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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 |
 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 |
 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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Wednesday, 20 June 2007 |
 Reuters: Sanctions and insufficient funding are thwarting Iran's ambitious plans to nearly double domestic oil refinery capacity to end its dependency on expensive imported fuels. |
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Tuesday, 19 June 2007 |
 Wall Street Journal - By Dirk Niebel: Iran is doing more these days than just ignoring global concerns over its nuclear program. The Islamic Republic is increasingly taunting the international community, making clear that it has no intention of abandoning its program and almost daring Western nations to stop it. |
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Saturday, 16 June 2007 |
 Sunday Telegraph: High on the agenda of this week's meeting of EU foreign ministers in Luxembourg will be one of the most curious and scandalous mysteries of British politics. This is the puzzle of why our Government, with the personal support of Tony Blair, should have persuaded the European Council to act in flagrant breach of EU law, in order to appease the murderous regime in Teheran which is doing more than anyone else to destabilise the entire Middle East, not least by pouring arms across its borders which are being used to kill allied troops in both Iraq and Afghanistan. |
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Friday, 15 June 2007 |
 Washington Times - By Tom Tancredo and Bob Filner: Since the theocratic regime of Ayatollah Khomeini seized power in 1979, and under Khomeini's successors, Iran has consistently out-maneuvered the United States and our allies through a crafty combination of diplomatic manipulation; exploitation of commercial considerations; support for terrorists and kidnappers; the use of proxy agents in Iraq, Lebanon and elsewhere; and, in recent years, playing the nuclear card. |
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Monday, 11 June 2007 |
 Newsweek: Condoleezza Rice has steered the administration back toward diplomacy, but she's still being harried by hard-liners. |
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Tuesday, 05 June 2007 |
 UPI: Although a resumption of relations between Iran and Egypt after a quarter of a century may signal a change in diplomacy in the region, it is unlikely to solve the energy woes of either country.
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Friday, 01 June 2007 |
 UPI: Euphoria over the outcome of the talks between Washington and Tehran has given the die-hard proponents of conciliation with the Iranian mullahs a glimmer of hope. As illusory as they are, these expectations reveal a blurred understanding of the state of affairs in Iran and the essence of the Iranian mullahs' foreign and domestic policy. |
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Tuesday, 29 May 2007 |
 Washington Post - Editorial: As the U.N. Security Council's latest deadline for Tehran to suspend uranium enrichment passed last week, U.N. inspectors reported that 2,100 centrifuges were operating or under construction at the Natanz plant, more than triple the number of three months ago. |
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Monday, 28 May 2007 |
 FOX News: On Monday, May 28 2007, the United States and Iran begin a rare face-to-face discussion regarding the security of Iraq. Tragically, for Iraq and the entire region, they come to the table with a set of goals that are diametrically opposed. One wants to escalate violence and further subvert the country while the other wants to reduce tension and stabilize the nation. One seeks to establish a radical theocratic state modeled after its own, and the other a secular Iraq. |
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Thursday, 24 May 2007 |
 AP: U.S. sanctions against Iran have caused damage to the country's economy, Iranian business leaders and analysts say, even as the U.N. Security Council prepares to consider additional measures to force Iran to curb its nuclear program. |
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Tuesday, 08 May 2007 |
 Reuters: Companies and government agencies in three dozen countries have struck more than $153 billion in deals with Iran since 2000, investment that could offer important leverage to help persuade Tehran to abandon its nuclear program, a new study says. |
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Monday, 16 April 2007 |
 New York Times: Two years ago, the leaders of Saudi Arabia told international atomic regulators that they could foresee no need for the kingdom to develop nuclear power. Today, they are scrambling to hire atomic contractors, buy nuclear hardware and build support for a regional system of reactors. |
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Sunday, 08 April 2007 |
 Sunday Times - Leading Article: Today’s Easter Sunday pulpits will resound to predictable themes. Relief that the 15 British sailors and marines were returned home safely after their 13-day incarceration in Iran. Sorrow and prayers for the four British soldiers, including two women, killed by a roadside bomb in Basra on the day the sailors and marines were flying home. Hope for a better and more peaceful future.
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Friday, 06 April 2007 |
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Daily Telegraph: Suddenly, Iran is everybody's friend. The safe return to Britain of 15 sailors and Marines in time to celebrate Easter with their families and friends has shown the ayatollahs in a new light. Gone is the image of a regime that represses its people and seeks the annihilation of its foes. Forgotten are the chants of the Friday prayer worshippers calling for the destruction of America, the "Great Satan", and "Little Satan", as Britain is disparagingly referred to in the parlance of Iran's radical mosques. |
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