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Iranian video counters Pentagon report

Iran released a video on Thursday which it said showed its boats did not threaten U.S. navy vessels in the Gulf, countering Washington's account of the event which President George W. Bush called "a provocative act".

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Fifth Fleet unsure threat to US warships was Iranian

The US Navy's Fifth Fleet in Bahrain said on Thursday there was "no way to know" if a threat radioed to US warships in the Strait of Hormuz came from Iranian speedboats.

http://www.focus-fen.net/?id=n131193



U.S.: Voices on Recording May Not Have Been From Iranian Speedboats

Chilling Threat Could Have Come From the Shore or Another Ship, Navy Says.
http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/story?id=4115702&page=1



Bush warns Iran of 'serious consequences'
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'All options on table' to stop nuclear Iran: Israel

Israel is keeping all options on the table if economic and diplomatic pressure fails to halt archfoe Iran's nuclear programme, Israel's ambassador to the United States said on Thursday.

http://www.spacewar.com/2006/080110112827.nlri5wq1.html


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As the American people amuse themselves with the illusion that they have any say in the way they are presently governed, our rulers are moving toward war. Two recent incidents underscore the imminence of this prospect.

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More lies from the Bush administration
http://www.salon.com/opinion/greenwald/2008/01/10/iran/index.html


Informant: Lew Rockwell



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PEARL HARBOR: MOTHER OF ALL CONSPIRACIES
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Yahoo! News

01/08/08

North Vietnamese made hoax calls to get the US military to bomb its own units during the Vietnam War, according to declassified information that also confirmed US officials faked an incident to escalate the war. … probably the ‘most historically significant feature’ of the declassified report was the retelling of the 1964 Gulf of Tonkin incident. That was a reported North Vietnamese attack on American destroyers that helped lead to president Lyndon Johnson’s sharp escalation of American forces in Vietnam...

http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20080108/pl_afp/usvietnamintelligence512



Iran: Pentagon sends up Gulf of Tonkin trial balloon

Bucyrus Telegraph Forum

01/08/08

An Iranian fleet of high-speed boats charged at and threatened to blow up a three-ship U.S. Navy convoy passing near Iranian waters, then vanished as the American ship commanders were preparing to open fire, the top U.S. Navy commander in the area said Monday. No shots were fired an an Iranian official in Tehran said the incident amounted to ’something normal’...

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US President George W Bush will not win any support for military action against Iran when he visits four Gulf Arab allies later this month, political analysts in the region say.

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Iranian Boats 'Provoke' US Navy Ships in Hormuz
http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2008/01/07/6223/

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US plays up murky naval confrontation with Iran in Strait of Hormuz
http://www.ufppc.org/content/view/7003/

US releases video of US-Iran encounter in Strait of Hormuz
http://www.ufppc.org/content/view/7005/


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U.S. Says Iranian Gunboats Harassed Warships

By Jim Miklaszewski - NBC News

Iranian Revolutionary Guard gunboats harassed three U.S. Navy warships in the Strait of Hormuz Sunday, in what the U.S. military officials described as a "significant provocative act."

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article19013.htm



Iran warned against threatening US ships

Just hours before US President George W. Bush was to embark on his Middle East tour, the White House and US military in the region said Iran was engaging in "provocative acts".

http://www.gulfnews.com/region/Iran/10180305.html



Iran Denies Threats Against U.S. Navy

Revolutionary Guards Dismiss U.S. Claims That Iranian Boats Threatened To Explode War Ships.

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Persian Gulf incident part of U.S. psyops: Iran's Majlis speaker

Majlis Speaker Gholam-Ali Haddad-Adel has described U.S. reports about a confrontation between Iranian speedboats and U.S. warships in the Persian Gulf as "part of a psychological and propaganda campaign against the Islamic Republic."

http://www.payvand.com/news/08/jan/1076.html



Manufacturing Consent For War With Iran

US warns Iran of consequences of any new naval crisis : U.S. President George W. Bush warned Iran on Wednesday of "serious consequences" if it attacked U.S. ships in the Gulf and said all options were on the table.

http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/L09705818.htm



Video purports to show Iranian 'provocation' of US forces

The Pentagon has released footage of Iranian boats threatening three US ships in The Gulf, in what President George W Bush described as a "provocative act".

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2008/01/09/wiran109.xml



Iranian TV: Pentagon Video, Audio Fake

Iran accused the United States on Wednesday of fabricating video and audio released by the Pentagon showing Iranian boats confronting U.S. warships in the Persian Gulf.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/story/0,,-7211334,00.html


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Iran: Pentagon sends up Gulf of Tonkin trial balloon

Bucyrus Telegraph Forum

01/08/08

An Iranian fleet of high-speed boats charged at and threatened to blow up a three-ship U.S. Navy convoy passing near Iranian waters, then vanished as the American ship commanders were preparing to open fire, the top U.S. Navy commander in the area said Monday. No shots were fired an an Iranian official in Tehran said the incident amounted to ’something normal’...

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Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

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What Is This 'Iranian Provocation' BS?
http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2008/01/08/6256/



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The Sunday Times

A WHISTLEBLOWER has made a series of extraordinary claims about how corrupt government officials allowed Pakistan and other states to steal nuclear weapons secrets. Sibel Edmonds, a 37-year-old former Turkish language translator for the FBI, listened into hundreds of sensitive intercepted conversations while based at the agency's Washington field office.

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Israel to Brief George Bush on Options for Iran strike

Uzi Mahnaimi, Tel Aviv

ISRAELI security officials are to brief President George W Bush on their latest intelligence about Iran's nuclear programme - and how it could be destroyed - when he begins a tour of the Middle East in Jerusalem this week.

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Iran still a threat, Bush tells Israeli TV

An Iranian attack on Israel isn't imminent but Iran remains dangerous, U.S. President George Bush said in an interview with an Israeli TV station broadcast Saturday, days before Bush is slated to begin a Mideast visit.

http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2008/01/05/africa/ME-GEN-Israel-Bush.php



Bush to propose ME plan to "combat" Iran

In his weekly radio address, Bush said that curtailing Iran's "aggressive ambitions" will be one of the key aims of his trip to the region this week.

http://snipurl.com/1wqmh



Iran Ready to Repel Any Invasion

"This peace-loving nation would humiliate any aggressor, regardless of its size and level so that it won't even think of aggression again," Khamenei was quoted as saying by state media during a visit to the central city of Yazd.

http://www.alalam.ir/english/en-NewsPage.asp?newsid=031030120080104231504



Why U.S. strategy on Iran is crumbling

The Gulf has moved away from American arguments for isolating Iran. American policymakers need to do the same.

http://www.csmonitor.com/2008/0104/p09s03-coop.html


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President Bush To Travel to Middle East
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London Times breaks Sibel Edmonds Story

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The West appears amazed to see the Russian-Iranian strategic partnership surviving and even strengthening.

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