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Thursday, 11 October 2007 |
 FOX News: As expected, the Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad brought a briefcase full of denials to New York last month. When asked about providing training and weapons to militias in Iraq, he said, “Why would we want to do that?” Commenting on Iran’s long-term, clandestine nuclear program, he claimed, “all our nuclear activities have been completely peaceful and transparent.” Most viewers shook their heads in disbelief that he could utter such blatant lies from a Columbia University podium.
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Monday, 08 October 2007 |
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Reuters: French President Nicolas Sarkozy on Tuesday holds his first bilateral summit with Russia's Vladimir Putin in Moscow, where their shared pragmatism might help them do business despite sharp diplomatic differences. |
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Monday, 08 October 2007 |
 Newsweek: Last March, Sen. Jim Webb of Virginia introduced a bill to insist that President Bush get congressional authorization if he wanted to attack Iran. The bill languished in obscurity until last week, when Webb got his first and only cosponsor: the Democratic presidential front runner, Sen. Hillary Clinton, who was evidently in too much of a hurry to give Webb the customary senatorial heads-up. |
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Thursday, 04 October 2007 |
 The Economist: Iran carries on enriching uranium regardless at its nuclear plant at Natanz. Diplomats from the five veto-wielding members of the UN Security Council (America, Britain, France, Russia and China) plus Germany, unable to agree on tougher sanctions in the face of such defiance, are left sucking their pencils. |
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Thursday, 04 October 2007 |
 Washington Times: On Oct. 23, 1983, the government of Iran sent a truck bomb into the Marine Corps barracks in Beirut, Lebanon, destroying the building like a child smashing play-doh. Two hundred and forty-one men were killed, and countless others were wounded. It was mass murder. |
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Tuesday, 02 October 2007 |
 Wall Street Journal - By STUART LEVEY: Tehran's pursuit of nuclear weapons and its radical foreign policies have provoked international sanctions. Its financial subterfuge has led key banks and businesses world-wide to sever their Iranian business ties, and President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's blunders are debilitating Iran's economy. As a result of the regime's choices, Iran is headed toward isolation and economic hardship. |
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Saturday, 29 September 2007 |
 Wall Street Journal: On March 17, 1992, a suicide bomber crashed an explosive-filled truck into a building filled with Israelis in Buenos Aires. The bombing was so powerful that the destruction covered several city blocks -- 29 innocents were killed and hundreds more were injured. This occurred more than 8,000 miles from Tehran. |
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Friday, 28 September 2007 |
 San Antonio Express-News - Editorial: Investing in evil is not worth it. Gov. Rick Perry knows it, and he wants state pension funds to realize it as well. The governor is asking multibillion-dollar state pension funds for a plan to divest any holdings in companies that do direct business with Iran, the Express-News reported. Perry gave them 30 days; we hope they comply. |
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Friday, 28 September 2007 |
 Washington Post: Ahmadinejad at Columbia provided the entertainment, but Sarkozy at the United Nations provided the substance. On the largest possible stage -- the U.N. General Assembly -- President Nicolas Sarkozy put Iran on notice. His predecessor, Jacques Chirac, had said that France could live with an Iranian nuclear bomb. Sarkozy said that France cannot. |
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Friday, 28 September 2007 |
 Wall Street Journal - REVIEW & OUTLOOK: Kudos to Hillary Clinton -- yes, you read that right -- for her Senate vote this week urging the U.S. to designate Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps as a foreign terrorist organization. That's more than can be said for her primary competition of Barack Obama, Chris Dodd, Bill Richardson and John Edwards, who assailed her on this score at Wednesday's Democratic Presidential candidates debate at Dartmouth. |
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Thursday, 27 September 2007 |
 Washington Post - Editorial: The furor that Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has created in New York this week has served his repugnant purposes in a couple of ways. First, like other anti-American demagogues, he has managed to use a visit to the U.N. General Assembly to convey an image of himself as engaged in mano-a-mano ideological combat with the U.S. |
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Thursday, 27 September 2007 |
 Wall Street Journal - REVIEW & OUTLOOK: The traveling Mahmoud Ahmadinejad circus made for great political theater this week, but the comedy shouldn't detract from its brazen underlying message: The Iranian President believes that the world lacks the will to stop Iran from pursuing its nuclear program, and that the U.S. also can't stop his country from killing GIs in Iraq. The question is what President Bush intends to do about this in his remaining 16 months in office. |
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Thursday, 27 September 2007 |
 New York Times - Editorial: Like Mohamed ElBaradei, we want to make sure what he calls the “crazies” don’t start a war with Iran. We fear his do-it-yourself diplomacy is playing right into the crazies’ hands — in Washington and Tehran.
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Tuesday, 25 September 2007 |
 Washington Post: "For hundreds of years, we've lived in friendship and brotherhood with the people of Iraq," Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad told the National Press Club yesterday. |
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Monday, 24 September 2007 |
 Washington Times - Editorial: Not since the days of Adolf Hitler and the Third Reich has a head of state spoken as openly about the destruction of Jewish people and his contempt for the Western democracies and international law as Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. |
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Monday, 24 September 2007 |
 New York Times: When Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was first elected president, he said Iran had more important issues to worry about than how women dress. He even called for allowing women into soccer games, a revolutionary idea for revolutionary Iran. Today, Iran is experiencing the most severe crackdown on social behavior and dress in years, and women are often barred from smoking in public, let alone attending a stadium event. |
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Sunday, 23 September 2007 |
 Newsweek: Sam Gardiner plays war for a living. a former air Force colonel who helped write contingency plans for the U.S. military, Gardiner has spent the 20 years since his retirement staging war-simulation exercises for military and policy wonks within and on the fringes of government (he keeps his client list confidential). |
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Thursday, 20 September 2007 |
 Washington Times - Editorial: It's becoming increasingly clear that when it comes to dealing with Iranian nuclear weapons programs, the election of Nicolas Sarkozy as president of France has given a tremendous boost to Western resolve. In stark contrast to his predecessor, Jacques Chirac, who said that an Iranian bomb would "not be very dangerous," Mr. Sarkozy says this would be intolerable. |
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Thursday, 20 September 2007 |
 The Economist: France's president, Nicolas Sarkozy, is pushing for tougher tactics towards Iran. |
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Tuesday, 18 September 2007 |
 Daily Telegraph: The leader of Iran's Islamic Revolution, Ayatollah Khomeini, once declared that "economics was for donkeys". These words could sum up the regime's management of the economy. |
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Monday, 17 September 2007 |
 New York Times: Late in August, Mohamed ElBaradei put the finishing touches on a nuclear accord negotiated in secret with Iran. The deal would be divisive and risky, one of the biggest gambles of his 10 years as director general of the International Atomic Energy Agency. Iran would answer questions about its clandestine nuclear past in exchange for a series of concessions. With no advance notice or media strategy, Dr. ElBaradei ordered the plan released in the evening. And then he waited.
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Saturday, 15 September 2007 |
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New York Times: While scrutiny this week focused on the debate over troop strength, President Bush also used the occasion to turn up the pressure on Iran, using his speech on Thursday to stress the need to contain Iran as a major reason for the continued American presence in Iraq. |
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Tuesday, 11 September 2007 |
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TIME: Nicaragua, the Central American nation noted for its connection to Iran during a political scandal two decades ago, is coming under fresh scrutiny for its ties to Tehran. |
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Tuesday, 11 September 2007 |
 Wall Street Journal - REVIEW & OUTLOOK: A major theme emerging from yesterday's testimony by General David Petraeus and Ambassador Ryan Crocker is the harm being done to U.S. interests in Iraq by the government of Iran. So you have to wonder what was going through the heads of Vermont Democrat Pat Leahy and fellow Senators who recently slashed support for Iranian democrats.
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Monday, 10 September 2007 |
 New York Sun: America is about to invade Iran. Any day now divisions of American tanks will be rolling toward Tehran as President Bush and the neoconservatives plunge the world into yet another disastrous war. |
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Monday, 10 September 2007 |
 Wall Street Journal - REVIEW & OUTLOOK: If Europeans sometimes seem of two (or more) minds about Iran's nuclear aspirations, that's because they are. A pair of surveys released last week reflect a deep divide between ordinary Europeans and their leaders as to seriousness of the threat and whether force might need to be used to counter it. |
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Thursday, 06 September 2007 |
 Washington Times: It's about time. The Bush administration has finally decided to designate Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) as a global terrorist group. My only question: What took them so long?
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Wednesday, 05 September 2007 |
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Detroit Free Press: As America anticipates the reports next month from Gen. David Petraeus and Ambassador Ryan Crocker on the current military and political status of our efforts in Iraq, more and more attention is being paid to the destabilizing and deadly role being played by Iran in this conflict. And rightfully so. |
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Wednesday, 05 September 2007 |
 UPI: New reports from Iran say the Islamic republic is running more than 3,000 centrifuges, an announcement that is certain to augment fears in Washington and Western Europe that Iran’s nuclear program is for military, rather than civilian, use, as Iran’s leadership insists. |
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Wednesday, 05 September 2007 |
 Detroit Free Press: Like me, many Americans are spending this week buying the last-minute pencils, backpacks and school clothes our kids need as they head back to their classrooms. As we are busy with this important task, I hope we don't forget about a threat that is looming 3,000 miles away. |
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