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War With Iran

$10,000 Reward: Show How the Iranian Election Was "Stolen"

Robert Naiman | Posted 06.25.2009 | World

Read More: Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Iran, Diplomacy, War With Iran, Iran Election, Barack Obama, Foreign Policy, World News
Robert Naiman

Accepting that Ahmadinejad won doesn't mean you love Ahmadinejad. It means you want to deal with the world as it exists in reality, not the world as it exists in your fantasy.

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Note to US Congress: Back Off of Iran!

Patricia DeGennaro | Posted 06.22.2009 | World

Read More: Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Iran, US Congress, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, War With Iran, Iran Election, Iran Nuclear Weapons, President Obama, World News
Patricia DeGennaro

Taking a backseat to allow others to embrace their own destiny does not weaken the United States, it strengthens it.

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What if the Israelis Were to Bomb Iran?

Sultan Sooud Al-Qassemi | Posted 05.27.2009 | World

Read More: Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Persian Gulf, Nuclear Weapons, Iran Nuclear, War With Iran, Nuclear Power, Iran, Benjamin Netanyahu, Israeli Airstrikes, Israel, Iran Nuclear Program, Israel Iran, Arabian-Gulf, Iran Nuclear Weapons, Binyamin Netanyahu, World News
Sultan Sooud Al-Qassemi

Baghdad, Monday, February 29, 2010, almost ten months in the future, and Israel has attacked Iran's nuclear facilities. What might the consequences be...

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Iran's Aggression Could Join Arabs and Israelis

Mort Zuckerman | Posted 05.11.2009 | World

Read More: Arabs, War With Iran, Middle East, Hezbollah, Iran, Israel, Iran Nuclear Weapons, World News
Mort Zuckerman

For the first time in a century, Arabs and Jews alike fully appreciate the menace in Iran's hegemonic ambitions to dominate the Muslim world.

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The Pianist: Polish Political Protest

Shirin Sadeghi | Posted 04.28.2009 | World

Read More: Russia, Obama Iran, Great Pianists, Celebrities Talk Politics, War With Iran, Missile Defense, Political Protests, Guantanamo Detainees, George W. Bush, President Obama, Guantanamo, Dixie Chicks, Artists, Iran, United States, Missile-Defense-Shield, Iran Nuclear Weapons, Barack Obama, Politics, Classical Music, Krystian Zimerman, Poland, Protest, Guantanamo Bay, September 11th, Piano, World News
Shirin Sadeghi

There is something profoundly venerable about an artist who is not afraid to speak up. Krystian Zimerman spoke out against President Obama intention to press ahead with George W.'s plans to install a missile-defense shield in Poland.

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'Nuclear Day': Iran, Ahmadinejad Inaugurate New Nuclear Facility

AP | NASSER KARIMI | Posted 04.09.2009 | World

Read More: Iran, Foreign Affairs, Advocacy, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Obama Ahmadinejad, War With Iran, Iran Nuclear Weapons, Iran Nuclear Program, Obama Iran, Nuclear Day, Iran Nuclear Day, World News

ISFAHAN, Iran — Iran's president said Thursday his country is open to talks with the U.S. and other countries over its nuclear program. But he i...

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US May Accept Iran's Uranium Pursuit

Financial Times | Daniel Dombey | Posted 04.06.2009 | World

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US officials are considering whether to accept Iran's pursuit of uranium enrichment, which has been outlawed by the United Nations and remains at the ...

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Will Iran Come Out Of The Nuclear Closet?

Jamal Dajani | Posted 03.13.2009 | World

Read More: War With Iran, Admiral Mike Mullen, Jamal Dajani, David-Ben-Gurion, Iran, Amos Yadlin, Iran Nuclear Weapons, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Arabs, Robert Gates, Middle East, Iaea, Iraq-Iran War, Iraq, Israel, Israel Nuclear Weapons, World News
Jamal Dajani

If the Israeli nuclear program grew out of fear of its neighbors and the conviction that the Holocaust justified any measures Israel took to ensure its survival, from where does Iran's justification come?

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The American Rome Is Burning - So Let's Attack Iran

Eric Margolis | Posted 03.11.2009 | Politics

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Eric Margolis

Eric S. Margolis March 11, 2009 Special for the Huffington Post NEW YORK - Iran has haunted every U.S. administration since the days of President Ji...

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How Obama Can Further U.S.-Iran Relations

Eric Margolis | Posted 02.23.2009 | World

Read More: Baghdad Bombing, Russia, Islam, Obama Iran, Central Intelligence Agency, War With Iran, Washington DC, Iran, Bush Iran, Anthrax, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, British, Iran Nuclear Weapons, Iraq War, Gordon Brown, London, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Oil Price, Iranian Women, Ayatollah-Khomeini, Poland, Persia, Oil, Baghdad, Iranian Oil, Hillary Clinton Iran, Iraq, Ahmad Shah Massoud, Iran Nuclear Program, Soviet Union, World News
Eric Margolis

President Barack Obama, who says he wants to open serious talks with Iran and establish better relations will have his work cut out for him. His first step is to read Iran's modern history.

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Iran Admitted Attacks On Western Troops In Iraq: UK Ambassador

BBC | Posted 02.20.2009 | World

Read More: Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Mohammad Khatami, Sir John Sawers, War With Iran, Ied, Iran Iraq Violence, Iran Iraq, Ied Attacks, Iran, US Iran Iraq Talks, Khatami, Ahmadinejad, World News

Iran offered to stop attacking British troops in Iraq to try to get the West to drop objections to Tehran's uranium enrichment project, a UK official ...

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Dear President Ahmadinejad and President Obama: Support Generation Y Diplomacy

Negar Razavi | Posted 02.09.2009 | World

Read More: Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Iran, Youth, Us-Iranian Exchange, Barack Obama, Obama Iran, War With Iran, President Obama, Citizen Diplomacy, World News
Negar Razavi

An exchange between young Iranians and Americans can accomplish a great deal by helping build a foundation of understanding and respect, which is essential to sustain future agreements.

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Iran and Israel: a showdown ahead?

Melissa Rossi | Posted 02.06.2009 | Home

Read More: Barack Obama Hillary Clinton, Iran, Israel, War With Iran, Barack Obama, Home News
Melissa Rossi

As Obama walks into the Oval Office, he has to contend with the nuances of the power shift in the Middle East - where Israel faces an election in day...

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Cut And Run?

Clifford J. Tasner | Posted 10.28.2008 | Politics

Read More: Iran, Billionaires, John McCain, War With Iran, Campaign, Cut and Run, 2008 Campaign, Iraq, Democrats, War in Iraq, Barack Obama, Politics News
Clifford J. Tasner

Here is the Billionaires' power-pop punk ode to John McCain, the warrior, featuring our resident rock god, J. Paul Geddy Lee.

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Civilian Diplomacy

Robert Koehler | Posted 08.14.2008 | Politics

Read More: Iran Peace Movement, Iran, War With Iran, Bush Iraq, Bush Iran, Iraq, Ahmadinejad, Politics News
Robert Koehler

With the Bush administration in popularity freefall, its splendid little war in Iraq having run aground, many Americans have been eying its hollow belligerence toward Iran with acute nervousness.

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Treacherous Behaviour: Russia, China and Iran

Hannah Fisher | Posted 08.14.2008 | Politics

Read More: Iran, Nuclear Weapons, War With Iran, Nuclear Power, Politics, Russia, Iran Nuclear Program, China, Un, Eu, Iran Nuclear Weapons, Politics News
Hannah Fisher

Without hard-hitting sanctions, military action against Iran is inevitable. Dealing with the vice of Iran now is unpleasant, but dealing with a nuclear Iran will be a thousand times worse.

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Geneva: The New Munich?

Alexander Barnes | Posted 08.07.2008 | Politics

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Alexander Barnes

Iran's oft-stated nuclear ambitions remain the single greatest threat to world peace. But instead of recognizing the Iranian threat for what it is, Europeans continue to focus on blaming themselves for past colonial failures.

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Hersh: Cheney's Office Considered Disguising Navy Seals As Iranians To Provoke War

Huffington Post | Posted 07.31.2008 | Politics

Read More: Warwire, New Yorker, War With Iran, Iran, Seymour Hersh, Dick Cheney, Politics News

Pulitzer Prize-winning New Yorker reporter Seymour Hersh recently told Think Progress that a recent meeting in Vice President Cheney's office on the t...

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Why Doesn't Media Ask McCain: "You Have Served Your Country Honorably, Sir, but Exactly Which Wars Have You Won?"

Miles Mogulescu | Posted 07.27.2008 | Politics

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Miles Mogulescu

McCain will opt for war as the first choice, not the last choice. With America now embroiled in two wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, one has to worry about John McCain's desire to "bomb bomb bomb, bomb bomb Iran."

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Anti-War Movement Successfully Pushes Back Against Military Confrontation With Iran

Mark Weisbrot | Posted 07.23.2008 | Politics

Read More: Israel Lobby, Aipac, Iraq War, HR 362, Anti-War Movement, H.Con.Res 362, Lobbying, War With Iran, Iran, Israel, Politics News
Mark Weisbrot

In the past two months, the anti-war movement has taken on one of the most powerful lobbying groups in the United States in an important fight. And so far, it's winning.

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Wish To Be Poor and Unemployed? Support Military Attacks on Iran

Muhammad Sahimi | Posted 07.22.2008 | Politics

Read More: Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Gas Prices, Robert Gates, War With Iran, Neoconservatives, Iran, Iran Nuclear Program, Iran Israel, Iran Nuclear Weapons, Politics News
Muhammad Sahimi

Whereas the implications of a war with Iran for the national security of the US would be much worse than those of the Iraq war, little has been said about the implications for our economic security here at home.

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Iraq Official Says US troops Could Leave By 2010

AP | Posted 07.21.2008 | Home

Read More: Iraq, Warwire, Iraq Troop Withdrawal, Barack Obama, Iran, War With Iran, Home News

BAGHDAD — Iraq's government spokesman is hopeful that U.S. combat forces could be out of the country by 2010. Ali al-Dabbagh made the comments ...

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Scary Thought: Is Condi Rice Our Last, Best Chance for Peace?

Arianna Huffington | Posted 07.16.2008 | Politics

Read More: George Bush, Cheney Iran, Iran Diplomacy, Colin Powell, War With Iran, Condoleezza Rice, Iran, War in Iran, Condi Rice, Iran Nuclear Weapons, Dick Cheney, Politics News
Arianna Huffington

Condi needs to either convince the president what a catastrophe attacking Iran would be. Or, failing that, break with the administration and do the noble thing by resigning while it still might make a difference.

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Americans Say No to War with Iran: Will Washington Listen?

Sarah van Gelder | Posted 07.13.2008 | Politics

Read More: H. Con. Res. 362, Iran, War With Iran, Sanctions Against Iran, Iran Attack, Iran Sanctions, Congressman Robert Wexler, Democrats Iran, Robert Wexler, Robert Wexler Iran, Iran Nuclear Weapons, Politics News
Sarah van Gelder

Congressional Democrats are sponsoring Resolution 362, which amounts to an act of war against Iran. The good news is that growing outcry from Americans is causing some to have second thoughts.

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Hagee's "Christians for Israel" Meet in DC, Seeking Conflict with Iran

Robert Naiman | Posted 07.10.2008 | Politics

Read More: War With Iran, Christians United for Israel, Aipac, Iran, John Hagee, Israel Lobby, Politics News
Robert Naiman

When you say "Israel Lobby," people tend to think "AIPAC." Many people don't realize that a key component of the "Israel Lobby" consists of people who call themselves Christian.

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