CASMII Columns

Katie Couric's interview on CBS News on July 7 leaves little doubt that she considers Benjamin Netanyahu, Israel's Prime Minister as the boss and that President Obama is irrelevant. ››read more

Sepahpour-UlrichIranians will learn that the proposal for an air boycott -- a quarantine -- was an idea voiced in the right-wing Washington Times in 2007 by Michael B. Kraft and Brett Wallace. These two argued that "[S]uspending Iran Air's landing rights and cutting off spare parts and maintenance services would be a very visible and dramatic step to both the Iranian public and the mullahs". ››read more

One could be forgiven for thinking that the neoconservatives who nudge us towards war with Iran are under the effect of the magic mushroom. Obsessed with Iran, their trips take on the shape of a 'mushroom cloud'. ››read more

Today, in order to wage another war against Iranians and to ensure that Iran shares Iraq's fate, the argument presented by the Lobby and trumpeted by the neoconservative-dominated media is why does Iran not need to enrich uranium. Before one responds that it is Iran's right under the NPT, it would be more simple to demand of the neoconservatives to explain why America and her allies should place such a high demand on readioisotopes? ››read more

It is extraordinary that the presidential candidate who hoped to occupy the White House by showing no qualms about 'bomb, bomb, bombing Iran' is now singing a different tune. The man who wanted to bury the voices of men, women, and children under the debris of bombs, has decided that he should not 'just bombard Iran with messages from America' but become their boom box - VOICE for Iranians. ››read more

An article titled ‘Iran's missiles not an existential threat, study says’ published in Haaretz this week is a Cliffs Notes guide for anyone trying to understand Israel’s true intentions and concerns as it obliterates the deceptive victim fascia so often portrayed through the Western media and reveals its genuine regional ambitions. ››read more

Israel continuously threatens Iran and its 70 million inhabitants with war. Yet, the same country that demanded America and other proxies to abandon the Conference Against Racism had a bunch of clowns representing it to interrupt a speech which was condemning its oppressive behavior. ››read more

I write to you in the hope that in the absence of a blatant disregard for international law by your friends, you may use your connections to help salvage what rightfully belongs to Iran and Iranians. ››read more

Ambassador Freeman’s withdrawal may be considered a victory by the 'Lobby' but it is a shameful and deplorable defeat for the American people and their system of government. ››read more

On November 4, 2008, the world watched as Americans filed into polling booths to decide who should be the next occupant of the White House. The excitement of the elections veiled the removal of the single most important choice: the option to cancel the neoconservatives’ lease on 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. ››read more

Senator KerryDuring a US Senate hearing debate Tuesday on how to engage Iran diplomatically, Senator John Kerry chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, warned that the international community already has sent a message of "ambivalence if not impotence" by allowing Iran to reach a point where it is enriching uranium on an industrial scale. ››read more

BagherzadehThe neo-cons, some of the reporters from major US newspapers, and a number of nonproliferation experts are now spinning a new story about the potential threat of Iran’s uranium enrichment capability. According to the story, sometime in 2009, Iran will have enough Low Enriched Uranium (LEU) which may then be used as a seed for further refinement to bomb grade level, commonly referred to as High Enriched Uranium (HEU). ››read more

GazaIsrael must immediately and unconditionally stop this massacre of the innocents. Egypt must open Rafah to allow aid agencies to provide medical, rescue and relief operation for tens of thousands of injured children, women and civilians. ››read more

GazaHaving already been given assurances by future Secretary of State Hillary Clinton that the US will obliterate Iran if she retaliated to Israeli attacks on her nuclear installations, Israel may attempt to hit Iranian nuclear installations, and since Iran has announced that she would retaliate by hitting back at Israeli nuclear installations as well as 32 US military bases in her bordering countries, the war may escalate globally and exponentially. ››read more

"Everyplace is dark and filled of sadness; all hopes are hopeless; the whole world has ended. Four tall walls surrounded me; all that was open was the sky, but it was dark. I felt like I was burying myself, my heart could not stay in my chest, I wanted to tear it out, stomp on it, and no longer sense anything." -- Female veteran of war who participated in the freeing of Khorramshahr; describes burying her brother: personal interview, Tehran, Iran ››read more

Respect for universal human rights begins at home and not through PR campaigns to promote such rights in Iran or any other country. ››read more

Claudia Rosett believes she has mastered the art of propaganda rooted in her conviction that others will adopt her ideas through sheer repetition. In her latest article 'Iran's Power at the United Nations', Ms. Rosett uses sound-bites to demonize Iran while bemoaning America’s burdensome monetary contributions to the U.N. but she fails to tell her readers the unadvertised fact that U.S. ‘assessed share of the U.N budget’ is only matched by its total outstanding arrears which currently stand at more than $1.3 billion. ››read more

Dimona plantAn investigation by the US Congress into weapons of mass destruction published on 3rd Dec 2008 expressed concern about the danger posed by proliferation of nuclear weapons in countries such as Iran, saying president Obama's administration must stop Tehran acquiring a nuclear weapons capability.

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PourkesaliTo succeed with his pro-diplomacy agenda, president-elect Barack Obama must give up all attempts at gaining any leverage over Iran through sanctions because no "combination of incentives and disincentives" or any meaningful negotiation to resolve differences can even begin until all illegal sanctions already imposed are removed and Iran's nuclear dossier is returned to the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA). ››read more

I am deeply opposed to your nomination of Hillary Clinton as Secretary of State. During her bid against you for the Presidency she declared that if she became President “we will attack Iran” and “if Iran attacks Israel, we will obliterate Iran.” Anyone capable of this kind of inflammatory hate and war rhetoric is not fit to be the highest diplomat in the land.
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