The US inches ever closer to attacking Iran

Monday, May 01, 2006

News for 04-30-06

04-30-06 - Turkey won't allow US to use its bases Turkey does not intend to allow the United States to launch an attack against Iran from the Inchirlik military base, Turkish news agencies reported Sunday. By JPOST STAFF AND AP



04-30-06 - CORRECTED-Iran strikes defiant stance before UN vote Iran renewed its defiant stance on Sunday, vowing to ignore a likely U.N. Security Council resolution against its atomic programme and to strike back if it came under military attack.


04-30-06 - Iran: Oil Prices a Barrier to Sanctions The Iranian deputy oil minister said Sunday he did not believe the United Nations would impose sanctions against Iran because such a move would increase oil prices. That hasn't stopped the neocons to date.


04-30-06 - U.S. rejects Iran inspection offer


04-30-06 - Powell Says He Urged More Troops for Iraq Former Secretary of State Colin Powell advised President Bush before the Iraq war to send more troops to the country, but the administration did not follow his recommendation, Powell said in an interview broadcast Sunday.


04-30-06 - US rhetoric on Iran resembles pre-Iraq war rumblings And coincidentally, according to one Israeli government official : "Public opinion is ready and Congress supports it. I assume that the administration does, too." Also note Condi's mention of the 'right of self-defense' with regard to the possible use of military force against Iran, when Iran does not have the capability of hitting American soil, nor has it threatened to in the absence of any threats we've made. Condi, like Bush, may be confused as to which country she was elected to represent.


04-30-06 - Iran 'playing games' in nuclear dispute: Rice Rice said the United States would pursue its drive for a Security Council resolution against Iran under chapter seven of the UN charter, which would clear the way for possible sanctions or even military force.


04-30-06 - Security Council resolution on Iran 'dangerous': Chinese ambassador "If you introduce a resolution not to reinforce the IAEA but to replace it, that is dangerous," Wang told reporters following a talk at the University of Chicago.


04-30-06 - Hizbollah sees Bush as top terrorist Lebanon's Foreign Minister Fawzi Salloukh said on Sunday: "Hizbollah is an honorable liberation movement that has ... the biggest role and credit in liberating Lebanese lands occupied by Israel in 1978."


04-30-06 - ANALYSIS - Iran, Russia challenge recovering U.S.-Europe ties Few European speakers agreed with Republican Senator John McCain's statement that: "The one thing worse than military action would be a nuclear-armed Iran."


04-30-06 - Rice says US could pressure Iran outside UN


04-30-06 - US seeks to dismiss AT&T secrets suit The class-action suit by the group, the Electronic Frontier Foundation, on behalf of AT&T customers accuses the company of unlawful collaboration with the National Security Agency in its surveillance program to intercept telephone and e-mail communications between the United States and people linked to al Qaeda and affiliated organizations.


04-30-06 - Sanctions not to hurt Iranian oil industry, gas pipeline to Pakistan A proposed gas pipeline from Iran to Pakistan and India will not be affected if the United Nations imposes sanctions on Tehran over its controversial nuclear programme, an Iranian minister has said.


04-30-06 - Bush turned down chances to kill Zarqawi: ex-CIA spy A former top CIA spy says the United States deliberately turned down several opportunities to kill terrorist Abu Musab al-Zarqawi in the lead-up to the Iraq war.


04-30-06 - Subterfuge over Iran's centrifuges


04-30-06 - Iranian forces enter Iraq, shell Kurdish guerrillas


04-30-06 - East meets West in 'Tehrangeles'


04-30-06 - A Syrian monastery lies at the nexus of Islam, Christianity "For Muslims, a Christian monastery is a holy place. And Muslims know that monasteries like this were protected by the prophet Muhammad himself."


04-30-06 - Congress may consider mandatory ISP snooping


04-30-06 - The Untold Story of Israel's Bomb The Kennedy and Johnson administrations fashioned a complex scheme of annual visits to Dimona to ensure that Israel would not develop nuclear weapons. But the Israelis were adept at concealing their activities. By late 1966, Israel had reached the nuclear threshold, although it decided not to conduct an atomic test.

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