World-News

http://www.guardian.co.uk/iran/story/0,,1990498,00.html


Informant: Lew Rockwell

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Target Iran

Scott Ritter and Seymour Hersh talk about Iran and the prospect of nuclear war.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article16209.htm

Britain is joining an American military campaign to blunt Iranian influence in Iraq and the Gulf.

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,3-2548888,00.html



Russian missiles delivered to Iran: Ivanov

Russia has delivered new anti-aircraft missile systems to Iran and will consider further requests by Tehran for defensive weapons, Russian Defense Minister Sergei Ivanov said on Tuesday.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article16198.htm



Iran Gets Army Gear in Pentagon Sale

A Pakistani arms broker convicted of exporting U.S. missile parts to Iran resumed business after his release from prison. He purchased Chinook helicopter engine parts for Iran from a U.S. company that had bought them in a Pentagon surplus sale.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/story/0,,-6348793,00.html


From Information Clearing House



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

Cords that cannot be broken

Several months before his declaration in a televised speech on January 10 that the Pentagon would go after the Iranian networks in Iraq, President Bush signed secret orders authorising military action to counter Iran's ambitions in Iraq and the broader Middle East.

http://tinyurl.com/ynqp32


From Information Clearing House

The Pieces Are Being Put in Place

By Col. Sam Gardner

The pieces are moving. They’ll be in place by the end of February. The United States will be able to escalate military operations against Iran.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article16197.htm

http://www.ufppc.org/content/view/5591/


Informant: jensenmk

From ufpj-news

The US military has sold forbidden equipment at least a half-dozen times to middlemen for countries - including Iran and China - who exploited security flaws in the Defense Department's surplus auctions. The sales include fighter jet parts and missile components.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/011607B.shtml

The Iraqi government is moving to solidify relations with Iran, even as the United States turns up the rhetorical heat and bolsters its military forces to confront Tehran's influence in Iraq.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/011607L.shtml

Guardian [UK]
by Simon Tisdale

01/12/07

If George Bush’s remodelled strategy for halting the Iraq disaster fails to work, it is becoming clear where the US administration will point the finger of blame: Tehran. For some months Washington has been moving aggressively on a range of fronts to ‘pin back’ Iran, in Tony Blair’s words. But Mr Bush’s Iraq policy speech on Wednesday night marked the opening of a new, far more aggressive phase which could extend the conflict into Iranian territory for the first time since the 2003 invasion...

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/story/0,,1988731,00.html


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp