By Irwin Arieff
Reuters Mon May 22, 2006 UNITED NATIONS - John Bolton, the U.S. ambassador to the
United Nations, said on Monday that Iran's leaders could stay in power and improve their ties with Washington if they ended their pursuit of nuclear arms. He later insisted, however, that he had not meant to threaten Tehran with regime change if its leaders failed to do so. Comment: Isn't it amazing how the Bush administration actually believes it has the right to decide who runs what country and how they run it?
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By Helena Spongenberg
EUObserver.com 23.05.2006 Four of Europe's biggest banks have been strong-armed by the US into cutting ties with Iran in what some western media are calling anti-nuclear sanctions through the "back door."
Pressured by threats of fines and loss of business, UBS and Credit Suisse of Switzerland, ABN Amro of the Netherlands and HSBC of the UK have all started to reduce their links with Iran, the New York Times reports. Citing terrorist laws, top US officials have stepped up their efforts for banks in the Middle East, Europe and in North America to limit their activities in Iran, stressing the risky nature of dealing with a country that has repeatedly rebuffed EU and US demands to halt uranium enrichment activities. |
www.chinaview.cn 2006-05-24 23:08:50
TEHRAN, May 24 (Xinhua) -- Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Hamid-Reza Asefi said on Wednesday that Tehran had repeatedly announced readiness to hold talks with the United States unconditionally over Iran's nuclear program, the official IRNA news agency reported.
"As the Russians announced, negotiations (over the nuclear issue) should take place without any preconditions," Asefi was quoted by IRNA as saying at the Majlis (Parliament). |
By Jan Frel, AlterNet. Posted May 25, 2006.
A now discredited article by Iranian-American and neocon chum Amir Taheri that appeared last Friday in the Canadian National Post suggested that new legislation in Iran would require Jews and other religious minorities to wear distinctive color badges. At the article's end appeared this invitation to readers:
"Dangerous Parallel: Is Iran turning into the new Nazi Germany? Share your opinion online at nationalpost.com." The readers who wrote in immediately savaged the article, its author and the National Post's facile, transparent attempt to resurrect the Wermacht. No one took the bait, and the disbelief quickly spread across the internet. |
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