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As the crisis around Iran over its alleged nuclear ambitions assumes an ugly shape, Pakistan finds itself, once again, under enormous political pressure because of the aggressive United States policy toward a Muslim country in its immediate neighborhood.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/042406F.shtml

The United States raised the ante last week, signalling that it intends to exact a price if Russia persists in its refusal to jump aboard an accelerating US diplomatic bandwagon for quick and tough international steps to isolate Iran.

http://www.thedailystar.net/2006/04/24/d60424012718.htm


From Information Clearing House

The US has drawn up plans to level a massive aerial assault against Iran.

By Dr. Jorge E. Hirsch

Thirteen of the nation’s most prominent physicists have written a letter to President Bush, calling U.S. plans to reportedly use nuclear weapons against Iran “gravely irresponsible” and warning that such action would have “disastrous consequences for the security of the United States and the world.”

http://informationclearinghouse.info/article12813.htm

http://www.bushwatch.net/floyd.htm


Informant: Hopedance

Iran on Friday dismissed a U.S. warning it could strike Iranian nuclear installations in the name of self-defense, with the foreign ministry arguing the threat was a sign of frustration in Washington. "America is angry because no other country has taken its side," Foreign Ministry spokesman Hamid Reza Asefi was quoted as saying.

http://tinyurl.com/eppnb


From Information Clearing House

http://www.ufppc.org/content/view/4398/


Informant: jensenmk

From ufpj-news

http://www.thenewamerican.com/birchblog/index.php?m=04&y=06&entry=entry060421-181315


Informant: Lew Rockwell