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DICK CHENEY WANTS WAR WITH IRAN
A year after President Bush and Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice announced a new strategy toward Iran, a behind-the-scenes debate has broken out within the administration over whether the approach has any hope of reining in Iran's nuclear program,...
IRANIANS WANT TO KILL PORN STARS
Iran's parliament on Wednesday voted in favor of a bill that could lead to the death penalty for persons convicted of working in the production of pornographic movies. With a 148-5 vote in favor and four abstentions, lawmakers present...
IRAN SLAMS US OCCUPATION OF IRAQ
LINK: Iran has strongly criticised US policy in Iraq, blaming the American presence there for sectarian violence. Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki was speaking in Egypt on the second day of a summit of world and regional powers, called to...
IRAN WILL CRASH IRAQI SUMMIT TO THROW WEIGHT AROUND
LINK: Iran will attend a conference of key powers including the United States this week that will focus on stabilizing Iraq, a meeting Baghdad said might be a turning point for regional cooperation in easing the violence. Iraq's Foreign...
CLAIM: BOTCHED SECRET U.S. MISSION LED TO IRAN HOSTAGE CRISIS
"A failed American attempt to abduct two senior Iranian security officers on an official visit to northern Iraq was the starting pistol for a crisis that 10 weeks later led to Iranians seizing 15 British sailors and Marines. Early on...
IRAN GRABS BRITISH SAILORS
"Iranian naval vessels on Friday seized 15 British sailors and marines who had boarded a merchant ship in Iraqi waters of the Persian Gulf as part of efforts to protect the Iraqi coastline and its oil terminals, U.S. and British...
DRUMS OF WAR: BUSH ADMIN ASSEMBLING TEAM TO BOMB IRAN
"Despite the Bush administration's insistence it has no plans to go to war with Iran, a Pentagon panel has been created to plan a bombing attack that could be implemented within 24 hours of getting the go-ahead from President George...
REPORT: AT LEAST FIVE GENERALS WILL QUIT IF BUSH LAUNCHES WAR ON IRAN
""There are four or five generals and admirals we know of who would resign if Bush ordered an attack on Iran," a source with close ties to British intelligence said. "There is simply no stomach for it in the Pentagon,...
BOMBSHELL: IRAQ 2.0? INTEL EXPERTS SAY NUKE EVIDENCE FOR IRAN IS THIN
"The officials said the CIA and other Western spy services have provided sensitive information to the Vienna-based International Atomic Energy Agency at least since 2002, when Iran's long-secret nuclear program was exposed. But none of the tips about supposed secret...
BUSH ADMIN FAILING AT IRAN NUKE CRISIS
"As the International Atomic Energy Agency just confirmed, Iran has once again defied the international community and is moving forward with its nuclear program, yet the Bush administration seems committed to repeating the mistakes it made with North Korea. Rather...
JOHN EDWARDS: REPUBLICANS WRONG TO BLOCK TALKS WITH IRAN
""It's a huge strategic mistake not to be dealing directly with Iran," Edwards told the Associated Press in an interview before a campaign event in Dubuque. "What we should be doing with Iran, both on the Iraq issue and the...
HILLARY TO BUSH: NO WAR ON IRAN WITHOUT CONGRESS, BUDDY
"Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Rodham Clinton warned President Bush on Wednesday not to take any military action against Iran without getting congressional approval first. "If the administration believes that any, any use of force against Iran is necessary, the...
IRAQ MEETING UP WITH IRAN
"The search for solutions in Iraq moved to the international stage Monday as Iraqi President Jalal Talabani left on a trip to Iran and President Bush began a trip that will take him to the Middle East to meet with...
NO NUKES IN IRAN, SAYS CIA REPORT
"A classifed draft CIA assessment has found no firm evidence of a secret drive by Iran to develop nuclear weapons, as alleged by the White House, a top US investigative reporter has said. Seymour Hersh, writing in an article for...
ANOUSHEH ANSARI BLASTS OFF TO PRIVATE SPACE TOUR
"Anousheh Ansari, a telecommunications entrepreneur, was accompanied by a U.S.-Russian crew on the Soyuz TMA-9 capsule. The Iranian-born American will go down in the record books in a couple of ways. She's the first woman to pay her way into...
BUZZ: US PLANNING WAR WITH IRAN
"The first message was routine enough: a "Prepare to Deploy Order" sent through Naval communications channels to a submarine, an Aegis-class cruiser, two minesweepers and two minehunters. The orders didn't actually command the ships out of port; they just said...
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