Monday, November 19, 2007

Headlines for 11-18-07

Iran does not want to use oil as a weapon: Ahmadinejad


As U.S. presses for more sanctions, nations remain divided on Iran** As Iran expands its capacity to enrich uranium for what the Bush administration charges will become a nuclear weapons program, the international community is pursuing two diplomatic tracks that may be at cross purposes and lead to military action rather than a peaceful solution.


Report: U.S. Is Secretly Helping Pakistan Guard Nuclear Arms


Iran nuclear drive 'a grave threat': French FM


Seizure of Iranians Failed to Validate Bush Line The George W. Bush administration's campaign to seize and detain Iranian Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) officials in Iraq, presented by Bush himself last January as a move to break up an alleged Iranian arms smuggling operation in Iraq, appears to have run its course without having been able to link a single Iranian to any such operation.


Powell: Iran is a long way from having nuclear weapon "I think Iran is a long way from having anything that could be anything like a nuclear weapon," Powell told a gathering of bankers, businessmen and diplomats.


US and Israel 'face up to' Iran bomb "Military strikes might only set the programme back a couple of years, but the current thinking is that it is just not worth the risks." A political rethink has also begun in Israel, where security policy is linked to its status - never publicly admitted - as the region's only nuclear state.


Hezbollah rebuilds south Beirut


UAE calls for more aid to Palestinian refugees The United Arab Emirates (UAE) has called on the international community to double its efforts to alleviate the suffering of Palestinian refugees in Lebanon.

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