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http://www.spacewar.com/reports/How_To_Avert_War_With_Iran.html


Informant: Kev Hall

AntiWar.Com

by Justin Raimondo

05/03/06

[N]ow we learn that the famous Valerie Plame -- outed as a CIA agent by I. Lewis 'Scooter' Libby and the neocon cabal around Bush -- was working on tracking Iran's nuclear program when she was exposed. Her cover blown, along with the entire network of which she was a part, the U.S. has been flying blind on the question of whether or not Iran is actively pursuing a nuclear program with military applications. Ignorance is strength as far as the War Party is concerned. With the nuke-tracking unit of the CIA put out of commission by Scooter and his friends, the way is opened for various 'exile' groups of dubious credentials and ideology to stovepipe phony 'intelligence' to the Americans. It's basically a repeat of what happened in the run-up to war with Iraq -- only, this time, the stakes are much higher...

http://www.antiwar.com/justin/?articleid=8936


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

Greenpeace

May 2006

I'm Donna Mattfield, a peace and disarmament campaigner with Greenpeace International in Amsterdam. I'm writing to you to ask for your help in creating a pre-emptive peace strike.

You may have read in the news recently about revelations that the United States is considering plans for a nuclear strike on Iran. I know I'm not alone in thinking this is an insane way to tell a country that it's wrong to develop nuclear weapons.

And where would these weapons come from? The type of weapons the US are including in their plans could be among those stored in Belgium, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Turkey and the UK.

Join me in asking for a simple assurance from the NATO countries which host American nuclear weapons that they'll not endorse or cooperate with a pre-emptive nuclear strike on Iran.

http://prefs.greenpeace.org/mail-links/clicks/20677.2480145.5409

When I first heard that the US still maintains 480 nuclear weapons in NATO bases in Europe I was shocked. I find it hard to comprehend that in 2006, 16 years after the cold war ended, those of us who live here are still sitting on such a dangerous legacy.

The Bush Administration can't treat Europe as a convenient parking lot for its destructive missiles. The situation in Iran brings home a very scary fact: the Bush administration could implicate independent European nations in a war that shuns diplomatic solutions and invites retaliation, with or without the consent of the countries that host those nuclear weapons.

It doesn't have to be like this. Join our campaign to eliminate the threat altogether by calling for the US to take back and dismantle its nuclear weapons from Europe and Turkey altogether, and to begin the work of creating a nuclear free zone in the Middle East. The choice is simple: a world in which everybody is threatened by nuclear weapons, or nobody is. I know which world I want to live in.

Thank you for your support,

Donna

The United States, Britain and France have drafted a binding Security Council resolution requiring Iran to stop key nuclear activities, but Russia and China are already resisting, officials involved in the negotiations said today.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/050206S.shtml

According to current and former intelligence officials, Plame Wilson, who worked on the clandestine side of the CIA in the Directorate of Operations as a non-official cover (NOC) officer, was part of an operation tracking distribution and acquisition of weapons of mass destruction technology to and from Iran. Video and transcript.

http://informationclearinghouse.info/article12910.htm

“Iran is capable of harming U.S. interests in Iraq and Afghanistan; it has very high capabilities and can halt oil exports. All this could be damaging to the United States.”

http://www.mehrnews.ir/en/NewsDetail.aspx?NewsID=319959


From Information Clearing House

Iran denounced the United States on Monday for contemplating possible nuclear strikes against Iranian targets and urged the United Nations to take urgent action against what it called a dangerous violation of international law.

http://tinyurl.com/r5yjm


From Information Clearing House

His comments are a rare public statement from the US military on what is the most contentious international issue of the day.

http://tinyurl.com/r7dut


From Information Clearing House

Iran's foreign minister was quoted on Tuesday as saying that Russia and China had officially informed Tehran they would not support sanctions or military action over the Islamic Republic's nuclear program.

http://informationclearinghouse.info/article12915.htm