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Mother Jones
by Jonathan Schwarz

06/07

If the United States spreads its Middle Eastern disaster into Iran, it won’t be the fault of George W. Bush alone — a Democratic Congress will share some of the blame. Fortunately, the legislative branch has effective options for stopping war before it starts...

http://www.motherjones.com/news/outfront/2007/05/plan_for_iran.html


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At a time when the United States is widely regarded in the Middle East as a military aggressor and faces plummeting popularity around the world, Iran is taking advantage of the situation to boost its own image and forge closer ties with its neighbors.

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Although Iran itself is labelled a "state sponsor of terrorism" by the US State Department, this would be the first time that a national military force had been described as a "terrorist" group.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/6947616.stm


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(taped Nagasaki Day, August 9, 2006)

To commemorate the date, I put together an excerpt from the August 9,
2006 forum entitled "Consequences of US Nuclear Policy: from Hiroshima to Iran" at the U.S. congress that I moderated. It features scenes from the nuclear war movie "The Day After" and part of a talk by Iranian Simin Royanian, of Women for Peace and Justice in Iran. The forum was shown repeatedly on C-Span.


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The New York Times's Helene Copper reports: "The Bush administration is preparing to declare that Iran's Revolutionary Guard Corps is a foreign terrorist organization, senior administration officials said Tuesday. If imposed, the declaration would signal a more confrontational turn in the administration's approach to Iran and would be the first time that the United States has added the armed forces of any sovereign government to its list of terrorist organizations. The Revolutionary Guard is thought to be the largest branch of Iran's military."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/081507M.shtml



Senate Urges Bush to Declare Iran Guard a Terrorist Group

New York Times's reporter, David M. Heszenhorn, reports: "the Senate approved a resolution on Wednesday urging the Bush administration to designate Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps as a foreign terrorist organization, and lawmakers briefly set aside partisan differences to approve a measure calling for stepped-up diplomacy to forge a political solution in Iraq. Since last month, the White House has been weighing whether to declare the Revolutionary Guard Corps a terrorist group or to take a narrower step focusing on only the Guard's elite Quds Force. Either approach would signal a more confrontational posture by declaring a part of the Iranian military a terrorist operation."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/092707L.shtml



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Boston Globe
by John Tirman

08/14/07

We often hear that the US-Iran confrontation is a new Cold War — a highly charged ideological rivalry with nuclear capabilities on each side and ‘proxy’ wars pursued for geostrategic advantage. While there are resemblances, the standoff is not like the US-Soviet conflict. In fact, it could be dangerous to think that it is. The differences between the two rivalries are significant. Iran does not have much military capability, unlike the USSR, which may be one reason for Tehran’s nuclear development program. They may see it as parity and respect on the cheap. In terms of conventional military firepower, Iran has plenty of bodies but little technology...

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Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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Hamid Karzai, hand-picked by Washington to pose as president of the broken country of Afghanistan, says his government has "very, very good, very, very close relations [and] will continue to have good relations with Iran." He declares on CNN, "So far, Iran has been a helper" in fighting terrorism.

http://www.counterpunch.org/leupp08142007.html


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By Dr. Elias Akleh

The real reason of the conflict is the competition for exclusive monopoly of the perceived future energy resources (nuclear fuel) to rake in money, and to indirectly control other countries.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article18175.htm



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