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  • Iranian Alert - January 21, 2005 - Cheney puts Iran at top of trouble list

    01/21/2005 12:05:22 AM PST · by DoctorZIn · 35 replies · 5,303+ views
    Regime Change Iran ^ | 1.21.2005 | DoctorZin
    Top News Story Thursday, January 20, 2005 · Last updated 8:50 p.m. PT Cheney puts Iran at top of trouble list THE ASSOCIATED PRESS     Vice President Dick Cheney addresses the crowd at the Texas/Wyoming Ball at the Washington Convention Center Thursday, Jan. 20, 2005, in Washington. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak) WASHINGTON -- Vice President Dick Cheney, in an interview hours before he and President Bush were sworn in for a second term, said Iran now tops the list of the world's potential trouble spots.Iran is pursuing "a fairly robust new nuclear program" and "is a noted sponsor of...
  • Iranian Alert - January 20, 2005 - Condoleezza Rice Voices Tough Line on Iran

    01/20/2005 12:57:02 AM PST · by DoctorZIn · 27 replies · 4,079+ views
    Regime Change Iran ^ | 1.20.2005 | DoctorZin
    Top News Story Condoleezza Rice Voices Tough Line on Iran Wed Jan 19, 2005 01:48 PM ET WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Secretary of State-designate Condoleezza Rice articulated a firm U.S. line against Iran's ruling mullahs, whose nuclear ambitions the Bush administration considers a major threat, in testimony at her Senate confirmation hearings. In two days of Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearings that ended on Wednesday, Rice repeatedly emphasized differences with Tehran's clerical leaders, saying: "It's really hard to find common ground with a government that thinks Israel should be extinguished." Rice did not rule out an eventual U.S. acceptance of...
  • Iranian Alert - January 19, 2005 - Tehran denies US nuclear spy missions in Iran

    01/18/2005 11:57:07 PM PST · by DoctorZIn · 26 replies · 3,503+ views
    Regime Change Iran ^ | 1.19.2005 | DoctorZin
    Top News Story Tehran denies US nuclear spy missions in Iran By Najmeh Bozorgmehr in Tehran and Guy Dinmore in Washington Published: January 18 2005 18:41 | Last updated: January 18 2005 18:41Iran on Tuesday dismissed a report that US commandos were carrying out secret missions inside the country and lashed out at US policy in Iraq. Ali Agha-Mohammadi, head of the propaganda committee of the Supreme National Security Council, said a report in the New Yorker magazine that claimed the US had started to identify alleged hidden nuclear sites inside Iran as potential targets in its war against...
  • Iranian Alert - January 18, 2005 - Statement from Pentagon on Latest Seymour Hersh Article & others

    01/17/2005 11:00:43 PM PST · by DoctorZIn · 45 replies · 5,362+ views
    Regime Change Iran ^ | 1.18.2005 | DoctorZin
    Top News Story U.S. Department of Defense Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense (Public Affairs)News Release On the Web: http://www.dod.mil/releases/2005/nr20050117-1987.html Media contact: +1 (703) 697-5131 Public contact:http://www.dod.mil/faq/comment.html or +1 (703) 428-0711   No. 046-05 IMMEDIATE RELEASE January 17, 2005 Statement from Pentagon Spokesman Lawrence DiRita on Latest Seymour Hersh Article             The Iranian regime’s apparent nuclear ambitions and its demonstrated support for terrorist organizations is a global challenge that deserves much more serious treatment than Seymour Hersh provides in the New Yorker article titled “The Coming Wars.”              Mr. Hersh’s article is so riddled with errors of fundamental...
  • Iranian Alert - January 17, 2005 - US Special forces 'on the ground' in Iran

    01/16/2005 10:02:49 PM PST · by DoctorZIn · 45 replies · 4,469+ views
    Regime Change Iran ^ | 1.17.2005 | DoctorZin
    Top News Story US Special forces 'on the ground' in IranIan TraynorMonday January 17, 2005The GuardianAmerican special forces have been on the ground inside Iran scouting for US air strike targets for suspected nuclear weapons sites, according to the renowned US investigative journalist Seymour Hersh. In an article in the latest edition of the New Yorker, Mr Hersh, who was the first to uncover the US human rights abuses against Iraqi detainees at Abu Ghraib prison last year, reports that Pakistan, under a deal with Washington, has been supplying information on Iranian military sites and on its nuclear programme,...
  • Iranian Alert - January 16, 2005 - "Jordan receives photo of al-Zarqawi with Iran military chiefs"

    01/15/2005 6:43:07 PM PST · by freedom44 · 50 replies · 7,861+ views
    Regime Change Iran ^ | 1/15/05 | Freedom44
    Top Story Jordan King receives photo of al-Zarqawi, Iran military chiefs Sat. 15 Jan 2005 Paris, Jan. 15 – A photo showing Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, the Jordanian born mastermind behind the latest spate of bombings in Iraq, standing with senior commanders of Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) was seen by Jordan's King Abdullah II last month, according to an Algerian journalist. "The Islamic Republic's Foreign Minister did not attend the Amman conference of Iraq's neighbors in response to accusations made by Jordan's King Abdullah II", Atwan Tazakrat on Thursday told US-based Radio Farda. "Fifteen days earlier, Jordanian intelligence...
  • Iranian Alert - January 15, 2005 - Soros supports mullahs: The left embraces yet another enemy

    01/15/2005 12:25:41 AM PST · by DoctorZIn · 34 replies · 10,606+ views
    Regime Change Iran ^ | 10.15.2005 | DoctorZin
    Top News Story Soros supports mullahs: The left embraces yet another enemy Posted: January 14, 20051:00 a.m. Eastern © 2005 WorldNetDaily.com On Jan. 13, 2005, the pro-mullah American-Iranian Council joined forces with George Soros's Open Society Institute to host Javad Zarif, Iran's ambassador to the United Nations, to give a talk titled, "The View from Tehran." Soros did not waste any time after supporting with millions of his own money John Kerry's losing 2004 presidential bid. Even before George Bush could be inaugurated the second time, Soros was rolling out the carpet for the mullah's top man in New York. Soros...
  • Iranian Alert - January 14, 2005 - Iranian agent arrested for al-Qaida ties

    01/14/2005 2:00:33 AM PST · by DoctorZIn · 16 replies · 3,246+ views
    Regime Change Iran ^ | 1.14.2005 | DoctorZin
    Top News Story Iranian agent arrested for al-Qaida ties Connects Tehran to Osama bin Laden's terror network Posted: January 13, 20051:50 p.m. Eastern By Aaron Klein © 2005 WorldNetDaily.com An Iranian agent was arrested yesterday in Kuwait for ties to recent al-Qaida-related attacks in several Middle Eastern countries, according to a popular Mideast radio network. Sawa Radio, which broadcasts throughout the Middle East, reported the unnamed Iranian agent was apprehended by Kuwaiti security forces after intelligence implicated his involvement in an al-Qaida terror network with prior information on recent attacks in Saudi Arabia. Earlier this week, two Kuwaiti security forces were...
  • Iranian Alert - January 13, 2005 - Israeli think tank: Only U.S. can neutralize Iran

    01/13/2005 12:20:47 AM PST · by DoctorZIn · 26 replies · 7,920+ views
    Regime Change Iran ^ | 1.13.2005 | DoctorZin
    Top News Story Israeli think tank: Only U.S. can neutralize Iran SPECIAL TO WORLD TRIBUNE.COMWednesday, January 12, 2005 TEL AVIV — An Israeli attack on Iranian nuclear facilities would pose greater risks than benefits, a new report concluded.The Jaffee Center for Strategic Studies said an Israeli attack on Iran would fail to either destroy all of its nuclear facilities or halt the program. The report said Teheran could retaliate by launching massive rocket and missile strikes on the Jewish state — from either Iran or Lebanon.In 1981, Israeli F-16 multi-role fighters destroyed Iraq's nuclear reactor in a single bombing...
  • Iranian Alert - January 12, 2005 - EU Lessens Nuclear Issue in Iranian Trade Talks

    01/12/2005 1:46:19 AM PST · by DoctorZIn · 19 replies · 3,568+ views
    Regime Change Iran ^ | 1.12.2005 | DoctorZin
    Top News Story EU Lessens Nuclear Issue in Iranian Trade Talks [Excerpt] January 12, 2005 Marc Champion and Juliane von Reppert-Bismarck Trade talks between the European Union and Iran to be reopened today won't be linked directly to progress on controlling Iran's nuclear ambitions, EU officials said. The talks, aimed at securing a Trade and Cooperation Agreement between the EU and Iran , were frozen in 2003. They now are being reopened as a result of Iran's Nov. 15 agreement with Britain, France and Germany to suspend its uranium-enrichment program temporarily. Even if nuclear watchdogs were to catch Iran...
  • Iranian Alert - January 11, 2005 - Iran may resume uranium enrichment in March

    01/11/2005 12:17:59 AM PST · by DoctorZIn · 30 replies · 7,005+ views
    Regime Change Iran ^ | 1.11.2005 | DoctorZin
    Top News Story Iran may resume uranium enrichment in March 10 Jan 2005 13:32:47 GMT Source: Reuters By Parisa Hafezi TEHRAN, Jan 10 (Reuters) - Iran may resume uranium enrichment -- which can be used to make atomic bombs -- in March if talks with the European Union fail to yield satisfactory progress, a senior Iranian security official said on Monday.Even if the talks go well, Hossein Mousavian told Reuters Tehran was only prepared to extend until June the enrichment freeze it began in late November in an effort to disprove U.S. accusations it is seeking nuclear weapons. "The...
  • Iranian Alert - January 10, 2005 - Iran Won't Allow Military Equipment Inspection

    01/10/2005 1:56:41 AM PST · by DoctorZIn · 33 replies · 6,314+ views
    Regime Change Iran ^ | 1.10.2005 | DoctorZin
    Top News Story Iran Won't Allow Military Gear Inspection Monday January 10, 2005 5:16 AMAP Photo NY114 By ALI AKBAR DAREINI Associated Press Writer TEHRAN, Iran (AP) - Iran will allow U.N. nuclear experts to take environmental samples at a military site the United States links to an alleged nuclear weapons program but won't allow them to inspect military equipment, the foreign ministry spokesman said Sunday. The head of the International Atomic Energy Agency, Mohamed ElBaradei, said last week that Iran had agreed to grant access to the site at Parchin, just southeast of Tehran, and that his inspectors...
  • Iranian Alert - January 9, 2005 - 25 years after revolution, Iranians eager to change regime

    01/08/2005 9:23:12 PM PST · by freedom44 · 27 replies · 5,850+ views
    Regime Change Iran ^ | 01/09/05 | Freedom44
    Top Story Saturday January 8, 2005 The Guardian Twenty-five years after the revolution, Kevin Rushby meets a new generation eager to shake off the fundamentalist legacy The world was gone mad. The coach was a Volvo and on the door it said Millwall Football Club. The sound system was playing Elvis as we boarded,"... we can't go on together with suspicious minds..." and the video was Indecent Exposure with Clooney and Zeta-Jones. Outside the door, men were finishing their Winston cigarettes. A girl wore Levi jeans and touched the sticking plaster on her surgically improved nose. A mad world...
  • Iranian Alert - January 8, 2005 - Iranian opposition exposes another secret nuke plant

    01/08/2005 1:41:44 AM PST · by DoctorZIn · 30 replies · 7,099+ views
    Regime Change Iran ^ | 1.8.2005 | DoctorZin
    Top News Story Group discloses secret nuke effort By Jennifer Joan Lee THE WASHINGTON TIMES PARIS — The Iranian opposition group that exposed the nation's covert nuclear weapons program two years ago said yesterday that supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has ordered the effort to continue in secret.    The opposition group, the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI), also disclosed the existence of what it said is a new uranium enrichment facility in central Iran that is nearing completion.     Speaking to reporters in Paris yesterday, Mohammad Mohaddessin, chairman of the NCRI's Foreign Affairs Committee, said the Iranian regime is...
  • Iranian Alert - January 7, 2005 - Rice's deputy signals less confrontational US foreign policy

    01/07/2005 1:28:31 AM PST · by DoctorZIn · 10 replies · 2,125+ views
    Regime Change Iran ^ | 1.7.2005 | DoctorZin
    Top News Story Rice Is Said to Pick Trade Negotiator as DeputyBy STEVEN R. WEISMAN Published: January 7, 2005 ASHINGTON, Jan. 6 - Moving to assemble a pragmatic team as secretary of state, Condoleezza Rice has selected Robert B. Zoellick, the administration's top trade negotiator, as her deputy and is considering two veteran diplomats with reputations as moderates for the No. 3 job, administration officials said on Thursday.The officials said that the under secretary of state for political affairs, the third-ranking post at the department that is reserved for a member of the foreign service bureaucracy, would probably be...
  • Iranian Alert - January 6, 2005 - Intel Drone Crashes in Iran?

    01/06/2005 1:23:19 AM PST · by DoctorZIn · 20 replies · 3,630+ views
    Regime Change Iran ^ | 1.6.2005 | DoctorZin
    Top News Story Intel Drone Crashes in Iran?DEBKAfile Exclusive: Unidentified drone crashes at Arak nuclear site in central Iran, according to sources close to Iranian Revolutionary Guards ex-commander Rezai. Evidence in wreckage of intelligence-gathering at presumed uranium enrichment site. Last week, Iranian air force commander said mystery aircraft reported by witnesses over sensitive sites would be shot down.
  • Iranian Alert - January 5, 2005 - Risks of appeasing Iran's mullahs

    01/05/2005 12:26:47 AM PST · by DoctorZIn · 25 replies · 4,848+ views
    Regime Change Iran ^ | 1.5.2005 | DoctorZin
    Top News Story Risks of appeasing Iran's mullahs[Excerpt]By Struan Stevenson Iran's increasing meddling in Iraq and its defiance in its nuclear weapons program pose the greatest challenge to peace and security in Iraq and the whole Middle East, as we enter 2005. ...     Its proxies in that country, including the Supreme Council for Islamic Revolution in Iraq (SCIRI), have put forward a united slate, hoping to gain a majority in the newly elected parliament, whose primary task is to draft Iraq's future constitution. The Iranian clerics have never been so close to realizing their decades-old dream of erecting a...
  • Iranian Alert - January 4, 2005 - Influencing Iran's Nuclear Activities through Major Powers

    01/03/2005 11:37:03 PM PST · by DoctorZIn · 18 replies · 2,953+ views
    Regime Change Iran ^ | 1.4.2005 | DoctorZin
    Top News Story Number 936 December 30, 2004 Influencing Iran's Nuclear Activities through Major Power Cooperation Patrick Clawson This is the second part of a two-part series on diplomacy surrounding the Iranian nuclear program and discusses the role of the five permanent members of the UN Security Council, with particular focus on Russia and China. The first part appeared as PolicyWatch 928 on December 16. The Iran nuclear issue will be on the international agenda in the coming months. The often-postponed visit to Tehran by the head of Russia's Atomic Energy Agency (Minatom) Alexander Rumyantsev to sign an agreement...
  • Iranian Alert - January 3, 2005 - Iraq's Shiites rule out Iran model

    01/02/2005 11:47:58 PM PST · by DoctorZIn · 14 replies · 2,804+ views
    Regime Change Iran ^ | 1.3.2005 | DoctorZin
    Top News Story Iraq's Shiites rule out Iran model Monday, January 3, 2005 Political coalition says it won't create an Islamic theocracyBAGHDAD In a surprise press conference Sunday, leaders of the Shiite-dominated coalition that is expected to prevail in national elections sought to dispel fears that they are under the secret sway of Iran, or have any desire to create an Islamic theocracy. Speaking in offices that were damaged by a car bomb just six days before, leaders of the United Iraqi Alliance urged disaffected Sunnis to join in the elections for a National Assembly, scheduled for Jan. 30....
  • Iranian Alert - January 2, 2005 - Iran's Peace Prize Laureate to run for Presidency

    01/01/2005 9:32:03 PM PST · by freedom44 · 27 replies · 4,366+ views
    Regime Change Iran ^ | 1/2/05 | Freedom44
    Top StoryIran's Ebadi to run for presidency LONDON, Jan 1 (IranMania) – According to Iran Daily, news sources on Friday reported of Peace Prize Laureate, Iranian Shririn Ebadi's candidacy in the upcoming presidential elections. 14 groups such as the Council in Defense of Prisoners' Rights along with independent human rights advocates are to form a coalition to back Ebadi's candidacy. This is while according to Iran's Guardian Council, the controversial term ' Rejal' explicitly mentioned in Iran's constitution in defining the characteristics of the presidential hopefuls refers to the masculinity of the candidates. Thus it is still unknown what...