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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 |
 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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Monday, 07 August 2006 |
 Washington Times: What a difference one week can make. Almost from one day to the next, moderate Arab governments reluctantly switched sides -- from deploring to applauding Hezbollah's "heroic" stand. The anti-Bush invective and pro-(Hezbollah chief Hassan) Nasrallah hosannas reached new lows and new highs. |
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Thursday, 03 August 2006 |
 Wall Street Journal: We may never know the extent to which Iran was involved in Hezbollah's kidnapping of two Israeli soldiers -- the incident that started the war in Lebanon. Hezbollah is not merely Tehran's pawn, and may have acted entirely on its own. |
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Wednesday, 02 August 2006 |
 AFP: US support of Israel's campaign in Lebanon to crush the Shiite militant group Hezbollah may end up being counter-productive and could empower Iran in its nuclear standoff with the West, analysts say. |
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Wednesday, 02 August 2006 |
Los Angeles Times - EDITORIAL: The U.N. Security Council issued another ultimatum to Iran on Monday: Give up on your nuclear weapons program by Aug. 31 — or we'll hold yet another meeting to discuss your fate. As ultimatums go, it wasn't especially effective. It may even play into Iran's hands by allowing it to keep stalling.
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Sunday, 30 July 2006 |
 Washington Times: Spanish-American political philosopher George Santayana famously said, "Those who fail to learn the lessons of history are destined to repeat them." Current events in Iran indicate we had better prepare ourselves for some sharp history lessons. As the brutal, fascist regime tightens its grip in the Middle East, the parallels with the rise of Nazi Germany are menacing. |
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Sunday, 30 July 2006 |
 Sunday Times: While the world remains understandably transfixed on Lebanon and Israel, one fact bears keeping in mind: more people were killed in Iraq in the past two weeks than in Israel and Lebanon combined. |
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Friday, 28 July 2006 |
 Christian Science Monitor: Lebanon is a struggle within a struggle. Most immediately, Hizbullah's abduction of two Israeli soldiers in a cross-border raid on July 12 has triggered a huge Israeli response, so far short of a full-scale ground invasion.
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Thursday, 27 July 2006 |
 Daily Telegraph: As the Iraqi prime minister, Nouri al-Maliki, comes West for the first time, the Middle East is in turmoil. All its problems have one common feature - Iran. Teheran's mullahs have spread their evil influence in all areas, directly and indirectly. |
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Wednesday, 26 July 2006 |
 The Times: Iran and Syria have violently disordered the Middle Eastern chessboard using their Hamas and Hezbollah pawns. The anxious and, they must hope, futile scamper to reassemble the pieces must be mightily pleasing to both these scheming, nihilistic and intransigent regimes. |
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Tuesday, 25 July 2006 |
 Washington Times: Iran's suspected support for the recent Hezbollah attacks on Israel could undo the international community's solidarity over Iran's nuclear program, analysts said yesterday. |
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Monday, 24 July 2006 |
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Washington Times - Editorial: While Israel continues fighting to secure its northern border, the Iranian government barely makes an effort to hide its support for Hezbollah. Yesterday, President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad called the United States and Britain "accomplices of the Zionist regime in its crimes in Lebanon and Palestine" and declared that, by going to war against Hezbollah, Israel "pushed the button of its own destruction." |
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Sunday, 23 July 2006 |
 Sunday Telegraph - Leaders: The Iranian Hydra has many heads. The ayatollahs sponsor militias and political movements across the Muslim world and beyond. Hezbollah is, in reality, the Lebanese branch of the Islamic Revolution. Lop off that head and another will grow in its place. It is in Teheran that the monster's heart beats.
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Wednesday, 12 July 2006 |
 Washington Post - Editorial: Two months ago Russia and China blocked action at the United Nations against Iran's nuclear program. In deference to Russian and Chinese concerns, the United States and the European Union agreed to give diplomacy another chance, even though Iran had spurned an earlier attempt at negotiation. |
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Friday, 07 July 2006 |
 TIME: A group condemned as a terrorist organisation by the U.S. and Europe says it can provide a third way around the nuclear impasse. |
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