newyorker.com - 12/2/2008
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The Bush Administration, while publicly advocating diplomacy in order to stop Iran from pursuing a nuclear weapon, has increased clandestine activities inside Iran and intensified planning for a possible major air attack. Current and former American military and intelligence officials said that ...
jpost.com - 12/4/2008
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jpost.com —
The IDF is drawing up options for a
strike on Iranian nuclear facilities that do not include...
coordination with the United States, The Jerusalem Post has learned. While its preference is to coordinate with the US, defense officials have said Israel is ...
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IDF preparing options for Iran strike | Iran news | ...
timesonline.co.uk - 12/4/2008
washingtonpost.com - 11/29/2008
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washingtonpost.com —
Absent some last-minute fireworks, President Bush will leave
office with a kind of double failure on Iran:...
Administration hard-liners haven't checked Tehran's drive to acquire nuclear-weapons technology, and moderates haven't engaged Iran in ...
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Bush's Iran Policy Has Failed
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Tomgram: Robert Dreyfuss, Is Iran Policy Still Up for Grabs?
TomDispatch —
... After all, that massive U.S. air attack on Iran that anti-imperial critics long expected to arrive, that Seymour Hersh wrote about, that so many feared, never happened and, with Barack Obama's election, should certainly have been put to rest in a deep grave for all eternity. But don't underestimate the neocons, or their ability to reconfigure themselves for a Democratic administration. Robert Dreyfuss, author of ...
Is Iran Policy Still Up for Grabs?
Antiwar.com Original —
J ust when you thought it was safe to go back in the water
After all, that massive U.S. air attack on Iran that anti-imperial critics long expected to arrive, that Seymour Hersh wrote about , that so many feared, never happened and, with Barack Obama's election, should certainly have been put to rest in a deep grave for all eternity. But don't underestimate the neocons, or their ability to reconfigure themselves for a Democratic administration. Robert Dreyfuss, author of ...
ISRAEL GOING THROUGH THE MOTIONS OF PLANNING IRAN ATTACK?
Right Wing Nut House —
... . I frankly don’t understand how that’s possible considering that Seymour Hersh and many others on the left assured us that Bloodthirsty Bush was itching for war with Iran in order to bring about the end times and fulfill the prophecies of the Bible. Over the last 4 years, lefties like Hersh have predicted a US strike on Iran (or our tacit approval of one by the IDF ) so many times I’ve lost count. Is there a faction in the Administration that would love to see us level Nantanz and a few other installations? Absolutely. But there has always been opposition to this move by ...
More Conspiracy Theories from Seymour Hersh
Weekly Standard Blog —
After authoritatively and wrongly claiming the United States would go to war to halt Iran's nuclear program six times during the Bush administration, The New Yorker's Seymour Hersh is back at peddling conspiracy theories. His latest: Former Vice President Dick Cheney personally ran an "executive assassination ring."
"After 9/11, I haven’t written about this yet, but the Central Intelligence Agency was very deeply involved in domestic activities against people they thought to be enemies of the state. ...
There is no Obama Effect
Booman Tribune —
... nuclear weapons have been forgotten, or that they played any role in promoting freedom? Do they think we'll just forget that Bush had a chance to strike a deal with a moderate Iranian regime back in 2003 and ...
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newshoggers.com 11/15/2008 — By Cernig
Add Mohammed el-Baradei to the list of those welcoming Obama's statements that he'd talk to Iran . "If there is a direct dialogue between the United States and Iran, I think Iran will be more forthcoming with the agency," IAEA Director ...
Iran Presidential Election: Key Issues Will Be Economy, Ties With West
huffingtonpost.com 12/13/2008 — TEHRAN, Dec 12 (IPS) - The main issue in Iran's June 2009 presidential election is certain to be the country's economic woes, but both candidates will be linking the economy to the issue of relations between Iran and the West, according to Iranian ...
Iran: Will talks happen under Obama?
csmonitor.com 11/20/2008 — A period of reestablishing relations with Iran's partners seems likely. Also expect contacts with lower-tier Iranian officials.
D.C. Establishment Pressuring Obama on Iran?
newshoggers.com 12/5/2008 — By Cernig
There's a rapidly developing consensus among Washington's Very Serious person set that Obama's plans to negotiate with Iran should get only one try, and if that fails then the bombing should begin.
Today Iran's parliamentary Speaker ...
Obama on a Nuclear Iran: Yes They Can?
weeklystandard.com 1/27/2009 — From Obama's interview with Al-Arabiya :
Q Will the United States ever live with a nuclear Iran? And if not, how far are you going in the direction of preventing it?
THE PRESIDENT: You know, I said during the campaign that it is very important ...
Iran: American apology in order
swamppolitics.com 1/28/2009 — by Mark Silva
Perhaps this is what happens when the United States attempts to open a dialog with Iran:
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad demands an apology.
The vituperative Iranian president, delivering his first public address since President Barack ...
Eric Margolis: How Obama Can Further U.S.-Iran Relations
huffingtonpost.com 2/24/2009 —
Eric S. Margolis
Special for the Huffington Post
February 23, 2009
Paris - Iran is celebrating the 30th anniversary of its historic 1979 Islamic revolution, a seismic event that shocked Washington and changed the political landscape of ...
American Foreign Policy Project
americanforeignpolicy.org 11/17/2008 — Among the many challenges that will greet President-elect Obama when he takes office, there are few, if any, more urgent and complex than the question of Iran. There are also few issues more clouded by myths and misconceptions. In this Joint Experts' ...
But, but . . . We've DONE All That
corner.nationalreview.com 1/29/2009 — I'll keep this short, in the interests of my impressive blood pressure. There are two "stories" about Iran/U.S. relations bubbling around. One has to do with direct talks, the other with Ahmadinejad's demand that we apologize for our many past ...
Iranian Analysts Urge Obama To Start Negotiations Immediately
huffingtonpost.com 12/13/2008 — TEHRAN, Dec 11 (IPS) - In light of the Iranian presidential election coming in mid-2009 and the U.S. distaste for Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, President-elect Barack Obama is being advised to avoid any communication with Tehran until after Iranians vote next ...
Americans recruited as suicide bombers —
First Read 12/3/2008
From NBC’s Pete Williams The FBI is hoping to enlist the parents, especially mothers, of young Somali men who live in Minneapolis, because agents believe the men are being recruited to conduct suicide bomb attacks in Somalia.
Successful ...
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