Headlines for 11-19-07

Why Attack Iran? ** More and more people seem to take it as given that a nuclear-armed Iran would use its nuclear weapons to attack the United States. Yet there is no plausible argument, and very little evidence, for that conclusion.


Iran nuclear work 'not worth war' Nobel laureate Shirin Ebadi has called on Iran to suspend its controversial nuclear work to avert what she says is a mounting threat of war with the US.


Iran eyes nuclear options abroad


Iran considers Saudi plan to end nuclear impasse


US military strike on Pakistan advocated Frederick Kagan of the right-wing American Enterprise Institute and Michael O?Hanlon of the more liberal Brookings Institution argue in an article published in the New York Times on Sunday that the US simply cannot stand by as a nuclear-armed Pakistan descended into the abyss


Israel's Syrian Airstrike Was Aimed at Iran Until late October, the accepted explanation about the Sep. 6 Israeli airstrike in Syria, constructed in a series of press leaks from U.S. officials, was that it was prompted by dramatic satellite intelligence that Syria was building a nuclear facility with help from North Korea. But new satellite evidence has discredited that narrative, suggesting a more plausible explanation for the strike: that it was a calculated effort by Israel and the United States to convince Iran that its nuclear facilities could be attacked as well.


Wars to Watch Out For


Iran leader dismisses US currency


The Middle East has had a secretive nuclear power in its midst for years When will the US and the UK tell the truth about Israeli weapons? Iran isn't starting an atomic arms race, it's joining one


Ban urges 'just' solution for Palestinian refugees


Palestinian refugees vote in Jordan


Reservist reps. want oversight on arms deal Reps. Mark Kirk (R-Ill.) and Christopher Carney (D-Pa.), the only two active reservists in the House of Representatives, sent a letter to President Bush signed by 188 of their colleagues insisting that the president?s proposed $20 billion arms deal comes with strict congressional oversight and consultation with Israel.