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Global View on Iran

Monday, 14 January 2008
By CLAUDE SALHANI (Editor, Middle East Times) Source: Middle East Times Since 2003 Iran has spent billions of dollars in Iraq, mobilized vast government resources and unleashed the Qods Force of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, all in an effort to spread its hegemony and the Islamic revolution, according to sources in the Iranian resistance. In a speech U.S. President George W. Bush delivered on Sunday in Abu Dhabi, the president called Iran "the world's leading state sponsor of terror." Bush said the Islamic republic "sends hundreds of millions of dollars to extremists around the world, while its own people face repression and economic hardship at home." He said Iran was seeking "to intimidate its neighbors with ballistic missiles and bellicose rhetoric."
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Iran Ups The Ante

Tuesday, 25 December 2007
Source: Investor's Business Daily Accidents happen, no doubt about it. But every so often we let them happen, only to deeply regret it later. That's called foolishness. Such is the case with western policy toward a nuclear Iran. Iran has made two major announcements in the past two days. First, it says it's just three months away from starting up its Bushehr nuclear facility, thanks to Russia's timely Christmas gift of a supply of nuclear fuel. Second, it says it wants to open up 19 more nuclear power plants, which would require enormous amounts of refined uranium to run and give Iran a plausible reason for enriching its own uranium.
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Why we must not take the pressure off Iran

Monday, 17 December 2007
By David Miliband, foreign secretary of the United Kingdom Source: The Daily Star, Lebanon There are three key elements to a nuclear weapon - the fissile material, the missile itself and the process of weaponizing the fissile material for the missile. The US National Intelligence Estimate on Iran's nuclear program published two weeks ago suggests that Iran has put work on the last of these elements on hold. If so, good. But Iran is still pursuing the other two elements, in particular an enrichment program that has no apparent civilian application, but which could produce fissile material for a nuclear weapon, despite demands to stop from the United Nations Security Council and the International Atomic Energy Agency.
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Rule of law and legacy of appeasement

Saturday, 15 December 2007
Commentary by U.S. Alliance for Democratic Iran In another blow to the policy of appeasement toward the terror-sponsoring regime of ayatollahs, the Proscribed Organisations Appeals Commission (POAC/MEK) today upheld its November 30 ruling which ordered the removal of Iran's main opposition group, the People's Mojahedin from the list of terror organizations. POAC struck down the appeal by the United Kingdom's government which is unwisely trying to preserve a despicable legacy of former British Foreign Minister Jack Straw. POAC ruling follows a similar judgment last year by the European Union's second highest court which overturned the European Union decision to put the PMOI on the EU's terror blacklist. The ruling annulled the EU's decision to freeze European assets of the group.
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Sanctions strain Iran's economy, officials say

Monday, 10 December 2007
By Con Coughlin Source: The Telegraph Iran's banks are on the brink of collapse and its manufacturing industries facing severe shortages as sanctions bite, according to assessments by Western officials. Despite recent public statements by President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad that sanctions by America and the UN "are not working", a confidential report submitted to the Iranian parliament said that continued economic isolation was having dire consequences.
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Mulling the nuclear intent of Iran's mullahs

Wednesday, 05 December 2007
Source: The Christian Science Monitor The world shouldn't rely on US spies - right or wrong - but on Iran's full compliance with the IAEA. Why did Iran stop - if it really did stop - a nuclear-bomb project four years ago, as American spy agencies now estimate? Was it the US invasion of Iraq, economic sanctions, Iranian doubts, or what? Should the answer really affect the next steps for further pressure on Iran? To simply say the urgency for tougher sanctions on Iran is now gone is to ignore that question of intent behind Iran's apparent decision. If outside pressure worked, there's still a need for it. It's very likely that United States-led actions did influence this ostensible decision by Iran's reigning Muslim clerics. The world may never know for sure, although recent high-level defectors from the regime may provide clues.
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U.S. and Iran

Wednesday, 28 November 2007
By Paul E. Vallely and Fred Gedrich Source: The Washington Times The United States recently labeled Iran's Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) a terror group. Many Americans worry that it's not enough. They should, because the IRGC and the Iranian regime have been engaged in a one-sided "Death to America" campaign for 28 years. Ayatollah Khomeini created the IRGC in 1979 primarily to safeguard the ideals of his Shi'ite Islamic Revolution, protect his regime from domestic and foreign opponents and export his brutal brand of Islamic fundamentalism, influence and terrorism to neighboring states.
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The War in Iran

Saturday, 24 November 2007

By Nooredin Abedian
November 23, 2007- The world does not have to go to war with Iran. Indeed, it should take sides in a war which is already going on in that country.

The United States recently blacklisted Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps, IRGC, and its extraterritorial branch, the Quds force, as agencies engaged in terrorism and weapons proliferation. According to Condoleezza Rice, many of the Iranian regime's most destabilizing policies in the region are carried out by the two.