World-News

Oil Minister Kazem Vaziri Hamaneh said on Wednesday that the establishment of Oil Stock Exchange is in its final stage and the bourse will be launched in Iran in the next week.

http://tinyurl.com/pthml


From Information Clearing House

Downing Street has urged the world to take the threat posed by Iran "very seriously", as the United Nations deadline for it to cease uranium enrichment looms.

http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_1818475.html?menu=



Iran split

UK: Foreign Office lawyers have formally advised Jack Straw that it would be illegal under international law for Britain to support any US-led military action against Iran.

http://www.sundayherald.com/55316


From Information Clearing House

Call for a campaign: For an Alliance Against war in support of Iranian workers’ struggles

http://www.etehadchap.org/antiwar.html
etehadchap@yahoo.co.uk

Iran - Kriegsvorbereitungen

Kein Krieg gegen Iran - für nukleare Abrüstung und Frieden im Nahen Osten

Unterschriftenaktion des Kölner Friedensforum http://www.friedensforum-koeln.de/


Call for a campaign: For an Alliance Against war in support of Iranian workers’ struggles

(englischer) Aufruf von Workers Left Unity Iran vom 20 April 2006 http://www.etehadchap.org/antiwar.html

Unterstützungsadresse: etehadchap@yahoo.co.uk


Krieg und die Medien

Gelder und Bilder des Krieges. Die Rolle von Wirtschaftsvertretern und Journalisten in bewaffneten Konflikten

"Wer den Verlauf kriegerischer Auseinandersetzungen aktiv beeinflussen will, muss weder selbst den Abzug betätigen noch in irgendeiner Kommandozentrale über Angriff, Rückzug oder den Einsatz von Massenvernichtungswaffen entscheiden. Dauer und Intensität eines Konfliktes hängen ebenso von der wirtschaftlichen Attraktivität des umkämpften Gebietes ab, und die mediale Aufbereitung spielt nicht erst im Zeitalter des "Embedded Journalism" eine entscheidende Rolle. Wie weit der Einfluss von Privatwirtschaft und Medien tatsächlich geht, lässt sich in den meisten Fällen allerdings schwer abschätzen und so gut wie nie beziffern. Zwei aktuelle Studien dokumentieren immerhin das Ausmaß beider Phänomene…“ Artikel von Thorsten Stegemann in telepolis vom 16.04.2006 http://www.heise.de/tp/r4/artikel/22/22372/1.html


Aus: LabourNet, 27. April 2006

Asia Times

by Jeremy Brecher and Brendan Smith

04/26/06

During the 2004 election, President George W Bush famously proclaimed that he didn't have to ask anyone's permission to defend the United States of America. Does that mean he can attack Iran without having to ask Congress? ... The president is acting as if the decisions that may get Americans into another war are his to make and his alone. So the Iran crisis poses not only questions of military feasibility and political wisdom but of constitutional usurpation. Bush's top officials openly assert that he can do anything he wants -- including attacking another country -- on his authority as commander-in-chief...

http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/HD26Ak01.html


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

The Free Liberal
by Jonathan David Morris

04/26/06

Last weekend, I was talking to someone about rising gas prices when they happened to tell me, 'Yeah, it's just a shame we have to go to war with Iran.' I thought this was interesting. Since when do we 'have to' do anything? The U.S. once staved off nuclear war with the Soviet Union. You mean to tell me we can't do that again? 'This is different,' I was told. 'These people' -- the Iranians -- 'can't be reasoned with.' If that's our attitude, then I'm not so sure we can be reasoned with, either. Don't buy the hype. A war with Iran is most certainly not inevitable. Nor is it a good idea...

http://www.freeliberal.com/archives/002021.html


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

There are reasons to believe the leadership is misreading an avalanche of US signs related to the military and psychological preparation for a possible war.

http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/HD26Ak02.html


From Information Clearing House

In early 2003, even as U.S. forces were on the brink of war with Iraq, the Army had already begun conducting an analysis for a full-scale war with Iran.

http://tinyurl.com/mpd3j


From Information Clearing House

US Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld said Monday that the United States must persevere in Iraq and Afghanistan to contain "the extreme impulses that we see emanating from Iran."

http://informationclearinghouse.info/article12838.htm