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	Americans may deplore the fact, but there are two sources of trouble in the Middle East they cannot ignore. One is the Persian Gulf, the source of a big share of the world's oil supply. The other is the Mediterranean coast, where Europe and the United States, for deep historical reasons, cannot walk away from Israel's fate. Iran, which calls for Israel's destruction, is making a play for dominance in both regions. By Charleston.net >Read the Article


Posted 9/5/2008 @ 13:44:47 GMT Iran: European Leaders 'a Threat', Says Website Close to the Gov't. Tehran -- Italian prime minister Silvio Berlusconi, German chancellor Angela Merkel and French president Nicolas Sarkozy were a dangerous triangle, according to an Iranian website close to the government. more By Adnkronos International


Posted 9/5/2008 @ 9:17:57 GMT The Offer He Will Refuse Will you take an offer if you knew that by refusing it you would get a better one? The answer from Tehran is an emphatic no, and concerns the latest "generous package" that the five permanent members of the UN Security Council plus Germany put together in London last week. more By Asharq Alawsat


Posted 9/5/2008 @ 9:5:57 GMT Appeasing Iran, North Korea? As President Bush enters his final months in office, there are mounting signs of disarray when it comes to current U.S. policy towards Iran and North Korea. more By The Washington Times


Posted 9/5/2008 @ 8:51:59 GMT The Iran Risk, Again Washington's severe problems in Iraq and Afghanistan are leading it to refocus its military attentions on Tehran. more By OpenDemocracy


Posted 9/5/2008 @ 7:56:44 GMT U.S. Agrees to EU's Iran Nuclear Plan WASHINGTON -- The United States has signed off on a European plan that would offer increased incentives for Iran to suspend its uranium enrichment program, senior State Department officials said Thursday. more By CNN


Posted 9/5/2008 @ 0:31:9 GMT Iran Blames Monarchists for Mosque Blast Tehran -- Iran yesterday blamed a mosque explosion that killed 13 people in the southern city of Shiraz last month on Western-backed monarchists who oppose the Islamic republic, the Fars news agency reported. more By AFP

Posted 9/5/2008 @ 0:18:21 GMT
Why the West Moves Closer to Bombing Iran
Another week, another British fatality - and yet more evidence of Iran's lethal meddling on the battlefields of the war on terror. Whether Revolutionary Guards were directly responsible for the massive roadside bomb that killed 29-year-old Trooper Ratu Babakobau in Afghanistan's Helmand province last weekend may never be proved. more
By Telegraph


Posted 8/5/2008 @ 17:4:29 GMT Russia Joins U.N. Economic Sanctions on Iran MOSCOW -- Russia has signed into law United Nations economic sanctions that world powers agreed to in March, according to a presidential decree published by the Kremlin on Thursday. more By Reuters


Posted 8/5/2008 @ 16:44:24 GMT Hezbollah Says Beirut Govt Declares War BEIRUT -- The Iranian-backed Lebanese group Hezbollah said on Thursday the U.S.-supported Beirut government had declared war by targeting its communications network. more By Reuters


Posted 8/5/2008 @ 16:36:39 GMT Ahmadinejad Continues Tirade Campaign Against Israel Tehran -- Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad availed himself of the 60th anniversary of Israel's foundation to continue his tirade campaign against what he calls 'the barbaric Zionist regime.' more By Deutsche Presse-Agentur


Posted 8/5/2008 @ 10:46:10 GMT The Heart Has its Own Unreason "A madman is not someone who has lost his reason. A madman is someone who has lost everything but his reason," wrote English writer G K Chesterton, adding, "Poets do not go mad, but chess players do." more By Asia Times Online


Posted 8/5/2008 @ 10:27:16 GMT Iran Offers Nuclear Deal But Refuses to Stop Enrichment Iran said yesterday that it is to present the international community with a new package of proposals aimed at breaking the diplomatic deadlock over the country's nuclear programme. more By The Guardian

Posted 8/5/2008 @ 10:24:36 GMT
Where The Wild Cards Are
The potentially transforming events in the 2008 campaign are matters of war and peace. Both may be in play between now and November, in ways that add extra volatility to the presidential race. Let's start with war: The United States is already fighting two of them, in Iraq and Afghanistan. But judging from recent statements by administration officials, there is also a small, but growing, chance of conflict with Iran. more
By The Washington Post


Posted 8/5/2008 @ 9:50:26 GMT Iran Postpones Execution After EU Protest Following a protest by the European Union (EU), the Iranian judiciary postponed the execution of a young man sentenced to death for having killed another man in a street brawl in Tehran in August 2005, the Iranian press reported Wednesday. more By Irish Sun

Posted 8/5/2008 @ 9:46:8 GMT
Iran Protests to Iraq Over Islands Row
TEHRAN -- Iran has protested to Iraq over reports that Baghdad had backed the United Arab Emirates’ claim to three islands in the Gulf, the foreign ministry said yesterday. “The Iraqi ambassador (Mohamed Majid Abbas al-Sheikh) was invited (to the foreign ministry) and was notified of Iran’s protest,” foreign ministry spokesman Mohamed Ali Hosseini told the state broadcaster. more
By AFP


Posted 8/5/2008 @ 9:36:38 GMT Ahmadinejad Criticized for Saying Long-Ago Imam Mahdi Leads Iran TEHRAN -- Several leading Iranian clerics criticized President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Wednesday for saying that the last imam of Shiite Islam, a messianic figure who Shiites believe was hidden by God 1,140 years ago, leads modern-day Iran. more By The Washington Post


Posted 8/5/2008 @ 0:12:25 GMT Iran Must Finally Pay a Price We tell the Iranians that the military option is "on the table." But three decades of playing cat-and-mouse with American power have emboldened Iran's rulers. We have played by their rules, and always came up second best. more By The Wall Street Journal


Posted 7/5/2008 @ 23:49:40 GMT Iran Confirms Mosque Blast As Bombing; Mastermind Arrested TEHRAN -- Iran said on Wednesday that a blast in a mosque that killed 13 people in the southern city of Shiraz last month was indeed a bombing and that the suspected mastermind had been arrested. more By AFP

Posted 7/5/2008 @ 23:18:45 GMT
Iranian Opposition Group Wins Ruling Against UK Ban
LONDON -- An Iranian opposition group won a seven-year legal battle on Wednesday when three top judges upheld a ruling that the government was wrong to ban it as a terrorist organisation. The judges at the Court of Appeal threw out a government challenge to a ruling last November that its refusal to remove the People's Mujahideen Organisation of Iran (PMOI) from its list of proscribed terrorist organisations was perverse. more
By Reuters

Posted 7/5/2008 @ 13:34:42 GMT
New Offer Threatens Iran's 'Red Line'
Iran has been quick to play down the supposed new initiative by the international community over its nuclear program. Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesperson Mohammad Ali Hosseini said that Iran has not yet officially received the "new package", but Iranian officials have rejected the demand to suspend the country's enrichment program, which they feel they are entitled to under the articles of the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT), to which Iran is a signatory. more
By Asia Times Online

Posted 7/5/2008 @ 13:7:34 GMT
No Good Way to Stop a Nuclear Iran
"The Central Intelligence Agency and other agencies blocked a Bush Administration plan to deliver sharp new warnings this week about Syria's efforts to develop unconventional weapons," a July 18, 2003 New York Times article began. It continued by noting that the "CIA and other agencies raised strong objections to testimony" that former U.N. Ambassador John Bolton, then an undersecretary of state, was planning to deliver to Congress that week. more
By FrontPageMagazine.com


Posted 7/5/2008 @ 9:19:27 GMT Iraq Readies Arms Case Against Iran Iraq's ambassador to the U.S. said yesterday that a high-level committee will investigate Iran's role in arms trafficking across his country's borders, after the discovery of large caches of weapons and explosive devices recently manufactured in Iran. more By The Washington Times


Posted 7/5/2008 @ 8:45:40 GMT Iranian's Sentence Extended in Military Goggles Case FORT LAUDERDALE, FLA. -- Shahrazad Mir Gholikhan, an Iranian woman accused of trying to export night-vision goggles to Iran, thought her guilty plea last month would be her ticket home to her family. more By South Florida Sun-Sentinel

Posted 7/5/2008 @ 8:43:12 GMT
Nine Million Iranians Illiterate
Nine million Iranians cannot read or write out of a population of at least 71.5 million, a newspaper reported today. "At the moment, there are 9.45 million people who are completely illiterate in the country,'' the deputy head of the Literacy Movement Organisation, Parviz Kosari, was quoted as saying in the Kayan newspaper. more
By Agence France-Presse


Posted 6/5/2008 @ 20:19:19 GMT Iran Hardliners Condemn Khatami Members of Iran's parliament have made a formal complaint to the intelligence minister over remarks made by former President Mohammad Khatami. On Friday Mr Khatami said the Islamic republic's founder, Ayatollah Khomeini, had not wanted to export the revolution by armed force. more By BBC News

Posted 6/5/2008 @ 20:14:18 GMT
John Bolton: US Should Bomb Iranian Camps
John Bolton, America’s ex-ambassador to the United Nations, has called for US air strikes on Iranian camps where insurgents are trained for war in Iraq. Mr Bolton said that striking Iran would represent a major step towards victory in Iraq. While he acknowledged that the risk of a hostile Iranian response harming American’s overseas interests existed, he said the damage inflicted by Tehran would be “far higher” if Washington took no action. more
By Telegraph


Posted 6/5/2008 @ 9:53:17 GMT Hezbollah Training Iraqi Shiite Extremists in Iran BAGHDAD -- Iraqi Shiite extremists are being trained by members of the Lebanese militant group Hezbollah in camps near Tehran, a U.S. military spokesman said Monday. more By The Associated Press

Posted 6/5/2008 @ 9:35:43 GMT
Doubting the Evidence against Iran
American circles in Baghdad and Washington are probably not pleased with Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki's plan for a special panel to investigate allegations of Iranian interference in Iraq. Many U.S. officials are already convinced of the worst and, for years, U.S. officials have now aired accusations against Iran, insisting that Tehran is stoking Iraq's violence by keeping up a flow of money, weapons and trained fighters into the country. The Iraqi government, however, remains unconvinced — with good reason. more
By Time Magazine


Posted 5/5/2008 @ 14:3:33 GMT Top U.S. Officer Says Would Prefer No War on Iran JERUSALEM -- U.S. military involvement in Afghanistan and Iraq would make it difficult to mount any attack on Iran, the Pentagon's top officer said in remarks broadcast on Monday, adding that he would prefer to avoid a new regional war. more By Reuters


Posted 5/5/2008 @ 11:37:12 GMT Iran Ex-president Under Fire Over Comments on Insurgents TEHRAN -- Ex-president Mohmamad Khatami was under fire from hardliners on Monday after comments interpreted as accusing Iran's clerical leaders of supporting insurgents in the Middle East. more By AFP


Posted 5/5/2008 @ 11:2:42 GMT Thriving, Despite Repression Press freedom: The advent of new media has given Iranians a more inclusive, accurate and penetrating picture of their society. more By Guardian


Posted 5/5/2008 @ 10:34:59 GMT Iran Suspends Talks with U.S. on Iraq TEHRAN, Iran -- Iran said Monday it would not hold a new round of talks with the United States on security in Iraq until American forces end their current assault against Shiite militias. more By The Associated Press