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Thomas Paine

To argue with a person who has renounced the use of reason is like administering medicine to the dead.

Sunday, April 11, 2010

CASMII Articles - Campaign Against Sanctions & Military Intervention in Iran


By http://www.campaigniran.org/casmii on nuclear us
US B-2 BomberUS B-2 BomberAs Washington and Moscow sign a new arms reduction treaty, skepticism arises in Turkey as to whether those cuts will include US atomic warheads stored in the country.
source: Press TV
By http://www.campaigniran.org/casmii on Iranian Consulate
Obama Administration officials have been touting for some time that they have Russia "on board" for a new United Nations Security Council resolution imposing sanctions against Iran over the nuclear issue. We, of course, have been arguing for months that, while Russia would probably end up supporting a new sanctions resolution, Moscow would not support broad-based sanctions against major sectors of Iran's economy, measures that might affect the fundamental stability of Iran's political order, or specific measures that would get in the way of Russian economic and security interests.
source: Race for Iran
By http://www.campaigniran.org/casmii on Iran nuclear programme
Israel IranIsrael Iran
Back in August 2005, I broke the story that Dick Cheney and the Pentagon were working on a contingency plan to use tactical nuclear weapons in an attack on Iran’s nuclear facilities. The nukes would be used because they were the only effective way to destroy the hardened sites, many of which are located deep underground. I also reported that the contingency plan would kick in if there were another major terrorist attack against the United States, whether or not Iran was actually involved. It would use the terrorist action as a justification for taking preemptive action and employing nukes would serve as a warning to Iran that any retaliation would result in possible additional nuclear strikes. If implemented, it would have constituted the first use of nuclear weapons since the end of the Second World War.
source: AntiWar.com
By http://www.campaigniran.org/casmii on News and Editorials

The new Nuclear Posture Review (NPR) issued by the Pentagon Tuesday is being hailed by the Obama administration’s apologists as a step towards global nuclear disarmament. It is nothing of the kind. The document lays out a rationale that would justify the use of nuclear weapons against a non-nuclear state for the first time since the US atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
source: World Socialist
By http://www.campaigniran.org/casmii on News and Editorials
In his column today, the Washington Post’s David Ignatius presents an important piece of reporting about the Obama Administration’s approach to Iran and the Palestinian issue. David opens his column by citing “two top administration officials” as telling him that President Obama is seriously considering putting forward an American plan for a two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
source: Race for Iran
By http://www.campaigniran.org/casmii on News and Editorials
Manouchehr MottakiManouchehr MottakiThe bedrock of Washington's new nuclear policy, which allows the application of nukes in some cases, is clearly an extension to the doctrines of the previous administrations and in fact defies US disarmament commitments under article VI of the NPT.
source: Press TV
By http://www.campaigniran.org/casmii on News and Editorials
Kaveh AfrasiabiKaveh Afrasiabi"Even [president George W] Tehran has reacted sharply to the new United States nuclear doctrine that explicitly targets Iran and North Korea and allows for the threat and use of nuclear weapons against them. Leading the charge, President Mahmud Ahmadinejad has accused the Barack Obama administration of nuclear duplicity and being more warmongering than the predecessor administration of George W Bush.
source: Asia Times Online
By http://www.campaigniran.org/casmii on News and Editorials
The administration of Barack Obama – a former law professor – has apparently just conjured a new interpretation of the NPT, and a new principle of international law, entirely out of thin air. By doing so, and in making an overt nuclear threat against a non-nuclear-weapon state, it has committed an overt violation of the NPT bargain itself.
source: Antiwar.com
By http://www.campaigniran.org/casmii on us
Shying away from a pledge of no first use, it in fact allows for certain contingencies in which nuclear weapons would be used in conventional theater. Second, it uses the threat of nuclear terrorism as a justification for indefinite postponement of a general disarmament. Third, instead of “rebuilding” the nonproliferation regime, the doctrine’s explicit nuclear bullying of proliferation-prone countries actually increases their insecurity and perceived need for nuclear deterrence, thus achieving the opposite result of its intended purposes.
source: New York Times
By http://www.campaigniran.org/casmii on nuclear disarmament conference
From April 17-18, Iran intends to host a nuclear disarmament summit just four days after Washington concludes a nuclear security summit to which Tehran was not invited. Under the banner “Nuclear energy for everyone, nuclear arms for no one”, Iran calls for a nuclear-free Middle East and an end to nuclear proliferation globally.
source: Arab News
By http://www.campaigniran.org/casmii on News and Editorials

The latest chapter in the Iranian nuclear crisis revolves around a possible “nuclear fuel swap” through which Iran would send most of its low-enriched uranium stocks (LEU at 3.5%) abroad, possibly to Russia and France, which would further enrich it (making it LEU at 19.5%) and then turn it into fuel rods.
source: Counterpunch
By http://www.campaigniran.org/casmii on CASMII Media Watch

ABC News reported as fact a CIA claim from unnamed US “officials” that a young Iranian nuclear scientist reported as abducted by his wife last year had voluntarily abandoned his family in Iran to allegedly defect to the United States. ABC doesn’t question the CIA’s truthfulness of such a report or the legality for holding Shahram Amiri.
source: Examiner.com
By http://www.campaigniran.org/casmii on News and Editorials
Facing a staggering deficit, increasingly unpopular overseas engagements and no clear resolution over the nuclear fallout with Iran, some Americans are becoming increasingly disillusioned with the Obama administration. Pat Buchanan, the Washington political commentator and former Presidential advisor, gives RT his take on what seems to be going wrong.
source: Russia Today Youtube-Channel
By http://www.campaigniran.org/casmii on News and Editorials

Tomorrow—Tuesday, April 6, 2010—the Obama Administration will proclaim, as a matter of declaratory policy, that the United States claims the prerogative to use nuclear weapons against the Islamic Republic of Iran, even as Iran remains a non-nuclear-weapons state. The Administration will make this declaration as part of its much anticipated Nuclear Posture Review, which will be issued two days before President Obama and Russian President Medvedev sign a new Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (START).
source: The Race for Iran
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"Teheran has not started a war in memory and is not going to launch a suicide attack on a superpower with thousands of nuclear weapons. As with Iraq in 2003, the war will be launched by the United States against a nation that did not attack us — to strip it of weapons it does not have."
source: The American Conservative
By http://www.campaigniran.org/casmii on nuclear disarmament
Iran’s envoy to the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)Ali Asqar Soltaniyeh has announced that senior officials of the UN nuclear bodies are scheduled to take part in the international conference on nuclear disarmament to be held here next week.
source: NAM News Network (NNN)
By http://www.campaigniran.org/casmii on Iran nuclear programme
Iran is still ready to negotiate a solution to its nuclear stand-off with the West, but only on the condition that foreign powers agree to a fuel swap on Iranian territory, the foreign ministry said on Monday.
source: Reuters
By http://www.campaigniran.org/casmii on russia
Sergei RyabkovSergei RyabkovSergei Ryabkov: "Nothing is happening today which would give grounds to talk of a 'new page' or a 'new chapter'. Normal discussions are going on, as they have always been and will be".
source: AFP
By http://www.campaigniran.org/casmii on Iran US relation
Obama MideastObama MideastTittle-tattles regarding the possibility of a military strike against Iran are being renewed these days. President Obama, to whom I still wonder why the Nobel Peace Prize has gone, is confessing that former President Bush was right in his belief that Iran poses a serious threat to the international community; Russia is cowardly retreating from its position, joining the rest of world's tyrannical powers who favor the imposition of new sanctions against Iran; fueled up by Israel and AIPAC, American corporate media are laying the groundwork to prepare the public opinions forcefully, convincing them that Iran is the most dangerous country in the Middle East and should be disarmed as soon as possible, otherwise, it may attack Israel to wipe it off the map.
source: Global Research
By http://www.campaigniran.org/casmii on President Gul
The real game for Forbes seems to be not to provide its audience with the real-time reporting, uncompromising commentary, concise analysis, relevant tools and community they need to succeed at work, but to frighten them from their opportunities to do business with potentially one of the most beneficial business partners that they may ever have, namely Iran.
source: CASMII
By http://www.campaigniran.org/casmii on washington isreal
It is depressing to see the United States working relentlessly to get the international community to impose sanctions on Iran for its alleged attempt to make nuclear weapons though Washington could not show a shred of evidence to prove its allegation.
source: Arab News
By http://www.campaigniran.org/casmii on nuclear disarmament
Chief Iranian nuclear negotiator Saeed Jalili: "The Chinese have welcomed the Islamic Republic's initiative and the idea of calling on the world to disarm and will take part in the Tehran conference."
source: Al Arabiya
By http://www.campaigniran.org/casmii on News and Editorials
iran and pakistaniran and pakistan
The United States appears to be ‘forewarning’ Pakistan, about continuing with the billion dollar gas pipeline from Iran into Pakistan, but officialdom here, is relaxed, saying that China and Russia were bound to veto any further stringent measures against Iran in the United Nations Security Council, which would want to see this ambitious project wrapped up.
source: The News International, Pakistan
By http://www.campaigniran.org/casmii on Iran nuclear programme
Iran Israel USIran Israel US
Russia and China have agreed to finally discuss a Security Council resolution to increase sanctions first imposed three years ago over Iran’s failure to comply with all the transparency requirements of the Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT). But Moscow and Beijing have also made clear that they don’t believe Iran is building nuclear weapons. Nor does the US, for that matter. The CIA’s assessment is that no such decision has yet been taken, and that Iran’s current nuclear efforts will simply give it the option to build nuclear weapons.
source: The National, UAE
By http://www.campaigniran.org/casmii on News and Editorials
The result is that when we look at Iran we see ourselves: how we would behave in a similar situation. But Iran is not Israel exactly, and the Israeli experience does not necessarily reflect Iran's behavior. On the contrary, it leads to systematic errors when making assessments.
source: Haaretz
By http://www.campaigniran.org/casmii on ahmadinejad
"You (world powers) can cut your own throat, jump up or down, issue statements and declarations and pass resolutions... but don't think you can stop the progress and building of the Iranian nation," Ahmadinejad said.
source: AFP
By http://www.campaigniran.org/casmii on India
India indicated during the 12th International Energy Forum in Cancun, which ended on Thursday, that it wanted to resume talks with Iran on the long-delayed $7.5-billion(Rs 3,375 crore) Iran-Pakistan-India pipeline project.
source: Hindustan Times
By http://www.campaigniran.org/casmii on iran us cold war
The absence of US-Iranian rapprochement will perpetuate the new Middle Eastern Cold War, imposing costs on the United States, Iran and other regional and international players. However, in strategic terms, the heaviest costs of continued US-Iranian estrangement are likely to be borne by the United States.
source: Race for Iran
By http://www.campaigniran.org/casmii on china iran
Jalili and JiechiJalili and Jiechi"Many issues came up in our talks on which China accepted Iran's position," Jalili told reporters after talks with Chinese officials including Foreign Minister Yang Jiechi and State Councillor Dai Bingguo.
source: Sydney Morning Herald
By http://www.campaigniran.org/casmii on fox news
As the invasion of Iraq demonstrated, the kind of fear-mongering, reckless, and outright false "reporting" we're seeing already -- and have been seeing for awhile -- over Iran's nuclear program poses a far greater danger to the U.S. than anything Iran could do.
source: Salon.com
By http://www.campaigniran.org/casmii on Bush speech
Former US Ambassador to the UN John R. Bolton says President Barack Obama is “naive” in thinking that new sanctions will stop Iran's nuclear program.
source: Press TV
By http://www.campaigniran.org/casmii on Iran nuclear programme
One of the most scandalous manifestations of the present international order is the so-called “nuclear hypocrisy.” The United States, the only country to have committed a nuclear holocaust, is insisting that Iran has no right to possess a nuclear capability.
This nearly pornographic hypocrisy which the U.S. displays vis-à-vis the issue of nuclear proliferation is provocative and indefensible.
The US thinks it is fine to have Israel possess several hundred nuclear bombs and warheads, along with their American-supplied or Israeli-manufactured delivery systems. However, the same America vehemently rejects the very suggestion that Iran, or any other Middle Eastern country, should possess a nuclear capability.
source: thepeoplesvoice.org
By http://www.campaigniran.org/casmii on News and Editorials
(Reuters) - Iran's chief nuclear negotiator Saeed Jalili heads to China on Thursday for talks with the government that could hold the key to whether Tehran faces a fresh round of United Nations sanctions.
source: Reuters
By http://www.campaigniran.org/casmii on nuclear china
Iran's top nuclear negotiator Saeed Jalili will head to China Thursday to discuss a range of issues, including Tehran's nuclear work, with the Beijing officials.
source: Press TV
By http://www.campaigniran.org/casmii on iaea
The latest IAEA report on Iran has been widely touted as containing new evidence of Iranian weapons work and as a sign of the Agency’s new hard-line attitude toward the Islamic Republic under its new Director General Yukiya Amano. We believe the document has been seriously misrepresented in the media and elsewhere, which could have dangerous consequences.
source: fas.org
By http://www.campaigniran.org/casmii on regime change
Is London really ready to help Washington go down the primrose path of regime change in the Middle East one more time? Because, if Washington follows London’s diplomatic advice, that is, in all probability, the place where American policy will end up.
source: Race for Iran
By http://www.campaigniran.org/casmii on News and Editorials
Dmitry MedvedevDmitry MedvedevThe settlement of Iran's nuclear problem should be implemented solely by politic-diplomatic means in strict accordance with the Charter of the United Nations," Medvedev said at the annual summit of the 22-nation Arab League.
source: CNN
By http://www.campaigniran.org/casmii on obama isreal
The American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) annual show in Washington would hardly be out of place in a Quentin Tarantino movie; picture a giant hall crammed with 7,500 very powerful people regimented by a very powerful lobby - plus half of the United States Senate and more than a third of the congress - basically calling in unison for Palestinian and Iranian blood.
source: Asia Times
By http://www.campaigniran.org/casmii on US jews
Sharmine NarwaniSharmine NarwaniNinety-eight percent of American Jews do not rank Iran as a major factor influencing their vote in the 2010 midterm elections.
source: The Huffington Post
By http://www.campaigniran.org/casmii on David Miliband
David Miliband has an op-ed in the International Herald Tribune calling for sanctions on Iran that hits all the usual talking points: that Iran is going nuclear, that a nuclear-armed Iran would cause proliferation in the region, that Israel sees Iran as an existential threat would "act in self-defense" against Iran, and that Iran has failed to "come clean" on its nuclear progam. All of these points are of course entirely false.
source: Iran Affairs
By http://www.campaigniran.org/casmii on News and Editorials
President LulaPresident LulaPresident Lula da Silva has come under fire from opponents lately for refusing to join the United States' campaign for increased sanctions against Iran. Washington recently switched from a brief phase of "engagement" with Iran over its nuclear program to the more aggressive posture of threats and confrontation that had been the strategy of the Bush Administration. Lula has argued that this is counter-productive.
source: Huffington Post
By http://www.campaigniran.org/casmii on us
AfrasiabiAfrasiabiInstead of dismissing Iran's counter-proposal, the Obama administration should seriously examine the advantages of a nuclear swap, with the International Atomic Energy Agency assuming control of Iran's low-enriched uranium, but on Iranian soil, until the fuel rods are delivered. This would involve a substantial amount of of Iran's accumulated low-enriched uranium, the material the West fears may be reprocessed for bomb-making material. This deal breaks Russia's monopoly of nuclear trade with Iran and opens a new window for U.S.-Iran nuclear cooperation.
source: San Francisco Chronicle
By http://www.campaigniran.org/casmii on NPT
non NPT statesnon NPT statesWhile the U.S. continues to erode the significance of the NPT by funding illegal nuclear weapons programs in India, Pakistan and Israel, Iran is following international law and will soon likely receive harsh economic sanctions that will cripple them.
source: The Manitoban
By http://www.campaigniran.org/casmii on us
ObamaObama
On the eve of Nowruz 1389 (the Iranian New Year), U.S. President Barack Obama's main foreign policy challenge remained Iran's nuclear program and choosing between a direct strategic dialogue or new rounds of sanctions, combined with exploiting Iran's domestic political situation in order to change the direction of Iran's nuclear policy. Signs show that Obama is moving toward the latter approach.
source: Belfer Center, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University
By http://www.campaigniran.org/casmii on Iran sanctions
NIACNIACThis week may be looked back on as the pivotal moment when war with Iran entered the mainstream of political thought in the Obama era. At a time when Iranians are standing up to an Iranian government that has been deprived of the Bush-era shadow of war, that shadow is again emerging.
source: The Huffington Post
By http://www.campaigniran.org/casmii on friedman
Sharmine NarwaniSharmine NarwaniAs an opinion writer, Friedman still has the responsibility to convey the facts as they are - he can always spin his analysis around them or not include them in his deliberations if he wants to produce substandard commentary. But to just unilaterally change the facts? That isn't just wishful thinking - Friedman is trying to create the facts.
source: The Huffington Post
By http://www.campaigniran.org/casmii on News and Editorials
Recent hiccups in its relations with India over its controversial nuclear programme notwithstanding, Iran is looking forward to Indian participation in a conference on nuclear disarmament it is organising next month in Tehran.
source: The Times of India
By http://www.campaigniran.org/casmii on Iran sanctions
Turkey IranTurkey Iran
NATO-member Turkey on Wednesday rebuffed calls from ally the United States to support more sanctions against Iran over Tehran's nuclear program, saying diplomacy should be given more chance.
source: Reuters
By http://www.campaigniran.org/casmii on isreali attack
There is no independent analysis that suggests an attack on Iran would be anything other than a disaster for stability in the Middle East, for U.S. foreign policy and, for that matter, Israel.
source: Rabble.ca
By http://www.campaigniran.org/casmii on clinton AIPAC
Ms. Clinton's accusations, whose only difference with those repeated year after year by the Bush administration was her softer tone, show that despite all the ballyhoo the Obama White House has provoked by claiming that the president has extended a hand towards Tehran, Washington's stance toward Iran has not changed at all.
source: Press TV
By http://www.campaigniran.org/casmii on khamenei nowruz
In an asymmetric relationship such as that between the United States and the Islamic Republic, for the United States to insist that Tehran must show that it is “serious” about improved relations before Washington takes concrete steps of its own is a recipe for guaranteed diplomatic failure.
source: Race for Iran
By http://www.campaigniran.org/casmii on russia clinton
Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin greeted Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton on Friday with a volley of complaints about trade, while another top Russian official voiced caution about the Obama administration's campaign for tough sanctions on Iran.
source: Washington Post
By http://www.campaigniran.org/casmii on News and Editorials

Earlier this week, journalists highlighted U.S. Deputy Secretary of Energy Dan Poneman's statement that the Obama Administration had "offered to facilitate Iran's procurement through the world markets of the medical isotopes its citizens need," but that "Iran's leaders apparently prefer to reject the most responsible, cost effective, and timely options to ensure access to medical isotopes in order to advance their nuclear program."
source: The Race for Iran
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Ayatollah Khamenei lashed out at the US president for supporting the unrest erupted after last year's June presidential election, saying the enemies had plans to start a "civil war" in the country.
source: Press TV
By http://www.campaigniran.org/casmii on israel
Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu will use a visit to Washington this week to press the U.S. to release advanced weapons needed for a possible strike on Iran's nuclear sites, the Sunday Times reported.
source: The Sunday Times
By http://www.campaigniran.org/casmii on obama nowruz
So on occasion of Obama's Persian New Year (NoRuz) message to Iran, it is claimed that Obama offered an "open hand" to Iran only to be met by a "clenched fist". Rubbish. In fact, Khamenei responded to his letter by stating plainly that Iran would judge Obama's offer of engagement on the basis of actions not talk. And, the action has plainly been a continuation of the same old Bush policies.
source: Iran Affairs
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"A country whose political culture is characterized by paranoia." What country would that be? Israel, which has claimed victim status through seven decades of vicious land grab? The United States, which has devastated Iraq pretending to look for imaginary weapons of mass destruction?
source: MRzine
By http://www.campaigniran.org/casmii on Iran sanctions
PowellPowell
Former U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell said new sanctions on Iran to persuade it to stop enriching uranium won’t work because the Islamic republic is “determined to have a nuclear program.”. He made the distinction between nuclear programme and nuclear weapons and called for negotiated settlement.
source: Businessweek
By http://www.campaigniran.org/casmii on News and Editorials
Violence could spread across the Middle East with Israel paying a "heavy price" if it launched military action against Iran, the deputy leader of Hezbollah said on Thursday.
source: Reuters
By http://www.campaigniran.org/casmii on News and Editorials
RobertsRoberts
The next step will be a staged "terrorist attack," a "false flag" operation as per Operation Northwoods, for which Iran will be blamed. As Iran and its leadership have already been demonized, the "false flag" attack will suffice to obtain U.S. and European public support for bombing Iran. The bombing will include more than the nuclear facilities and will continue until the Iranians agree to regime change and the installation of a puppet government. The corrupt American media will present the new puppet as "freedom and democracy."
source: Crooscurrents.org
By http://www.campaigniran.org/casmii on nuclear free middle east
akhoundzadehakhoundzadehAkhoundzadeh said that Iran always supports a Middle East without nuclear and mass-destruction weapons and tries to establish justice, peace and security in the region and the world.
source: IRIB News Agency
By http://www.campaigniran.org/casmii on nuclear disarmament
nuclear disarmamentnuclear disarmamentIran will host an international conference on nuclear disarmament and non-proliferation in April.
source: Mehr News Agency
By http://www.campaigniran.org/casmii on 5+1 rafsanjani
Ali Akbar Hashemi RafsanjaniAli Akbar Hashemi RafsanjaniThe Expediency Council chairman also stated that Iran does not seek anything beyond its own rights and neither should the 5+1 group.
source: Mehr News Agency
By http://www.campaigniran.org/casmii on noweuz peace
nowruznowruzTEHRAN - On the eve of the first International Day of Noruz, the United Nations secretary general expressed hope that “people around the world will draw on this festival’s history and customs to promote harmony with the natural world and foster global peace and goodwill.”
source: Tehran Times
By http://www.campaigniran.org/casmii on non-aggression treaty
no warno warIran's Parliament Speaker Advisor on International Affairs Hossein Sheikholeslam said Iran is ready to sign non-aggression treaty with all regional countries.
source: ISNA
By http://www.campaigniran.org/casmii on News and Editorials
A major realignment in the world’s energy economy – one where there will be a continuing diminished role for the US – Washington’s blustering rhetoric about democracy and peace and war on terror or alleged Iranian nuclear weapons can be seen as a desperate attempt to conceal its fear that it stands to be a big loser.
Encircling Iran with wars and threatening gas supplies to possibly the world’s top future gas customer – China – is the real deal. US actions are more accurately seen as putting a knife to the energy arteries of a world economy that it will no longer be able to dominate.
source: Global Research
By http://www.campaigniran.org/casmii on News and Editorials
Iran has said it is ready for a one-shot nuclear fuel exchange on its own soil, edging closer to the conditions of a plan drawn up by the UN atomic watchdog last year as major powers mulled a new round of sanctions.
source: Afp, Ap, Tehran/ Beijing
By http://www.campaigniran.org/casmii on News and Editorials
In short, while nuclear-armed Israel and its patron commit aggression, dispossess, and threaten more of the same, they have managed to transform nuclear-weapons-free Iran into the "threat" that the UN and IC worry about.
source: Monthly Review
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ErdoganErdoganThe Turkish Prime Minister, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, has told the BBC that he believes Iran has no intention of developing nuclear weapons.
source: BBC
By http://www.campaigniran.org/casmii on News and Editorials
Narwani NarwaniEvery time Obama has sought to advance his Mideast agenda, Israel has managed to put a new cog in his wheels. The US president started off his term insisting that Arab-Israeli peace be dealt with before Iran's nuclear issue, and has had to reverse his plan due to Israeli pressures.
source: Huffington Post
By http://www.campaigniran.org/casmii on brazil iran sanctions
LulaLula
Lula and Obama had seemed to be in synch on Iran, starting from their meeting on the sidelines of a Group of Eight plus five meeting in L'Aquila, Italy, nine months ago. Then, Obama even encouraged the Brasilia-Tehran dialogue, as long as Brazil pressed on Iran the commitment to a strictly civilian nuclear program. That's exactly what Lula told Ahmadinejad when they met in Brazil. It is the Obama administration's position that has substantially hardened.
source: Asia Times
By http://www.campaigniran.org/casmii on News and Editorials
Israel -- a country that has not signed the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty -- has a secret stockpile of nuclear weapons, as revealed 23 years ago by Israeli nuclear technician Dr Modecai Vanunu, for which service to humanity he was sentenced to 18 years imprisonment. Since his release in 2004 he has been held by the Israeli government under severe restrictions which prevent him from leaving Israel or, without permission, his home town. He is forbidden any communication with foreigners.
Israel is one of only three countries along with India and Pakistan, which is not a signatory to the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty(NPT), and is widely believed to possess several hundred nuclear warheads, as well as the means to deliver them.
When the International Atomic Energy Agency for the first time on 19 September 2009 called on Israel to join the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty and open up its atomic sites to international inspection, the response was predictable: refusal to cooperate in any way.
source: Stop War
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Hundreds of powerful US “bunker-buster” bombs are being shipped from California to the British island of Diego Garcia in the Indian Ocean in preparation for a possible attack on Iran.
source: The Herald Scotland
By http://www.campaigniran.org/casmii on News and Editorials
China has emerged as Iran's top economic partner, investing heavily in the energy sector and filling the gaps left by Western firms forced out by international sanctions
source: Africasia.com
By http://www.campaigniran.org/casmii on News and Editorials

The dramatic arrest of Abdulmalik Rigi, Iran's most wanted man, on February 23 continues to be shrouded in mystery. But with information and insights gleaned from security sources in Tehran, Asia Times Online can reveal some of the most intricate background details leading to this stunning arrest.
source: Asia Times
By http://www.campaigniran.org/casmii on Iran sanctions
American efforts to build momentum for a fresh round of sanctions against Iran have hit a snag following the visit to Riyadh by U.S. Defence Secretary Robert Gates.
source: The Hindu
By http://www.campaigniran.org/casmii on Iran sanctions
KouchnerKouchner
A U.N. resolution on new sanctions against Iran may not be ready until June and if a vote on it fails, European states could take unilateral measures instead, French and Finnish ministers said on Sunday.
source: Reuters
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HELSINKI, March 13 (Xinhua) -- The European Union will seek new sanctions against Iran over its nuclear program should the United Nations fail to take any actions, Finnish foreign minister said Saturday.
source: China View
By http://www.campaigniran.org/casmii on News and Editorials
Natanz plantNatanz plantOn February 18, 2010 the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) issued its latest report on Iran’s nuclear program. The tone of the latest report, as well as its speculations and unfounded allegations, are in sharp contrast with those in the past issued under the former IAEA Director General Mohamed ElBaradei. The new Director General, Yukiya Amano, has set aside ElBaradei’s cautious approach and measured tone and uses blunt language. But, while the blunt language is not a problem, the fact is that, as the latest report indicates, the IAEA is being transformed from an objective international organization to a politicized one to be used by the United States and its allies to advance their agenda regarding Iran’s uranium enrichment program.
source: AntiWar.com
By http://www.campaigniran.org/casmii on News and Editorials
Iran is a signatory to the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty and there’s no evidence that it is anywhere near producing nuclear weapons. Non-signatory Israel, with its vast secret arsenal of nuclear weapons — likely built with uranium stolen (but never paid for) from the United States — suddenly demands rule of law from America. Laws drafted by AIPAC.
source: AntiWar.com
By http://www.campaigniran.org/casmii on News and Editorials
An unusual alliance has been unveiled after Iranian President Mahmud Ahmadinejad revealed that the recent arrest of Abdulmalik Rigi, leader of the Sunni terrorist group Jundallah, was made possible with intelligence cooperation from Afghanistan and Pakistan.
source: Asia Times
By http://www.campaigniran.org/casmii on Iran sanctions
ErdoganErdoganAs the Obama administration scrambles to contain the diplomatic fallout with Turkey over the “Armenian genocide” resolution in the U.S. Congress, Turkey’s tilt towards Iran continues largely unnoticed.
source: CNSNews,com
By http://www.campaigniran.org/casmii on brazil iran sanctions
Brazil's president warned Tuesday that U.S.-proposed sanctions on Iran over its nuclear program could lead to war, and said he will make his own efforts to head off further conflicts — an example he said shows his country's growing global prominence.
source: LA Times
By http://www.campaigniran.org/casmii on Iran sanctions
India believes sanctions on Iran are counterproductive, the government told Parliament on Tuesday in the first public articulation of the government’s views on U.S. efforts to tighten the screws on the Islamic Republic.
source: The Hindu
By http://www.campaigniran.org/casmii on War against Iran
Five thousand dead American soldiers in wars all based in known lies.
Thirty thousand admitted American soldiers wounded and injured with over 100,000 disability claims granted.
Over one million dead Iraqi and Afghan citizens and God knows how many wounded and suffering.
$3 to $5 trillion in long-term costs to American taxpayers. That’s $30,000 to $50,000 per US household of $50,000 annual income. If your household makes more than $50,000 per year, do the math to understand your personal obligation to pay for these long-term costs based on known lies.
source: San Francisco Examiner
By http://www.campaigniran.org/casmii on sweden
Carl BildtCarl BildtSweden's foreign minister said Tuesday all parties involved in the Iranian nuclear issue must switch focus from sanctions to diplomacy.
source: Press TV
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Secretary of State Hillary Clinton traveled to Brasilia to mount a full court press on the Brazilian government to support a United Nations Security Council resolution imposing tougher sanctions against Iran over its nuclear activities.
source: The Race for Iran
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Adm. Mike Mullen, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, came home with sweaty palms from his mid-February visit to Israel. Ever since, he has been worrying aloud that Israel might mousetrap the U.S. into war with Iran.
source: Consortiumnews.com
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JURIST Guest Columnist Daniel Joyner of the University of Alabama School of Law says that, reflective of the central tension between nonproliferation and peaceful use, Iran has not clearly violated any legal obligations incumbent upon it in the timing of its disclosure of the existence of an intended uranium enrichment facility at Qom....
source: JURIST
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