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How to prevent war with Iran

Sat, 28 Jan 2012 00:00:00 -0800

thebulletin.org - By Joshua Pollock - Jan. 28 (Special Report) - As Israel attempts to disrupt Iran's nuclear ambitions and the United States enforces sanctions against the state, Iran calls for revenge. What needs to be done to avert war? Steps Israel, the United States, and Iran should -- and should not --take.

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Blaming U.S. and Israel, Iran Reports Killing of Nuclear Scientist

Wed, 11 Jan 2012 00:00:00 -0800

New York Times - By Alan Cowell, Rick Gladstone - Jan. 11 (News Report) - A bomber on a motorcycle killed a scientist from Iran’s Natanz uranium enrichment site and his bodyguard-driver on Wednesday during the morning commute in Tehran, Iranian media reported, in an assassination that could further elevate international tensions over the Iranian nuclear program and stoke the country’s growing anti-Western belligerence.

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Iran sentences American man to death in CIA case

Mon, 09 Jan 2012 00:00:00 -0800

Los Angeles Times - By Associated Press Staff - Jan. 09 (News Report) - An Iranian court has convicted a former U.S. Marine, Amir Mirzaei Hekmati, of working for the CIA and sentenced him to death, state radio reported Monday.

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What's Happening in the Persian Gulf Explained

Tue, 03 Jan 2012 00:00:00 -0800

Mother Jones - By Adam Weinstein, Hamed Aleaziz - Jan. 03 (Special Report) - The basics: Iran and the United States appear to be heading for a showdown in the Persian Gulf. Amid already-high tensions over Iran's advancing nuclear program, the US has imposed harsh new economic sanctions on the regime in Tehran and begun to move se

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Prepping Americans for an Iran War

Sat, 03 Dec 2011 00:00:00 -0800

Consortium News - By William Blum - Dec. 03 (Opinion) - There’s no letup, is there? The preparation of the American mind, the world mind, for the next gala performance of D&D — Death and Destruction. The Bunker Buster bombs are now 30,000 pounds each one, six times as heavy as the previous delightful model.. But the Masters of War still want to be loved; they need for you to believe them when they say they have no choice, that Iran is the latest threat to life as we know it, no time to waste.

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Seymour Hersh: Propaganda Used Ahead of Iraq War Is Now Being Reused Over Iran’s Nuke Program

Mon, 21 Nov 2011 00:00:00 -0800

Democracy Now - By Seymour Hirsh, Amy Goodman - Nov. 21 (Investigative Report) - In his latest article for The New Yorker blog, titled "Iran and the IAEA," Hersh argues the recent report is a "political document," not a scientific study. "They [JSOC] found nothing. Nothing. No evidence of any weaponization," Hersh says. "In other words, no evidence of a facility to build the bomb. They have facilities to enrich, but not separate facilities to build the bomb. This is simply a fact."

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Russian scientist Vyacheslav Danilenko’s aid to Iran offers peek at nuclear program - The Washington Post

Mon, 14 Nov 2011 00:00:00 -0800

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Panetta Says Iranian Arms in Iraq Are a ‘Concern’

Sun, 10 Jul 2011 00:00:00 -0700

New York Times - By Elisabeth Bumiller - Jul. 10 (News Report) - Defense Secretary Leon E. Panetta said on Sunday that weapons he said were supplied by Iran had become a “tremendous concern” for the United States in recent weeks in Iraq, where more American troops died in June than in any month over the three previous years.

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Iran nuclear plans: Bushehr fuel to be unloaded

Sat, 26 Feb 2011 00:00:00 -0800

BBC News - Feb. 26 (News Report) - Iran confirms it is having to remove nuclear fuel from the Bushehr reactor, in what is seen as a setback for its nuclear ambitions. On Friday, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) said it had new information on "possible military dimensions" to Iran's nuclear plans, which Iran says are purely peaceful. The IAEA will supervise the unloading of fuel from Bushehr, Iran's nuclear envoy Ali Asghar Soltanieh said. Iran began the Bushehr project in 1976. Iran's Fars news agency says the fuel is being removed for "technical reasons". The fuel at Bushehr is being provided by Russia, which built the plant and whose engineers will carry out the unloading, under the supervision of the IAEA.

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Excite News - AP Exclusive: Iran hunts for uranium

Thu, 24 Feb 2011 00:00:00 -0800

Associated Press - By George Jahn - Feb. 24 (Investigative Report) - Iran is expanding its covert global search for the uranium it needs for its nuclear activities and a key focus is Zimbabwe, says a new intelligence report acquired by The Associated Press.

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Six-power talks with Iran end without agreement

Sat, 22 Jan 2011 00:00:00 -0800

Washington Post - By Joby Warrick - Jan. 22 (News) - Talks on Iran's nuclear program ended in failure on Saturday after negotiators from the Islamic republic insisted on a halt to economic sanctions before entering serious discussions about its nuclear ambitions.

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Israel Tests on Worm Called Crucial in Iran Nuclear Delay

Sat, 15 Jan 2011 00:00:00 -0800

New York Times - By William J. Broad, John Markoff, David E. Sanger - Jan. 15 (News Report) - Over the past two years, according to intelligence and military experts familiar with its operations, Dimona has taken on a new, equally secret role — as a critical testing ground in a joint American and Israeli effort to undermine Iran’s efforts to make a bomb of its own.

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International envoys tour key Iranian nuclear site

Sat, 15 Jan 2011 00:00:00 -0800

Associated Press - By Ali Akbar Dareini - Jan. 15 (News Report) - Several international envoys - but crucially none from the world powers - got a look inside an Iranian nuclear site Saturday as part of a tour the Islamic Republic hopes will build support before a new round of talks on its disputed atomic activities. Iran is trying to sell the tour as a gesture of transparency ahead of the Jan. 20-22 talks in Istanbul, Turkey. In a blow to the effort, however, major powers Russia, China and the European Union refused the Iranian invitation. The EU said it should be up to inspectors from the U.N.'s International Atomic Energy Agency to verify whether Iran's program is entirely peaceful. Iran's offer pointedly did not include the United States, one of its biggest critics internationally, nor three other Western nations that have been critical of the Iranian program - Britain, France and Germany - and many saw the tour as an attempt to divide the nations conducting the nuclear talks.

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Clinton Tries to Keep Gulf From Easing Iran Sanctions

Mon, 10 Jan 2011 00:00:00 -0800

New York Times - By Mark Landler - Jan. 10 (News Report) - The secretary of state is urging Iran’s neighbors to keep up pressure despite reports that the country’s progress toward a nuclear bomb has been delayed.

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Thank God It's Over: The Top 25 Moments of 2010

Tue, 28 Dec 2010 00:00:00 -0800

Foreign Policy - Dec. 28 (Editorial) - With earthquakes in Haiti and western China, floods in Pakistan, a volcanic eruption in Iceland, and wildfires in Russia, the Earth was intent on releasing a lot of pent-up anger in 2010. Tremors and eruptions -- along with the more basic elements of fire and water -- seemed to shape the past year's events even more than traditional foreign policy actors. Meanwhile, Europe struggled to regain its economic footing, China continued to rapidly grow its GDP, Middle East peace talks crumbled, and world leaders misbehaved (we're looking at you, Vladmir Putin and Silvio Berlusconi). But there were bright spots, too: A group of Chilean miners escaped after enduring two months trapped underground and long-suffering Burmese democratic activist Aung San Suu Kyi was released after spending nearly two decades in detention and under house arrest. Here are a few glimpses of 2010's international high- and lowlights.

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Stuxnet apparently as effective as a military strike

Thu, 16 Dec 2010 00:00:00 -0800

Ars Technica - By Peter Bright - Dec. 16 (News Analysis) - Damage from the Stuxnet virus has apparently set back the Iranian nuclear program by as much as two years, according to a German security expert talking to the Jerusalem Post. This makes the virus as effective as a military strikebut without loss of life or risk of full-blown war. This comes amid claims that the virus is continuing to infect Iranian systems and disrupt the Iranian nuclear effort, and the news from IAEA last month that Iran had suspended work at its nuclear production facilities, likely as a result of the virus.

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Iranian Leader Suddenly Fires Top Diplomat

Tue, 14 Dec 2010 00:00:00 -0800

New York Times - By William Yong - Dec. 14 (News Report) - President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad fired Iran’s foreign minister on Monday, a move that caught many here by surprise and appeared to reflect a strengthening of the president’s power.

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Iran says it's now fully self-sufficient at producing uranium

Sun, 05 Dec 2010 00:00:00 -0800

Los Angeles Times - By Ramin Mostaghim - Dec. 05 (News) - An Iranian official announces that the country, suspected by the West and others of plans to build nuclear weapons, has produced yellow-cake uranium. The announcement may be meant to bolster Tehran's bargaining position at talks starting Monday in Geneva.

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Iran Says Two Bombs Target Professors

Mon, 29 Nov 2010 00:00:00 -0800

Associated Press - Nov. 29 (News) - Assailants on motorcycles attached magnetized bombs to the cars of two nuclear scientists as they were driving to work in Tehran on Monday, killing one and wounding the other, Iranian officials said. The president accused Israel and the West of being behind the attacks.

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Stuxnet -- A new weapon for cyber insurgents?

Sun, 28 Nov 2010 00:00:00 -0800

Reuters - By William Maclean - Nov. 28 (News Analysis) - The revelation this year of a novel way to use computers to sabotage an enemy's lifeline infrastructure suggests a powerful new kind of weapon is moving within reach of weak states, militant groups and criminals, some analysts say.

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Mystery Surrounds Cyber Missile That Crippled Iran's Nuclear Weapons Ambitions

Fri, 26 Nov 2010 00:00:00 -0800

Fox News - By Ed Barnes - Nov. 26 (News Report) - Intelligence agencies, computer security companies and the nuclear industry have been trying to analyze the worm since it was discovered in June by a Belarus-based company that was doing business in Iran. And what they've all found, says Sean McGurk, the Homeland Security Department's acting director of national cyber security and communications integration, is a “game changer.”

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Worm Was Perfect for Sabotaging Centrifuges

Fri, 19 Nov 2010 00:00:00 -0800

New York Times - By William J. Broad, David E. Sanger - Nov. 19 (News Report) - Experts dissecting the computer worm suspected of being aimed at Iran’s nuclear program have determined that it was precisely calibrated in a way that could send nuclear centrifuges wildly out of control.

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Exclusive Report: Evidence of Iran Nuclear Weapons Program May Be Fraudulent

Thu, 18 Nov 2010 00:00:00 -0800

truth-out.org - By Gareth Porter - Nov. 18 (Investigative Report) - telltale indicators of fraud bring into question the central pillar of the case against Iran and raise more fundamental questions about the handling of the Iranian nuclear issue by the IAEA, the United States and its key European allies. Drawings of the Wrong Missile Warhead

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Iran starts "biggest" air defense war games

Tue, 16 Nov 2010 00:00:00 -0800

Reuters - By Tim Pearce - Nov. 16 (News) - Iran began what it said was its biggest ever air defense drill on Tuesday to test its ability to deter air strikes. The website of Iran's English-language Press TV said the five-day war games were being held near nuclear facilities and included tests of long-range missiles.

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Is Israel a rogue state?

Thu, 11 Nov 2010 00:00:00 -0800

Power Line - By Scott Johnson - Nov. 11 (Opinion) - The Cambridge Union recently debated the proposition: "The House believes that Israel is a rogue state." Nineteen-year-old Gabriel Latner is a Cambridge University law student who joined the team arguing the affirmative of the proposition. Israpundit reports that Latner seized the opportunity to take on others on his side including Lauren Booth (the Islamic convert and sister of Cherie Blair) to argue in favor of Israel. Latner won the debate for the opposing side. He received a standing ovation from the majority of the room. Irish newspaper columnist Kevin Myers calls Latner's speech "the most brilliantly audacious defence of Israel since Moses parted the Red Sea."

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