Pat Dollard, “A First Since 1979: Iranian Jihadi Piglet Congratulates President-Elect”
TEHRAN (AFP)— Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Thursday congratulated US president-elect Barack Obama on his success — rare praise between two countries which are arch-foes, IRNA news agency reported.
“I congratulate you on being able to attract the majority of votes of the participants of the election,” Ahmadinejad said in a message to Obama carried by the official agency.
“You know the opportunities bestowed upon people by God are short-lived,” he said.
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Haaretz, “Sources: Sarkozy views Obama stance on Iran as ‘utterly immature’”
French President Nicolas Sarkozy is very critical of U.S. presidential candidate Barack Obama’s positions on Iran, according to reports that have reached Israel’s government.
Sarkozy has made his criticisms only in closed forums in France. But according to a senior Israeli government source, the reports reaching Israel indicate that Sarkozy views the Democratic candidate’s stance on Iran as “utterly immature” and comprised of “formulations empty of all content.”
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Pat Dollard, YNet, “Larijani: Iran prefers Obama”
Iranian parliament speaker says his country is leaning towards Democratic candidate in US presidential election ‘because he is more flexible and rational’
Iranian parliament Speaker Ali Larijani said Wednesday that Iran would prefer Democrat Barack Obama in the White House next year. Larijani also dismissed any idea that the US would attack Iran.
“We are leaning more in favor of Barack Obama because he is more flexible and rational, even though we know American policy will not change that much,” Larijani said at a press conference during a visit to Bahrain.
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FOXNews, “Mysterious Cargo Aboard Iranian Ship Seized by Pirates Raises WMD Concerns”
As Somali pirates brazenly maintain their standoff with American warships off the coast of Africa, the cargo aboard one Iranian ship they commandeered is raising concerns that it may contain materials that can be used for chemical or biological weapons.
Some local officials suspect that instead of finding riches, the pirates encountered deadly chemical agents aboard the Iranian vessel.
On Aug. 21, the pirates, armed with AK-47s and rocket-propelled grenades, stole onto the decks of the merchant vessel Iran Deyanat.
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The Guardian, “Israel asked US for green light to bomb nuclear sites in Iran”
Israel gave serious thought this spring to launching a military strike on Iran’s nuclear sites but was told by President George W Bush that he would not support it and did not expect to revise that view for the rest of his presidency, senior European diplomatic sources have told the Guardian.
The then prime minister, Ehud Olmert, used the occasion of Bush’s trip to Israel for the 60th anniversary of the state’s founding to raise the issue in a one-on-one meeting on May 14, the sources said. “He took it [the refusal of a US green light] as where they were at the moment, and that the US position was unlikely to change as long as Bush was in office”, they added.
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FOXNews, “Iran’s Ahmadinejad Addresses United Nations, Declares ‘American Empire’ Reaching ‘End of Road’”
UNITED NATIONS —
Iran’s Mahmoud Ahmadinejad accused “a few bullying powers” of trying to thwart the country’s nuclear programs and vowed to defend Iran’s right to peaceful nuclear power, in an address Tuesday afternoon before the United Nations.
The controversial Iranian president stressed that his country was prepared for a dialogue with world powers but refused to accept any illegal demands on Iran’s nuclear program.
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Los Angeles Times, “Iran president blames Wall Street turmoil on U.S. ‘military engagement’”
NEW YORK — Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad declared Monday that the turmoil on Wall Street was rooted in part in U.S. military intervention abroad and voiced hope that the next American administration would retreat from what he called President Bush’s “logic of force.”
He also asserted, in an interview with The Times, that Israel was doomed like “an airplane that has lost its engine” and that Western intelligence documents questioning the peaceful purpose of Iran’s nuclear program were crude forgeries.
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Pat Dollard, Haaretz, “U.S. to sell IAF smart bombs for heavily fortified targets”
Despite reservations in Washington regarding a possible Israeli strike on Iran, the American administration will supply Israel with sophisticated weapons for heavily fortified targets, the U.S. administration announced.
The U.S. Department of Defense announced it would sell the Israel Air Force 1,000 new smart bombs, rumored to significantly enhance the IAF’s military capabilities. The deal was approved amid public and secret messages from Washington, with the Americans expressing their reservations about a possible Israeli strike against the Islamic Republic’s suspected nuclear sites.
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Telegraph.co.uk, “Israel could ‘capture’ Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad”
Rafi Eitan, who successfully led the secret 1960 plot to seize the Nazi architect of the Holocaust in Argentina and smuggle him to Israel for trial, has suggested such an operation could be ordered against Iran’s president so that he could be tried for anti-Israeli rhetoric.
Mr Ahmadinejad has made numerous vitriolic attacks on Israel in public speeches including remarks, which some of his supporters dispute he ever made, calling for ‘Israel to be wiped off the map’.
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Pat Dollard, “U.S. Puts Brakes On Israeli Plan To Attack Iran”
The American administration has rejected an Israeli request for military equipment and support that would improve Israel’s ability to attack Iran’s nuclear facilities.
A report published last week by the Washington-based Institute for Science and International Security (ISIS) states that military strikes are unlikely to destroy Iran’s centrifuge program for enriching uranium.
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FOXNews, “World Powers to Pursue New Sanctions on Iran”
WASHINGTON — Representatives of the five permanent members of the U.N. Security Council — Britain, China, France, Russia and the United States — and Germany decided in a high-level conference call that Iran’s lack of response to an incentives package aimed at getting it to halt sensitive atomic activity left them no option other than to pursue new punitive measures, the Bush administration said Monday.
Representatives of the five permanent members of the U.N. Security Council and Germany decided in a high-level conference call that Iran’s lack of response to an incentives package aimed at getting it to halt sensitive atomic activity left them no option other than to pursue new punitive measures, the Bush administration said.
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FOXNews, “Iran Remains Defiant in Face of Sanctions Threat”
Iran doesn’t seem fazed by the West’s looming threat of sanctions. Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said Saturday that his country wouldn’t retreat “one iota” from its nuclear enrichment program, Reuters reported based on a statement posted on the presidential Web site.
Ahmadinejad’s statement, which echoed prior statements on the impasse, was issued following a meeting with Syrian President Bashar Assad, Iran’s closest allies in the Arab world.
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Newsmax, “U.S. Intel: Iran Plans Nuclear Strike on U.S.”
Iran has carried out missile tests for what could be a plan for a nuclear strike on the United States, the head of a national security panel has warned.
In testimony before the House Armed Services Committee and in remarks to a private conference on missile defense over the weekend hosted by the Claremont Institute, Dr. William Graham warned that the U.S. intelligence community “doesn’t have a story” to explain the recent Iranian tests.
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FOXNews, “Ahmadinejad Blames U.S. for AIDS, Says ‘Big Powers’ Going Down”
Didn’t your mommy teach you not to point?
TEHRAN, Iran — Iran’s president on Tuesday blamed the U.S. and other “big powers” for global ills such as nuclear proliferation and AIDS, and accused them of exploiting the U.N. for their own gain and the developing world’s loss.
But, President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said, time was on the poor countries’ side.
“The big powers are going down,” Ahmadinejad told foreign ministers of the Nonaligned Movement meeting in Tehran. “They have come to the end of their power, and the world is on the verge of entering a new, promising era.”
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