio reported.

http://www.news.com.au/story/0,23599,21103290-38201,00.html



Iran warned on missile tests

Iran yesterday announced new short-range missile tests, and hard-line President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad dismissed criticism that new United Nations Security Council sanctions were hurting the economy.

http://www.theherald.co.uk/news/foreign/display.var.1137461.0.0.php


From Information Clearing House



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Israel

By Michel Chossudovsky

At no point since the first atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima on August 6th, 1945, has humanity been closer to the unthinkable, a nuclear holocaust which could potentially spread, in terms of radioactive fallout, over a large part of the Middle East.

http://www.ichblog.eu/content/view/60/1/



Texan Poker Bluff and Persian Chess Moves

K Gajendra Singh

Like Iraq, some fancy schemes are on the anvil in the Pentagon. To ward off the threats to the world economy if Tehran curtailed oil traffic through the Strait of Hormuz, the US has reportedly made contingency plans for the indefinite takeover of Iranian territory in Chah Bahar, which would deny Tehran its strategic leverage with Hormuz.

http://www.ichblog.eu/content/view/66/1/



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