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Ignore the Intelligence Reports, let`s Make War on Iran

Let’s shred and vapourize a few million more innocents... But first we’ll strangle them with sanctions, say our elected leaders.

(LONDON) - Is this what we voted for? Is this what Western diplomacy has come to in the 21stt century?

Thank heaven for Dr David Morrison’s very timely briefing document entitled “Iran hasn’t got an active nuclear weapons programme, says US intelligence”. Morrison is the noted political researcher from Northern Ireland. He sets out the position in easy-reading form so that even our dimmest politicians can understand.

Senate Placates Lobbyists While Risking a Disastrous War

The US and Israel are opposed to Nuclear Free Zone and have nixed it. Why?

(JAMESTOWN, RI) - The US Senate is playing a dangerous game that has already cost consumers money at the gas pump, and now is putting the US in a very dangerous position.

A good part of the rising price of gas is due to sanctions that prohibit nations from buying Iranian oil and gas, thus creating an artificial shortage which oil companies have exploited.

IAEA working with spy agencies on Iran: Blix Political Desk

There are still things that can be put on the negotiation table with Iran, but for that a colonial tone should be dropped and more attention should be paid to the reward side, Blix noted.

(ROME) - The International Atomic Energy Agency has been closely cooperating with the world’s spy agencies on Iran and certain other countries for years, Hans Blix, the former director general of the agency, said on February 27.

“In 1991, we realized that Iraqis had been cheating the IAEA. We went to declared installations, but not to other places and they were building things elsewhere,” he told RT.

Tell President Obama: Don`t Capitulate to the War-Makers

There is a non-violent way to deal with all this...

(NEW YORK) - President Obama is under immense pressure to give Netanyahu private assurances that if the U.S. strategy to stop Iran from developing the capacity (not the actuality) for nuclear weapons doesn't work, the U.S. will back an Israeli first strike.

This is the moment for peace oriented voices to speak out and say no to an Israeli first strike with American overt or covert backing.

Can you say, `Iranwood`?
Director Asghar Farhadi`s `A Separation` wins Oscar

Political tensions do not prevent 'A Separation' from receiving two Academy Award Nominations.

(SALEM) - Tensions are running high in the Middle east, with the U.S. continually taunting Iran and hovering around the idea of war.

Wikileaks Scandal, Embarrassing for US

Press TV has conducted an interview with Michael Maloof, former Pentagon official, to share his opinion on this issue.

(TEHRAN Press TV) - The leakage of classified information by former US Army soldier, Bradley Manning, to whistleblower website, WikiLeaks, is a source of embarrassment for the US government, a former Pentagon official tells Press TV.

Manning has been formally charged with involvement in the largest leakage of classified information in the American history.

Will Colbert Grow a Pair for The Secret Policeman`s Ball vis-a-vis Israel`s WMD?

Recently on The Colbert Report, Stephen balled out when it came to nailing where Nuclear Weapons are in the Middle East

(CLERMONT, FL) - Amnesty International is celebrating fifty years in support of free speech at a comedy show on March 4th in my homeland-New York City with the import of The Secret Policeman's Ball.

Among the acts that have signed on for the happening at Radio City Music Hall for the concert to benefit Amnesty International are Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert.

SWIFT Pressured to Ban Iran Over Nuclear Ambitions

There is the possibility that Saudi Arabia could make up for some, but not all, of the banned Iranian oil.

(SAN FRANCISCO) - Under pressure from the United States and the European Union, the Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication in Belgium, is expected to ban Iran's forty banks and institutions from using SWIFT to process its financial transactions.

This would effect Iran's foreign trade and access to international payments.

Sri Lanka Feels Pinch of Iran Sanctions

Fuel prices rise in island-nation as US-led sanctions on Tehran hit both imports and exports.

(COLOMBO Al Jazeera) - Sri Lanka, which relies heavily on imports of Iranian oil, is feeling the impact of US-led sanctions on Tehran.

Rising global prices, due in part to US-led sanctions against Iran along with the weakening of the Sri Lankan rupee, have led the price of kerosene to rise 49 per cent, diesel 36.9 per cent and petrol 7.7 per cent in Sri Lanka.

Efraim Halevy, former head of Mossad: The Current Syrian Situation is Iran`s Achilles Heel

Goldman Sachs’ charts illustrate that Iran is still one of five nations in the N-11 pot whose “productivity and sustainability of growth” is above average.

(MELBOURNE) - Early news reports on Wednesday claimed that Iran pre-empted European Union sanctions by turning off the oil spigot to six member-states: the Netherlands, Spain, Italy, France, Greece and Portugal.