Headlines for 09-03-07

Iran will outsmart West on nuclear issue: supreme leader Khamenei Supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei pledged on Monday that Iran would never yield to Western pressure over its nuclear programme, and it would outsmart "drunken and arrogant" Western opponents in the standoff.


Bush holds 'war council' in Iraq


Iran's Ahmadinejad has 'proof' US won't attack


Released US academic leaves Iran A leading Iranian-American academic who was jailed for three months in Iran on spying charges has left the country.


U.S. specialist favors Putin's missile logic Russian President Vladimir Putin, a harsh critic of the original U.S. basing plan, has strongly pushed for the Azerbaijan site. U.S. officials cite a potential missile strike from Iran ? thought to be seeking nuclear arms ? as a key reason a shield is needed.


The Next Quagmire


Do We Have the Courage to Stop War With Iran? **


Welcome to the new US embassy This is the largest US Embassy built ? roughly the size of Vatican City ? and at $600 million (£300 million) the most expensive.


Will President Bush bomb Iran? ** for those who fear war with Iran, the less happy news is that the officials were real. The simulation, which took four months, was run by the Heritage Foundation, a conservative think tank with close links to the White House. Its conclusions, drawn up last month and seen by The Sunday Telegraph, have been passed on to military and civilian planners charged with drawing up plans for confronting Iran......Mr Bush's escalation of the rhetoric was deliberate. A former White House aide said that the reference to a "nuclear holocaust" was a precise attempt to bracket Mr Ahmadinejad's quest for nuclear weapons and stated desire to wipe Israel off the map with Hitler's destruction of the Jews. Neocons (Heritage Foundation) and Israel are behind this charade (too).


Fake Photos Helped Lead US to War in Iraq


Russia to deploy more new ballistic missiles The deployments come at a time of strained relations between Russia and Nato over US plans for a missile defence shield in eastern Europe. Moscow argues this would threaten its security while Washington insists it is designed only to defend against attack by what it sees as ?rogue nations?, such as Iran.


The Wrong Way to Debate In the book, Walt and Mearsheimer submit that the enormous, and enormously effective, pro-Israel lobby is ultimately harmful to U.S. foreign policy. Already, the two men have faced a backlash. A number of the authors' events have been cancelled. As in President Carter's case, there have been requests that someone with an opposing view be present to rebut the scholars' positions, as if the authors were running for public office and their opponents deserved equal time.


Azerbaijan and Israel pursue partnership While Israel sees Azerbaijan as a potential ally among Muslim countries and a key energy supplier, Azerbaijan is interested in investments by Israeli companies and in support from Jewish communities abroad to promote Azerbaijani interests with Western governments.


Fatah al-Islam leader killed in gun battle: Report The leader of militant Islamist group Fatah al-Islam has been killed in a Lebanese Army attack on a Palestinian refugee camp in north Lebanon, reports said.


Ex-US diplomat pleads not guilty to threatening Lebanese, Arabs "This is Patrick Syring," he said in a voicemail to the AAI on July 17, 2006, at around 11:17 p.m., according to the indictment. "The only good Lebanese is a dead Lebanese. The only good Arab is a dead Arab. Long live the IDF. Death to Lebanon and death to the Arabs." US diplomat? Or Israeli?


New explosions rock Lebanon camp


Bush to Bomb Iran to Distract World from Sub-Prime Mess "The Iran war will also distract people from my failed oil wars in Iraq and Afghanistan that the Zionists and Big Oil and Halliburton and Carlyle had ordered me to do. We will murder at least another 100,000 ragheads in Iran."