U.S. ATTACK ON IRAN TO LEAD TO WIDER MIDDLE EAST WAR
"... Cheney and Rumsfeld and Bolton and Bush... are likely to attack Iran before they are out of office. Such an attack would kill up to 10,000 people and lead to a wider war in the Middle East, according to a February report by the Oxford Research Group. And it would further enflame Iraq, as the Iraqi cleric Moqtada Al-Sadr has declared that his forces would attack the Americans in the event that Bush bombs Iran..."
http://progressive.org/mag_wx031106
Sunday, March 05, 2006
INDIA NUCLEAR DEAL MAKES IT HARD TO CONTAIN IRAN
"... (Bush) signed an historic nuclear deal with India — "a Santa Claus giveaway," said the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace — with little or no regard for its impact on the effort to contain Iran... How do you now go after Iran?
Unlike India, Pakistan or Israel, it signed the non-proliferation treaty. It has not violated the treaty, which entitles it to develop nuclear energy.
What Iran is guilty of is cheating — hiding some aspects of its program — ... But its cheating has been minuscule compared to Israel's, India's and Pakistan's.
That's why the Atomic Energy Agency report... is so mild: The agency cannot give Iran a clean bill of health but it can find no proof of a nuclear weapons program.
"India is more guilty than Iran could be," says Dilip Hiro, a London-based expert on Iran. "North Korea is more guilty than Iran could be."
http://www.thestar.com/NASApp/cs/ContentServer?pagename=thestar/Layout/Article_Type1&call_pageid=971358637177&c=Article&cid=1141253415465
"... (Bush) signed an historic nuclear deal with India — "a Santa Claus giveaway," said the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace — with little or no regard for its impact on the effort to contain Iran... How do you now go after Iran?
Unlike India, Pakistan or Israel, it signed the non-proliferation treaty. It has not violated the treaty, which entitles it to develop nuclear energy.
What Iran is guilty of is cheating — hiding some aspects of its program — ... But its cheating has been minuscule compared to Israel's, India's and Pakistan's.
That's why the Atomic Energy Agency report... is so mild: The agency cannot give Iran a clean bill of health but it can find no proof of a nuclear weapons program.
"India is more guilty than Iran could be," says Dilip Hiro, a London-based expert on Iran. "North Korea is more guilty than Iran could be."
http://www.thestar.com/NASApp/cs/ContentServer?pagename=thestar/Layout/Article_Type1&call_pageid=971358637177&c=Article&cid=1141253415465
Friday, March 03, 2006
IRAN INVESTING $1 BILLION IN IRAQ
"Iran to invest $1 billion in Iraq... to rehabilitate the country’s industrial sector... A team of Iranian industrial experts is due in Iraq to map out the sectors of mutual interest, the statement said. Seven major Iranian companies will be involved. The Iranians would like to start up a new car company in Iraq as well as factories for the manufacture of electrical transformers and appliances, steel and glass...."
http://www.azzaman.com/english/index.asp?fname=news%5C2006-03-02%5C206.htm
"Iran to invest $1 billion in Iraq... to rehabilitate the country’s industrial sector... A team of Iranian industrial experts is due in Iraq to map out the sectors of mutual interest, the statement said. Seven major Iranian companies will be involved. The Iranians would like to start up a new car company in Iraq as well as factories for the manufacture of electrical transformers and appliances, steel and glass...."
http://www.azzaman.com/english/index.asp?fname=news%5C2006-03-02%5C206.htm
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