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In July Iran will ditch the dollar in favour of the euro as the currency in which it will accept payments for its oil and natural gas exports, Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad announced Friday.

http://informationclearinghouse.info/article12957.htm

Spot the rogue

The countdown to a massive aerial bombing of Iran, possibly using bunker busting nuclear weapons, has begun. In strict adherence to a script written jointly by the British and US foreign offices and exposed by The Times of London some two months ago.

http://www.hindustantimes.com/news/181_1690822,00120001.htm


From Information Clearing House

As the Central Intelligence Agency undergoes its latest round of turmoil, legislators and former intelligence officials say that serious gaps in the United States' knowledge of Iran are among the most critical problems facing a new director of the spy agency.

http://fairuse.100webcustomers.com/nws/nytimes48.htm


From Information Clearing House

The draft resolution on Iran's nuclear activities that the United States, Britain and France presented to the United Nations Security Council this week is designed to fail.

http://informationclearinghouse.info/article12968.htm

The UN Security Council's draft resolution on Iran nuclear issue, legally requiring Tehran to stop sensitive nuclear fuel work, needs to be fundamentally changed, Russian news agencies quoted Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Kislyak as saying on Saturday.

http://tinyurl.com/zx3hk


From Information Clearing House

President : Iran would change its policies if asked to do so by the UN nuclear monitor the IAEA, hardline President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said in Baku, according to the translation of his comments, AFP reported.

http://tinyurl.com/h5orh


From Information Clearing House

Tehran’s vow to hand nuclear technology to its allies gives Bush a powerful reason to act.

http://tinyurl.com/j9ym7


From Information Clearing House

On April 26, Rep. Peter DeFazio (D-OR) and 32 co-sponsors introduced a resolution (H. Con. Res. 391) in the House of Representatives declaring that the House, with the Senate concurring, “strongly and unequivocally believes that seeking congressional authority prior to taking military action against Iran is not discretionary, but is a legal and constitutional requirement.” DeFazio and 61 members of the House also wrote to President Bush expressing the same view.

For more, see www.DisarmamentActivist.org, at http://disarmamentactivist.org/2006/05/07/defazio-war-on-iran-is-up-to-congress-not-president/

The letter you can send to your senators and representative on the United for Peace and Justice website ( http://www.unitedforpeace.org ) addresses this, saying:

“It is your duty under the Constitution to reserve for Congress the decision on whether to go to war with Iran.”


John Burroughs, Executive Director
Lawyers' Committee on Nuclear Policy
675 Third Avenue, Suite 315
New York, NY 10017-5704 USA
tel 212 818 1861; fax 212 818 1857
johnburroughs@lcnp.org
http://www.lcnp.org


UNITED FOR PEACE & JUSTICE | 212-868-5545

From ufpj-news

Remember the Edsel!

Nobel Peace Prize-winner and Iranian human rights advocate and dissident Shirin Ebadi was asked on PBS last week about the $75 million the US State Department intends to spend supporting pro-democracy groups in her country, to which she answered, "Can democracy be brought to people by bombs? Democracy is a culture. It has to come from within a society, not brought by America to a society."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/050706X.shtml

Iran's Oil Ministry took a step toward establishing an oil trading market denominated in euros, rather than the US dollar, by granting a license for the bourse, Iranian state-run television reported.

http://informationclearinghouse.info/article12951.htm