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Tuesday, 05 February 2008 |
 Wall Street Journal - By John R. Bolton: Today, Director of National Intelligence Michael McConnell testifies before the Senate Intelligence Committee (and Thursday on the House side) to give the intelligence community's annual global threat analysis. These hearings are always significant, but the stakes are especially high now because of the recent National Intelligence Estimate on Iran. |
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Thursday, 31 January 2008 |
 The Economist: If you are locked eyeball to eyeball with an adversary as wily as Iran, it does not make much sense to do something that emboldens your opponent and sows defeatism among your friends. But that, it is now clear, is precisely what America's spies achieved when they said in December that, contrary to their own previous assessments, Iran stopped its secret nuclear-weapons programme in 2003. |
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Sunday, 27 January 2008 |
 New York Post - Editorial: Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice has made her most generous offer yet to the mad mullahs of Iran: Suspend your enrichment of uranium, halting a critical step in the development of nuclear weapons, and Washington is prepared to develop "a more normal relationship." |
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Sunday, 20 January 2008 |
 New York Times: The confrontation this month in the Persian Gulf between Navy warships and small boats of Iran’s Revolutionary Guard may have come as a surprise to the public at large, but not to me. |
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Thursday, 17 January 2008 |
 Global Politician: The war of words and actions between the Iranian regime and the US administration has been at the forefront of all Middle Eastern affairs since the invasion of Iraq in 2003. However, one incident in the last week brought this to our sharp attention. The Iranian Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) in the Strait of Hormuz were seen to have threatened a US naval fleet with what can only be described as extremely provocative actions. |
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Friday, 11 January 2008 |
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Washington Times: Why would five Iranian speedboats bluff an attack on a U.S. Navy squadron? Start with a big fact: Under the mullah-led thieves' regime, Iran has become an explosive political mix of ethnic, economic and ideological fragments, a mosaic powder keg. |
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Thursday, 10 January 2008 |
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Wall Street Journal: "It was a dangerous gesture," said President George W. Bush about Sunday's incident that involved five vessels, apparently under orders from the Iranian Revolutionary Guard, harassing U.S. naval forces in international waters in the Straits of Hormuz. They broke off moments before the Americans opened fire. |
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Thursday, 10 January 2008 |
 Wall Street Journal: It was exactly one year ago tonight, in a televised address to the nation, that President George W. Bush announced his fateful decision to change course in Iraq, and to send five additional U.S. combat brigades there as part of a new counterinsurgency strategy and under the command of a new general, David Petraeus. |
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Thursday, 10 January 2008 |
 Reuters: President George W. Bush will seek Gulf Arab leaders' support this week to curb Iran, but may find these traditional U.S. allies more wedded to their own diplomatic drive after long frustration with his policies. |
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Thursday, 10 January 2008 |
 AP: The Persian Gulf confrontation between U.S. and Iranian forces ended without a shot being fired. But it handed the Bush administration new ammunition in its battle to convince allies that the Tehran government is a threat even without nuclear weapons. |
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Monday, 31 December 2007 |
 UPI: The fervor nearly three decades after the Islamic Revolution in Iran is dwindling as the once influential clerics falter in the face of secular politics. |
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Monday, 31 December 2007 |
 Iran Focus - Editorial: London, Jan. 01 - Nearly 150 billion dollars in oil revenues flooded Iran’s foreign reserves during Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s 30-month tenure as the Islamic Republic’s president. So, why have economic hardships actually increased for the Iranian people? |
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Wednesday, 26 December 2007 |
 Edinburgh Evening News - By Struan Stevenson: The Government's announcement that it does not accept a British appeal court ruling about the People's Mojahedin Organisation of Iran is shameful. |
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Thursday, 20 December 2007 |
 Wall Street Journal - REVIEW & OUTLOOK: After a year's delay, Russia announced this week -- with President Bush's odd endorsement -- that it will begin supplying 80 tons of uranium for the nuclear reactor it has built for Iran in the port city of Bushehr. We've been here before. |
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Thursday, 20 December 2007 |
 Washington Times: The recently released National Intelligence Estimate (NIE) on Iran's nuclear weapon program not only left many questions unanswered but left our friends and allies caught off-base and confused. I am sure they wonder how they are to support efforts for more stringent sanctions against Iran's enrichment program. |
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Wednesday, 19 December 2007 |
 Wall Street Journal: The release earlier this month of "key judgments" from the National Intelligence Estimate -- including the bald assertion "that in fall 2003, Tehran halted its nuclear weapons program" -- has caused both astonishment here at home and consternation overseas, where it has resulted in confusion about America's policy goals and steadiness. |
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Monday, 17 December 2007 |
 Counterterrorism - By Walid Phares: While Petrodollars Propaganda showers networks in the Middle East, Europe and North America to weaken democracies' resolve to confront the Iranian and Syrian regimes and as "lobbies" in the West accelerate the campaign to break the isolation of Damascus and Tehran, these two regimes turned against their opposition in several attempts to crush them as long as the "window of opportunity is open" according to insiders. |
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Saturday, 15 December 2007 |
 Washington Times: Last week's U.S. National Intelligence Estimate states, with "high confidence," that Iran quit trying to get a nuclear bomb in late 2003. That's exactly the opposite of what the NIE reported just two years ago, when it claimed Iran's ruling mullahs were still developing nuclear weapons.
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Saturday, 15 December 2007 |
 The Scotsman: Britain must lift its ban on the country's resistance, says LORD WADDINGTON, and strive for sanctions against the regime. |
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Saturday, 15 December 2007 |
 Washington Post: The new National Intelligence Estimate on Iran appears to rely heavily on notes from a discussion between Iranian military officials involved in that country's nuclear weapons development program. What if, instead of such easily manipulated documentary evidence, the CIA's National Clandestine Service had been able to recruit a spy at the highest reaches of the Iranian government, someone who could just tell us what the country's nuclear capabilities and plans were? It wouldn't have made any difference. |
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Wednesday, 12 December 2007 |
 Washington Times: The Iranian government's rejoicing over the recent report by U.S. intelligence services that the Islamic republic had ceased being a nuclear threat was short-lived. |
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Monday, 10 December 2007 |
 Washington Times: The National Intelligence Estimate (NIE) on Iran is unprecedented in the way it is likely to change U.S. policy toward the Islamic Republic. Repercussions of the report go well beyond the Persian Gulf. They may influence U.S. relations with Russia and Europe and affect American standing in the world. |
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Monday, 10 December 2007 |
 Wall Street Journal: On one of our several trips together to Iraq, a senior intelligence official told us how she wrote her assessments -- on one page, with three sections: what we know, what we don't know, and what we think it means. Sound simple? Actually, it's very hard. |
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Monday, 10 December 2007 |
 Washington Times - Editorial: The new National Intelligence Estimate on Iran, asserting that that Tehran probably shut down its covert nuclear weapons program in 2003, has become a football to kick around in Washington. |
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Saturday, 08 December 2007 |
 Wall Street Journal - REVIEW & OUTLOOK: President Bush has been scrambling to rescue his Iran policy after this week's intelligence switcheroo, but the fact that the White House has had to spin so furiously is a sign of how badly it has bungled this episode. In sum, Mr. Bush and his staff have allowed the intelligence bureaucracy to frame a new judgment in a way that has undermined four years of U.S. effort to stop Iran's nuclear ambitions. |
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Friday, 07 December 2007 |
 TIME: If the conclusions of the most recent National Intelligence Estimate (NIE) about Iran's nuclear program are true, they are moderately encouraging. Moderately only, because the NIE itself expressed only "moderate confidence" in its most sensational conclusion--that Iran had not restarted its previously suspended covert nuclear-weaponization program. |
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Friday, 07 December 2007 |
 Reuters: A U.S. intelligence report claiming Iran halted a nuclear weapons programme in 2003 has caught Washington's Gulf Arab allies off guard, analysts say, raising concern that U.S. pressure against Tehran could slacken. |
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Friday, 07 December 2007 |
 Chicago Sun-Times: President Bush's critics claim the new assessment that Iran suspended its nuclear weapons program in 2003 discredits the White House's hard-line foreign policy. But what else except Bush's policies could have been responsible for Tehran's decision? |
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Friday, 07 December 2007 |
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AFP: The US reversal on Iran's nuclear weapons program has exposed a breaking of ranks within a waning administration, with US intelligence and military professionals asserting themselves on issues of war and peace, analysts said. |
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Thursday, 06 December 2007 |
 The Atlantic: Yesterday’s revelations about Iran’s nuclear weapons program turns the last four years of speculation and suspicion on its head. What once seemed certain – that Iran was building nuclear weapons – is now in doubt. But a close reading of the National Intelligence Estimate (NIE) summary and sources within the Iranian opposition in fact leaves little conviction that the NIE is correct. |
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