Bush Warns Iran After Uranium Processing Reports - Reuters

President Bush had a few words for Iran today.

"This is a very serious matter. The world knows it's a serious matter and we're working together to solve this matter,"

"It's very important for the Iranian government to hear that we are concerned about their desires," Bush said.

"We're concerned about reports that show that prior to a certain international meeting, they're willing to speed up processing of materials that could lead to a nuclear weapon." more

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Thanks Roger L Simon - DoctorZin

Respected blogger, Roger L Simon mentioned us in his most recent post.

... And don't miss Gary Metz's Regime Change Iran blog. I check it daily.

Thanks Roger.


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Mexico becoming Iran's new friend?

Iran and Mexico are expanding their economic and trade ties. What is with the Mexicans?


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Fact Sheet on the MEK

The MEK is the source of a lot of the information on Iran's nuclear program. So who are they? Freedom44 posted a primer on the MEK.


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Powell's on Solid Ground

Reuters reports:

"We believe we are on very, very solid ground in pointing to a clandestine effort by Iran to develop weapons of mass destruction and their delivery systems," Adam Ereli, a State Department spokesman, told reporters. more

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US Believes EU/Iran Deal Won't Last Long - DoctorZin

The Washington Post quotes one European diplomat as saying that Iran's continuation of some Uranium enrichment

"is really a shot in the eye."

U.S. officials have said little publicly about the Euro-Iranian deal, though privately many in the Bush administration are skeptical that it will last more than a few weeks.

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Shakeup in the CIA and State Department - DoctorZin

The UK's Economist takes a look at the changes in the CIA and state department.

With the massive changes taking place in the CIA, many are predicting Condi will seek similar changes, while others suggest she may follow James Bakers lead and work around the bureaucracy.

Who she chooses as her deputy will provide some clues to her direction. Could it be John Bolton? He gets my vote.

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US calls on Europe's big three to send "stern message" to Iran - Yahoo News

Are the Europeans capable of taking a strong stance? We will see.

The United States has called on Britain, France and Germany to send a "stern message" to Iran to stop producing the uranium feedstuff gas that can be used to make nuclear weapons, a US official told AFP.

"We told the Europeans that we consider this to be really an act of bad faith and to deliver a stern message to Iran that they must stop this," the official said. more

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To Destroy Iran’s Nuclear Bomb Program, 350 Targets Must Be Hit - Debka

Another war game scenario.

The first stage would be a bombing mission against the regime’s primary prop, the Revolutionary Guards.

The second stage would be the destruction of known and probable nuclear sites – a much harder mission given the hundreds of sites known and unknown number and carefully camouflaged underground behind cunning window-dressing. US intelligence estimates as many as 350 sites. It does not have precise knowledge of which are the most important or even which are active.

Regime change in stage three would entail ground action. more

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Thanks Matt Drudge - Doctorin

Matt Drudge did us all a favor today with this headline:

XX IRAN IN NUKE RACE XX

The media doesnt ingore his posts.

It wouldn't hurt to thank him.


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Media Coverage of Iran: their bias is showing, again - DoctorZin

The same media that in the past told us "Iran is a greater threat than Iraq," now appear to be obscuring the latest news developments on Iran. Case in point, the Washington Post.

Yesterday, they published a story, Powell Says Iran Is Pursuing Bomb.

But that was not the "real news." Powell was exposing Iran's effort to
develop missiles designed specifically to deliver a nuclear weapon.

Anyone interested in Iran already knew that Iran was being accused of
having a nuclear weapons program, but the Washington Post chose to bury
the real story. This is why we can't trust the main stream media to
provide us with the news. Their bias is showing, again.


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John Loftus on Powell's Expose of Iran - Fox News

Here are a few of John's comments as to why Secretary Powell decided to expose Iran's new missile system for it's nuclear weapons [which they don't have...sure]:

1. Iran lost a thousand pages of classified files to make nuclear weapons and those documents showed up at the CIA this week.

2. The Iranians have put four scientists on trial this past week for leaking those documents.

3. The British have videotape of a new type of new Iranian warhead that is short and stubby. It is too light to be used for conventional war heads. It can only be used for a nuclear weapons.

This is what prompted Secretary Powell to announce Iran's violation of their agreements.

Also he said there is an underground nuclear bomb factory in little city called Nour, a suburb of Tehran in an area known as Lavizan. The factory has been placed under a new housing development there. There are multiple reports of this.

He recommends a blockade of Iran's oil shipments.

He claims the EU wants us to do the dirty work on this.


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Iranians Flip-Flop On Nuclear Agreement - Captain's Quarters

Captain Ed makes some interesting observations.

In a rhetorical flourish that recalls the best (or worst) of the Clinton Administration and the John Kerry campaign, Iran apparently has decided to stop their refinement of uranium into weapons precursors only after they've made enough of it to turn into weapons. more

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The Future of the Iranian Nuclear Program, Part III - The Adventures of Chester

Analyzing all military options in one post is far too unwieldy, and would be sloppy. Therefore, the remainder of this series on Iran will be broken down into much smaller parts. This part is a group task. more


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Nuclear Shell Game - Wall Street Journal

This is an interesting report. I highly recomment reading the entire report.

We should pull out all the stops to find out if Iran actually has a bomb before we act. The IAEA seems to be itching for this job. In his report to the upcoming board of governors meeting on Iran , Director General Mohamed El-Baradei noted that although the agency had no smoking gun, the agency was "not yet in a position to conclude that there are no undeclared nuclear materials or activities in Iran ." He made it clear why: The agency, he noted, only had the authority to ferret out material discrepancies in declared civilian nuclear facilities; it lacked the authority to snoop for bombs. ...

Another alternative that should be put aside is trying to bomb our way out of the problem set. ... We simply don't know where all of Iran's nuclear activities are. Nor can we target every Iranian nuclear engineer who surely will rebuild whatever might be bombed. ...

If these options don't make sense and waiting on Iran to behave makes even less, what should we do? The simple answer is to start enforcing the rules. ...

[T]he U.S., its partners and the IAEA board of governors need to challenge, as the European Three have not, Iran's outrageous claim that it has an "inalienable right" to come within days of having a large arsenal's worth of nuclear-weapons materials. ...

[T]he U.S. and all other like-mined nations need to start arguing publicly, as several European governments already have, that no country, Iran included, can threaten to leave the NPT... more

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Iran Using Lasers to Enrich Uranium - Exile Group - Yahoo News

The National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI)says we are being duped.

"In recent months, the Iranian regime officially declared to the IAEA (the U.N. nuclear watchdog) that it has shut down its laser enrichment program," Mohaddesin told a news conference in Paris where it has a large base.

"This is a completely false declaration by the Iranian regime ... They are using this laser technology in at least two military sites, maybe more."

He said Lavizan, a former munitions factory, switched to uranium enrichment about 18 months ago using laser equipment. A military complex at Parchin had been conducting similar work since 2000... more

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Iran Producing Gas Used In Making Nuclear Arms - Wall Street Journal

It appears we know more than we are saying.

[D]iplomats said Iran was exploiting the window until Monday to produce uranium hexafluoride at its plant in the central city of Isfahan.

Asked about quantities, a diplomat said "It's not little" but declined to elaborate. ... more

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Nuclear accusation puts Iran deal at risk - Globe and Mail

Top U.S. officials have accused Iran of secretly modifying its new longer-range missiles so they can be fitted with nuclear warheads. Iran is clearly on the record.

"I totally deny these allegations," said Hossein Mousavian, Iran's senior envoy to the IAEA. "Iran has no undeclared nuclear activities." more

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Iran's Nukes: The Crisis Is Far From Over - Business Week

Another interesting development.

An Administration source says the U.S. wants the IAEA to conduct "anytime, anywhere inspections" in Iran.

The Europeans may seek out just such a deal, partly because they were angry when Iran reneged on an earlier agreement. more

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Iranians Flip-Flop On Nuclear Agreement - Captain's Quarters

Captain Ed makes a few observations:

In a rhetorical flourish that recalls the best (or worst) of the Clinton Administration and the John Kerry campaign, Iran apparently has decided to stop their refinement of uranium into weapons precursors only after they've made enough of it to turn into weapons... more

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America and Iran Must Play Nice - Men's News Daily

The article provides a few bits of information not being widely reported.

On October 19, as he was being interviewed by AP aboard Air Force One, President Bush said that he would accept an Islamic government in Iraq. "I will be disappointed. But democracy is democracy. If that's what the people choose, that's what the people choose.” ...

[T]hey (Iran)produce more electricity than they use, they currently sell electric power to Afghanistan, and have offered to do the same for Iraq. ...

[A}recent Department of Energy briefing, “ Despite relatively high oil export revenues, Iran continues to face budgetary pressures, a rapidly growing, young population with limited job prospects and high levels of unemployment; heavy dependence on oil revenues; significant (but declining) external debt; high levels of poverty; expensive state subsidies (billions of dollars per year) on many basic goods; a large, inefficient public sector and state monopolies.” more

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EU drafts UN nuclear resolution on Iran-diplomats - Reuters

The EU is going to seek verification. Good news.

"They are preparing a resolution that will deal with the suspension of the enrichment programme and verification of the suspension by the IAEA," a Western diplomat close to the Iran-EU negotiations told Reuters. more

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Iran attempts to confuse the media - DoctorZin

Iran is telling the world that it wants to help the US in Iraq:

Iran was willing to help the US escape from the “quagmire” of Iraq more

while at the same time it is paying a $500 bounty for each American soldier killed in Iraq. We must not let them get away with this.


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'Too Much Carrot, No Stick' - Forward

Marc Perelman writes for Forward regarding Isreal's concern over the EU "agreement"
with Iran.

Israeli Foreign Minister Silvan Shalom told reporters... "The Europeans are all the time talking about carrot and stick, but we see only the carrot, not the stick." ...

Malcolm Hoenlein, the executive vice chairman of the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations, an umbrella group of 52 national organizations... said that the deal failed to provide a mechanism for the verification and dismantling of Iran's nuclear weapons production infrastructure...

Pooya Dayanim, president of the Iranian Jewish Public Affairs Committee... "My advice to the U.S. and other wise nations," Dayanim said, "is to assume the worst and draft their contingency plans accordingly." more

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Kay: Wrong evidence on Iraq sets tougher standard for Iran - CNN

The former chief weapons hunter, David Kay speaks out:

"We have the makings, really, of a perfect storm," Kay said. "U.S. intelligence capability to warn -- and the secretary of state's capability to warn -- about weapons programs has been seriously impeded by the false warnings given about Iraq."

Kay also questioned the origins of the information released earlier this week. more

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Bush Confronts New Challenge on Issue of Iran - NY Times

Iran is finally getting the attention of the US administration it deserves. A few excerpts:

At the moment, administration officials say there are no prominent members of Mr. Bush's inner circle enthusiastic about the European approach of negotiating with Iran...

American contacts with Iran were cut off last May, when Iran was linked to groups that carried out bombings in Saudi Arabia. ...

[m]any in the administration say that Iran is not likely to enter into talks with the United States, as the Europeans want, because the revolutionary clerics who control the government are unalterably opposed to engaging with a country it considers the enemy.

"You can't call yourself a revolutionary regime and also negotiate with the Great Satan," said an administration official. more

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The Elephant in the Room, Part 3 - WindsofChange.Net

Dan Darling provides further anaysis of the US News and World Report expose of Iran's efforts to destroy democracy in Iraq. Dan Darling completes his anaysis of the US News and World Report expose of Iran's efforts to destroy democracy in Iraq. A Must Read!


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The Future of the Iranian Nuclear Program, Part II - The Adventures of Chester

An interesting series.


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What the 2nd Bush administration - WorldTribune.com

An interesting read.

The only thing the Iranians need is open U.S. moral and political support give them the psychological impetus to act. more

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Iranian group claims 'new' nuke facility in Tehran - CNN

Iran violating agreement already.

An Iranian opposition group says it has disclosed the location of what it claims is a newly discovered nuclear weapons research facility in Tehran. ...

Sources in the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI) told CNN there was a weapons site in the Lavizan district of the capital that was under the control of the Ministry of Defense.

The group said the Iranian regime moved various nuclear equipment to the new site after its previous facility in the Bagh Sian area in Lavizan was publicized and subsequently visited by the International Atomic Energy Agency. more

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Khomeini in Dearborn - Front Page Magazine

Khomeini a hero in Dearborn, Michigan?

Last Friday, Muslims in Dearborn, Michigan, held an anti-American, anti-Israel demonstration. Protestors carried a large model of Jerusalem’s Al-Aqsa Mosque and waved signs bearing slogans such as “US Hands Off Muslim Land.” But the most arresting image was of a Muslim woman carrying a large sign featuring the face of the Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini. ...

Was the woman who carried Khomeini’s image in the Dearborn demonstration concerned about the human rights of women? Did she know that the Ayatollah himself married a ten-year-old girl when he was twenty-eight? Did she know that Khomeini called marriage to a girl before her first menstrual period “a divine blessing,” and advised the faithful: “Do your best to ensure that your daughters do not see their first blood in your house”?

It is unlikely that the protestor knew that in 1985, Sa’id Raja’i-Khorassani, the Permanent Delegate to the United Nations from the Islamic Republic of Iran, declared, according to Amir Taheri, that “the very concept of human rights was ‘a Judeo-Christian invention’ and inadmissible in Islam. . . . According to Ayatollah Khomeini, one of the Shah’s ‘most despicable sins’ was the fact that Iran was one of the original group of nations that drafted and approved the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.” more

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Iran has black market nuclear bomb drawings, still enriches uranium: opposition - Yahoo News

The Chinese/Khan connection.

Iran bought blueprints of a nuclear bomb from the same black-market network that gave Libya such diagrams and continues to enrich uranium despite a commitment to suspend the technology that can be used for atomic weapons, an Iranian opposition group said Wednesday. ...

Libya bought engineers' drawings of a Chinese-made bomb through the Khan network as part of a covert nuclear program that it renounced last year. more

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Powell Says Iran Is Pursuing Bomb - Washington Post

Powell is blowing the lift off of Iran'a nuclear weapons program. What a signal he is sending to the world. Amazing.

The United States has intelligence that Iran is working to adapt missiles to deliver a nuclear weapon, further evidence that the Islamic republic is determined to acquire a nuclear bomb, Secretary of State Colin L. Powell said Wednesday.

"I have seen some information that would suggest that they have been actively working on delivery systems. . . . You don't have a weapon until you put it in something that can deliver a weapon," Powell told reporters...

Powell also told reporters that the United States had not decided what action to take following Sunday's agreement. more

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Iran's New Alliance With China Could Cost U.S. Leverage - Washington Post

A few excerpts:

Iran is now China's second-largest source of imported oil. ...

Holding a veto at the U.N. Security Council, China has become the key obstacle to putting international pressure on Iran. During a visit to Tehran this month, Foreign Minister Li Zhaoxing signaled that China did not want the Bush administration to press the council to debate Iran's nuclear program. U.S. officials have expressed fear that China's veto power could make Iran more stubborn in the face of U.S. pressure. ...

Last month, the two countries signed a preliminary accord worth $70 billion to $100 billion by which China will purchase Iranian oil and gas and help develop Iran's Yadavaran oil field, near the Iraqi border. Earlier this year, China agreed to buy $20 billion in liquefied natural gas from Iran over a quarter-century.

Iran wants trade to grow even further.

Beijing has also provided Iran with advanced military technology, including missile technology, U.S. officials say. In April, the Bush administration imposed sanctions on Chinese manufacturers of equipment that can be used to develop weapons of mass destruction. ...

"For China, issues like human rights don't affect your relations with Iran," Namazi said.

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War on terror is on track - USA Today

Michael Ledeen believes we are on the right track in the war on terror.


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Iranian Justice? - DoctorZin

Iran's Judicary is out of control. Here a few examples:

A 14 year old boy is sentenced to 85 lashes for breaking his Ramadan fast! Iran Press News [and he died]

Iranian boy,16, sentenced to death for murder Iran Press News

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The Future of the Iranian Nuclear Program, Part I - The Adventures of Chester

An iteresting analysis. Here are a few excerpts:

The current diplomatic agreement between Iran and several nations of the EU has no verification mechanism...

Overthrowing governments used to be one of the core competencies of the CIA. This skill may not be as honed as we would like, but it is there, deep down. ... more

Tomorrow . . . GOALS OF US ACTION, in The Future of the Iranian Nuclear Program, Part II.

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Bush's New Start With France - Washington Post

Is there a thaw in US/French relations?

The French, despite their anger at being demonized during the campaign, were also ready to make a new start. The first step was a phone call a week ago from Jacques Chirac to Bush. The French president began by listing areas where Franco-American cooperation was working well ...

On Iraq, the French agreed that the only scenario for progress is a successful Iraqi election in January, and they pledged to encourage Iraq's Sunni Muslims to participate. An early test will come when Iraq's Sunni interim president, Ghazi Yawar, visits Paris this month. Yawar has been skittish about the U.S. assault in the Sunni stronghold of Fallujah, but the French will urge him to remain on board for the elections.

"Our motto is 'inclusivity,' " says a French official. "Beyond Fallujah, it's necessary to convince the Sunnis of the Triangle that they will lose everything if they boycott the election." The French also agreed to a compromise formula to forgive more than half of Iraq's $2.9 billion debt to France, considerably more than they had previously offered. more

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Group Says Iran Has Secret Nuclear Arms Program - NY Times

More evidence of Iran's non-compliance with the IAEA.

An Iranian opposition group says it has new evidence that Iran is producing enriched uranium at a covert Defense Ministry
facility in Tehran that has not been disclosed to United Nations inspectors. ...

Officials of the opposition group said they believed that the Iranian Defense Ministry and Revolutionary Guards Corps were pursuing their program in secret and had not told Iran's atomic energy agency of the existence of the facility in Tehran. more

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Uranium metal may suggest Iran arms plan-diplomats - Reuters AlertNet

Problems in the IAEA Report, excerpts:

The IAEA report, a summary of its two-year investigation of Iran's nuclear programme, said Iran had not diverted any of its declared nuclear materials to a weapons programme, but did not rule out the possibility that secret atomic activities existed.

The report said Tehran planned to buy uranium abroad with 19.7 percent uranium-235, the atom needed in big concentrations in weapons, and transform it into metal. The 19.7 percent enrichment level is well above what Iran needs for power plants. ...

"This looks like it was a programme to make weapons-grade uranium metal disguised as one focused on making 19.7 percent enriched uranium metal," David Albright, a former U.N. weapons inspector and head of the Institute for Science and International Security think-tank, told Reuters. more

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Deputy Secretary of State Armitage Quits -Official - Yahoo!

The cleaning of the state department begins.

U.S. Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage has resigned as expected a day after his boss and close friend, Colin Powell, announced he was stepping down, a State Department official said on Tuesday. ...

"He came in with the secretary and is leaving with him," said the official, who asked not to be identified. more

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Iran, EU Differ On Nuclear Suspension - Wall Street Journal

Contrary to the main stream media's reports, the deal is not complete.

[T]he European Union's foreign policy and security chief, Javier Solana, described the agreement as "just the start" of a potentially difficult process, as negotiators tried to secure the ultimate goal of providing "objective guarantees that Iran's nuclear program is exclusively for peaceful purposes." more

Top News Updates:

Students Plan Rally Against Nuclear Iran The Commentator

Straw welcomes Iran's offer on nuclear process Telegraph.uk

Israel fears extremists backed by Iran may try to kill Abbas Haaretz

Bound but Gagged SHIRIN EBADI, NY Times

Riddle of Hizballah Drone's Non-Interception Brought Submarine to Israeli Waters Debka


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Eyewitness: Iranian resistance to the mullahs - The American Thinker

Excerpts:

On July 9, 1999, six days of student-led uprising shook the foundations of Iran’s ruling fundamentalist regime. If not suppressed, the uprising, which quickly spread to nearly two-dozen other cities, had the potential of sweeping the theocracy from power. With the blessing of Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei and President Mohammad Khatami, uniformed and plain-clothes security forces brutally cracked down on students and the thousands of other Iranians who had joined them. Several thousands were arrested and hundreds killed or wounded. ...

What follows is based on one eyewitness account... more

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The Elephant in the Room, Part 2 - Winds of Change

Dan Darling completes his anaysis of the US News and World Report expose of Iran's efforts to destroy democracy in Iraq. A Must Read!


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"Will Iran Be Next?" - The Adventures of Chester

A war game report.

The cover story of the December issue of the Atlantic Monthly is entitled, “Will Iran Be Next? A Pentagon-Style War Game Shows Why Military Strikes Would Invite Disaster.”

A better subtitle would be: “A TV News-Style Roundtable Discussion Shows Why Policy Isn’t Made in One Three-Hour Sitting.” more

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Keeping Iran From The Bomb - Christian Science Monitor

Is Iran hiding something?

The IAEA, meanwhile, reported Monday that all nuclear material that Iran had declared in the past year has been accounted for, "...and therefore we can say that such material is not diverted to prohibited [weapons] activities." The report, however, was inconclusive about any undeclared material Iran may be hiding. more

Top News Updates:

US Skeptical About Iran Nuclear Pledge Voice of America

IRAN- EU’S BIG 3 ANNOUNCES AGREEMENT Iran Press Service


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Powell sees 'progress' on Iran nuke talks - Washington Times

Excerpts:

"We have to work with our European Union friends and with the IAEA to find a solution to the Iranian nuclear program, and we have seen a little bit of progress, hopefully, over the last 24 hours," Powell said Monday. ...

State Department spokesman Richard Boucher was more cautious.

"We don't have it pinned down at this point," he said. ...

Boucher added that Washington's policy of taking Iran to the U.N. Security Council had not changed. more

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EU-Iran Nuclear Deal Hinges on U.S. Engagement - Reuters

While the media is championing the EU's agreement with Iran, the EU negotiators undstand Iran has much to do to resolve the concerns of the US.

Don't think that the story has finished yet," a senior European diplomat said. ...

"We believe very much that negotiations with Iran is the way to final solutions for a number of problems: the nuclear issue, the human rights situation, their Middle East position, terrorism aspects," said Bot, whose country holds the rotating EU presidency.

The Bush administration was fully aware of and briefed on the European initiative and did not oppose it. An EU diplomat said the Europeans sought to move forward with
the "advice and consent" of the United States, which was an important factor although it was not a party to the agreement. more

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The Elephant in the Room, Part 1 - WindsofChange.net

Dan Darling begins his anaysis of the US News and World Report expose of Iran's efforts to destroy democracy in Iraq. A Must Read!


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Bush Administration Cleaning House - DoctorZin

A regime change in Iran is more likely now than ever.

For the past four years, US foreign policy has at times sent the world mixed signals due to a struggle between the US administration and some in the state department and CIA. I am glad to report that this struggle appears to be coming to an end.

This weekend, WorldTribune.com reported:

"There has been a bipolar U.S. foreign policy in which the president has been receiving sharply differing assessments and advice from his most senior aides," an administration source said. "It has disturbed the president and I'm sure he wants this to end before his second term." more

A major shakeup of the CIA is now in the works, NewsDay.com reported:
Sources say White House has ordered new chief to eliminate officers who were disloyal to Bush.

Today Secretary of State Colin Powell has announced his resignation. We can expect a purge of the state department as well.

These are encouraging developments for those that have been seeking a regime change in Iran.

It appears many in congress taking a second look at the House and Senate's Iran Liberation.

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Iran agrees to suspend ["NEARLY ALL"] uranium enrichment - Space War

Nearly all?

In Tehran, nuclear negotiator Hassan Rowhani said Iran had agreed to suspend "nearly all" of its uranium enrichment-related activities as part of a deal with Britain, France and Germany, in a step that eases the threat of possible UN sanctions over its controversial nuclear programme. more

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Text of EU - Iran nuclear agreement - Al Bawaba

Here is the the text of the agreement.

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Iran says nuclear freeze will be brief - Reuters

The EU's "Oil for Nukes" program is a sham.

Asefi stressed that the talks -- and enrichment suspension -- would be brief.

"The talks will be for a short period of time ... more

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Bush Pushes to Keep WMD From Terrorists - NY Times

More pressure coming on Iran and others.

To prevent problems similar to those in Iran, the administration is seeking support for protocols to the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty to make it harder for countries to use nuclear energy programs as a cover for weapons production. more

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Iran says has “suspended’, not “halted’ uranium enrichment - AFP

That which is voluntarily stopped can be restarted.

“We stayed within our red lines, and this red line meant we could suspend enrichment but not stop it,” foreign ministry spokesman Hamid Reza Asefi told reporters. ...

“In the text, we insisted on the fact that the suspension is a voluntary decision and not a legal obligation,” Asefi asserted. ”Iran’s acceptance is political.” more

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Dismantle not Suspend - AdmSmith

The FreeRepublic.com's AdmSmith points out why Iran must destroy not just suspend. more

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Iran Gives Pledge on Uranium, but Europeans Are Cautious - NY Times

The media is playing this story as if the Iranians have agreed to stop all future uranium enrichment.

We should not deceive ourselves. The Iranians speak of suspending not dismantling the program.

The reports themselves show that the "agreement" has not even been seen by the EU yet. How can anyone call this an agreement?

"All three governments need to examine the text carefully to see if this is what we want," said one British official in London.

A French official in Paris said an issue of such magnitude could not be rushed, adding, "We need to get as clear a deal as we can."

However, at the International Atomic Energy Agency, as the watchdog agency is called, the mood was more upbeat. more

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Special Report: The Iran Connection - US News and World Report

This is an exceptional report on Iran's attempts to subvert the new Iraqi government. It is a must read! more

Dan Darling has just published an analysis, also an important read, over at WindsofChange.

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Iran ready to abandon nuclear ambitions for EU trade deals - The Times UK

The details on "the deal" won't be known until early next week.

Despite the apparent change of heart in Tehran, western governments are still reluctant to confirm that the nuclear programme has been fully suspended. “A deal for a full suspension is done, but the agency has not received a letter confirming it. It’s also important that they would have a look at that and see what they signed up to,” one diplomat said.

European foreign ministers will have an opportunity to examine Tehran’s latest commitments in Brussels at the beginning of next week. more

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London based exiled Iranian satellite TV Host Condemned to Death - SMCCDI

More death threats from the Islamic Republic.

The Islamic republic has issued a death sentence against "Forood Fooladvand", an Iranian satellite TV host, exiled in Britain. The death sentence has been published in the form of an article in one of the latest issues of the notorious Kayhan Daily of Tehran.

Fooladvand's alleged 'crime' has been declared as "insulting Islam and its prophet". ...more

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Iran Agrees to EU Demand for Nuke Freeze - Reuters

The Iranians appear to have bought themselves some time. We need to see the details on this.

Iran has agreed to suspend its uranium enrichment program in an attempt to ease concerns that its nuclear program is aimed at developing atomic weapons, a Western diplomat close to the United Nations said on Sunday. ...

A deal for a full suspension is done but the IAEA has not received a letter confirming it. That's also important that they would have a look at that and see what they (Iran) signed on to," the diplomat told Reuters. ...

Once confirmed by IAEA inspectors on the ground, this suspension by Iran will almost certainly protect it from being reported to the U.N. Security Council for possible economic sanctions when the IAEA board of governors meets on Nov. 25. more

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Iran and the bomb - US News and World Report

Is regime change in Iran about to become US policy?

Sentiment in Congress has been building to pass an "Iran Liberation Act," making regime change in Tehran official U.S. policy. more

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Desire for Nuclear Empowerment a Uniting Factor in Iran - Washington Post

The Mullahs of Iran are using the conflict with the US over nuclear technology to their advantage. We need to be wise in how we play our cards.

Iranians are deeply divided on politics, the economy, the role of religion in government and a dress code for women. But reformers and conservatives, urban and rural, old and young, rich and poor, and men and women generally agree on one thing: Iran needs nuclear energy, and despite its oil and gas riches, the world should not deprive it of the technology, even though it could also be used to develop weapons.

Iranians cite four reasons for their increasingly fierce determination to acquire nuclear technology: the economics of oil, a population boom that is consuming more energy, regional security and anger at what many perceive as a U.S. ultimatum that Iran end its nuclear program. more

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Bush weighs changes to end 'bipolar' Mideast policy - WorldTribune.Com

Will Colin Powell be around in President Bush's second term?

President George Bush is considering a major shakeup in his administration to ensure a unified U.S. policy on the Middle East.

Administration sources said Bush was examining recommendations to replace senior officials before the start of his second term in an effort to avoid the foreign policy split that characterized his administration since 2001. The dispute, which pitted the Defense Department against the State Department, was said to have extended to virtually every aspect of U.S. policy in the Middle East, particularly Iran, Iraq and Syria. ...

Tenet has resigned from the CIA and Powell was expected to announce his departure over the next few weeks. more

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No plan for regime change in Iran: Powell - SMH

Colin Powell's statements:

"We are not getting ready to invade Iran," Powell told CNBC television when asked if having 140,000 troops in Iraq makes it easier to deal with Iran.

"We have no intention of regime change. That is our policy: no regime change," he said, although he added "we don't approve of this regime.

"It is up to the Iranian people to decide what they are going to do with respect to their future and how they are going to be led," Powell said. more

Secretary Powell, how about making it perfectly clear to the Iranian people that we would support them if they chose to change their government?


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