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    • Wednesday, Feb 24, 2010
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      Last night Britain executed two men arrested during the period of widespread unrest that erupted after January 29th’s disputed Chilcot inquiry into the Labour government and Tony Blair’s role in the invasion of Iraq.
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    • Saturday, Feb 20, 2010
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      In a visit to Qatar and Saudi Arabia this week, Hillary Clinton said that Iran "is moving toward a military dictatorship," and continued the Administration's campaign for tougher sanctions against that country.
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    • Sunday, Jan 31, 2010
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      A new human rights campaign has been launched to stop executions in Iran
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    • Friday, Jan 15, 2010
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      On December 14, The Times announced that it had obtained documents about Iran’s nuclear program that revealed “a four-year plan to test a neutron initiator. This is the component of a nuclear weapon that triggers the explosion”. (Leading art...
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    • Thursday, Nov 12, 2009
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      In one key conflict area-Iran-President Barack Obama appears to be keeping, at least for the moment, his campaign commitment to engage rather than threaten, to use diplomacy rather than force. As talks with Iran go forward, hope continues to rise ...
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    • Thursday, Oct 15, 2009
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      In 2001, the London Observer published a series of reports claiming an “Iraqi connection” to al-Qaeda, even describing the base in Iraq where the training of terrorists took place and a facility where anthrax was being made as a weapon of mass...
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    • Wednesday, Oct 14, 2009
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      On 1 October, Iran startled the world by making two dramatic concessions in the long-standing crisis over its uranium enrichment programme, 'agreeing to admit inspectors to a newly revealed nuclear plant and to surrender some of its enriched ur...
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    • Friday, Oct 09, 2009
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      The relationship between the United States and Iran with respect to Iran's nuclear file is playing out at two levels. One level revolves around formal obligations and agreements and diplomacy. The second level is the long-running contest between t...
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    • Saturday, Oct 03, 2009
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      The IAEA, which met in Vienna on September 18, adopted a resolution expressing concern about "Israeli nuclear capabilities" and called on agency chief Mohamed ElBaradei to work on the issue. The motion was adopted by 49 votes to 45, with 16 absten...
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    • Thursday, Oct 01, 2009
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      In 2001, the Observer in London published a series of reports that claimed an "Iraqi connection" to al-Qaeda, even describing the base in Iraq where the training of terrorists took place and a facility where anthrax was being manufactured as a wea...
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    • Friday, Sep 25, 2009
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      An analysis of Obama's cancellation of the US radar base in the Czech Republic.
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    • Saturday, Sep 19, 2009
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      On August 26, the Guardian newspaper published an article titled, 'US takes on Israeli-Palestinian conflict and Iran's nuclear programme in one massive gamble.'
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    • Wednesday, Aug 05, 2009
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      The recent elections in Iran, and the subsequent challenges to their legitimacy, have been a matter of enormous internal conflict in Iran, and of seemingly endless debate in the rest of the world -- a debate that threatens to linger for some time ...
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    • Friday, Jul 10, 2009
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      June 2009 was marked by a number of significant events, including two elections in the Middle East: in Lebanon, then Iran. The events are significant, and the reactions to them, highly instructive.
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    • Tuesday, Jul 07, 2009
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      Right after the June 12 elections in Iran, the Campaign for Peace and Democracy issued a statement expressing our strong support for the masses of Iranians protesting electoral fraud and our horror at the ferocious response of the government. Our ...
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    • Saturday, Jun 27, 2009
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      Phyllis Bennis of the Institute for Policy Studies talks about what the U.S. should and should not be saying in the aftermath of the Iranian elections.
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    • Friday, Jun 26, 2009
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      A continuity of American policy under Bush and Cheney
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    • Friday, Jun 19, 2009
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      The growing nonviolent insurrection in Iran against the efforts by the ruling clerics to return the ultra-conservative and increasingly autocratic incumbent president Mahmoud Ahmadinjead to power is growing. Whatever the outcome, it represents an...
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    • Wednesday, Jun 17, 2009
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      Fisk witnesses the courage of one million protesters who ignored threats, guns and bloodshed to demand freedom in Iran
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    • Tuesday, Jun 16, 2009
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      Obama lets loose the predators
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      Iran's Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has compared the protests following his country's recent sham election to the common scuffles that take place after a soccer game...
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    • Monday, Jun 15, 2009
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      If it is true that Ahmadinejad's victory is fraudulent, it'll be a dream come true for those pushing a more confrontational approach with Iran.
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    • Monday, May 11, 2009
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      Obama has been much bolder with regard to US relations with Latin America than with the Middle East in is first 100 days
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    • Tuesday, Mar 17, 2009
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      At the end of 2007, a thorough assessment by the United States concluded that Iran’s nuclear weapons programme had already halted in 2003. The National Intelligence Estimate was the consensus view of all 16 US spy agencies...
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    • Thursday, Feb 26, 2009
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      Peace Activists Call on Teheran to Ensure the Safety of Iranian Human Rights leader Shirin Ebadi
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    • Saturday, Sep 13, 2008
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      In early July, a National Post reporter on board a Canadian naval vessel explained: "The usual tense games were played this weekend as this Canadian warship responsible for refueling and replenishing a coalition task force in the Indian Ocean pass...
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    • Monday, Aug 18, 2008
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      From July 21 - 31, Joint Task Force (mostly US, but also UK, Brazil and Italy) "Operation Brimstone" large scale war games were conducted off the US East coast in the North Atlantic. Its purpose may have been to prepare for a naval blockade of Ira...
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    • Thursday, Aug 07, 2008
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      There's good news and bad, mostly the latter but don't discount the good. On May 22, (non-binding) HR 362 was introduced in the House - with charges and proposals so outlandish that if passed and implemented will be a blockade and act of war.
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    • Saturday, Jul 19, 2008
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      For someone like myself, who fought in World War II, and since then has protested against war, I must ask: Have our political leaders gone mad? Have they learned nothing from recent history? Have they not learned that no one "wins" in a war, but t...
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    • Wednesday, Jul 16, 2008
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      Once again, there's a lot of serious attack-on-Iran talk going around. We've both been following this, admittedly with no deep expertise, for several years now. During that time a number of media/blogosphere storms declaring such an attack imminen...
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