World-News

http://www.wsws.org/articles/2007/jul2007/iran-j14.shtml


Informant: Corey

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Down in the Flood: The Senate's Blank Check for War on Iran
http://www.atlanticfreepress.com/content/view/1970/1/


Informant: Geraldo Cienmarcos



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http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Chris+Floyd

Israel's Minister of Strategic Affairs said he has received approval from the U.S. and Europe for an Israeli attack on Iran's nuclear facilities.

http://www.newsmax.com/archives/ic/2007/7/13/100257.shtml?s=ic



A Different 'Gut Feeling': Israel Attacking Iran

One of Israel's top officials says he's got the go-ahead from NATO's U.S. and European officials to attack Iran. Chertoff, aware of a longstanding, fierce debate in the White House over attacking Iran, admits a "gut feeling," saying it's about Al Qaeda but probably feeling queasier about what an attack on Iran would do to inflame terrorists.

http://villagevoice.com/blogs/bushbeat/archive/2007/07/gut_feeling_of.php


From Information Clearing House



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AntiWar.Com
by Justin Raimondo

07/13/07

In invading Iraq, we created a Shi’ite theocracy, ruled by death squads and radical mullahs: the so-called Shia crescent is the bastard offspring of our own promiscuously interventionist policy. One had only to look at a map and have a nodding acquaintance with the history and ethno-religious composition of the region to see that post-war Iraq would be vulnerable to Iranian influence and even dominance. To offset this disastrous ‘blowback,’ we are turning on a dime and aligning ourselves — at least rhetorically — with allies of the barbarians who brought down the World Trade Center and murdered some 3,000 Americans. Forgotten in all this maneuvering and backtracking is the security of the United States and the pursuit of legitimate American interests in the region, none of which are served by our reckless, drunken veering from Shi’ite to Sunni ‘allies.’ At this point, unless the American people wake up in time — which I very much doubt — war with Iran seems all but inevitable...

http://www.antiwar.com/justin/?articleid=11276



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The US Navy said that the Enterprise would provide "navy power to counter the assertive, disruptive and coercive behaviour of some countries," and take part in anti-submarine, anti-surface, anti-mine, air and missile defence and air strike operations.

http://www.news.com.au/story/0,23599,22054664-38198,00.html


From Information Clearing House

By Stephen Kinzer

The Bush team's latest rationale for bombing Iran is even lamer than all the previous ones. But hey, Joe Lieberman buys it. Comforted?

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article18003.htm



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RTE Ireland reports that a third US aircraft carrier is being sent to the Gulf.
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/071007G.shtml

Ali-Reza Asghari, the Iranian general who went missing in Turkey nearly half a year ago, is currently being held in a secure US intelligence facility, it was reported on Sunday.

http://tinyurl.com/yqvgjt


From Information Clearing House



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Senior US officials will consult allies in Europe next week on ways to intensify pressure on Iran amid suspicions Tehran is trying to evade sanctions by concealing the origin of financial transactions.

http://www.ireland.com/newspaper/breaking/2007/0707/breaking53.htm



Rice warns of 'increasingly dangerous' Iran

US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice described Iran as "increasingly dangerous" and refused to rule out US military action if Tehran refuses to suspend its nuclear program.

http://tinyurl.com/2lk4sf



Israel's envoy to U.S.: Free world is under attack by Iran

Israel's ambassador to the United States, Sallai Meridor, said Wednesday that Israel and the free world are under attack by Iran, with a combination of fanaticism, terrorism and nuclear capability posing the most serious threat since the 1930s.

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/883947.html


From Information Clearing House



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Mahtaub "Mattie" Hojjati is a government and business consultant who is leading a new think tank, known as the the Institute for Persian Studies, devoted to pushing the Iranian regime over the abyss, reports Spencer Ackerman of TPM Muckraker.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/070607S.shtml