The US inches ever closer to attacking Iran

Monday, April 17, 2006

News for 04-16-06

04-16-06 - Former officials warn against US attack on Iran A U.S. conflict with Iran could be even more damaging to America's interests than the war with Iraq, former White House counterterrorism chief Richard Clarke wrote in Sunday's New York Times.


04-16-06 - Iranian suicide squads ready to hit US, British targets: report Iran has formed battalions of suicide bombers to hit American and British targets if its nuclear installations are attacked, The Sunday Times newspaper said


04-16-06 - Iran expanding, reinforcing atomic sites: experts The Institute for Science and International Security said in an email sent to news media with attached commercial satellite photos that Iran has built a new tunnel entrance at Isfahan, where uranium is processed into a feed material for enrichment.


04-16-06 - Iran says US in no position to attack Iran appears convinced it can deter or even win a military confrontation with the United States, with the Islamic regime buoyed by high oil prices, support from militants across the region and American woes in Iraq.


04-16-06 - US analysts detail war plans against Iran preparations under TIRANNT began in earnest in May 2003 and never stopped, he said. The plan has since been updated using information collected in Iraq.


04-16-06 - Chinese official hold nuclear talks with Iran Uranium enrichment can be extended to make weapons, and the UN Security Council -- on which China has a permanent seat -- has given Iran's hardline leadership until April 28 to freeze the sensitive fuel cycle work.


04-16-06 - Iran warns against US attack In Washington, Richard Lugar, a leading Republican senator, said the United States should hold direct talks with Iran on its nuclear program and go slow on sanctions. "We need to make more headway diplomatically" before moving toward sanctions, Lugar said on the ABC television program "This Week."


04-16-06 - PM 'refuses' to back Iran strikes


04-16-06 - Iran confirms it will fund Hamas government


04-16-06 - Israel moots freeing Barghouthi for US spy: radio Israel would hope to convince the Bush administration that freeing Barghouthi, a senior figure in the once-dominant and pragmatic Fatah movement, would weaken the new Palestinian government under Islamist group Hamas, Army Radio said.


04-16-06 - Pope calls for nuclear diplomacy Pope Benedict, in his first Easter message, called on Sunday for an "honorable solution" to the nuclear standoff with Iran, a truly independent Palestinian state, and global cooperation to combat terrorism.


04-16-06 - US nuclear talks with Iran urged Senators in the US have said the Bush administration should hold direct talks with Iran on its nuclear programme.


04-16-06 - Russia, US slipping into familiar 'chill'? An intensifying shouting match between the US and Russia has stirred fears that the two former adversaries could be drifting back to a familiar ideologically charged rivalry.


04-16-06 - Israel must quit Shebaa before Hezbollah disarms: Siniora "I will explain to President Bush the necessity of Israel withdrawing from the Shebaa Farms and ending its violations of Lebanese land, sea and air space," he told journalists a day before he heads to Washington.


04-16-06 - Pollard-Barghouti swap in the works? American and Israeli officials denied reports that Israel plans to offer to free a jailed Palestinian militiaman if the United States grants clemency to Jonathan Pollard.


04-16-06 - Moussaoui assails U.S. support of Israel Zacarias Moussaoui said U.S. support for Israel is one of the main reasons he hates the United States.


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