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ElBaradei, Director-General of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), said a military strike to settle the Iranian nuclear issue would complicate the situation and send the Middle East region into a vicious cycle of violence.

http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2008-02/05/content_7572483.htm


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The U.S. commander in Iraq's central province of Diyala has said he has witnessed no hostile act from the Iranian side in the region over the past 10 months, a French weekly reported on Monday.

http://www.tehrantimes.com/Index_view.asp?code=162746


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By Leon Hadar

President Bush still believes the Iranians are developing nuclear weapons - and so do the Israelis. So for journalists to assume that neither the U.S. nor Israel will attack Iran before the November election could constitute another failure of imagination. Cato's Leon Hadar suggests questions the press should ask the presidential candidates about what they think the American response should be to various scenarios in the region - including a Gulf-of-Tonkin-like alleged provocation.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article19296.htm



Iran General Staff fear U.S. attack while Bush in power

"While Bush is in power, that is throughout 2008, U.S. military action against the Islamic Republic is still likely," Gholamali Rashid said.

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From In These Times, Chris Toensing writes: "Quick: Who is the strategic victor, to date, of the war in Iraq? Nearly everyone outside the Bush administration (and perhaps some within it) would answer: the Islamic Republic of Iran."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/020608H.shtml



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In a sharp departure from U.S. policy, a leading French diplomat has called on the international coalition sponsoring U.N. sanctions against Iran to support a larger Iranian role in the Middle East.

http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=41064


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By Seymour M. Hersh

"'You are aware of the recent Israeli statements about Syria. The Israelis are extremely serious about Iran and its nuclear program, and I believe that, if the United States government is unsuccessful in its diplomatic dealings with Iran, the Israelis will take it out militarily.' He then told the envoy that he wanted him to convey this to his government-that the Israelis were serious.

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Does This Video Confirm That Bush Intends To Attack Iran?



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An American missile ship set to dock at Haifa Port on Monday is equipped with an anti-missile defense system that could be deployed in the region in the event of an Iranian missile attack against Israel.

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Iran was scheduled to inaugurate its Oil Bourse this coming week. That probably isn't going to happen because all internet access in Iran was cut over the weekend (the undersea cables were chopped).

http://www.energybulletin.net/39844.html



Internet cable cut in Middle East: Should Iran be worried?

There has been some concern that the undersea internet cables, that have been cut recently, are perhaps no accident?

http://www.americanchronicle.com/articles/51085


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The head of the U.N. nuclear watchdog said on Sunday he was making progress in finishing an inquiry into Iran's nuclear past ahead of his next report awaited by those powers mulling new sanctions.

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