Why Should Iran Be So Savagely Punished For Wanting Nuclear Energy?

by Mehri Honarbin-Holliday (Campaign Iran)
In recent weeks, Israel’s relentless discourse of immanent military attacks on a variety of sites in Iran, including the channels for refined oil returning to Iran and nuclear installations, have dominated the world press. In the US this week, the Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama has told the pro Israeli lobbyists [...]

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Preparing the Battlefield

The Bush Administration steps up its secret moves against Iran.
 by Seymour M. Hersh / Source: The New Yorker
Late last year, Congress agreed to a request from President Bush to fund a major escalation of covert operations against Iran, according to current and former military, intelligence, and congressional sources. These operations, for which the President sought [...]

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US prepares for war on Iran

by Naz Massoumi / Source: Socialist Worker
The drums of war against Iran were beating stronger and faster this week.
The neocons around George Bush want to escalate the war in the Middle East in an attempt to extricate the US from the Iraq quagmire – and see an attack on Iran as the best way to [...]

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Considering a war with Iran

The consequences of entering a war with Iran will be catastrophic regionally and globally. Their political and environmental impact, and the human suffering and loss of lives and displacement, are not a matter of prophesy. Rather, they are are fully predictable and, moreover, avoidable. Any such attack on Iran would add exponentially to the horrifying [...]

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For the love of oil

Iranian author Mehri Honarbin-Holliday reminds us of the nefarious history of the crushing of Iranian democracy by the US and UK, and describes the peaceful efforts of a new generation of Iranian youth to build it in the beleaguered circumstances of a sanctions-imprisoned Iran
Ask Iranians why they profoundly despise, distrust and condemn any form of [...]

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