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Top News Story The Failed Iranian Negotiations. Adnkronos International Iran's foreign minister Manouchehr Mottaki announced on Tuesday. "The phase of negotiations with the EU trio is over."ABC News reported that U.S. Undersecretary of State Nicholas Burns said the international coalition applying pressure on Iran to halt its uranium enrichment was working well.The Wall Street Journal warned that the West, it seems, is now putting its future security in the hands of Russia and China.Monster & Critics reported that anyone still believing Europe only believes in soft power should have witnessed the reception Iranian Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki received in...

February 22, 2006, 2:12 p.m. Un-American A disappointing and damaging response to the Dubai deal. Islamophobia, not national security, is at the heart of the raging controversy on Capitol Hill over a United Arab Emirates-based company, Dubai Ports World, assuming ownership and management responsibilities at six major seaports in the United States. U.S. lawmakers might bristle at the thought of letting the UAE own and operate U.S. ports. After all, it was a citizen of the UAE, Marwan al Shehhi, who piloted United Airlines Flight 175 into the second World Trade Center tower, and it was through the banks...

Top News Story Talks with Russia and the EU - Fail Again. The Guardian reported that Iranian negotiators headed home after the first day of an expected two day negotiation session in Moscow.The Financial Times reported that Tehran vowed to pursue nuclear research.Forbes reported that EU foreign policy Chief Javier Solana said talks with Iran's foreign minister failed to make progress.   Iranian Dissidents See Rise in Oppression. Amnesty International has just released a report on Iran, "New government fails to address dire human rights situation"(available here).Iran Press News reported that Elham Afroutan's father is saying his daughter has...

Top News Story Iran and EU to meet, guess who will blink first. The Financial Times reported that Iranian officials would begin talks on Monday in Brussels and Moscow on their country’s nuclear program.Reuters reported that a spokeswoman for EU foreign policy chief Javier Solana said: "It is very important we repeat to Mr Mottaki the position of the EU on a range of issues -- nuclear, the Middle East peace process, democracy and human rights."IndyStar that French President Jacques Chirac, countered his own Foreign minister saying that only the U.N. nuclear watchdog could draw conclusions about the goal...

Top News Story ElBaradei Tries to Undo Western Unity on Iran? Xinhuanet reported that Mohammed ElBaradei suggested a compromise on the Iranian nuclear issue, allowing Iran to conduct small-scale enrichment work. The Iranians welcomed this idea.   Western Nations Hold Firm on Iran. Reuters reported that U.S. Ambassador John Bolton said: Delaying action against Iran's suspected nuclear capabilities allows Tehran to increase its uranium enrichment knowledge and step up threats of withholding oil.Asharq Alawsat reported that French President Jacques Chirac said France's position on Iran's nuclear program has not changed following the comments by his foreign minister this week...

Top News Story Iranmania LONDON, February 19 (IranMania) - Secretary of the Expediency Council Mohsen Rezaei said the recent measure by the United States to allocate funds against Iran showed its weakness, IRNA reported. Rezaei made the remark while talking to IRNA about Wednesday's remarks by the US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice on the allocation of a 75-mln-dollar budget to promote US plans on Iran. "Such a stance by the US officials indicate their weakness and inability to do something against Iran. "The US officials had not made such remarks against (former Iraqi president) Saddam Hussein and the...

Top News Story How to use the $75 Million for pro-democracy efforts in Iran. Kenneth R. Timmerman, FrontPageMagazine.com examined the problems of current American broadcasts into Iran and what needs to be done to correct the problems. A must read.Times Online also reported that America has dramatically increased its funding for Iranian human rights groups and dissidents.   The Russians Talk Tough on Iran. ABC News reported that Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said Moscow will only host Iran's uranium enrichment program if Tehran agrees to re-impose an indefinite freeze on enrichment at home.RIA Novosti reported that Russia's most...

Top News Story US Moves to Aggressively Support Pro-Democracy Forces inside of Iran. Yahoo News reported that Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said: The US administration will ask Congress for another 75 million dollars to boost democracy in Iran amid growing concern over Tehran's nuclear program. The Financial Times reported that the Bush administration announced a significant toughening of its policy towards Iran, but did not specifically use the words “regime change”.The State Department then published a Fact Sheet on how they plan to use the funds.   European's see Few Options with Iran. Dow Jones Newswires reported that...

Top News Story Signs that Russia on Board with the West on Iran? The Jerusalem Post reported that Israel is confident neither Russia nor China will block the implementation of UNSC sanctions. It revealed the sanctions being discussed.Dow Jones Newswires reported that Putin spoke with Angela Merkel about Iran and "Both sides expressed satisfaction with the high level of mutual understanding and emphasized the intention for continuing close coordination."Itar-Tass News Agency reported that Russia and France have made a joint statement, which calls on Iran to suspend the uranium enrichment process. “Russia and France are determined to resolve concerns...

Top News Story Calls for Iran to send suicide bombers to attack Europe and US interests and more. Iran Press News reported that Khamnei's newspaper calls for suicide bombings in Denmark and elsewhere in Europe.Iran Focus reported that a senior commander of Iran’s elite Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) vowed that the Islamic Republic’s suicide volunteers abroad were being placed on readiness alert to attack Unites States and Israeli interests.Iran Press News reported that Ahmadinejad website site called for abandoning security for various embassies in Tehran.   Iran Crosses the "RedLine." The Times reported that Iran has started to...

Top News Story Gulf Times THE US military is preparing plans to bomb Iran’s nuclear facilities, backed by a submarine-launched ballistic missile strike, a leading British newspaper reported yesterday. The news came as Iran warned that it could leave the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, which would theoretically put it in the same position as Israel – which is not required to open its nuclear facilities to inspection. A US attack would be a “last resort” to try to thwart the development of an atom bomb by the Iranians, the Sunday Telegraph said. Pentagon planners are urgently drawing-up lists of targets...

Top News Story What the Media's Video of the 27th Anniversary of the Revolution rally didn't tell you. SMCCDI reported that the vast majority of Iranians chose not to attend the Islamic regime's 27th anniversary of the revolution.Iranian Student News Agency published a photo of Iranians being bussed in for event.   More Threats and Insults by Iranian Leaders. WorldNetDaily reported that Ahmadinejad said Palestinians and "other nations" will remove Israel from the region.BBC News reported that Iran could abandon the Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) if forced to limit nuclear activities.Mehran Riazaty reported that Khatami called the Prime Minister of...

Top News Story Iran challenges the West twice in one day. Con Coughlin, The Telegraph reported that Iran's controversial Natanz uranium processing plant has successfully restarted their equipment that enable it to produce material for nuclear warheads. A major development.Iran Press News reported that the E.U. in a formal statement called for the Islamic regime to sever all ties to various Palestinian and Lebanese terror groups; the Islamic regime however, immediately rejected the appeal.   The Russians are unhappy with Iran. Monsters & Critics reported that three major Russian news agencies - RIA Novosti, ITAR-TASS and Interfax - published...

Top News Story Iran's Supreme Leader Tries to Incite Violence. Adnkronos International reported that Iran's supreme leader has given his blessing to violent demonstrations targeting Denmark's embassy in Tehran, defining them as "justified and even holy."Iran Press News reported that the Supreme Leader's newspaper called for taking the IAEA inspectors hostage and prosecuting them for espionage.   Then the regime complains when Iranian agents in Iraq are arrested. Iran Press News reported that the Iranian Regime expressed anxiety over the continued arrests and incarceration of its minions in Iraq.   UN Security Council to Curb Iran's Nuclear Program? Some...

Top News Story US Official: Iran now has the ability to produce nuclear weapons. Dow Jones Newswires reported that Iran has now achieved the "capability to develop nuclear weapons and the means to deliver them."   Iran demands removal of IAEA seals and cameras. CNN News reported that Iran said inspectors from the U.N.'s nuclear watchdog will visit in the next few days to oversee the resumption of uranium enrichment - a process that can be used to make bomb-grade material.Breitbart.com reported that Iran told the IAEA to remove surveillance cameras and agency seals from sites and nuclear equipment....

Top News Story The Star TEHRAN (Reuters) - Iran will teach any attackers a "lesson that will last throughout history", a senior commander said on Sunday, reinforcing Tehran's defiant stance after being reported to the U.N. Security Council. "We are not seeking a military confrontation, but if that happens we will give the enemy a lesson that will be remembered throughout history," Abdolrahim Moussavi, head of the joint chiefs of staff, was quoted as saying by the ISNA students news agency. "This nation has proved its will many times to its enemies. Why do they want to test this...

Top News Story Iran Referred to the UN Security Council. Telegraph reported that the IAEA board of governors has voted 27 to three to report Iran to the UN Security Council.The IAEA published the text of the resolution.   Iran Responds: No to Russia, Yes to Enrichment, then again no. Guardian reported that a senior Iranian official said a proposal to enrich Iranian uranium in Russia is dead.Reuters reported that Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad issued an order to Iran's Atomic Energy Organization to restart full-scale uranium enrichment, according to his website. However the Iranian presidential office denies the report....

Top News Story Last Minute Attempts to Stall Iran's Referral to the UNSC Fail. Xinhuanet reported that Javad Vaeidi, deputy head of Iran's Supreme National Security Council warned that reporting the Iran's nuclear issue to the UNSC would mean the killing of Russia's proposal on uranium enrichment.The New York Times reported that the 35-nation board of the IAEA delayed a vote on a landmark resolution on Iran's nuclear program due to opposition to a clause indirectly criticizing Israel's nuclear weapons status.The Financial Times reported that Rafsanjani made a last minute appeal to the board of the IAEA not to...

Top News Story The War of Words Escalate. Iran's President Strikes Back at Bush. Yahoo News reported that Ahmadinejad called George W. Bush a warmonger who should be dragged before a "people's tribunal" and "God willing, in the near future we will judge you in a people's tribunal."Reuters reported that Ahmadinejad on Wednesday angrily rejected international pressure on Iran saying: "I am telling those fake superpowers that the Iranian nation became independent 27 years ago and ... on the nuclear case it will resist until fully achieving its rights."   Bush Responds. Reuters reported that President Bush, when asked...

Top News Story Iran: The good news and the bad. Bush's SOTU Speech provides his strongest support for the Iranian people and condemnation of the regime. The White House published the text of President Bush's State of the Union Address. We highlighted relevant comments on Iran.   Iran ignores international warnings. Yahoo News reported that Iran's leading nuclear negotiator, Ali Larijani said: "Reporting Iran's dossier to the U.N. Security Council will be unconstructive and the end of diplomacy."Reuters reported that the IAEA confirmed that Iran had begun preparing for nuclear enrichment.Reuters reported that Iran threatened to halt snap U.N....