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A little-noticed statement by US Ambassador to Iraq Ryan Crocker after last week's US-Iran meeting revealed that the main demand of the George W Bush administration to Iran is not to stop supplying weapons to Shi'ite militias but to use its influence with Shi'ites in Iraq to reduce their attacks on occupation forces.

http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/IH04Ak03.html


From Information Clearing House



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Gareth+Porter

Iran has intensified pressure on the falling U.S. dollar by demanding that Japan begin paying for Iranian oil in yen, instead of dollars. - In April, WND reported Iran successfully pressured China to begin paying for Iranian oil in euros, not dollars.

http://www.wnd.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=56965


From Information Clearing House



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=petro+dollar

European governments are warning Congress that US legislation aimed at Iran could hit European energy groups, undermine transatlantic unity on Tehran's nuclear programme and provoke a dispute at the World Trade Organisation.

http://www.ft.com/cms/s/c87fa5ba-411a-11dc-8f37-0000779fd2ac.html


From Information Clearing House

Washington has dispatched its frontroom team, Defense Secretary Robert Gates and Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, to the Middle East, ostensibly to give the peace process a big push. In reality, they are acting as shrewd arms merchants, while at the same time talking of the struggle for people for freedom against oppression.

http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/IH03Ak02.html


From Information Clearing House

US Creating False pretexts for Another War
http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=6434


Informant: fernwoods7

Cato Institute
by Ted Galen Carpenter

08/01/07

For several years the United States has dealt with two major nuclear proliferation crises, one involving North Korea, the other Iran. The U.S. has accomplished some progress with North Korea, which says it has shut down its reactor at Yongbyon and readmitted inspectors from the International Atomic Energy Agency. The same cannot be said of Iran, where there is no indication the impasse will break anytime soon. Instead of continuing to pursue a policy that has yielded no positive results, or even worse, deciding to escalate the confrontation, the Bush administration should engage Iran with the same proactive diplomacy it has used toward North Korea. As distasteful as it might be to U.S. leaders, that would require an unprecedented willingness to engage the regime in Tehran...

http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=8619


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Ted+Galen+Carpenter

U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice has warned that Iran poses the biggest threat to her country's interests in the Middle East, as she begins an important regional tour on Tuesday aimed at uniting U.S. allies against Iran, Syria, and Hezbollah.

http://tinyurl.com/29fe9l


From Information Clearing House



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Condoleezza+Rice

If there were any doubt in your mind that some People of Influence in Washington think that a U.S. military attack on Iran is a reasonable proposition, consider this: the Heritage Foundation has just published a paper attempting to reassure policymakers that the economic fallout from a U.S. attack on Iran.

http://tinyurl.com/36ftrm


From Information Clearing House



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Heritage+Foundation

The sources say the officials stressed the words "this year," meaning in 2007. That, however, does not rule out the possibility of military intervention in 2008, right until January 2009, when Bush's term in the White House comes to an end.

http://tinyurl.com/2tov5b


From Information Clearing House

http://www.larouchepub.com/other/2007/3429guns_of_august.html


From APFN



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Cheney