US plays down strike on Iran Anne Davies - The Age - July 11, 2008 Senior US officials have moved to
hose down speculation that Iran's latest missile tests would prompt
US or Israeli air strikes. Full
Article
Iran isolation grows as France's
Total cancels $10bn South Pars gas field project By Charles Bremner - The Times
- July 11, 2008 Tehran faced deeper isolation yesterday after
a major Western energy company withdrew from a giant Iranian gas
field project and international threats to attack the country’s
nuclear facilities grew. Full
Article
EU chief to meet Iran over nuclear
stand-off CNN - July 11,
2008
Iran's top nuclear negotiator will meet with EU foreign policy chief
Javier Solana soon to discuss a package of incentives aimed at persuading
Iran to stop nuclear enrichment, Solana's office says. Full
Article
Crude soars to new record on Iran,
Nigeria worries By
Polya Lesova & Moming Zhou - MarketWatch - July 11, 2008 Crude-oil futures Friday soared more
than $5 to a new all-time high above $147 a barrel, rallying on
speculation that Israel may be nearer to launching an attack on
Iran and on worries that supplies in Nigeria and Brazil may be disrupted. Full
Article
Growth in US exports to Iran surprises
lawmakers By Sharon Theimer - AP
- July 10, 2008 Key lawmakers, including Democratic
presidential candidate Barack Obama, criticized the Bush administration
Wednesday for increased exports to Iran despite tough talk about
its nuclear ambitions and meddling in Iraq. Full Article
Iran's Revolutionary Guards Hold War Games:
Media Reuters - July 7, 2008 Iran's elite Revolutionary
Guards began military maneuvers on Monday, news agencies said, the
same day the U.S. Navy said it was carrying out an exercise in the
Gulf. Full Article
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Iran must be
included in peace talks TRITA PARSI, National Iranian American
Council - December 12, 2007 In light of the National
Intelligence Estimate on Iran released last
week, the Bush administration's choice to exclude Iran from the
Annapolis meeting in late November looks all the more foolhardy. Full
Article
NEOCONS React to the NIE
on Iran Philip Giraldi, Blogger Huffington
Post December 10, 2007 Full
Article
Initiate diplomatic
surge with Iran Peter Wilk, M.D. Physicians for
Social Responsibility - December 11, 2007 Many have followed with alarm the
release of the National
Intelligence Estimate revealing that the administration knew (at
least by this past August, if not earlier) that Iran does not have
a
nuclear-weapons program. Full
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Had Ahmadinejad not been elected,
Iran’s nuclear trajectory would not have been all that different.
The desire to deter the United States and project power in the Middle
East has pressed successive Iranian regimes towards the nuclear
option. ... And while Washington bitterly complains of Iran’s
mischief and intervention in Iraqi politics, blame for Iran’s
influence in Iraq rests not with Ahmadinejad but with an ill-advised
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