Israel must shed nuclear arms

Al Jazeera English - Middle East - Iran: Israel must shed nuclear arms

Iran's foreign ministry has said the United States should concentrate on getting Israel to dismantle its nuclear arsenal, instead of criticising Tehran's nuclear programme.

The comments came after Hillary Clinton last week said the US would arm its allies in the Gulf region if Iran built a nuclear weapon.

The US already has, that is the problem.

Liberal leader believes in lies, again.

He can see for miles - Peace, order and good government, eh?
...
But what really caught my eye in her reporting on the speeches at
the Canadian Jewish Congress celebration held in Toronto yesterday
evening was her quote from Michael Ignatieff, who said of Iran (among
other things):

This is a state seeking weapons of mass destruction.

It's interesting that someone who finally had to issue a mea culpa
in the matter of an invasion of Iraq based on lies about weapons of
mass destruction would be so quick to repeat such an accusation.
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There is some truth in what Ahmadinejad says

Bill Longstaff: Is Ahmadinejad entirely wrong?

Yes, Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad does shamelessly grandstand, and yes, once again he has set the cat among the pigeons on the racism front, but is much of what he says not true? In his tirade at the UN anti-racism conference, he is quoted as calling Israel a "cruel and repressive racist regime."

Let's parse that phrase in terms of Gaza. Wasn't the slaughter of 400 children during Israel's invasion of the strip earlier this year "cruel"? Is not the continuing blockade of Gaza "repressive"? And is denying the one million Palestinian refugees in Gaza the right to return home simply because of their race and religion not "racist"? So where in that phrase is Ahmadinejad wrong or anti-Semitic? ...

Israel preparing to strike Iran

Times: Israel preparing to attack Iran — Mike Soron

Americans don't want Obama's surge

Stopwar.ca: Americans don't want Obama's surge <read full post

ROCHESTER, N.Y., Jan 23 - Most Americans feel very positively about President Obama, but that does not mean they support everything he says he plans to do. A new Financial Times/Harris Poll finds that they support his positions on some foreign policy issues but not on others...

Genocide supporter Netanyahu, is keen on adding Iran to Israel's targets

Press TV < read full story

Israeli
election frontrunner Benjamin Netanyahu says his first mission if
elected prime minister would be to 'thwart the Iranian threat'.



In an interview with Israel's Channel 2 TV late Saturday, Netanyahu
said he fully intends to sabotage Tehran's nuclear efforts once and for
all.


"[Iran] will not be armed with a nuclear weapon… It includes
everything that is necessary to make this statement come true," said
Israel's leading candidate for prime minister.


Israel, the sole nuclear power in the Middle East, accuses Tehran
of seeking nuclear weaponry while the UN nuclear watchdog, in its Sept.
15 report on Iran, declared that it could not find any "components of a
nuclear weapon" or "related nuclear physics studies" in the country.

Netanyahu, who is currently facing war crime charges in Gaza,
claimed the Islamic Republic's uranium enrichment is the greatest
danger to Israel and humanity.

After weeks of denying that it used illegal weapons in the
densely-populated Gaza Strip, the Israeli military finally admitted
Friday that it had pounded the Palestinian coast with at least twenty
white phosphorus bombs.


The 1980 third Convention on Conventional Weapons has banned the
use of white phosphorus as a weapon, even against military targets
situated within population centers.


International attorneys have filed war crime charges against 15
Israeli political and military officials, including Ehud Olmert, Tzipi
Livni and Ehud Barak.

Iran bans trade with Israel

Press TV - Iran sets ban, fine on trade with Israel

Iran has moved to issue an executive order to clamp sweeping sanctions on all investment activities and trade with Israeli entities.

Following the heavy death toll from the 23-day Israeli assault on Gaza and with international pressure mounting on Tel Aviv, Iran made a decision on Saturday to introduce a bill banning business transactions with Israeli companies -- entities and persons.