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Monday, 02 April 2007 |
 The Sun - The Sun Says: Margaret Thatcher and Margaret Beckett share a first name but that’s all. |
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Monday, 02 April 2007 |
 Iran Focus: London, Apr. 02 - The following are a collection of political cartoons which have appeared in British dailies over the past two weeks regarding the arrest of 15 British sailors and marines by Iran: |
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Monday, 02 April 2007 |
 Iran Focus: London, Apr. 02 – The following are snippets of what Britain’s dailies have been saying about the capture of 15 British sailors and marines by Iran’s Revolutionary Guards: |
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Monday, 02 April 2007 |
 Sunday Telegraph - Leaders: The Prime Minister is right about one thing. The kidnapping of 15 British soldiers and sailors by the Iranians is indeed "unjustified and wrong". The question is what to do about it. Tony Blair's dismal foreign policy record over the past decade means that Britain has very few options. |
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Monday, 02 April 2007 |
 Washington Times - Editorial: Now that she has won House passage of legislation that would micromanage the way to defeat in Iraq, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi finds herself struggling to come up with a coherent policy toward Iran. |
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Sunday, 01 April 2007 |
 Sunday Times - Leading Article: There is growing evidence that the kidnapping of 15 British sailors nine days ago was a premeditated act of aggression by Iran. It is almost certainly no coincidence that the hijacking in Iraqi waters occurred the day before the United Nations security council voted to tighten sanctions on Iran over its nuclear weapons’ programme. |
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Saturday, 31 March 2007 |
 Daily Telegraph - Leaders: It is one thing to be disliked; quite another to be despised. Iran would not have kidnapped our Servicemen without having considered our rules of engagement, our diplomatic isolation and our likely military response, and made a rough calculation of how likely they were to get away with their piracy. |
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Thursday, 29 March 2007 |
 Washington Times: The Iranian-staged capture of 15 British service members who were clearly in Iraqi waters needs to be seen as another blatant "act of war" against the United States. This time, the mullahs' target was the United Kingdom, America's closest ally in the war against terrorism. This |
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Thursday, 29 March 2007 |
 Los Angeles Times: If Europeans won't come to the aid of the kidnapped British sailors, what good is the European Union? |
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Tuesday, 27 March 2007 |
 The Times - Leading Article: It is time to stop appeasing those who kidnapped the servicemen. |
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Tuesday, 27 March 2007 |
 Reuters: Iran's move to curb cooperation with U.N. nuclear monitors could free it to build back-up uranium enrichment facilities in secret for use if the United States bombed its flagship Natanz plant, some analysts say.
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Monday, 26 March 2007 |
 Wall Street Journal - REVIEW & OUTLOOK: Advocates of engagement with Tehran often claim that the Islamic Republic long ago shed its revolutionary pretensions in favor of becoming a "status quo" power. They might want to share that soothing wisdom with the families of the 15 British sailors and marines kidnapped Friday in Iraqi territorial waters by the naval forces of the elite, and aptly named, Iranian Revolutionary Guards. |
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Monday, 26 March 2007 |
 Daily Telegraph - Leaders: The last time Iranian forces kidnapped British naval personnel from Iraqi territorial waters, in 2004, the hostages were released after three days. |
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Sunday, 25 March 2007 |
 Daily Telegraph - Analysis: It's a typical Iranian tactic. The moment Teheran finds itself in a tight corner it pulls off a stunt designed to divert the world's attention away from the issue that is causing it difficulty. |
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Sunday, 25 March 2007 |
 Sunday Times - Leading Article: Iran’s brinkmanship has entered a new and potentially dangerous phase. The 15 Royal Navy personnel captured on Friday were moved to Tehran yesterday, presumably for propaganda purposes. So far, calls for their safe return by Margaret Beckett, the foreign secretary, have fallen on deaf ears, as have her demands for a full explanation from Tehran. |
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Saturday, 24 March 2007 |
 The Independent: Yesterday's capture of 15 British sailors and marines by Iranian forces precipitates a diplomatic crisis of the first order. The first visible effect yesterday was a sharp rise in the price of crude oil. A less visible effect was an even sharper rise in the international political temperature. The situation is now fraught with danger: for bilateral relations, for regional security - and for Tony Blair. |
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Saturday, 24 March 2007 |
 The Times - Leading Article: Shortly after the detention of 15 Royal Navy personnel by Iranian forces in the Gulf yesterday, the Iranian Ambassador to London was summoned to the Foreign and Commonwealth Office. The setting may have been diplomatic, but there was no call for overly diplomatic language. In Iraq, Iranian meddling and arms stand second only to sectarian hatred as contributing factors to the daily violence. |
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Friday, 23 March 2007 |
 TIME: The most ominous detail about Iran's seizure of 15 British Royal Marines in the Shatt-al-Arab waterway on Friday morning is that the servicemen were reportedly taken into custody by the navy of the Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC). |
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Thursday, 22 March 2007 |
 UPI:"Loose lips sink ships" was a popular slogan during World War II, a reminder that misplaced words could help the enemy. But the reverse is also true: Purposely placed words can sink the enemy's ships. At a time when President George W. Bush keeps reminding Iran that "all options are on the table," a group opposed to the regime reveals new information on the Islamic republic's involvement in Iraq. |
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Thursday, 22 March 2007 |
 Reuters: Gordon Brown may lead efforts to revive the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty as a way of tackling Iran's atomic ambitions, his most pressing foreign policy challenge once he becomes British prime minister. |
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Monday, 19 March 2007 |
 Los Angeles Times - Editorial: Economic sanctions have a bad reputation. That's unfortunate, because the kind of sanctions the United States is proposing for Iran are more effective and more humane than sanctions used to be. They also happen to be more realistic than any of the other options regarding Tehran. |
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Sunday, 18 March 2007 |
 Washington Times: In the words of Henry Kissinger: "There are all kinds of tactical discussions about how to deal with Iran.... But there are a number of fundamental principles to keep in mind. |
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Saturday, 10 March 2007 |
 Washington Post: Here's how International Women's Day was celebrated Thursday in Tehran: Riot police swarmed over a few dozen women who bravely gathered near the parliament in an attempt to hold a peaceful demonstration. |
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Wednesday, 07 March 2007 |
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Los Angeles Times: Is this trigger-happy gunslinger in the White House about to take aim at Iran? |
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Friday, 02 March 2007 |
 National Review Online: A great hoax is being perpetrated on the world, the hoax of negotiations as an untried method to "solve" the "Iranian problem." In fact, we have been negotiating with the mullahs ever since--indeed even before--the 1979 revolution that deposed the shah and brought to power the Islamic Fascist regime of the Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini. |
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Friday, 02 March 2007 |
 FOX News: Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said on Friday that "Iran's nuclear train has no brakes or reverse gear, because in the past year we have discarded them." |
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Thursday, 22 February 2007 |
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Washington Times: The deployment of 21,500 U.S. combat troops to Iraq is not sufficient by itself to accomplish our objectives. That goal can only be achieved through an overarching strategy designed to bring an ultimate stability to the region. |
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Tuesday, 20 February 2007 |
 Wall Street Journal - REVIEW & OUTLOOK: On the record, Europe claims to be as concerned as America about a nuclear-armed Iran. The record also shows, however, that Europe's biggest countries do a booming business with the Islamic Republic. And so far for the Continentals, manna trumps security. |
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Friday, 16 February 2007 |
 Wall Street Journal - REVIEW & OUTLOOK: Following the weekend intelligence disclosures about Iranian-supplied weapons killing GIs in Iraq, we predicted Tuesday that "a large part of Washington will pretend the evidence doesn't exist, or suggest the intelligence isn't proven, or claim that it's all the Bush Administration's fault for 'bullying' Iran." |
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Thursday, 15 February 2007 |
 Daily Telegraph: Diplomatic pressure should be targeted at isolating the president of Iran before further, fateful steps are contemplated, we argued in our leader columns this week. Quite right. But what prospect is there of using the courts to undermine Mahmoud Ahmadinejad? |
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