The US inches ever closer to attacking Iran

Thursday, May 11, 2006

News for 05-10-06

05-10-06 - Iran Says It Won't Exit Nuclear Treaty


05-10-06 - Rice Praises European Plan on Iran A new proposal that European diplomats will soon present to Iran makes plain the international cost of going forward with disputed nuclear development, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said Wednesday.


05-10-06 - Russia needs to be strong against 'fortress' US: Putin Russia faces a growing arms race against a "fortress" United States which cares more about its own interests than democracy or human rights, President Vladimir Putin said in his annual state of the nation speech


05-10-06 - Iran dismisses West's atomic proliferation worries Western concern over nuclear proliferation is "a big lie", Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said on Wednesday while his U.S. counterpart again called on Tehran to halt its atomic programme.


05-10-06 - IN WASHINGTON, IT FEELS LIKE EARLY 2003 ALL OVER AGAIN Columnist Arnaud de Borchgrave, who has extraordinary contacts across the Middle East and whose predictions are nearly always right, wrote last week that a high-level Israeli official told him at Israel's National Day reception that Israel would strike first, in the next "month or two or three."


05-10-06 - Letter Shows Iran's President Seeking Bond With his 18-page letter, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad delivered President Bush a history lesson, philosophy lecture and religious sermon laced with references to Jesus Christ.


05-10-06 - Russia Says New Strategies Aimed at Iran Russia's U.N. ambassador said Wednesday the confrontational approach to Iran over its nuclear program has changed to a new strategy of offering Tehran broad incentives to suspend uranium enrichment.


05-10-06 - Thousands march in Beirut to protest government reforms


05-10-06 - Iran unlikely to give nukes to militants - Israel If Iran eventually acquires nuclear weapons, it would be unlikely to share them with the Islamic militants it backs in the Middle East, a senior Israeli security official said on Wednesday.


05-10-06 - U.S. wary of new mechanism for bankrolling PA salaries This wariness was expressed yesterday by the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, John Bolton, during a meeting with visiting Israel Defense Forces officers from the National Security College in Israel. John Bolton is a NEOCON.


05-10-06 - Israeli PM to demand America move against Iran PM set to visit Washington in two weeks for summit with President Bush; Olmert to point to link between Tehran nuclear threat, Hamas terror, demand Americans move against Iran


05-10-06 - Iran letter faults US, makes no nuclear proposals


05-10-06 - Russian Businessman Wants to Set Up Jewish Lobby A Russian businessman,Viatcheslav Kantor, an agrochemical magnate who chairs the 100-member Russian Jewish Congress, was in America this week to discuss strengthening Russia?s Jewish lobby. He wants to turn wealthy Russian Jews into a major political and philanthropic force, The New York Sun reports.


05-10-06 - US gives ground on Iran, Palestinian aid


05-10-06 - U.S. calls on president of Azerbaijan to open mission in Israel The American request follows an appeal by Israel to the Bush administration, which was made to boost a similar demand by Jewish American groups Israeli lobby? What Israeli lobby?


05-10-06 - Lobbying on Iran, groups strive to play down the Jewish angle Careful to avoid giving the impression that it's primarily an issue of Jewish or Israeli concern, however, U.S. Jewish groups are taking pains to highlight the greater regional and global threats posed by a nuclear Iran and its Holocaust-denying president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad...."We have to mobilize public opinion in this country and around the word to understand the serious threat that this represents," Malcolm Hoenlein, executive vice chairman of the Conference of President of Major American Jewish Organizations, told JTA....Jewish groups have vigorously lobbied American and international leaders, and have held meetings to educate members of the media. Well, it acts like a duck, walks like a duck, talks like a duck....Oops, it looks like they forgot to tell Olmert.


05-10-06 - US, France circulate draft UN resolution on Syrian-Lebanon ties France and the United States circulated a draft UN resolution urging Syria to formally establish bilateral diplomatic ties with Lebanon and demarcate their common border


05-10-06 - NATO cites "growing threat" of missile attack Military experts reckon Iran's Shahab-3 missiles have a range of some 2,000 km (1,200 miles), meaning Israel, U.S. bases in the Gulf and foreign troops in Iraq lie within their range.


05-10-06 - Why are we baiting Putin? by Patrick J. Buchanan The effect of U.S. expansion of NATO deep into Eastern Europe, U.S. interference in the politics of the former Soviet republics, and U.S. siting of military bases in the Balkans, Eastern Europe and Central Asia has been to unite Russia and China, and undo the diplomacy of several successive U.S. presidents.


05-10-06 - Jordan 'holds 20 Hamas plotters' "Hamas was attempting to recruit elements in the Jordanian arena and trying to recruit elements from abroad to send to Syria and Iran to get military training,"


05-10-06 - Downer plays down Iran-Indonesia talks


05-10-06 - Letter From Tehran


05-10-06 - Russia against Hamas's isolation - Lavrov


05-10-06 - MEPs seek to ban Iran from World Cup European Union lawmakers will urge political leaders on Thursday to back a letter to FIFA calling for Iran to be banned from the World Cup finals because of controversial remarks by the country's president.


05-10-06 - Israel, caught again with its hand in the cookie jar

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