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by Scott Adams (Dilbert)

[strong language] I was happy that Columbia University is rescinding the offer to let Iranian President Ahmadinejad speak. If you let a guy like that express his views, before long the entire world will want freedom of speech.

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New York Sun

Overruling a prominent dean, the president of Columbia University, Lee Bollinger, yesterday withdrew an invitation to the Iranian president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. The dean of Columbia's school of international and public affairs

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Reuters

Vice President Dick Cheney had at one point considered asking Israel to launch limited missile strikes at an Iranian nuclear site to provoke a retaliation. The news comes amid reports that Israel launched an air strike against Syria over a suspected

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AP

Adm. William Fallon , the head of U.S. Central Command, said Iran's Revolutionary Guard is supplying roadside bomb parts for the type of sophisticated and deadly bombs found in Iraq known as explosively formed penetrators.

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BBC News

US-led forces in Iraq say they have arrested an Iranian officer operating in the north of the country. They say the man was a member of the Quds Force - an elite unit of Iran's Revolutionary Guards - and was detained in the Kurdish city of Sula

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AP

Every effort should be made to stop Iran from obtaining nuclear weapons, but failing that, the world could live with a nuclear-armed regime in Tehran, a recently retired commander of U.S. forces in the Middle East said Monday.

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Rootless Cosmopolitan

"By invading Iraq, the US irreversibly altered the balance of power throughtout the Middle East; now, Iraq cannot be treated as a policy decision in isolation from the full spectrum of US interests throughout the region - all of which

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AFP

A French warning that the Iran nuclear crisis could lead to war heightened diplomatic tensions and overshadowed a key UN atomic watchdog meeting. "We have to prepare for the worst, and the worst is war," said French Foreign Minister Bernard

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Daily Telegraph

A State Department source said Miss Rice, under pressure from senior counter-proliferation officials to acknowledge that military action may be necessary, is now working with Mr Cheney to find a way to reconcile their positions and present a united f

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AP

(This is one of the reasons we attacked) Trucks line up every day at this border crossing to carry melons, cookies, soft drinks and appliances into Iraq. For truck driver Ala Saeedi, the booming trade is proof his country is helping its war-torn ne

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Raw Story

The Pentagon is preparing to build a base near the Iraqi-Iranian border, in an effort to stem the "flow" of "advanced Iranian weaponry" to Shiite militants in Iraq, according to Monday's edition of the War Street Journal.

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Kyodo News

(Another good reason not to invade) China for the first time became Iran's biggest trade partner in 2006, replacing Japan, according to customs-cleared trade and other data. This shows China, facing growing energy demand, is deepening

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AntiWar.com blog

That is the question asked by Larry Johnson, a former counter-terrorism official with the CIA and the State Department. Johnson questions nukes being “mistakenly” flown. The only time you put weapons on a plane is when they are on alert or if you are

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BBC News

Japanese firm Nippon Oil is to start paying for Iranian oil in yen, rather than in US dollars. The first payments to be made in the new currency for crude oil contracts will take place in October.

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Daily Telegraph

The United States, no longer prepared to tolerate the risk that Iranian nuclear weapons will be used against Israel, or passed to terrorists, has already launched a bombing campaign to destroy known Iranian nuclear sites, air bases and air defence si

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by Gordon Prather

The Cheney Cabal media sycophants at the New York Times and elsewhere are indignantly reporting that Iran continues to ignore certain sections of resolutions passed by Board of Directors of the International Atomic Energy Agency, requiring actions de

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by Pat Buchanan

Those who hoped that–with the victory of the antiwar party in 2006, the departure of Rumsfeld and the neocons, the rise of Condi and the eclipse of Cheney–America was headed out of Iraq got a rude awakening. They are about to get another.

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