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By Gary Leupp

Let us suppose that the Bush-Cheney administration answers the neocons' prayer and does indeed bomb Iran sometime soon.

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By Patrick J. Buchanan

These are the "birth pangs" of a "new Middle East," said Condi Rice last summer, as Israel pounded Lebanon. Unfortunately, the new Middle East may make us all pray for the return of the old.

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The US brought B-2 Stealth bombers to the military bases in Bulgaria, getting ready for an eventual attack on Iran, Sunday Herald reported.

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By Soraya Sepahpour-Ulrich & Nader Bagherzadeh

Left without a pretext for a military assault on Iran, the Bush administration finds itself in a position where it needs to prepare the world opinion for mass genocide with a compelling reason. With its control over the media, it is accomplishing this by denouncing Iran as the killer of American troops while causing civil unrest in Iraq.

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The Iranian Bomb In A MAD World

by Dilip Hiro, TomDispatch.com
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The director general of the UN nuclear inspection agency has warned Tehran and Washington for the first time that their yearlong stalemate over Iran's nuclear activities is turning into a "brewing confrontation" that "urgently needs to be defused."

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https://www.commondreams.org/archive/2007/06/12/1832/

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Cheney's Iran-Arms-to-Taliban Gambit Rebuffed

A media campaign portraying Iran as supplying arms to the Taliban guerrillas fighting US and NATO forces in Afghanistan, orchestrated by Cheney and his allies who advocate for a more confrontational stance toward Iran in the Bush administration, appears to have backfired last week when Defense Secretary Robert Gates and the commander of NATO forces in Afghanistan, General Dan McNeil, issued unusually strong denials.

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British officials have approved the export of key components needed to make nuclear weapons to Iran and other countries known to be developing such weapons.

https://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/politics/2275249.stm


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Kuwait said on Monday it would not allow its key ally the United States to use its territory to launch any strike on Gulf neighbour Iran if a row over Tehran's nuclear programme escalates.

https://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/L11425934.htm


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Predicting that Iran will obtain a nuclear weapon within three years and claiming to have a strike plan in place, senior American military officers have told The Jerusalem Post they support President George W. Bush's stance to do everything necessary to stop the Islamic Republic's race for nuclear power.

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