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Tuesday, 24 October 2006 |
 Wall Street Journal - REVIEW & OUTLOOK: Whatever Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's other faults, lack of candor isn't one of them. This week the U.N. Security Council is set to begin discussing the imposition of (very) limited sanctions against Iran for refusing to halt uranium enrichment to build a nuclear weapon. |
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Monday, 23 October 2006 |
 USA Today: It took the explosion of a nuclear bomb by North Korea — fortunately just a test — for China to start enforcing sanctions and applying pressure in a way that suggests it finally grasps the proliferation dangers, to itself, the region and the world, that its erratic neighbor represents. |
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Wednesday, 11 October 2006 |
 Washington Times - Editorial - North Korea's claim to have tested a nuclear weapon, specious or not, can only heighten concern that the regime might try to transfer nuclear weapons technology to a terrorist group or a rogue regime like Iran, which is attempting to develop nuclear weapons. |
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Monday, 09 October 2006 |
 Washington Times - Editorial: With politicians and the media focused on the political fallout from the Foley scandal, it's easy to lose sight of the fact that many members of Congress are dedicated public servants trying to strengthen the nation's ability to fight Islamofascism. |
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Wednesday, 04 October 2006 |
 Wall Street Journal: "As to the Holocaust, I just raised a few questions. And I didn't receive any answers to my questions."
-- Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, interviewed in Time magazine in September 2006. |
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Monday, 02 October 2006 |
 Washington Times: After the media blitz in New York arranged by his PR handlers, followed by his invitation to speak before the Council of Foreign Affairs and capped by his picture on the cover of Time magazine, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad must have left New York thinking he was on a "roll." |
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Thursday, 28 September 2006 |
 Christian Science Monitor: After World War II, nations exhausted by conflict and determined that diplomacy was better than war, created the United Nations. It was to be a kind of linguistic bazaar to which international problems could be brought and resolved by peaceful, reasonable discussion among representatives of the various member nations. |
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Wednesday, 27 September 2006 |
 Washington Times - Editorial: It looks increasingly doubtful that the Islamist regime in Iran will be penalized for its continued defiance over its nuclear weapons programs anytime soon. |
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Tuesday, 26 September 2006 |
 Wall Street Journal: By now, it has become all too clear that when it comes to the Iranian nuclear crisis, the ball is squarely in Washington's court. Aug. 31 has come and gone, and with it the international deadline for Tehran to halt its uranium enrichment. Iran's ayatollahs, however, have shown no signs of curbing their atomic ambitions. |
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Thursday, 21 September 2006 |
 The Washington Times - EDITORIAL: The contrast between the speeches delivered Tuesday by President Bush and Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad could hardly have been more stark. Mr. Bush delivered an upbeat, even Reaganesque vision of freedom for the people of the Middle East. Later that day, Mr. Ahmadinejad delivered his response, a bellicose attack on the legitimacy of the United Nations and the Security Council, in which he derided the United Nations as tools of the United States, Israel and other malefactors. |
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Wednesday, 20 September 2006 |
 FOX News: As world leaders prepare for the opening session of the UN General Assembly, many wonder how to manage the vexing issue of Iran, and whether its president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, due to speak at the General Assembly Tuesday, has the intent or ability to execute threats he has been making since the start of his presidency in 2005. |
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Tuesday, 19 September 2006 |
 New York Sun - Editorial: Hardliners in the war on Islamic extremist terrorism have long called for it to be treated as a war rather than a law-enforcement issue. Yet by allowing, in Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, the president of an Axis regime to come to New York and stay on Park Avenue at the Intercontinental Hotel The Barclay, President Bush is signaling that he's less than serious in his approach to a regime he marked, at the outset of his presidency, as evil. |
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Monday, 11 September 2006 |
 Washington Post - Editorial: What happened to the support that the Bush administration said it had for sanctions against Iran? |
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Friday, 08 September 2006 |
 New York Times: As Iran defies the West over its nuclear program, the public face of the nation has become the outspoken president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. But it is the supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, who by most accounts has been the primary architect of Iran's combative foreign policy and the force behind the president's own power.
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Thursday, 07 September 2006 |
 Boston Globe: Having warned repeatedly that Iran would face serious consequences if it defied international demands to shut down its nuclear weapons program, the Bush administration wasted no time when Tehran blew off the Security Council's Aug. 31 deadline to stop enriching uranium. It issued a visa authorizing one of Iran's leading theocrats, former president Mohammad Khatami, to embark on a propaganda tour of the United States. |
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Wednesday, 06 September 2006 |
 Washington Times: The Washington National Cathedral risks being duped this week by hosting an appearance of the former president of Iran at a time when the government of the brutal theocracy is persecuting religious minorities and pursuing nuclear weapons, a top U.S. religious rights panel warned. |
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Monday, 04 September 2006 |
 Sunday Times: Things are not going well. Iran is a living nightmare for most of the world. Ruled by mullahs and exporting terror, it scares both the secular leaders of Muslim states and those who govern sizeable Muslim minorities. Its president wishes to destroy Israel and sponsors Hezbollah. Iranian fighters attack American and British forces in Iraq. |
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Monday, 04 September 2006 |
 The Times: Persian proverbs have a particularly poetic quality to them. Among my personal favourites are: “The wise man sits on the hole in his carpet”; “You can’t pick up two melons with one hand”; and “When fortune turns against you, even jelly breaks your teeth.” Profound. |
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Monday, 04 September 2006 |
 The Times - Leading articles: Kofi Annan’s meetings with the Iranian leadership this weekend appear to have yielded little progress. Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Iran’s President, made it plain that, while he was interested in more talks about his country’s evident nuclear ambitions, he would not contemplate any suspension of uranium enrichment in advance of those negotiations. That requirement, however, is the essence of UN Resolution 1696 passed on July 31 and whose deadline expired without compliance last Thursday. |
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Friday, 25 August 2006 |
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Christian Science Monitor: Call it the Pyongyang ploy. Hold out for direct talks with America and its allies, thus bolstering your international position, while budging not an inch on your nuclear aspirations. If North Korea seemed unimpressed by a package of inducements and unfazed by the threat of United Nations sanctions, Iran seems to be even less so. |
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Thursday, 24 August 2006 |
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Christian Science Monitor - The Monitor's View: Every day, air travelers willingly give up dangerous items in inspections because of uncertainty that one passenger might hijack the plane. A similar uncertainty now exists with Iran: Should it be forced to give up the potential to have nuclear weapons? |
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Thursday, 24 August 2006 |
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Washington Post - A test for China and Russia - Editorial: It's been four years since the existence of Iran's nuclear program was confirmed, and since then Iran has succeeded in stalling the world's efforts to ensure that the country's enriched uranium is used exclusively for peaceful purposes. Sometimes inspectors from the U.N. International Atomic Energy Agency have been granted permission to enter the country; sometimes they have been denied access. |
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Wednesday, 23 August 2006 |
 Los Angeles Times: If the antiwar crowd and Democrats have their way, the United States will be Iran's hostage once again. An immediate pullout from Iraq would be a victory for Iran, a regime that has declared its ambitions to wipe Israel off the map and establish a caliphate throughout the Middle East. |
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Wednesday, 23 August 2006 |
 UPI: There may well be a new Middle East taking shape in the horizon, but it looks nothing like the one envisioned by President Bush. Instead of democracy being the order of the day, there is a real threat of Islamist theocracies, led by Iran, imposing their rule. |
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Sunday, 20 August 2006 |
 The Sunday Times: If some Iran-watchers in America are to be believed, we could be 48 hours away from the day of judgment. |
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Friday, 18 August 2006 |
 The Times: The Lebanon crisis has turned up the heat even further in the world’s standoff with Iran over its nuclear ambitions. This week has brought new signs that Tehran won’t back down. |
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Wednesday, 16 August 2006 |
 Washington Post - By Condoleezza Rice: For the past month the United States has worked urgently to end the violence that Hezbollah and its sponsors have imposed on the people of Lebanon and Israel. At the same time, we have insisted that a truly effective cease-fire requires a decisive change from the status quo that produced this war. |
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Thursday, 10 August 2006 |
 Reuters: Interest rates, a slowing economy and near-record oil prices remain the main focus for U.S. investors, but news of a foiled plot to bomb commercial airliners is keeping geopolitical risk firmly on their minds. |
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Tuesday, 08 August 2006 |
 The Guardian: A charity event in Tehran for the "children of the resistance" is but one of many ways in which Iran's government is using the Lebanon crisis to rally domestic support and advance its regional agenda. Highlighting the "ongoing war of aggression against the defenceless and oppressed Palestinian and Lebanese nations", the event featured supportive messages and drawings from Iranian schoolchildren and a 25-metre "solidarity scroll". |
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Monday, 07 August 2006 |
 Wall Street Journal - REVIEW & OUTLOOK: The United Nations Security Council last week adopted Resolution 1696, which demands that Iran suspend uranium enrichment by August 31 or face the threat of international sanctions. That's good news -- assuming it doesn't become an excuse for Iran to take many more months or years to comply. |
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