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Republican presidential candidates Rudy Giuliani and Sen. John McCain said Tuesday they would be prepared as president to use military force against Iran to prevent it from getting nuclear weapons.

https://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/913507.html


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Nazila Fathi, reporting for The New York Times, writes: "President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia told a summit of five Caspian Sea nations in Iran today that any use of military force in the Caspian region was unacceptable and in a declaration the countries agreed that none of them would allow their territories to be used as a base for launching military strikes against any of the others."

https://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/101607A.shtml

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Putin issues veiled warnings against U.S. in Iran

Russian leader Vladimir Putin met his Iranian counterpart Tuesday and implicitly warned the U.S. not to use a former Soviet republic to stage an attack on Iran. He also said nations shouldn't pursue oil pipeline projects in the area if they weren't backed by regional powers.

https://www.ajc.com/news/content/news/stories/2007/10/16/Iran_Russia.html



Iran, Russia warn against using Caspian territories for military action

Russia, Iran and other Caspian Sea countries strongly warned outside countries on Tuesday against using their territories for launching military action, but they failed to reach an agreement on ways to divide the sea's vast energy resources.

https://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3460517,00.html



Gates says all options on table for Iran

U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates said on Monday all options for dealing with Iran must remain open and called for international pressure and tougher sanctions to curb Tehran's nuclear aspirations.

https://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20071016/pl_nm/usa_iran_gates_dc_1


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Neighbors Join Call Against Attack on Iran
https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/10/16/AR2007101600251.html?hpid=topnews


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Christian Science Monitor
by Walter Rodgers

10/15/07

Never is wisdom more requisite in a president than in time of war. Abraham Lincoln was perhaps America’s wisest war president and should remain a beacon to his successors. Late in 1861, there was a public clamor for war with England when the Republic was already bogged down in a horrible fratricidal war, the outcome of which was by no means certain. Incensed that a United States Navy ship party boarded a British packet and illegally removed two Confederate diplomats bound for Europe, Lord Palmerston sent 8,000 additional troops to Canada preparing for war with the US. More than a few Americans, including Secretary of State William Seward, wanted to give the British a thumping at a time when the bulk of the US military was tied down in a continental civil war...

https://www.csmonitor.com/2007/1016/p09s02-coop.html


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"Neither the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), nor anyone else has any convincing evidence suggesting that Iran is developing nuclear weapons."

https://www.interfax.ru/e/B/politics/28.html?id_issue=11887047


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WMD Chaser, Scott Ritter, Spreads Anti-War Advice
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President George W. Bush must seek congressional approval before taking any military action in Iran, unless Tehran attacks the United States first, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said on Sunday.

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The United States is considering imposing new sanctions on countries cooperating with Iran, US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said Friday after high-level Russia-US talks.

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Respect Iran sanctions, US warns

The US on Friday warned China, Russia and other countries opposed to tougher economic sanctions against Iran not to seize business opportunities left open by the departure of those respecting the sanctions regime.

https://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/ee250b00-78df-11dc-aaf2-0000779fd2ac.html?nclick_check=1



US threatens Turkey over energy support to Iran

The United States has suggested that Turkey could come under sanctions for its energy cooperation with Iran. The State Department has criticized Turkey for its agreement for natural gas cooperation with Tehran.

https://www.gasandoil.com/goc/news/nte74182.htm



Putin Warns Against U.S. Missile Plan

Russian President Vladimir Putin said he hopes the United States doesn't try to strike a missile system deal in Europe before U.S.-Russia talks are complete.

https://www.postchronicle.com/news/breakingnews/article_212108745.shtml



Russia threatens to discard nuclear missile treaty

Russian President Vladimir Putin warned Friday that his nation might pull out of a key nuclear missile defense treaty, a tense start to what has been hailed as a key meeting here with the U.S. secretaries of State and Defense.

https://www.mcclatchydc.com/homepage/story/20452.html


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