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The Bottom Line

Irancove @ October 1, 2009 # No Comment Yet

Scott Ritter on Democracy Now!
The bottom line is it’s the United States and Israel which are the more aggressive of the players here. Iran is not an aggressor. Iran has not attacked anybody. Iran is simply trying to do that which it is legally allowed to do: produce enriched uranium for the purposes of nuclear […]

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Role Play

Irancove @ October 1, 2009 # No Comment Yet

Glenn Greenwald:

Imagine if Iran had invaded, bombed and then spent the last eight years militarily occupying Canada and Mexico, only for Iranian media elites to keep insisting that it was the U.S. that was the rogue state run by aggressive fanatics who threatened world peace.

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Iranian Opposition Warns Against Sanctions

Irancove @ October 1, 2009 # No Comment Yet

Via the Washington Post:
On the eve of talks Thursday in Geneva between representatives of Iran and six world powers, Iranian opposition leaders, politicians and analysts warned that new financial or other penalties would hurt ordinary Iranians rather than change the government’s behavior.
Will all those who were concerned for the Iranian people and supporting the opposition […]

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Iran: Belief and Actuality

Irancove @ October 1, 2009 # No Comment Yet

Juan Cole labors through the list.

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