Iran

New Campaign Asks U.S. and Israeli Air, Missile, and Drone Crews to Refuse to Attack Iran        http://dontattackiran.org     AN APPEAL TO UNITED STATES AND ISRAELI AIR, MISSILE AND DRONE CREWS TO STAND DOWN FROM ORDERS TO ATTACK IRAN November 2011 -- Add Your Name!   We are at an historic moment when decisions are being made in the United States and Israel on whether and when to attack Iran .    These will be decisions by politicians and individual commanders and air, missile and drone crewmembers charged with the responsibility of raining down munitions in a strike that will likely kill hundreds if not thousands of Iranian people and potentially spread deadly nuclear contamination to millions in Iran and surrounding nations.      Beyond this, an attack on Ira...

NOVANEWS by crescentandcross in Uncategorized  Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad says his country “does not need atomic bombs”, amid continuing controversy over Tehran’s nuclear ambitions. Mr Ahmadinejad, quoted by state broadcaster IRIB, warned the US would “regret” any confrontation with Iran. The UN’s atomic watchdog is expected to say this week that Iran is secretly developing a nuclear arms capability. Israeli President Shimon Peres said on Sunday that an attack on Iran was becoming more likely. Iran has always insisted that its nuclear programme is for civilian purposes. Mr Ahmadinejad accused the head of the UN’s International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), Yukiya Amano, of being a puppet of the US. “This person does not publish a report about America and its allies’ nuclear ar...

NOVANEWS by crescentandcross in Uncategorized Tehran in the crosshairs by Justin Raimondo If you wade through the International  Atomic Energy Agency’s much-awaited report [.pdf] on Iran’s alleged pursuit of nuclear  weapons technology – a fate I wouldn’t wish on anyone – what you’ll  find is a studious ambiguity. “May,” “might,” and “could” are words that  modify practically every assertion of Iranian perfidy: “The information indicates  that prior to the end of 2003 the above activities took place under  a structured program. There are also indications that some activities relevant to the development  of a nuclear explosive device continued after 2003, and that some may still be ongoing.” Or – since “indications” are not evidence – maybe not. “The Agency has information  from a Membe...

NOVANEWS by crescentandcross in Uncategorized  csmonitor.com For more than quarter of a century Western officials have claimed repeatedly that Iran is close to joining the nuclear club. Such a result is always declared “unacceptable” and a possible reason for military action, with “all options on the table” to prevent upsetting the Mideast strategic balance dominated by the US and Israel. And yet, those predictions have time and again come and gone. This chronicle of past predictions lends historical perspective to today’s rhetoric about Iran. 1. Earliest warnings: 1979-84 Fear of an Iranian nuclear weapon predates Iran’s 1979 Islamic revolution, when the pro-West Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi was deep in negotiations with the US, France and West Germany, on a nuclear-energy spending spre...

NOVANEWS By Tom Burghardt Global Research, . As evidence mounts that the U.S. secret state is launching cyber weapons against official enemies, while carrying out wide-ranging spy ops against their "friends," Gen. Keith Alexander, the dual-hatted overlord of the National Security Agency and U.S. Cyber Command, says that the Obama administration is "working on a system" that will "help" ISPs thwart malicious attacks. Speaking at the Security Innovation Network (SINET) "Showcase 2011" shindig at the National Press Club in Washington, Alexander told security grifters eager to gouge taxpayers for another piece of lucrative "cybersecurity" pie: "What I'm concerned about are the destructive attacks. Those are the things yet to come that cause us a lot of concern." That's rather r...

  Former Secretary of State says Washington should mull tougher sanctions against Tehran, ‘do everything to bring regime down’ Former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice on Sunday said the US should consider even tougher penalties against Iran’s government and “be doing everything we can to bring it down.” Rice told ABC’s “This Week” that the US should never take the option of military force off the table when it comes to dealing with Iran. She noted the current Iranian government is trying to obtain a nuclear weapon and has repressed its own people, adding that “the regime has absolutely no legitimacy left.” Also on Sunday, reports of a possible Israeli strike in Iran continued to dominate the political agenda in Sunday’s weekly cabinet meeting. Environmental Protection Minister Gilad Er...

NOVANEWS  by crescentandcross in Uncategorized   Details from UN nuclear watchdog report continue to leak. Iran apparently mastered critical steps needed to build nuclear weapon with help of former Soviet weapons scientist, Washington Post reports Monday. ynet Details from the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) report regarding the Iranian nuclear program continue to leak. Intelligence provided to the United Nations’ nuclear watchdog agency shows that Iran has mastered the critical steps needed to build a nuclear weapon, The Washington Post reported on Sunday. According to the intelligence, Iran appears to have received crucial technical assistance from foreign experts, the newspaper reported, citing Western diplomats and nuclear experts briefed on the findings by the IAEA. The ...

NOVANEWS  ynet Hossein Ebrahimi, a senior member of the Tehran’s National Security and Foreign Policy Committee, warned Saturday that Iran’s response to a possible attack by Israel will be “crushing.” “Before (being able to take) any action against Iran, the Israelis will feel our wrath in Tel Aviv,” he told the State-run IRNA news agency. Ebrahimi noted that “since the beginning of the Islamic Revolution, the US, UK and Israel have frequently threatened Iran… This is not a new development.” Iran, he added, assessed Israel’s military capabilities during the Second Lebanon War, “and found it to be weak.” “The Israelis entered the (Lebanon) war with the capabilities they had but earned nothing but humiliation,” Ebrahimi said. “I do not think that Israelis along with the Americans and B...

NOVANEWS   Reuters A senior Iranian cleric on Sunday dismissed talk of a military strike by Israel as empty propaganda, taunting it for screaming “like a cornered cat” rather than “roaring like a lion”. Israeli media have speculated that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is seeking cabinet consensus to attack Iranian nuclear sites as Western diplomats say new evidence that Tehran researching ways to build atom bombs will be published this week. Some analysts dismiss the speculation as part of a strategy of psychological warfare to raise pressure on Iran and bolster a case for harsher international sanctions sought by Washington, rather than endorse or participate in military action. “The recent threats of the Zionist regime against Iran are more for internal consumption for thems...

NOVANEWS by crescentandcross in Uncategorized    Reuters Iran has complained to the United Nations about a U.S. accusation it tried to assassinate a Saudi diplomat, saying one of the alleged plotters Washington calls an Iranian military official is really a member of an anti-Tehran rebel group. Foreign Minister Ali Akbar Salehi said on Saturday the plot was part of a multi-pronged U.S. strategy to smear Tehran, a process he said would continue next week when the U.N. nuclear agency publishes a report western diplomats say will contain new evidence about Iran’s nuclear programme. The complaint to U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon turned the U.S. accusation that Tehran supports terrorism back onto Washington, Salehi said. “This letter contains our complaint about the plots of the ...