The US inches ever closer to attacking Iran

Wednesday, May 03, 2006

News for 05-02-06

05-02-06 - UN powers divided over Iran; US threatens sanctions The hardening stance against Iran, led by the West's push to impose sanctions, sent oil prices to a new record level. Brent North Sea crude for June delivery rose to 74.97 dollars a barrel.


05-02-06 - Iran Threatens Israel if U.S. Attacks Iran's first target would be Israel in any response to a U.S. attack, a Revolutionary Guards commander said Tuesday, reinforcing the Iranian president's past call for Israel to be "wiped off the map."


05-02-06 - Burns Sees Europe Backing Iran Sanctions A senior Russian lawmaker with close ties to the Kremlin said Moscow will reject a Security Council resolution on Iran proposed by the United States and its European allies because Russia will not agree to impose sanctions at this stage.


05-02-06 - Outed US spy was researching Iran nuclear program MSNBC television reporter David Shuster said Monday that leaking of her identity as a CIA spy to reporters damaged the US effort to follow what Washington believes are Iranian efforts to develop nuclear weapons. WHo needs intel from our CIA when the Israelis are more than happy to provide us with their own version (again)? .....


05-02-06 - Does Iran's President Want Israel Wiped Off The Map - Does He Deny The Holocaust? *


05-02-06 - Top US senator accuses FBI of spying on anti-war groups


05-02-06 - Strikes on Iran too risky, says US general


05-02-06 - Protesters Demand Better Security in Iraq About 200 Shiites, many of them women in full-length black abayas, rallied Monday outside the Green Zone to demand that U.S. and Iraqi forces do more to stop attacks on Iraqis.


05-02-06 - Israeli: World Has Means to Stop Iran Halutz told Maariv it is not clear if Iran will be able to achieve nuclear capability by the end of the decade, as Israeli officials had predicted earlier.


05-02-06 - Iran welcomes any Gulf Arab role over nuclear row


05-02-06 - Saudi Minister Says Oil Prices Too High He said Saudi Arabia is committed to working with the United States to keep oil markets stable, including plans to increase production to 12.5 million barrels a day by 2009. But he said that producing adequate supplies must involve other suppliers and conservation.


05-02-06 - Iran sanctions premature: UN ambassador Australia's new ambassador to the United Nations says talk of sanctions against Iran over its nuclear program could be premature.


05-02-06 - Comments by John McCain to Israeli news outfit Haaretz in the matter of Iran, "we would not have been so concerned" over its nuclear program had it not threatened Israel with extinction.



05-02-06 - Gulf officials discuss nuclear emergency plan Gulf Arab officials began a two-day meeting in Riyadh to discuss a nuclear-fallout emergency and contingency plan, an official from the oil-rich Gulf bloc said.


05-02-06 - 9-11 LAWSUITS SUPPRESSED In the case of at least one of these security defendants, Huntleigh, there would seem to be a conflict of interest for the judge because the airline security company who is responsible for the shocking security lapses at both the Boston and Newark airports on 9-11 is a wholly-owned subsidiary of an Israeli company (ICTS) headed by men with clear ties to Israel?s military intelligence agency, Mossad.



05-02-06 - FBI and the USA Patriot Act in the spotlight as Congress considers how to fight terror


05-02-06 - Republican chairman booed at AJCommittee event The room burst into applause, however, when AJCommittee board member Edith Everett asked Mehlman to "take a message" to President Bush to stop linking Israel and Iran. "It does not help Israel and it does not help American Jews to appear to be stimulators of any action against Iran," If the shoe fits.


05-02-06 - Americans Decry Iraq War Casualties, Cost

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