What Are Iran’s Intentions?
by: Noam Chomsky
http://www.truth-out.org/what-are-irans-intentions…
“Support is overwhelming for a Weapons of Mass Destruction Free Zone in the Middle East; this zone would include Iran, Israel and preferably the other two nuclear powers that have refused to join the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty: India and Pakistan, who, along with Israel, developed their programs with U.S. aid.”
The Israeli case for war in ‘The New York Times’
by David Bromwich
http://mondoweiss.net/2012/03/the-israeli-case-for…
“The New York Times is helping one more war after Iraq and Afghanistan–a war against Iran–to become for us an everyday fact, an
understood arrangement.”
Our Gang of War Criminals
by DAVE LINDORFF
http://www.counterpunch.org/2012/03/01/our-gang-of…
“The simple fact is that the president of the United States, Barack Obama, and his top generals and cabinet officers, are committing a war crime every time they threaten Iran with attack.
What is absolutely stunning is that this massive criminality at the highest levels of the US government is going on totally unchallenged by the US mainstream media.”
Upping the Ante in Iran Propaganda
by Peter Hart
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2012/03/01-13
Iran must, in other words, give up the thing they claim does not exist.
Iran: Scapegoat for a Bankrupt Empire
by Tim Kelly
http://www.fff.org/comment/com1203a.asp
“The war on terror, Iranian nukes, human rights, and the “responsibility to protect,” are just national-security pretexts or cynical humanitarian facades put up by the American establishment to conceal its ruthless geopolitical strategy to control the world’s resources and prevent the rise of any challengers to U.S. hegemony.”
Consequences of an Attack on Iran are no Joke
by Marsha B. Cohen
http://www.lobelog.com/consequences-of-an-attack-o…
“No worries are being expressed about the release of radioactive materials into the biosphere of Central Asia (and by eventual extension, the entire earth). If the depleted uranium in the bombs comes into contact with radioactive nuclear materials present in the targeted nuclear research sites–nearly all of which operate under International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) supervision–the potential for disaster would be magnified exponentially.”
Why Iran’s Election Is a Farce
By ARDESHIR AMIR-ARJOMAND
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/01/opinion/why-iran…
“We believe that this “engineered” election will yield a host of handpicked and servile deputies who simply do the bidding of the ruling elite. These so-called deputies will then be used to present a democratic façade to the outside world.
Several crucial tasks lie ahead of us. First, our peaceful movement has to survive the ruling authoritarian apparatus, and to build and empower the political organizations needed for the future democratic era. More urgently, though, it has to safeguard the country’s territory, its people and its political independence against the increasing perils of external threats, international adventurism and internal strife. We must oppose warmongering and jingoism, whether from foreigners or our fellow countrymen.
It is disheartening that in the midst of rising military threats against the country, certain hotheaded elements and currents within the ruling coalition appear to welcome the prospect of a military confrontation as a blessing.”
