GAMING AN IRAN WAR: How Washington Plans For Aggression as Part of a Reelection Campaign
• http://www.globalresearch.ca, by Danny SchechterPentagon Official Joins President’s Reelection Campaign
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Unresolved Iran Nuclear Talks
Stephen LendmanIran
Iran says test-fires missiles over threats of attack
• http://www.reuters.com, By Marcus GeorgeIran said on Tuesday it had successfully tested medium-range missiles capable of hitting Israel in response to threats of military action against the country, Iranian media reported.
U.S. Adds Forces in Persian Gulf, a Signal to Iran
• www.nytimes.comThe United States has quietly moved significant military reinforcements into the Persian Gulf to deter the Iranian military from any possible attempt to shut the Strait of Hormuz and to increase the number of fighter jets capable of striking deep int
Iranian authorities acknowledge impact of sanctions
• Washington PostWith downgraded nuclear talks with world powers set to begin Tuesday, there are growing signs in Iran that Western sanctions are hurting the nation’s economy and alarming its decision-makers. Authorities remain defiant, but they increasingly are a
Iranian submarines to navigate Caspian Sea – report
• http://www.rt.comTehran plans to deploy “light submarines” to the Caspian Sea, Iranian Navy top brass has told Fars news agency.
Ray McGovern: My Take
How Iran Might See the Threats
Ray McGovernWith half of 2012 behind us and the U.S. presidential election looming in just four months, I will try to be candid and blunt about what I see as the dangers facing the Islamic Republic in the coming months.
Israeli strike on Iran would end Jewish state – Iran’s top brass
• http://www.rt.comIf Israel goes from threats to military actions, “it is Israel who will be destroyed,” says a high-ranking Iranian general.
Western Hypocrisy on Iran's Nuclear Rights
Stephen LendmanObama plans war
Iran: Lift sanctions, and we will fully cooperate with IAEA
• http://www.rt.comThe Islamic Republic’s chief nuclear negotiator Saeed Jalili said his country is prepared to fully cooperate with the International Atomic Energy Agency if the sanctions currently placed on Iran are lifted.
U.S., Israel developed Flame computer virus to slow Iranian nuclear efforts, officials say
• New York TimesThe United States and Israel jointly developed a sophisticated computer virus nicknamed Flame that collected intelligence in preparation for cyber-sabotage aimed at slowing Iran’s ability to develop a nuclear weapon, according to Western officials wi
U.S. warns Iran dissidents they must close Iraq camp
• ReutersThe United States warned an Iranian dissident group on Monday to follow through on plans to close a base in Iraq founded under Saddam Hussein, saying it was "gravely mistaken" to believe there was any other option. The State Department urged the g
Israel’s strategy for Iran nuclear talks: ‘Comply...or else’
• http://www.rt.comIsrael is calling on its allies to threaten Iran convincingly with military action during the current talks in Moscow, media reports say. Tel Aviv believes Tehran does not take the threat of war seriously yet.
US senators take aggressive stance ahead of Iran nuclear talks
• http://www.rt.comAs Moscow braces to host the third round of talks on Iranian nuclear program the US Senators are urging President Obama to ramp up pressure against Tehran and show that “credible military option” exists should Iran fail to curb its nuclear program.
Switzerland's refusal to adopt sanctions on Iran ‘disappoints’ US
• Press TVSwitzerland’s refusal to yield to pressure from the United States in adopting the US-engineered European Union (EU) sanctions against Iran has “disappointed” Washington, the US envoy to Bern says.
David Sanger's War on Iran
Stephen Lendmanmedia warm
Nazi propaganda website starts operation in Iran, government censors do nothing
• The Daily CallerA pro-Nazi association now operates a Persian-language website in Iran, promoting anti-Semitism and memorializing Adolf Hitler, apparently with the approval of the Iranian government and its censors.
Attacking Iran Likely Counter-Productive, Think Tank Warns
• http://www.commondreams.org, by Jim LobeWhile a nuclear-armed Iran would pose significant new challenges to the United States and Israel, a military attack by either country to prevent Tehran from developing a weapon could well prove counter-productive.
Ray McGovern: My Take
Sorting Out the Facts about Iran
Ray McGovernNeocons, including the Washington Post’s editors, keep playing games with the facts regarding Iran’s nuclear program. The plan apparently is to guide the U.S. into a military confrontation whether Obama and the American people want one or not.
Israel 'super-ready' to attack Iran – Defense Chief
• http://www.rt.comIsrael is fully prepared to attack Iran if needed, declared Israeli Defense Forces Chief of Staff Benny Gantz, saying the military threat is one convincing method of forcing Tehran to give up its nuclear ambitions.
Iranophobia and Obama the cyber-warrior
• Kaveh L Afrasiabi, Asia TimesUnited States President Barack Obama, the relentless drone warrior, has a new and proud hat: the cyber-warrior.. .The new American totalitarianism sustains its military adventurisms abroad in the name of a global "higher good", thus appearing as the
Iran: Response to attack will come ‘like thunderbolt’
• http://www.rt.comAny Israeli “misstep” against Iran will fall on their own heads “like a thunderbolt”, Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamenei warns.
Obama ‘sped up cyber-attacks’ on Iran’s nuclear program
• New York TimesFrom his first months in office, President Obama secretly ordered increasingly sophisticated attacks on the computer systems that run Iran’s main nuclear enrichment facilities, significantly expanding America’s first use of cyberweapons, according to
Ex-president of Iran calls Facebook ‘a blessing’: report
• AFPFacebook is a “blessing” that helps freedom-seeking movements challenge tyranny, a former president of Iran — which routinely blocks access to the social networking site — was quoted as saying in a report by the ISNA news agency. “We see that a Fa
'Axis of Unholy Lands broken, but Israel still has enemies' – Israeli deputy PM
• http://www.rt.comIsrael has many enemies and it needs to defend itself.
Stuxnet x20: Massive cyber spy virus 'Flame' hits Iran, Israel
• http://www.rt.comA powerful data-snatching virus targeting computers in Iran, Israel and other Middle Eastern countries has been discovered by Russian experts.
Panetta: Pentagon ‘Ready’ to Attack Iran
• http://news.antiwar.com, by Jason DitzInternational Community 'Unified' on Move, Panetta Insists
U.S. officials among the targets of Iran-linked assassination plots
• Washington PostIn November, the tide of daily cable traffic to the U.S. Embassy in Azerbaijan brought a chilling message for Ambassador Matthew Bryza, then the top U.S. diplomat to the small Central Asian country. A plot to kill Americans had been uncovered, the me
Iran designs alternative system for SWIFT:CBI
• Press TV (Iran)Governor of the Central Bank of Iran(CBI) Mahmoud Bahmani says the country has designed and implemented a new system for conducting international transactions. Bahmani said on Saturday the new system, which has already been activated
Anti-Iranian Propaganda
Stephen LendmanMedia scoundrels promote war
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