Saturday, December 31, 2005

U.S. MAY BE PLANNING TO STRIKE IRAN

"Recent reports in the German media suggest that the United States may be preparing its allies for an imminent military strike against facilities that are part of Iran's suspected clandestine nuclear weapons program... "western security sources" claim that during CIA Director Porter Goss' Dec. 12 visit to Ankara, he asked Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan to provide support for a possibile 2006 air strike against Iranian nuclear and military facilities... The Turkish government has also been given the "green light" to strike camps of the separatist Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) in Iran on the day... (of the strike)..."
http://service.spiegel.de/cache/international/0,1518,392783,00.html

Sunday, December 25, 2005

IRAQ AND IRAN BUILDING TIES

"... Baghdad is keen strengthening mutual ties in all areas with Tehran... The Iraqi foreign ministry is planing to dispatch a special delegation to Tehran to discuss issues outstanding between the two nations... Iran has agreed to Iraq's proposals for opening a coordination office in Tehran... The two nations have been striving to forge closer trade ties..."
http://www.irna.ir/en/news/view/line-17/0512246904234417.htm

Thursday, December 15, 2005

ISRAEL HAS PLANS TO ATTACK IRAN

"... plans to attack Iran's suspected nuclear sites... are on the table, and were dutifully leaked by the Israeli military to the London Sunday Times, one of Rupert Murdoch's papers and a staunch ally of Israel. The Israeli Army has already received orders from Sharon (special forces commandos are already on "G" readiness, maximum alert) to strike Iran in late March - after the alleged discovery of presumed secret uranium enrichment sites camouflaged into civilian structures... Sharon's spokesman Gissin... left the door open; an attack would be launched only "after all diplomatic options had been exhausted".
http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/GL16Ak03.html

Wednesday, December 14, 2005

AHMADINEJAD CALLS HOLOCAUST A MYTH TO TAKE PALESTINE

"Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad... (called) the Holocaust a ''myth'' used by Europeans to create a Jewish state in the heart of the Islamic world... Ahmadinejad last week questioned whether the Nazi destruction of 6 million European Jews during World War II occurred and said Israel should be moved to Europe... Ahmadinejad said that if Europeans insist the Holocaust happened, then they are responsible and should pay the price... 'If you committed this big crime, then why should the oppressed Palestinian nation pay the price?''
http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/international/AP-Iran-Holocaust.html?hp
IRAN BENEFITTED FROM INVASION OF IRAQ

"... One country... has benefited greatly from the US-led invasion (of Iraq). Iran, increasingly radical, now knows that the United States lacks both the military strength and the political will to attack it. And the new, democratic, predominantly Shia Iraq has become its closest ally. None of this is what... (the neocons) in Washington expected back in 2002.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/4527908.stm