Iran

NOVANEWS  by crescentandcross in Uncategorized    Iran’s top diplomat on Monday bitingly questioned reported U.S. plans to build up American military forces across Mideast countries after withdrawing from Iraq, calling on Washington to be “more prudent and wise” or risk more unrest in the region. Iranian Foreign Minister Ali Akbar Salehi also dismissed American concerns about Iranian meddling in Iraq after U.S. troops pull out at the end of December. Those worries were a main motivation of failed U.S. efforts to leave at least several thousand American troops in Iraq beyond the Dec. 31 withdrawal deadline. “Iraq does not need anyone to meddle in its internal affairs,” Salehi told reporters in Baghdad, where he was meeting with Iraqi Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari. “Iraqis know be...

NOVANEWS Haaretz Israeli ambassadors in Western countries have been instructed to inform high-ranking politicians that the window of opportunity for imposing effective sanctions on Iran is closing, as part of a renewed diplomatic offensive aimed at using new sanctions to stop Tehran from developing a nuclear bomb. The Foreign Ministry campaign, which began in mid-September, seeks to convince the United States, European Union member states and other Western countries to impose the sanctions immediately because Iran is continuing to develop its nuclear program. "The significant progress that has taken place on all the components of the Iranian nuclear program should be emphasized, especially uranium enrichment," said a classified cable sent to Israeli ambassadors in several dozen countries. ...

NOVANEWS Tel Aviv and Tehran Clergy in Oil Price – War Scare Fraud …Iran Nuke Arsenal Exposed by  Editors Gordon Duff and Jim W. Dean,  with Mike Harris Whose Fortunes Will Be Sunk in the Persian Gulf ? The news has been filled with stories of plans by Israel or the US to bomb Iran.  There was recently a series of accusations made against Iran involving the assassination of Saudi and other diplomatic officials.  These accusations were quickly discarded by most press organizations as “far fetched” but, for some reason drew responses from the US, France and others, responses that were “non linear” at best.  Why would President Obama threaten Iran over accusations that all the networks said were nonsense? Now, sources in Iran, at the highest levels, along with sources in the US and Britain, ...

NOVANEWS  by crescentandcross in Uncategorized State Secretary Clinton says internet based embassy will help broaden Iranian’s “understanding” of US ed note-LOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOL………………………………… Sorry, could not help myself. Iranians ‘understand’ the US all too well. All they need do is look at what ‘the greatest country in the world’ did to Iran’s next-door-neighbor, Iraq. The fact that the USGOV would do something like this shows how inane and out of touch with the rest of mankind they truly are. ynet The Obama administration is setting up an Internet-based embassy to reach out to Iranians hoping to broaden their understanding of the United States. US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton says the “virtual embassy in Tehran” will be online by the en...

NOVANEWS by crescentandcross in Uncategorized  Reuters Western countries supported Muammar Gaddafi when it suited them but bombed the Libyan leader when he no longer served their purpose in order to “plunder” the north African country’s oil wealth, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said on Tuesday.  While Tehran has applauded the people of Libya for overthrowing the man it considered an illegitimate dictator, Ahmadinejad warned Libyans that the West now aimed to run their country for them.  ”Show me one European or American president who has not travelled to Libya or has not signed an agreement (with Gaddafi),” Ahmadinejad said in a speech broadcast live in which he accused the West of ordering the former leader’s execution.  ”Some people said they killed this gentleman to make sur...

NOVANEWS by crescentandcross in Uncategorized   By Ray McGovern You might think that by now I would be so used to infuriating neocon drivel that, to preserve my own sanity, I would avoid looking at the Washington Post or at least its editorial pages. I have tried. But it seems that after almost a half century in Washington, and particularly after the recent rash of “wars of choice,” it is simply not possible. One has to keep an eye on what bloody mischief the neocons are devising. The Post’s lead editorial on Sunday is ostensibly about Iraq and blaming President Barack Obama if things get worse after U.S. troops leave in December. But these days Iran is the main concern of the neocons who infect that editorial page. In the wake of Obama’s withdrawal announcement on Friday, the ...

By ­William Echols RT -Whether calls for war against Iran are meant to placate American allies in the Middle East who cannot stomach its supposed nuclear ambitions, are an attempt to reassert US dominance in the oil rich region, or are the last signs of a flagging empire lashing out in self-denial, those who are longing for it to be morning again in America might very well expedite its imperial twilight. History seems to be repeating itself as the hawks who called for the 2003 overthrow of Saddam Hussein are now rattling their sabers for war against Iran. But why are those who once called for a new American Century hopelessly stuck in a bygone era? In a bellicose diatribe published in the latest edition of the Weekly Standard, senior editor William Kristol accuses Iran of havin...

NOVANEWS  by crescentandcross After the Stuxnet computer virus that wreaked havoc on Iran’s nuclear program, a new virus named ‘Duqu’ threatens similar consequences ynet First there was the Stuxnet computer virus that wreaked havoc on Iran’s nuclear program. Now comes “Duqu,” which researchers on Tuesday said appears to be quite similar. Security software firm Symantec said in a report it was alerted by a research lab with international connections on Friday to a malicious code that “appeared to be very similar to Stuxnet.” It was named Duqu because it creates files with “DQ” in the prefix. “DHS’ Industrial Control Systems Cyber Emergency Response Team has issued a public alert and will continue working with the cyber security research community to gather and analyze data and disseminate...

NOVANEWS  by crescentandcross   Iran’s judiciary ordered an investigation on Wednesday into human rights crimes committed by the United States — a defiant response to a UN report on its own alleged rights violations and to the U.S. charge that Tehran planned to kill a Saudi envoy. “We must open a special case for America’s crimes in which there is an indictment for the crimes it has carried out in this country and other Islamic states,” Ayatollah Sadeq Larijani was quoted as saying by the official news agency IRNA. Larijani appointed chief prosecutor Gholamhossein Mohseni-Ejei — himself under U.S. and European sanctions for alleged rights abuses — to conduct the investigation. He did not say in what jurisdiction any “indictment” would be applied. Tehran says both the assassination...

NOVANEWS By Richard Silverstein  Tikun Olam You’ll recall that the the U.S. claimed that the Iranian alleged conspirator in the terror plot against the Saudi ambassador, Gholam Shakuri, was a Revolutionary Guard (IRG) official.  Though many Iranians have scoured every resource they could think of, none have found evidence of such a person with any IRG affiliation.  If the U.S. has such evidence it ought to produce it if it wants to be believed.  Yesterday, the well-placed Alef site, run by an Iranian majlis member who’s run for president twice, alleged that Shakuri is in fact a high level Mujahadeen al Khalq (MEK) leader.  It offered evidence to support the charge. Today, the official MEK leadership has denied that Shakuri is a member and the U.S. has also denied the charge.  But in fac...