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Wednesday, 05 September 2007 |
 Washington Post - Editorial: For some time Mohamed ElBaradei, the Egyptian diplomat who heads the International Atomic Energy Agency, has made it clear he considers himself above his position as a U.N. civil servant. Rather than carry out the policy of the Security Council or the IAEA board, for which he nominally works, Mr. ElBaradei behaves as if he were independent of them, free to ignore their decisions and to use his agency to thwart their leading members -- above all the United States. |
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Tuesday, 04 September 2007 |
 Human Events: For 17 years before the US invasion of Iraq, a lion roamed the border, foraging into Iran on occasion before returning to its Iraqi safe haven. Its prey was the Iranian mullahs' elite military force -- the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC). It enjoyed tremendous hunting prowess, growing in size and strength. |
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Sunday, 02 September 2007 |
 Sunday Telegraph: Recent events have again highlighted the most baffling riddle of our foreign policy. Why, in striking contrast to the new hard line of Washington, is the European Union, led by the British Government, going out of its way to appease the brutal and fanatical regime whose terrorist activities do more than anything else to destabilise the Middle East, from the Lebanon to Afghanistan? |
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Saturday, 01 September 2007 |
 FOX News - By Lt. Col. Oliver North: If September goes as August ended, this is going to be a very interesting month. On Monday, President Bush told the American Legion in Reno, Nev. that two dangerous strands of Islamic extremism are converging in Iraq, “supported and embodied by the regime that sits in Tehran.” He went on to warn that the Iranians “must halt these actions.” |
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Thursday, 30 August 2007 |
 The Times - Leading Article: Rarely has his message been as blunt. Denouncing support for terrorism, arming of Iraqi militias and attempts to place the Middle East “under the shadow of a nuclear holocaust”, President Bush accused Iran of threatening the security of nations everywhere. |
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Tuesday, 28 August 2007 |
 Washington Post: This month, the Bush administration tightened the screws on Iran yet again. Its move to formally designate Iran's elite Revolutionary Guard Corps as a terrorist organization is the latest in a wave of state, federal and international efforts to pressure the regime of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad into reconsidering its nuclear weapons program and increasingly aggressive sponsorship of terrorism throughout the Middle East. |
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Tuesday, 28 August 2007 |
 Washington Times: This summer, there has been an unprecedented increase in the number of executions in Iran. Since July, the Iranian state media have reported at least 86 executions. Twenty-one were hanged in public and 58 in prisons nationwide, including 12 hanged simultaneously in the notorious Evin prison in Tehran. |
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Monday, 27 August 2007 |
 Washington Times: Speaking before the Democratic Leadership Council recently, former President Clinton urged "more diplomacy" as a way to ameliorate America's hostile relationship with countries like Iran. Simply waving a diplomatic wand in front of this enemy won't make the problems it is causing in Iraq and elsewhere disappear. |
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Tuesday, 21 August 2007 |
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Washington Post - Editorial: Iran's Revolutionary Guard Corps is a sprawling organization involved in myriad activities, including guarding borders, pumping oil, operating ports, smuggling, manufacturing pharmaceuticals, building Iran's nuclear program -- and supplying the weapons that are killing a growing number of American soldiers in Iraq. |
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Sunday, 19 August 2007 |
 Chicago Tribune: On the surface, Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki's visit to Tehran on Aug. 8 to talk with President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was another effort to enlist Iran's help in bringing security to Iraq. The real purpose, however, was quite different. Al-Maliki's trip helped smooth the way for the Iranian clerics to install a sister Islamic republic in Iraq. |
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Sunday, 19 August 2007 |
 New York Times: Prime Minister Nuri Kamal al-Maliki has lost the support of the largest Shiite, Sunni and secular parties in Parliament. Some American officials privately describe him as a paranoid failure, while his only recent success has been a meeting on Saturday with senior Sunni, Shiite and Kurdish leaders. It yielded little more than promises of future compromise. |
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Saturday, 18 August 2007 |
 Sunday Telegraph: As the zealous enforcers of Iran's Islamic revolution, they are at pains to be seen living humbly, maintaining homes in the crumbling Soviet-style slums of downtown Teheran and driving modest, imported Korean cars. |
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Friday, 17 August 2007 |
 TIME: Washington's reported plan to name Iran's Revolutionary Guards as a "specially designated global terrorist" organization may be less about raising pressure on Tehran than about raising pressure on U.S. allies to support a tougher line with Iran. |
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Tuesday, 14 August 2007 |
 Wall Street Journal: European resistance to American triumphalism has its uses. But with respect to Iran, Europe's behavior is downright dangerous. Our welcome guest, French President Nicolas Sarkozy -- who just visited President Bush in Maine after vacationing in New Hampshire -- could change this. |
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Friday, 10 August 2007 |
 Washington Post: Both the U.N. Security Council and the International Atomic Energy Agency have found Iran in breach of its obligations under the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty. The IAEA reports that Iran ignored the Security Council's February deadline to stop enriching uranium and has even expanded its nuclear program. |
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Friday, 10 August 2007 |
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Washington Post: Fourteen months after Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice offered to talk to Iran, the failure of carrot-and-stick diplomacy to block Tehran's nuclear and regional ambitions is producing a new drumbeat for bolder action, including the possible use of force. |
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Wednesday, 08 August 2007 |
 UPI: Military cooperation between the countries of the Arabian Peninsula goes back more than a quarter century, but a potential $20 billion U.S. arms sale promises to bring them even greater coordination against a possible Iranian missile threat. |
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Friday, 03 August 2007 |
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TIME: Twenty billion dollars in new U.S. arms shipments for Saudi Arabia and neighboring gulf states like Kuwait, Oman, Qatar and the U.A.E. Another $13 billion in weaponry for Egypt. And Israel, ever mindful of maintaining an edge over its Arab neighbors, could get $30 billion worth of new U.S. equipment. |
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Wednesday, 01 August 2007 |
 The Times - Leading Article: For an American secretary of state and secretary of defence to visit the Middle East jointly is rare, and an indication of the strategic and political importance of this turbulent region. More unusual still is an announcement by Washington of huge arms deals to Israel and key Arab states without immediate uproar and accusations, by both sides, of bias. |
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Sunday, 29 July 2007 |
 Washington Times: More than four decades ago, while I was a Naval Academy Midshipman visiting this delightful seaport city, one of my "summer reading" texts was "Sufferings in Africa." |
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Thursday, 26 July 2007 |
 The Hill - By Dick Armey: During the Cold War, the free world was threatened by a nuclear-armed state based on a radical, all-encompassing and discredited ideology, a regime that projected an aggressive agenda of global domination even as it struggled to keep its own dissatisfied citizens in line back home. |
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Tuesday, 17 July 2007 |
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FOX News: Iran’s broad and destructive activities in Iraq are bringing renewed attention to the Iranian regime’s longstanding role as the world’s leading state sponsor of terrorism. |
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Wednesday, 11 July 2007 |
 New York Sun - Editorial: The news from Iran is of a harsh crackdown. The Associated Press yesterday picked up a report from the government controlled news agency there that Iran "has arrested 20 people — including some foreigners — near the border with Iraq and accused them of belonging to a spy network." |
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Monday, 09 July 2007 |
 Human Events - by Jed Babbin: Let it be said once and with precision: whether George W. Bush recovers his political clout is much less important than many other problems we face. Those who are charting paths for his recovery are just reprocessing the conservative principles that the president has spent the last six years rejecting.
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Friday, 06 July 2007 |
 MSNBC: It comes as no surprise that Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps Qods Force, the elite special operations unit, was involved in the January attack in Karbala that killed five American soldiers. |
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Friday, 06 July 2007 |
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Los Angeles Times: In the Gaza Strip, Islamists aided by Iran finish off forces loyal to Washington's ally, Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas. |
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Friday, 06 July 2007 |
 Wall Street Journal: Earlier this week, the U.S. military made public new and disturbing information about the proxy war that Iran is waging against American soldiers and our allies in Iraq. |
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Monday, 02 July 2007 |
 Wall Street Journal: The international community, led by the U.S. and the U.K., is now developing and debating new economic sanctions against Iran. This third round will be pivotal -- either by significantly increasing the cost to Iran of continuing to engage in illicit and dangerous activities, or by showing the regime that it can outlast whatever symbolic measures are levied against it without fear of being bled financially. |
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Friday, 29 June 2007 |
 AP: President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad swept to power promising to bring oil revenues to every family but he now faces growing domestic discontent over newly imposed fuel rationing and skyrocketing prices. |
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Friday, 29 June 2007 |
 FOX News: When Mahmoud Ahmadinejad campaigned for president two years ago, he promised Iranians that he would put the country’s oil wealth “on people’s tables.” Not only has he failed to make this or any of his economic pledges come to pass, he has stood at the helm of an economy so in shambles that the government was forced this week to impose gas rationing. |
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