The US inches ever closer to attacking Iran

Sunday, April 23, 2006

News for 04-22-06

04-22-06 - US soldier suicides climb in 2005: army The US Army said 83 soldiers committed suicide last year, more than a quarter of them while deployed in Iraq or Afghanistan.


04-22-06 - Iran plays down Russian nuclear 'deal' the senior Iranian diplomat, Ali-Asghar Soltanieh, has played down a radio report that Tehran and Moscow have a "basic agreement" to enrich uranium in Russia.


04-22-06 - Iran eases oil supply fears "We strongly believe there is no reason for sanctions but in any case we will not cut our oil exports," the minister told Reuters on the sidelines of an energy forum in Doha.


04-22-06 - Russia Warns on Aggravating Iran Standoff A top Kremlin diplomat warned against threatening Iran with sanctions or the use of force, saying that would only aggravate the international standoff over Tehran's suspect nuclear program, Russian media reports said Saturday.


04-22-06 - Iran-India gas link deal close despite US ire Iran, India and Pakistan are close to signing a gas pipeline deal, the Iranian and Pakistani oil ministers told Reuters on Saturday, defying U.S. opposition to the project.


04-22-06 - China's Hu cements new alliance with Saudi trip Saudi Arabia has powerful security ties with the United States, and it has insisted that its growing ties with Beijing are no threat to Washington.


04-22-06 - NBC: CIA officer fired after admitting leak


04-22-06 - Impeachment From Below: Legislators Lobby Congress The Office of the Vice President is evidently the root of the problem.


04-22-06 - Anti-Iranian Hysteria Much of the administration's anti-Iranian jihad has been orchestrated, like the attack on Iraq, by Vice President Dick Cheney, who increasingly emerges as the Rasputin of the Bush presidency. Cheney is very close to Israel's political far right. He is carrying out former Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's command to the US that once it invaded Iraq, 'march immediately on Tehran.' Indeed, Cheney is.


04-22-06 - OPEC says oil supplies not the problem Shihab-Eldin said uncertainties over future demand were complicating investment decisions and "increasing the risks associated with both under- and over- investment." He said the need for "appropriate investment" extended to the entire supply-chain.


04-22-06 - Many Fear Russia Slipping Into Secrecy "The government views the media as a tool to deliver information about its decisions, like it was in the Soviet times," said political commentator Alexander Golts. "It only gives the information it wants to give." You mean, like here?


04-22-06 - America must take action against Iran: Israeli official Do you think that the United States has really reached a point where it is ready to operate militarily in Iran? "Public opinion is ready and Congress supports it. I assume that the administration does, too."


04-22-06 - Lebanon Challenges Syria on Relations Lebanon's prime minister challenged Syria on Friday to show it accepts true independence in its smaller neighbor by establishing diplomatic relations and marking the two countries' disputed border.


04-22-06 - Lebanon's groundbreaking tribunal


04-22-06 - Anthrax inventory doesn't add up at lab Two vials with the bacteria may be missing. State health officials said it's most likely that clerical error is to blame


04-22-06 - FBI is accused of 'trickery' in spy case Using the signed form, the FBI agents then approached Mark Feldstein, director of the journalism program at George Washington University, for help in accessing the documents, saying they had the family's permission to see them. He balked.


04-22-06 - Spokesman Denies Rice Leaked Defense Info

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