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The Chief of Naval Operations is reviewing plans for a blockade of Iran's oil.
http://www.wavy.com/Global/story.asp?s=5479751


From Information Clearing House

"Iran does not today, and in my judgment will not for some time, pose a nuclear threat to the United States or the state of the [Middle East] region," Kay said.

http://www.voanews.com/english/2006-10-12-voa47.cfm


From Information Clearing House

A majority of Americans supported attacking Iraq, but now a majority of Americans say it was the wrong thing to do and that they were lied to. If you are among those who supported the attack on Iraq but now believe you were mistaken, then you have one step up on our president – he's never publicly admitted a mistake in his life. In fact, he once demonstrated the difficulty he has in even imagining being wrong by unsuccessfully attempting to recite the following wise saying: "Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me." In the next month, you may very well have the opportunity to be fooled twice by the same president. And years from now – if we're all still alive – you may have occasion to face that same difficult conclusion: "Shame on me." But why let it come to that? Why not get wise to the lies beforehand? READ MORE: http://www.afterdowningstreet.org/node/14616

More News on U.S. Plans to Attack Iran Collected Here: http://www.afterdowningstreet.org/irannews

Almost 60,000 People Have Signed; Have You?
http://www.dontattackiran.org


Informant: David Swanson

From ufpj-news

Facing nuclear disputes with Iran and North Korea, the US, Bahrain and other states will hold their first naval exercise in the Gulf this month to practice interdicting ships carrying weapons of mass destruction and missiles, US officials said.

http://tinyurl.com/ylrbt7


From Information Clearing House

http://www.ufppc.org/content/view/5182/


Informant: jensenmk

From ufpj-news

Mother Jones
by Laura Rozen

10/06/06

This past summer, an op-ed appeared in the Washington Post under the byline of Richard Perle, the influential former Pentagon adviser who was a chief booster of Ahmed Chalabi in the run-up to the war in Iraq. As he had prior to the invasion of Iraq, Perle urged the Bush administration to shun appeasement and take an uncompromising stand toward Tehran; as with Iraq, he argued that a hard line was critical to help the population overthrow a brutal regime. And once again, Perle had an exile leader he wanted America to know about: Amir Abbas Fakhravar, 'an Iranian dissident student leader who escaped first from Tehran's notorious Evin prison, then, after months in hiding, from Iran'...

http://www.motherjones.com/news/feature/2006/11/fakhravar.html


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Chalabi
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Richard+Perle
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Fakhravar

AlterNet
by Chris Hedges

10/10/06

The aircraft carrier Eisenhower, accompanied by the guided-missile cruiser USS Anzio, guided-missile destroyer USS Ramage, guided-missile destroyer USS Mason and the fast-attack submarine USS Newport News, is, as I write, making its way to the Straits of Hormuz off Iran. The ships will be in place to strike Iran by the end of the month. It may be a bluff. It may be a feint. It may be a simple show of American power. But I doubt it. War with Iran -- a war that would unleash an apocalyptic scenario in the Middle East -- is probable by the end of the Bush administration. It could begin in as little as three weeks. This administration, claiming to be anointed by a Christian God to reshape the world, and especially the Middle East, defined three states at the start of its reign as 'the Axis of Evil.' They were Iraq, now occupied; North Korea, which, because it has nuclear weapons, is untouchable; and Iran...

http://www.alternet.org/story/42774/


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=06/10/10/1355226


Informant: Martin Greenhut

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Kucinich: The Administration Is Preparing For War Again…This Time Against Iran
http://disc.server.com/discussion.cgi?id=149495;article=105758;show_archive=1