Wednesday, September 26, 2007

Headlines for 09-25-07

Iran leader defiant in UN speech Iran's president has criticised "illegal" UN Security Council sanctions against his country, in a speech to the General Assembly in New York.


Scornful Ahmadinejad says issue of Iranian nuclear programme closed


What World War III May Look Like by Philip Giraldi ** That's former CIA counterterrorism official Philip Giraldi.


Top neocon urged Bush to bomb Iran during private White House meeting ** One of the few remaining neoconservatives in America was recently granted a private audience in the White House to deliver a 45-minute sales pitch to convince President Bush, accompanied by political deputy Karl Rove, to bomb Iran.


Iran shuts border with north Iraq Iran has closed its major border crossings with the Kurdish region of northern Iraq, in protest at the arrest of an Iranian by US forces there.


Nuclear Iran could cause war: Sarkozy


Bush at U.N. calls out 'brutal regimes' President Bush called on the United Nations to uphold the fight for freedom and decried "brutal regimes" such as Syria and Iran.


Iran warns foreign banks over US pressure


Iran bails last US dual national


Infantile Nation by Patrick J. Buchanan Why does Iran want nuclear weapons if it doesn't want to use them? For the same reason Israel wanted them: deterrence.


Ahmadinejad adresses U.N. General Assembly "The era of darkness will end," he concluded. "Prisoners will return home, the occupied lands will be freed, Palestine and Iraq will be liberated from the dominion of the occupiers and the people of America and Europe will be free of the pressures exerted by the Zionists."


House votes to sanction Iran The American-Israel Public Affairs Committee strongly praised the bill's passage as a step toward discouraging Iran's suspected nuclear weapons ambitions.


Israel seeks exemption from atomic rules Israel is looking to a U.S.-India nuclear deal to expand its own ties to suppliers, quietly lobbying for an exemption to non-proliferation rules so it can legally import atomic material, according to documents made available Tuesday to The Associated Press.


THE MCLAUGHLIN GROUP Transcript for 09/21/07 ** MR. BUCHANAN: Everything you read about Cheney is he's saying, "Condi Rice has failed. Let's get on with it." I think the Israelis are pushing it. We don't know what that strike in Syria was about. The neoconservatives are pushing it; the AEI. They're holding their little sessions there, promoting this idea. It is the biggest issue in D.C. right now.


Rabbis Say Iran Seeks Peace, Respects Judaism - Calls for True Dialogue With Ahmadinejad


Israeli air strike did not hit nuclear facility, intelligence officials say Vincent Cannistraro, Director of Intelligence Programs for the National Security Council under President Ronald Reagan and Chief of Operations at the Central Intelligence Agency's Counterterrorism Center under President George H. W. Bush, said Sunday that what the Israelis hit was "absolutely not a nuclear weapons facility."


Israeli in Lebanon jail not a spy-family

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