Monday, February 28, 2005

Monday's Daily Briefing on Iran

DoctorZin reports, 2.28.2005:
India Daily claims: America can take over Iran surprisingly easily in a few weeks of fighting

In the last two years, American have mastered such technologies that Iran will not be able to stand even days.

Pakistani President Gen. Pervez Musharraf said on Feb. 25 that Pakistan would remain neutral in the case of a U.S. attack against Iran over Tehran's nuclear program. However, he expressed hope that such an attack would not occur.

General Musharraf seems to know something that the world does not know yet.
Here are a few of items you may have missed.
  • In 1987, AQ Khan offered Iran nuclear a starter kit for nuclear enrichment.
  • Iranian MP's want to expel French reporters in response to the French decision to halt an Iranian broadcast in France.
  • Sen. John McCain thinks we should bar Russia from the upcoming G8 meeting, in response to their agreement with Iran on nuclear fuel.
  • Iran takes a hawkish position prior to the upcoming OPEC meetingg.
  • Time magazine take a look at last Tuesday's earthquake and points out that Tehran sits on a major fault line.
  • Former President Bill Clinton thinks President Bush's next four years will be marked by diplomacy not military action.
  • 150 Students protest in Tehran.
  • Did the war on terror start with Salman Rushdie fatwa? An interesting read.
  • Mark Steyn thinks we should just still back and watch Europe implode.
  • Victor Davis Hanson also has some hard truth for Europe.
  • And finally, Kenneth Pollack provides his reading of the future of Iran.