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Iran-Europe gas deals anger Washington
By Daniel Dombey in Washington, Anna Fifield in Tehran and Haig Simonian in Zurich
April 30 2008 -The Financial Times
The US and its allies are worried that the sanctions regime against Tehran is under threat from a possible new wave of European investment in Iran’s strategically important gas sector.
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United States is drawing up plans to strike on Iranian insurgency camp
By Damien McElroy - UK Telegraph - 05/06/2008
The US military is drawing up plans for a “surgical strike” against an insurgent training camp inside Iran if Republican Guards continue with attempts to destabilize Iraq, western intelligence sources said last week. One source said the Americans were growing increasingly angry at the involvement of the Guards’ special-operations Quds force inside Iraq, training Shi’ite militias and smuggling weapons into the country.
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The Military Persepctive
Retired Colonel Speaks about Bush Policies toward Iran
Through a series of emails Sam Gardiner Colonel, USAF (retired), describes how the Bush adminstration has been building up for war with Iran.
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How Iran Sees the US Primaries
By Scott MacLeod - Time Magazine - Apr. 21, 2008
From President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's office and the sitting rooms of high-ranking mullahs to university campuses and the Farsi-language blogosphere, Iranians are following the American presidential race more avidly than ever before.
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Iran must be included in peace talks
TRITA PARSI, National Iranian American Council - December 12, 2007
In light of the National Intelligence Estimate on Iran released last
week, the Bush administration's choice to exclude Iran from the
Annapolis meeting in late November looks all the more foolhardy.
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NEOCONS React to the NIE on Iran
Philip Giraldi, Blogger Huffington Post December 10, 2007
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Initiate diplomatic surge with Iran
Peter Wilk, M.D. Physicians for Social Responsibility - December 11, 2007
Many have followed with alarm the release of the National
Intelligence Estimate revealing that the administration knew (at
least by this past August, if not earlier) that Iran does not have a
nuclear-weapons program.
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Had Ahmadinejad not been elected, Iran’s nuclear trajectory would not have been all that different. The desire to deter the United States and project power in the Middle East has pressed successive Iranian regimes towards the nuclear option. ... And while Washington bitterly complains of Iran’s mischief and intervention in Iraqi politics, blame for Iran’s influence in Iraq rests not with Ahmadinejad but with an ill-advised American invasion that facilitated the rise of Shia parties closely associated with Iran.
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