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The current U.S. standoff against Iran, like the run-up to the invasion of Iraq in 2003, was instigated by the neoconservatives of the Bush Administration based on their doctrine of “maintaining U.S. pre-eminence, thwarting rival powers and shaping the global security system according to U.S. interests”. In the case of Saddam’s regime, its fictitious Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD) and its alleged links to Al-Qaida were used in the U.S. propaganda war to first impose U.N. sanctions and eventually invade Iraq. We now have a déjà vu situation in which the U.S. and its allies, prodded by Israel, demonize Iran as a threat to world security and accuse it of having a program to develop nuclear weapons. As with Iraq, the real aim is a regime change in Iran to set up a U.S. puppet government in this oil- and gas-rich country in the key strategic Persian Gulf region. This has also happened before in the 1953 U.S.-British coup in Iran. The same forces in U.S., U.K., Israel and allies today distort the truth and engage in deceit, coercion and aggression to achieve their goals. We will briefly examine some of the key facts in the standoff. ››read more

The drums for war on Iran have been banging louder than ever lately, with a spate of articles by political commentators either directly encouraging the bombing of the Islamic Republic or otherwise offering a narrative in which this is effectively portrayed as the only option to prevent Iran from waging a nuclear holocaust against Israel. ››read more

From my viewpoint, the United States and its NATO allies have said their last word. Two powerful states with authority and prestige failed to exercise their right of vetoing the perfidious UN Resolution. It was the only possibility to gain time in order to find a formula to save peace, an objective that would have given them more authority to continue struggling for it. Today, everything hangs by a thread. ››read more

The refusal of the Obama administration to embrace its own proposals not only undermines its credibility before its foes but also confuses its friends such as Brazil and Turkey. Obama was elected on the promise of hope and change by offering the international community, especially the Muslim World, new politics based on honesty and mutual respect. ››read more

Brazil votes against UN sanctionsThe following is the statement by Brazil, a UN Security Council member, read to the council yesterday, strongly opposing the new sanctions resolution against Iran. The resolution was adopted today under the pressure of the US, UK and France. Turkey and Brazil voted against and Lebanon abstained. ››read more

President Obama's policies are not only generating risks for innocent, non-official Americans. They are further eroding the already deteriorating prospects for an improvement in U.S.-Iranian relations -- and increasing the chances of an eventual U.S.-Iranian military confrontation.
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No policy of the Obama administration better illustrates its fundamental mendacity than its policy of bullying Iran. In this the administration is Bush/Cheney Regime, Part II. The Post-9/11 Geopolitical Power Grab, Continued. The March of Folly: the sequel. ››read more

ElbaradeiElBaradei: "Iran is prepared to talk. I know Barack Obama is prepared to talk. And I base that on my discussion few months ago with both Ahmadinejad and Barack Obama. They are both ... of course nobody wants to give everything before negotiations but both of them are committed to negotiation. And I think that condition now with this agreement is absolutely ripe to engage in a full-fledge negotiation. How Iran's nuclear issue will be resolved? Well that has to go to the negotiating table." ››read more

Having met in Tehran, Islamic Republic of Iran, the undersigned have agreed on the following declaration ››read more

This year's Non-Proliferation Treaty Review Conference - as with previous years' - promises to be yet another battle between the developing and the nuclear-armed nations. The US insists that the Non-Proliferation Treaty needs to be rewritten so as to place greater limits on what it calls "nuclear weapons proliferation" whilst the developing nations say that the concern over proliferation is being used as a pretext by the US to avoid its own obligations under the same treaty to disarm its own nukes and to share nuclear technology with everyone else. ››read more

Joint Statement by
Campaign Against Sanctions and Military Intervention in Iran
Tehran Peace Museum
Society for Chemical Weapons Victims Support (Tehran)

The antiwar movement everywhere should be extremely alarmed about the Obama Administration’s declaration in April that Washington can target Iran with nuclear weapons. Although vague “all options are on the table” warnings were also issued under George W. Bush, now the threat of a pre-emptive nuclear strike on Iran is enshrined in the revised Nuclear Posture Review of the United States.
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The conference on the revision of the Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) is to be held on 3 May in New York. Egypt's permanent envoy to the UN, Maged Abdel-Fattah talks to Ezzat Ibrahim about the quest to turn the Middle East into a nuclear-free zone ››read more

Iran’s UN ambassador Mohammad Khazaee called for the Security Council and other UN related bodies to show serious opposition to the US President’s nuclear policies and his threat against an NPT signatory which does not hold nuclear weapon. ››read more

The latest IAEA report on Iran has been widely touted as containing new evidence of Iranian weapons work and as a sign of the Agency’s new hard-line attitude toward the Islamic Republic under its new Director General Yukiya Amano. We believe the document has been seriously misrepresented in the media and elsewhere, which could have dangerous consequences. ››read more

In short, while nuclear-armed Israel and its patron commit aggression, dispossess, and threaten more of the same, they have managed to transform nuclear-weapons-free Iran into the "threat" that the UN and IC worry about. ››read more

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In a statement at the IAEA Board of Governors' session (Vienna, March 1-5) on Implementation of the NPT Safeguards Agreement in the Islamic Republic of Iran, Soltaniyeh recalled the fact that after the most intrusive verification in the history of the Agency, with over 3000 man-day inspections in Iran, there is no evidence of diversion of nuclear material and activities to prohibited purposes. ››read more

End Media Bias Against Iran"Dear colleague!
You know that there has been a deep misunderstanding between the nations and the governments of both Iran and USA. Now as a professional media should we clear up this misunderstanding or deteriorate it?
Do you want to inform the lawmakers and the officials on Iran realities or present untrue news which is on the benefit of the enemies of Iran and West relations?" ››read more

Dr. SoltaniehIran has formally informed the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) of its plans to produce 20 percent enriched uranium for its Tehran research reactor that produces medical isotopes. The 20 percent enrichment will be done under the supervision of inspectors and observers from the International Atomic Energy Agency. ››read more

Netanyahu & MerkelGermany can continue sanctioning itself through Iran, the US can pretend to be concerned about the security of the world and democracy in Iran, France can share a desire to destroy Iran's economy and independence, the UK is free to try to sabotage another nationalized Iranian project, and they all can enjoy a ride on the Israeli bandwagon. At the end of the day, however, they all have to be wary of what they are going to lose along the way, just economic interests at best, and moral values at worst. ››read more

Seumas MilneThe US military buildup in the Gulf and Blair's promotion of war against Tehran are a warning of yet another catastrophe ››read more