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[Untitled] Tehran is Winning: Tehran will not back down from its goal of an Iranian puppet government in Baghdad because that would virtually guarantee the Sunnis remain on the fringes of power and the Iraqi military will never again become powerful enough to threaten Iran as it did in the 1980-88 Iran-Iraq war. Besides, a pro Iranian government in Iraq would also further insultate Iran from international sanctions, to which it already seems almost impervious, as is indicated by her nuclear program.
[MyWire: MyWire Top Stories] Iran cleric blasts US-Iraqi military agreement: Iran strongly opposes the US military presence in its neighbour to the west, and has been repeatedly accused by Washington of arming and training Shiite militias in Iraq, particularly those of radical Shiite cleric Moqtada Sadr.
[Jay Reding.com] Biden’s Servile Foreign Policy: Terrorism is one of the factors making our energy supply uncertain, it perpetuates poverty in places like Iraq, and it feeds of failed states. That doesn’t mean that terrorism is the sole problem, but it is the most significant, and a focus on terrorism is by necessity a focus on doing things like preventing failed states.
[At-Largely] Report: Israel Wants US To Blockade Iran: Republicans in America may well be calculating that a blockade of Iran would be the very best kind of war for their political chances come November - lots of fear and good TV coverage of grey warships projecting American military power providing a distraction from the Iraqi debacle of five years but no actual shooting or US deaths. Let's all sit a moment and remind ourselves of their previous unwarranted optimisms about "cakewalk"
[Stormfront White Nationalist Community] US Quietly Abandons Claims About Iranian Weapons: In a sharp reversal of its longstanding accusations against Iran arming militants in Iraq , the US military has made an unprecedented albeit quiet confession: the weapons they had recently found in Iraq were not made in Iran at all. According to a report by the Los Angeles Times correspondent Tina Susman in Baghdad: "A plan to show some alleged Iranian-supplied explosives to journalists last week in Karbala and then destroy them was canceled after the United States realized none of them was from Iran...
[Global Geopolitics News] Iran Political and Security Monitor: U.S. Secretary of Defense Robert Gates faced tough questions from lawmakers Tuesday about the Bush administration’s refusal to hold talks with Iran unless Tehran first halts its uranium enrichment program. Gates told a Senate panel that it is an open question whether such talks would succeed while President Mahmoud Ahmedinejad is in power.
[LobeLog.com] Building a Case for Attack on Iran’s Nuclear Sites: “Iran’s activities have been particularly harmful in Iraq, Lebanon, the Palestinian territories and Afghanistan. In each location, Tehran has to varying degrees fueled proxy wars, in an effort to increase its influence and pursue its regional ambitions.
[Dummidumbwit's Weblog] My Personal Experience with Iran though History and People”¦.: In i941 infamous “Shah Reza Pahlavi” assumed the Peacock Throne (Persia/Iran) The Shah was briefly over thrown by his Prime Minister Muhammed Mossdaq (who nationalized the Iranian Oil production), this was reversed again by the Shah and by “Western Interests”.
[MEMG: The Middle East Monitoring Group] MIDEAST NEWS MONITOR 052108 (UPDATE): According to the report, 13 countries in the Middle East, except war-ravaged Iraq, embarked on plans to build new nuclear power plants or to revive the existing ones following Iran's decision to start enriching uranium in 2006. Though all the proposed nuclear programmes are civilian schemes to generate electricity, the International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS) said in its report that they were acting ''in the shadow of Iran'' and preparing for Tehran's possible entry into the nuclear weapons club…The IISS has also claimed that Egypt, which already possesses a solid grounding in nuclear technology, could be the first to build a bomb…(NDTV).
[SWJ Blog] 21 May SWJ News, Op-Ed, Events & Blog Roundup: What has been learned about such conflicts from operations in Iraq and Afghanistan may to some degree be transferable to conflicts in other regions. Assuming that the international community may well face future operations characterized by regional, borderless “wars among the people”, the centres at Queen’s University and their partners propose convening a distinguished group of approximately 200 experts from academic, military, governmental, and international institutions to examine how best to prepare commanders, military units and governments to plan for and conduct complex, multi-dimensional stability campaigns in this new environment.
[The Captain's Journal] Concerning Iranian Weapons in Iraq: There is posturing and positioning within the Shi’ite political blocs in Iraq. They know full well the role of Iranian funds, weapons and personnel. Everyone in Iraq knows it. Trotting out the evidence means some very significant things, including the Sunni bloc forcing their hand to rid Iraq of Iranian influence, something they have wanted from the beginning. It also means termination of some very deep seated and long lasting ties with Iran (including not just the IRG but Quds, and with every single Shi’ite political bloc, not just the Sadrists). Iraq is going through the equivalent of political convulsions right now, and in response reporters are counting numbers and second guessing statements in press briefings. And of course, Keith Olbermann is entertaining us, wishing that he was a real reporter.
[Obsidian Wings] All Those Dirty Words...: The deeper problem ”” something doves like Yglesias seem incapable of thinking about honestly ”” is that the Iranian regime is devoted not to a set of discreet interests that can be accommodated through negotiation and compromise, but to a grand strategy whose end point is Iran’s supremacy in the Middle East. The regime believes that this requires a nuclear arsenal, the procurement of which will only become negotiable should the regime come to believe that its own survival depends on abandoning it.
[Global News Blog] US/IRAQ: Tangled Web of Allegiances Leads Back to Tehran: But the constant barrage of criticism lobbed at Iran and the so-called ”special groups” of Sadrists still fighting against the government and U.S. forces tends to overlook the fact that the coalition of parties ruling Iraq are largely indebted to Iran for their very existence and continue to be closely connected with the Islamic Republic.
[Avraham's One Village - JEWISH & benei Noach's ONE VILLAGE ***Barukh haba***] [News Max] “Iranians Would Welcome Airstrikes” (by Kenneth R ...: Such a strike would send a clear message to the Iranian people and to disgruntled officials throughout Iran’s faction-ridden government that the United States is serious about confronting the regime over its bad behavior in Iraq and is willing to strike the leaders responsible for that behavior, the Iranian sources argue.
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