Iran

NOVANEWS August 11, 2010 by Michael Leon -  We must commit that a strike against Iran by Israel will lead to an immediate repudiation of President Obama and the Democratic Party by the American people. To paraphrase JFK, the American people can not tolerate deliberate deception and offensive threats on the part of any nation or any administration, nor in this case the catastrophic geo-political and economic ramifications caused by the aggression of the outlaw state of Israel. It shall be the policy of the American people to regard any attack launched by the criminal state of Israel against Iran as a political attack by President Obama on the people of the United States, requiring a full retaliatory, political response upon this administration. - - President’s State of the Union Address,...

NOVANEWS Neocons Hope Israel Will Start a Fire the U.S. Will Be Forced to Put Out August 7, 2010  by Michael Leon     Israel and United State - Neocons are supporting an Israeli attack on Iran in the hope that the U.S. would be drawn into the ensuing conflict.  ”If the Israelis bomb now, American public opinion will probably be with them,” writes neocon Reuel Marc Gerecht. “Perhaps decisively so.” - By Gareth Porter Reuel Marc Gerecht’s screed justifying an Israeli bombing attack on Iran coincides with the opening of the new Israel lobby campaign marked by the introduction of House resolution 1553 expressing full support for such an Israeli attack. What is important to understand about this campaign is that the aim of Gerecht and of the right-wing government of Benjamin Netanyahu is to...

NOVANEWS The US is Simultaneously Preparing to Launch Aggressions Against Iran and Venezuela, says writer August 6, 2010  by Michael Leon   Obama, Iran and Venezuela By Nil Nikandrov – in http://en.fondsk.ru/  The Colombian government voiced a new round of allegations that Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez is secretly supporting the FARC and ELN guerrilla movements in Colombia and giving shelter to their leaders. Venezuela reacted harshly – Chavez severed the diplomatic ties with Colombia, and the Organization of American States had to hold an urgent meeting on July 22 on Colombia’s request. This was the third time this year that the administration of Alvaro Uribe leveled such charges at Caracas and claimed to possess solid evidence that leftist groups are operating from the territory of...

NOVANEWS http://www.alternet.org/story/147572/chomsky:_is_the_u.s._gearing_up_for_the_destruction_of_iran?page=entire Iran sits at the top of US concerns about keeping control of Middle East oil-producing regions, preparing for serious violence if other means do not suffice. July 15, 2010  | The dire threat of Iran is widely recognized to be the most serious foreign policy crisis facing the Obama administration. General Petraeus informed the Senate Committee on Armed Services in March 2010 that "the Iranian regime is the primary state-level threat to stability" in the U.S. Central Command area of responsibility, the Middle East and Central Asia, the primary region of US global concerns. The term "stability" here has its usual technical meaning: firmly under US control. In June 2010 Congre...

An Iranian woman at a protest in Brussels highlights the barbarity of death by stoning, in which women are buried up to their necks in front of a crowd of volunteers and killed in a hail of rocks. Photograph: Thierry Roge/Reuters Twelve Iranian women and three men are on death row awaiting execution by stoning despite an apparent last-minute reprieve for a mother of two who had been facing the horrific sentence after being convicted of adultery. Human rights groups and activists welcomed a wave of international publicity and protests over the case of Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani, 43, who was awaiting execution in the western Iranian town of Tabriz after what her lawyer called an unjust trial and a sham conviction. The Iranian embassy in London said in a statement that "according to informat...

NOVANEWS The BBC World Service has published my following article about the internet in Iran (originally published on BBC Persian last week): The face of murdered Iranian woman Neda Agha Soltan, killed by a bullet in the Iranian capital Tehran, echoed around the world. Like this, the vast majority of iconic images that documented Iran’s disputed presidential election to the outside world were shot by citizens on mobile phones or digital cameras. They were raw, brutal, confused and powerful. A society was challenged in a way that rocked the foundations of the state. Neda’s boyfriend, Caspian Makan, told the UK Guardian newspaper in November 2009 that Neda’s death forced him to become political and speak out against the regime. “As I left Tehran”, he said, “I was looking around at the good p...

NOVANEWS ShareFrom CNN: From Barbara Starr, CNN Pentagon correspondent Washington (CNN) — A former high-ranking CIA official who was involved in the Iran-Contra scandal has worked on an alleged ad hoc spy program that the Pentagon is investigating, CNN has learned. Duane “Dewey” Clarridge — who was pardoned for his alleged role in the Reagan-era scandal by President George H. W. Bush in the waning hours of his presidency in 1992 — is using contacts in Afghanistan and Pakistan to obtain information for the Pentagon, according to former government officials familiar with the current program. They declined to be named because of the sensitivity of the issue.The Pentagon has launched an assessment of the roles of at least three contractor companies with more than $20 million in contracts, acco...