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The U.S. is seeking to dissuade Israeli from attacking Iran's nuclear facilities - when such an act is likely the only way to prevent a nuclear-armed Iran, says former U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations John Bolton.

Bolton: Israeli Attack Best Option on Iran
http://www.newsmax.com/insidecover/bolton_israel_iran_attack/2009/07/29/241402.html



John Bolton Suggests Nuclear Attack on Iran

By Daniel Luban

Discussing Iran during a Tuesday speech at the University of Chicago, Bolton appeared to call for nothing less than an Israeli nuclear first strike against the Islamic Republic. (The speech, sponsored by the University Young Republicans and Chicago Friends of Israel, was titled, apparently without a trace of irony, "Ensuring Peace.")

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Borzou Daragahi and Ramin Mostaghim, The Los Angeles Times: "Iran's leading opposition figure today called on his supporters to head into the streets 'each day' during an upcoming series of religious festivals surrounding the birthday of the Imam Mahdi, the 12th saint in the Shiite faith, potentially escalating tensions between a burgeoning protest movement and authorities amid an ongoing crackdown."

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Hillary Peddles Worst Sort of Wares in India

To assist the corporate bottom line, the Obama Administration is peddling the worst sort of wares abroad.

http://www.progressive.org/mag/pal072109.html



Clinton's 'defense umbrella' has murky history

Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton set off tremors in the Middle East this week when she said a nuclear Iran could be contained by a U.S. "defense umbrella" - an offhand remark that appears to have emerged from obscure Washington policy debates and her own presidential campaign rhetoric.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090725/ap_on_go_ca_st_pe/us_clinton_iran_nuclear



Iran will strike Israel nuclear sites if attacked

Iran has the capability to strike Israel's nuclear sites firmly and will do so if it comes under attack, the head of the elite Revolutionary Guards Corps said on Saturday.

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Die Machthaber stehen mit dem Rücken zur Wand, nun heißt es sogar, die Regierung wird von Gott legitimiert, die Wahlen seien nicht so wichtig.

http://www.heise.de/tp/r4/artikel/30/30751/1.html

Iranian reformist former president, Mohammad Khatami, called for a referendum on the legitimacy of the government, challenging the supreme leader who has backed the result of the disputed June presidential poll.

http://www.reuters.com/article/worldNews/idUSTRE56J13J20090720



Khatami calls for Iran referendum

Khatami expressed concern that "public confidence in the system has been damaged", the ILNA news agency reported. He said calls by Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, another former president, for a consensus between reformists and conservatives on resolving the crisis were the "minimum requirement for getting out of the current situation".

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Die Freitagspredigt des Gegenspielers zu Machtfraktion des Präsidenten übt, soweit Inhalte bekannt wurden, deutliche Kritik am Umgang der Führung mit den umstrittenen Wahlergebnissen und den Oppositionellen.

http://www.heise.de/tp/blogs/8/142154



Israel droht weiterhin dem Iran

Ägypten ließ die Durchfahrt von einem U-Boot und zwei Kriegsschiffen durch den Suezkanal zu, was als Vorbereitung für einen möglichen Angriff dargestellt wird.

http://www.heise.de/tp/blogs/8/142125



Hunderte könnten während der Proteste im Iran getötet worden sein

Mit Spannung wird erwartet, ob der mächtige Rafsadschani in der Freitagspredigt die Reformer unterstützen wird.

http://www.heise.de/tp/blogs/8/142129

"Doubt has been created (about the election results)," he said. "There is a large portion of the wise people who say they have doubts. We need to take action to remove this doubt."

http://breakingnews.iol.ie/news/world/rafsanjani-challenges-iran-leadership-419141.html



In pictures: Latest Tehran protest
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/in_pictures/8156612.stm



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AntiWar.Com
by Justin Raimondo

07/17/09

Only Richard Nixon, whose political career was launched and sustained by an ostensibly militant anti-communism, could have traveled to China, and — with conservative support — effected a de facto strategic alliance with a country long considered an implacable enemy. This Nixon-to-China meme is regularly invoked as aphoristic evidence that we must expect the unexpected, and it comes to mind when considering the prospects of an impending military conflict with Iran: it occurs to me that only Barack Obama, who won the White House in large part due to his opposition to the Iraq war, could take us to war with Iran, and rally liberals and much of the left behind it. Oh, I can hear the outraged howls of protest from the Obama cult, but consider: The president has already set a September deadline for Iran to respond to our as-yet-informal proposal to negotiate over the completely phony nuclear issue — an oddly confrontational approach to opening the first on-the-record high level talks with the Islamic Republic since the Iranian hostage crisis of 1979...

http://original.antiwar.com/justin/2009/07/16/obamas-war-signals/


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