Jul 7, 2009 11 Comments ›› Pat Dollard
Related: Biden - US Gives Green Light For Israel To Attack Iran Jerusalem Post: US President Barack Obama on Tuesday strongly denied that the United States had given Israel an approval to strike Iran's nuclear facilities. Asked by CNN whether Washington had given Israel a green light for such an attack, Obama answered: "Absolutely not." In the interview, which ...
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Jerusalem Post: "If the threat from Iran's nuclear and ballistic missile program is eliminated, the driving force for missile defense in Europe will be eliminated," US President Barack Obama said Tuesday. The US president was speaking to students at the National Economic School (NES) in Moscow, on the second day of a visit to the formerly soviet ...
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WASHINGTON -- Vice President Joe Biden seemed to give Israel a green light for military action to eliminate Iran's nuclear threat, saying the U.S. "cannot dictate to another sovereign nation what they can and cannot do." Israel considers Iran its most dangerous adversary and is wary of hard-line Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, who just won a ...
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I told you all almost two months ago that my intelligence sources assured me that the old Sunni states like Egypt and Saudi Arabia were going to do absolutely whatever it took to keep Shiite Iran from getting the bomb. You'll notice that just a few days ago, as reported here, Egypt began cooperating ...
Continue ReadingJul 4, 2009 3 Comments ›› Pat Dollard
TEHRAN, Iran (CNN) -- Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said he wants to engage President Obama in "negotiations" before international media, a semi-official Iranian news outlet reported on Saturday. Speaking at a meeting of medical school deans, Ahmadinejad said Iran "will soon pursue a new round of diplomatic activity" amid a new position of strength for the ...
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A supporter of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad takes part in a recent protest outside the British Embassy in Tehran Times Online: Iranian employees of the British Embassy in Tehran face the prospect of a show trial after the regime said that they had admitted conspiring against the Islamic Republic. The announcement, made by Ayatollah Ahmad Jannati, 83, the head of ...
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Haaretz: Michael Oren, Israel's ambassador to the United States, on Friday warned that an Iranian atomic bomb could "wipe Israel off the map in a matter of seconds," and that the Iranians could "accomplish in a matter of seconds what they denied Hitler did, and kill 6 million Jews, literally." Oren made his comments in a ...
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TEHRAN, Iran — A top aide of Iran's supreme leader called the country's main opposition figure a U.S. agent and accused him of committing crimes against the nation in an editorial Saturday. The editorial represents the first time that Mir Hossein Mousavi, who ran for president in Iran's June 12 elections, has been publicly called ...
Continue ReadingJul 3, 2009 2 Comments ›› Erik Wong
Haaretz: The incoming head of the United Nation's nuclear watchdog said on Friday he did not see any hard evidence that Iran was trying to gain the ability to develop nuclear weapons. "I don't see any evidence in IAEA official documents about this," Japan's Yukiya Amano told Reuters in his first direct comment on Iran's nuclear program ...
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Sky News: Some local British Embassy staff in Tehran will go on trial accused of playing a role in post-election violence, says the head of Iran's powerful Guardians Council. Ayatollah Ahmad Jannati, who is close to Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, made the announcement during a prayer sermon. He said the detained embassy staff had "made confessions". "In ...
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"...a message to (Shiite) Iran and a demonstration of strengthening ties between (Sunni) Egypt and Israel." Jerusalem Post: After a long hiatus, the Israeli Navy has returned to sailing through the Suez Canal, recently sending one of its advanced Dolphin-class submarines through the waterway to participate in naval maneuvers off the Eilat coast in the Red ...
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Times Online: British calls for a mass walkout of European Union ambassadors from Tehran were shot down by more cautious nations led by Germany and Italy yesterday as the carefully constructed European consensus on responding to Iran came under intense strain. Britain, backed by the outgoing Czech presidency of the EU, had pushed for the dramatic step ...
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EDITOR'S NOTE: Iranian authorities have barred journalists for international news organizations from reporting on the streets and ordered them to stay in their offices. This report is based on the accounts of witnesses reached in Iran and official statements carried on Iranian media. Iran on Thursday announced more arrests in the post-election turmoil, detaining seven alleged ...
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National Review Online: Last month, hundreds of thousands of Iranians took to the streets to protest a rigged presidential election. Our president was extremely cautious in his initial criticism of the Iranian government’s fierce crackdown against the protestors. At first, President Obama said that the United States — given our history in Iran — should not ...
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SpaceWar: Israel has intensified its efforts to block the sale of advanced Russian air-defense missiles to Iran that would be a serious obstacle to any Israeli airstrikes against the Islamic Republic's nuclear infrastructure, according to media reports in Tel Aviv and Moscow. The outcome of that effort could have immense ramifications for the Middle East and particularly ...
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WASHINGTON (AP) - On the eve of a trip to Moscow, President Barack Obama chided Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin on Thursday for keeping "one foot in the old ways of doing business." By contrast, he said Putin's handpicked successor as president understands that Cold War behavior is outdated. In a White House interview with The ...
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Times Online: Three of Iran’s most prominent opposition leaders flagrantly courted arrest yesterday by denouncing President Ahmadinejad’s Government as illegitimate, one day after the regime said that it would tolerate no more challenges to the election result. Mir Hossein Mousavi, the former Prime Minister who lost the election, said that the suppression of dissent was tantamount to ...
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You mean to tell us that THIS was staged? FOX News: The murder of 26-year-old protester Neda Soltan was staged, Iran's chief of police said Wednesday — a statement that rights groups and Iran watchers are calling a propagandistic lie. Soltan became the icon of protesters in Iran following her bloody shooting June 20, which shocked the conscience ...
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BBC: The EU is no longer qualified to take part in talks on Iran's nuclear program, Iran's military chief says. Maj Gen Hassan Firouzabadi, Iran's chief of staff, accused the EU of "interference" in riots which followed June's disputed presidential elections. EU states, meanwhile, are considering withdrawing their ambassadors from Iran in a growing diplomatic row. Britain proposed the ...
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Washington Times: Clinton urged Obama to talk tough on Iran Shift was a 'surprise' Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton urged President Obama for two days to toughen his language on Iran before he did so, and then was surprised when he condemned Iran's crackdown on demonstrators last week, administration officials say. At his June 23 news conference, Mr. ...
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Jerusalem Post: As the Iranian authorities warned the opposition on Tuesday that they would tolerate no further protests over the disputed June 12 presidential elections, a report emerged of the hangings of six supporters of defeated candidate Mir Hossein Mousavi. Speaking after Iran's top legislative body upheld the election victory of incumbent Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, sources in Iran ...
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Press TV: Following the conclusion of a probe into the complaints into the 10th presidential elections in Iran, the Interior Ministry has ordered all election headquarters to end their activities. "Any activities by the election headquarters in provinces, cities and districts will no longer have a legal basis," warned the ministry. The Guardian Council -- Iran's ...
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