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Tuesday, 25 April 2006 |
 Washington Times: At a Feb. 15 briefing before the U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice declared Iran is "in open defiance" of the world community for violations of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty. Iran's persistent and flagrant development of a uranium enrichment program, despite enormous international pressure, is just one more disquieting incident in Iran's long history of troublemaking on the international stage. |
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Sunday, 23 April 2006 |
 Los Angeles Times: Iran's key ally in the current nuclear crisis is not Russia or China. It's oil. Tehran can easily drive up prices and is already beginning to do so to rattle the West. As the crisis escalates, Washington's diplomatic partners will become gravely worried about their energy supplies. In the end, Iran's petro power will probably trump Western diplomacy. |
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Saturday, 22 April 2006 |
 The Wall Street Journal - Review & Outlook: Bill Clinton often complained that history had denied him the sort of historic challenge -- a Great Depression or war -- that might have made his Presidency great. We suspect that, after five tumultuous years, President Bush has more than once wished that he could have been so lucky.
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Monday, 17 April 2006 |
 Washington Times: Happy Easter. Happy Passover. But, if you're like the president of Iran and believe in the coming of the "12th imam," your happy holiday may be just around the corner, too.
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Monday, 17 April 2006 |
 Washington Times - Editorial: Using menacing rhetoric that evokes memories of Egyptian President Gamel Abdel-Nasser right before the Six-Day War and Adolf Hitler during the 1930s, President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and Tehran's terror network sound like they are girding for war with the United States, Britain and Israel. |
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Sunday, 16 April 2006 |
 The Sunday Telegraph: Last Monday, just before he announced that Iran had gatecrashed "the nuclear club", President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad disappeared for several hours. He was having a khalvat (tête-à-tête) with the Hidden Imam, the 12th and last of the imams of Shiism who went into "grand occultation" in 941.
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Sunday, 16 April 2006 |
 Washington Times: There's a very famous German expression that loosely translates as, "Who starts something must finish it." |
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Friday, 14 April 2006 |
 Washington Times: Just days after strong rumors of a possible pre-emptive U.S. and/or Israeli strike on Iran's nuclear facilities circulated like wildfire around the Washington Beltway, Iran announced it has taken its nuclear program forward.
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Friday, 14 April 2006 |
 Iran Focus: London, Apr. 13 – The following cartoon appeared in Wednesday’s edition of the London-based Arabic daily Asharq al-Awsat. |
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Thursday, 13 April 2006 |
 The Times - Leading articles: Iran’s provocative boast that it has successfully enriched uranium has been received with almost universal condemnation. In language that is strikingly, and deliberately, similar, America, Britain, France and Russia yesterday spoke of a “step in the wrong direction”, and called on Iran to respect its obligations and stop its nuclear activities. |
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Thursday, 13 April 2006 |
 The Times : Iran's announcement that it has started running 164 centrifuges in Natanz still leaves it a big step away from being able to make weapons (although it denies that that is its aim). |
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Tuesday, 11 April 2006 |
 Daily Telegraph: With each week that passes, Iran's ayatollahs move closer to their goal of building an atom bomb. |
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Sunday, 09 April 2006 |
 Sunday Telegraph - Leaders: Last Sunday, we revealed that several of Britain's defence chiefs were going to meet to discuss the effects on British interests of a military strike on Iran by the United States to destroy that county's capacity to build a nuclear bomb. Our story was categorically denied by Ministry of Defence officials, who told Sean Rayment, our Defence Correspondent, that there was "no truth in it whatsoever".
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Friday, 07 April 2006 |
 Daily Telegraph - Leaders: Defying the UN, Iran seems hell-bent on becoming a nuclear-armed state. As reported in The Daily Telegraph today, American intelligence believes that the nose cone of the Shahab-3 ballistic missile has been modified to carry a nuclear bomb, while the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) suspects the existence of a secret uranium enrichment project at closed military bases. These revelations confirm that Teheran is working both to produce a nuclear device and to ensure its delivery. |
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Friday, 31 March 2006 |
 UPI: Last November, before Iraq's election, U.S. Ambassador to Iraq Zalmay Khalilzad received permission from President Bush to open direct dialogue with Iran on the issue of security in Iraq. |
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Thursday, 23 March 2006 |
 Washington Times: Following two decades of Tehran's lies and three years of international wishful thinking, Iran's nuclear case was finally brought to the hands of the U.N. Security Council. In the meantime the mullahcracy in Tehran has been gearing itself for another phase of international standoff. |
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Wednesday, 22 March 2006 |
 Los Angeles Times: The radioactive question of Iran's nuclear program has now landed in the lap of the United Nations Security Council. Which is downright odd because, according to many learned observers, the Security Council's authority all but vanished when the United States and Britain bypassed it to invade Iraq in 2003. |
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Saturday, 18 March 2006 |
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Washington Post - Editorial: It's easy to see the potential advantage to Iran of opening negotiations with the United States on Iraq. The sudden announcement by Iran's national security chief Thursday that Tehran would accept an offer of dialogue made months ago by the U.S. ambassador in Baghdad came as members of the U.N. Security Council were meeting to discuss a council statement about the Iranian nuclear program. |
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Tuesday, 14 March 2006 |
 Washington Times: Iraq is part of the much wider sociopolitical order of the Middle East. For solutions to be successful, Iraqi problems therefore need a much broader approach. |
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Tuesday, 14 March 2006 |
 Daily Telegraph - Leaders: After five visits to Teheran as Foreign Secretary, Jack Straw has seen his policy of "constructive engagement" turn to ashes. |
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Monday, 13 March 2006 |
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Washington Times: The Iranian tango, taking one step back then two steps forward, has resumed as the Islamic republic made clear its intentions to move ahead with its nuclear development program, come what may. |
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Saturday, 11 March 2006 |
 Iran Focus: London, Mar. 11 – The following cartoon appeared in Friday’s edition of the London-based Arabic daily Asharq al-Awsat.
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Saturday, 11 March 2006 |
Washington Times - Editorial: Iranian officials openly brag to one another about their success in fooling European Union negotiators into believing they had stopped their efforts to produce nuclear fuel, according to Hassan Rowhani, who until last last year headed talks with the European Union 3 -- Britain, France and Germany.
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Friday, 10 March 2006 |
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UPI: The Iranian tango, taking one step back then two steps forward, has resumed this week as the Islamic republic made clear its intentions to move ahead with its nuclear development program, come what may. |
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Wednesday, 08 March 2006 |
 Washington Post - Editorial: If it is to build its own nuclear weapons, the next technological challenge Iran faces will be to construct a system of connected centrifuges known as a cascade. The system is used to enrich uranium hexafluoride, which Tehran has produced from raw uranium. |
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Monday, 06 March 2006 |
 Washington Times - Editorial: A major beneficiary of the violence following the bombing of the Golden Mosque in Samarra, Iraq -- one of the holiest sites in Shi'ite Islam -- is the Shi'ite clerical dictatorship in Iran. Within hours of the crime, Tehran began trying to exploit it in an effort to foment violence against the United States and Israel.
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Monday, 06 March 2006 |
 The Times: We have been here before. But today there may finally be a dramatic step forward in the three-year battle to prise Iran away from its nuclear ambitions. |
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Sunday, 05 March 2006 |
 Washington Times: Almost a century and a half ago, on hearing of the clash between the Monitor and the Merrimac, the American historian Henry Adams warned, "Some day science may have the existence of mankind in its power; and the human race will commit suicide by blowing up the world." |
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Friday, 03 March 2006 |
 Washington Times: With some sort of showdown with Iran over its nuclear ambitions looming on the horizon, a divisive new foreign policy debate has sprung up in Washington. At issue is whether the United States can and should carry out a pre-emptive attack on Iran's numerous nuclear facilities. |
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Thursday, 02 March 2006 |
 Iran Focus: London, Mar. 02 – The following cartoon appeared in Thursday’s edition of the London-based Arabic daily Asharq al-Awsat: |
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