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War of words, or words of war
[Source: Iran's Crises]   
Ali Behrooz
I wonder if Mrs Hilary Clinton could address the following points:
1- When she says “I want the Iranians to know…” who does she really mean? The Iranian people or the Iranian regime?
2- When she says “we would be able to totally obliterate them…”, is she picturing herself as a war criminal who would obliterate a nation?
3- Assuming Mrs Clinton is aware of the outcome of Iran’s latest parliamentary election, and the fact that the election was not democratically carried out; does she still stand by her comments? I know she has only said “would be able to” and not “would”, but does she not think that using words of this nature has serious implications, and would most certainly strengthen Ahmadinejad’s warmongering position?
4- Assuming the Ayatollahs are mad enough to attack Israel (I do not think this would ever happen), and the USA is savage enough to obliterate Iran (I do not think this will ever happen, after the Hiroshima experience), can she simply point out the winner? Americans, Israelis, Jews, Muslims, Iranian people, or the terrorists?

Iran's president visits India for gas pipeline talks
[Source: Washington Post - 30/04/08]   
News Report
NEW DELHI -- A $7 billion gas pipeline that would link Iran and India topped the agenda Tuesday as the Islamic republic's president made his first visit to New Delhi, despite strong U.S. objections to the project. The trip came as India and the United States are struggling to finalize a landmark nuclear energy deal. But New Delhi has made it clear that it will look to any source to feed its energy...

Putin promises Iran continuity in relations: RIA
[Source: Reuters - 30/04/08]   
News Report
MOSCOW (Reuters) - President Vladimir Putin has told Iran's president that there will be continuity in Russia's relations with Tehran, RIA news agency quoted a senior Russian official as saying on Wednesday. "An oral message from Russian President Vladimir Putin was conveyed to Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad at a meeting," RIA quoted Valentin Sobolev, acting secretary of Russia's National...
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Japan calls for expansion of economic cooperation with Iran
[Source: IRNA - 29/04/08]   
News Report
Japanese Ambassador to Tehran Akio Shirota on Tuesday met the Head of Majlis Economic Commission Mohammad-Shahi Arablou to discuss expansion of economic cooperation between the two countries. Referring to the good ties between Iran and Japan, the Japanese ambassador said the people and officials of the two countries are willing to broaden and bolster mutual cooperation mainly in the economic...

Just When it Ends in Basra, it Begins in Mosul!
[Source: asharq-e.com - 29/04/08]   
Huda al Husseini
In the last week of last March, a US Army official in Iraq stated that the coalition forces will focus their attention on Basra as soon as they conclude the military operation in Mosul against Al-Qaeda and Sunni fighters. He added that thousands of Marine forces will be deployed in Basra and its environs. Earlier in the month during his visit to Baghdad, American Vice-President Dick Cheney asked...

New U.S. carrier in Gulf a
[Source: Reuters - 29/04/08]   
News Report
MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - The U.S. Navy has temporarily added a second aircraft carrier in the Gulf as a "reminder" to Iran, but this was not an escalation of American forces in the region, U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates said on Tuesday. Speaking to reporters during a trip to Mexico, Gates flatly denied a suggestion that the presence of two U.S. carriers in the Gulf could be a precursor to military action against Tehran. "This deployment has been planned for a long time," Gates said. "I don't think we'll have two carriers there for a protracted period of time. So I don't see it as an escalation. I think it could be seen, though, as a reminder." He declined to elaborate on his remarks and provided no details about the deployment.

'Iran will respond to any attack'
[Source: Press TV - 17/04/08]   
News Report
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has stressed that any country who dares to attack Iran will be responded to very forcefully. Addressing the audience on the occasion of the National Army Day ceremony in southern Tehran, Ahmadinejad said Iran prides in having "the world's most courageous army." Iran is a peace-loving nation which seeks regional security, and the country's show of military...

Iran deplores UAE claim on 3 islands
[Source: IRNA - 17/04/08]   
News Report
An Iranian MP reacted on Thursday to unfounded claims of his counterpart from the United Arab Emirates at a high-profile meeting in South Africa over the three Iranian islands in the Persian Gulf. "The three islands of Abu Mousa, the Greater and Lesser Tunbs are inseparable parts of Iran as the country has repeatedly made it clear before," member of the Iranian delegation to the ongoing 118th session...

Could Israel use submarines against Iran?
[Source: Reuters - 17/04/08]   
News Report
HAIFA, Israel (Reuters) - Anticipating a showdown with Iran, Israel decides secretly to deploy a submarine off its arch-foe's coast. But how? The quickest route from Israel's Mediterranean coast is via the Suez Canal, which runs through Egypt and which the classified vessels shun. So the submarine is hidden in the belly of a commercial tanker, which delivers it to the Gulf. Such is the plot of...

Iran displays 1800 km-range missile
[Source: Press TV - 17/04/08]   
News Report
Iran exhibits its 1800 km-range missile "QADR 1" for first time during a military forces' parade on the country's National Army Day. The domestically produced missile was manufactured by Iranian aerospace experts working for the Iranian Defense Ministry. Every part of the missile has been manufactured inside the country including the fuel system, Oxide charger and the missile launcher. The...
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