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W A M M Online Resource Focus: IRAN
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Lebanon Bleeds, Iraq Burns, People Flee
by Dahr Jamail, t r u t h o u t | Perspective
Posted July 25, 2006
"Habibi, to live in Baghdad now is to live in a big prison," he told me recently, "You stay in your home, and that's it. You only go out when you must. So many are being killed daily, and you only hope that your day to die is not today."...
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The Neocons Are Talking War—Again
Tom Barry, IRC
June 8, 2006
The neocons are largely united over Iran policy, which they say should have three pillars: avoid diplomacy, which they call appeasing the “evildoers;” destabilize Iran and set the stage for regime change by supporting the “true democrats;” and bomb Iran before it poses an imminent threat to Israel or the United States.
The neocons and their allies in the Pentagon and vice president's office set the Bush administration's policy on Iraq...
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Iran offered 'to make peace with Israel'
Gareth Porter, ASIA Times
Published May 26, 2006
Washington - Iran offered in 2003 to accept peace with Israel and cut off material assistance to Palestinian armed groups and to pressure them to halt terrorist attacks within Israel's 1967 borders, according to a secret Iranian proposal to the United States.
The two-page proposal for a broad Iran-US agreement covering all the issues separating the two countries, a copy of which was obtained by Inter Press Service (IPS), was conveyed to the US in late April or early May 2003...
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The Arms Trade Resource Center on IRAN
Resource added June 9
The Arms Trade Resource Center was established in 1993 to engage in public education and policy advocacy aimed at promoting restraint in the international arms trade...
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What About Iran?
Mary Beaudoin, W A M M
Posted April 21, 2006
(rev 5.24)
What would happen if the U.S. attacked Iran? According to the Union of Concerned Scientists, if the United States used the nuclear bunker buster on Iran's nuclear facilities, it would result in the death of three million people, nuclear material would drift over Pakistan and India and more cancer would plague the world...
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Iran: The Day After Commentary: What Iran really wants is serious negotiations with the U.S. So why are we gearing up for a preventive military strike?
Phyllis Bennis, Fellow of the Institute for Policy Studies
April 19, 2006
Given the history of lies and deceit that underpinned the Bush administration's invasion and occupation of Iraq, we have no excuse for buying their lies once again.
The airwaves and the headlines are full of talk of a U.S. military strike against Iran. That is as it should be - the danger of such a reckless move is real, and rising, and we should be talking about it. The Bush administration claims that negotiations are their first choice. But they have gone to war based on lies before, and there is no reason to believe that they are telling the truth this time...
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Would President Bush go to war to stop Tehran from getting the bomb?
Seymour Hersh
The New Yorker
Published April 17, 2006
The Bush Administration, while publicly advocating diplomacy in order to stop Iran from pursuing a nuclear weapon, has increased clandestine activities inside Iran and intensified planning for a possible major air attack. Current and former American military and intelligence officials said that Air Force planning groups are drawing up lists of targets, and teams of American combat troops have been ordered into Iran, under cover, to collect targeting data and to establish contact with anti-government ethnic-minority groups. The officials say that President Bush is determined to deny the Iranian regime the opportunity to begin a pilot program, planned for this spring, to enrich uranium...
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Iran Can Now Make glowing Mickey Mouse Watches
April 12, 2006
Despite all the sloppy and inaccurate headlines about Iran "going nuclear," the fact is that all President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said on Tuesday was that it had enriched uranium to a measely 3.5 percent, using a bank of 180 centrifuges hooked up so that they "cascade."...
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We Do Not Have a Nuclear Weapons Program
Javad Zarif, Iranian Ambassador to the United Nations
Published April 6, 2006
The controversy over Iran's peaceful nuclear program has obscured one point in particular: There need not be a crisis. A solution to the situation is possible and eminently within reach.
Lost amid the rhetoric is this: Iran has a strong interest in enhancing the integrity and authority of the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty. It has been in the forefront of efforts to ensure the treaty's universality. Iran's reliance on the nonproliferation regime is based on legal commitments, sober strategic calculations and spiritual and ideological doctrine. Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, the leader of the Islamic Republic, has issued a decree against the development, production, stockpiling and use of nuclear weapons...
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New War Dangers: Iran, the U.S. and Nukes in the Middle Easts
By Phyllis Bennis
Institute for Policy Studies
March 15, 2006
Escalating rhetoric, continued losses in Iraq, Bush's political problems, and an ideologically-driven pursuit of power make the possibility of a U.S. military attack on Iran - however reckless and however dangerous its consequences - a frighteningly real possibility...
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Iran and the Security Council: Points and Recommendations
Lawyers' Committee on Nuclear Policy
February 28, 20066
On 4 February 2006 the IAEA Board of Governors adopted a resolution on Iran requesting the Director-General "to report to the Security Council all IAEA reports and resolutions, as adopted, relating to this issue."...
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Peace Action Official Statement on Iran: Renewing the Call for a Nuclear-Free Middle East
January 24, 2006
Today we are renewing the call for a Nuclear Weapons-Free Zone in the Middle East. Re-opening negotiations toward achieving that goal is the best way-perhaps the only way-to halt without violence the prospect of a nuclear arms race in that deeply troubled part of the world. Additionally, achieving a Nuclear Free Zone in the Middle East would bring the world one step closer to eliminating both the problem of nuclear proliferation and the threat of nuclear war and could serve as a model solution for resolving similar tensions in other regions of the world...
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India should choose Iran, not US
December 28, 2005
Dr Arjun Makhijani, president of the Institute for Energy and Environmental Research and one of the leading technical nuclear experts in the United States, believes that even if India gets everything it wants under the US-India civilian nuclear agreement signed by President George W Bush and Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on July 18, it would still be only a tiny fraction of the oil and gas it could obtain from Iran to meet India's growing energy needs.
It is not, Dr Makhijani argues, therefore worth jeopardizing India's relationship with Iran by voting with the United States against Tehran at the International Atomic Energy Agency...
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Ignoring the U.S.'s "Bad Atoms"
By Steve Rendall
July 2005
The U.S. is violating the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT). That view, far from exotic or extreme, was expressed repeatedly by arms control experts and international officials at the month-long NPT review conference held at the U.N. in May. It is embraced by U.S. establishment figures such as former President Jimmy Carter and Kennedy-era Defense Secretary Robert McNamara...
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Iran defiant over nuclear programme
by David Crouch
The Guardian
Friday February 11, 2005
Iran's former president said today that the country will develop nuclear energy despite US hostility, and he warned the US against a military "adventure" in Iran.
"The Persian Gulf is not a region where they can have fireworks and Iran is not a country where they can come for an adventure," Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani told worshippers at Friday prayers.
"It is not acceptable that developed countries generate 70% or 80% of their electricity from nuclear energy and tell Iran, a great and powerful nation, that it cannot have nuclear electricity. Iran does not accept this," he said...
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Rice kicks off tour with warning to Iran
by Ewen MacAskill and Britain Whitaker
The Guardian
Saturday February 5, 2005
Condoleezza Rice delivered an uncompromising warning yesterday to what she described as "the loathed" Iranian government at the start of her first foreign visit as new US secretary of state.
Stopping off in Britain on the first leg of a tour of Europe and the Middle East, she said a military strike against Iran was not on the agenda "at this point in time" and there was still time for diplomacy to work. But she signalled there could be a dangerous showdown ahead if Iran pushed ahead with the development of a nuclear weapon.
She refused to rule out a pre-emptive military strike...
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Is Iran Next?
The US, Iran and Nuclear Proliferation
The Transnational Foundation for Peace and Future Research
A series of guides, directories and articles with many and quite different aspects.
TFF produces Feature Collections on topical issues to to help anyone inform themselves and search for more information.
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