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Hostile Act
http://www.heise.de/tp/r4/artikel/24/24319/1.html

http://www.ufppc.org/content/view/5480/



Informant: jensenmk

From ufpj-news

http://www.antiwar.com/orig/hirsch.php?articleid=10223


Informant: Carol Moore in DC

From ufpj-news



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Jorge+Hirsch

Dozens of banks have stopped or scaled back their businesses with Iran and other "rogue states" after informal pressure from the US government aimed at sidestepping the need for international sanctions.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/122806O.shtml

War pimp alert: U.S. says evidence links Iran military to plots in Iraq

The U.S. military said it had credible evidence linking Iranians and their Iraqi associates, detained here in raids last week, to criminal activities, including attacks against U.S. forces.

http://tinyurl.com/yctl5x



The gathering Gulf storm

One doesn't have to be a rocket scientist to figure out that the renewed US campaign about the Iran nuclear issue camouflages a struggle for the domination of the Gulf and the Middle East region that set the tempo of the Cold War in the last century and will significantly determine the contours of the world order struggling to be born.

http://tinyurl.com/yadjyo



Iran summons UK ambassador over Blair remarks

Iran summoned Britain's ambassador in Tehran to its foreign ministry to hear its "strong objections" to British Prime Minister Tony Blair's claim that the Islamic republic poses a threat to the region.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20061226/wl_mideast_afp/iranpoliticsbritain


From Information Clearing House

By Jorge Hirsch

While Russia may prefer for its own reasons that Iran not enrich uranium, it fully recognizes that Iran's pursuit is legal under international law. Furthermore, as Western news media constantly emphasize, Russia and China have extensive commercial ties with Iran, hence it is not in their interest to antagonize Iran. Their support of UNSC1737 doesn't seem to make sense.

http://tinyurl.com/yjjlmz



Iran backed dangerously into a corner
http://tinyurl.com/ykyumq



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Jorge+Hirsch

Iran is selling more of its oil for payment in euros than dollars as it seeks to shift its foreign currency reserves away from the depreciating currency of its political enemy, the United States.

http://business.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,16849-2514985,00.html


From Information Clearing House

In response to the White House's intervention in the normal prepublication review process and the demand for substantial deletions in their article for the New York Times about Iran, Flynt Leverett and Hillary Mann write, "National security must be above politics. In a democracy, transparency in government has to be honored and protected. To classify information for reasons other than the safety and security of the United States and its interests is a violation of these principles. It is for this reason that we will continue to press for the release of the article without the material deleted."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/122206J.shtml

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The Leverett-Mann article on U.S.-Iran relations
http://www.ufppc.org/content/view/5466/


From ufpj-news

Informant: Charles Jenks



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

Classically Liberal

12/21/06

Decades of US aid and military support for the Shah and his dictatorship alienated many Iranians. Iran had a large, educated middle class that didn't want the Shah and didn't want the mullahs either. And they would be happy to dispose of the theocrats today. But the bumbling, confused foreign policy of global central planning by the Bushites put the Iranian opposition between a rock and a hard place. Happy to dispose of the mullahs they couldn't and wouldn't want to be seen as doing the bidding of Bush. American involvement in Iraq set back the more secular, more liberal reform movements of Iran. It was not Bush's desire to stifle dissenters in Iran. It was just another one of the many foreseeable consequences of American interventionism which Bush ignored...

http://tinyurl.com/yz6ehc


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

Saparmurat Niyazov was one of key factors of stability in Central Asia. With his death, the USA will have an opportunity to play the “Turkmen card” to exert pressure upon Iran and Afghanistan, Member of Novosibirsk Regional Council (Russia’s Liberal Democratic Party), PhD Anatoly Kubanov said to a REGNUM correspondent on December 21.

http://www.regnum.ru/english/758671.html


From Information Clearing House