"Iran has prepared itself...they will get a crushing response if they make such a mistake," Larijani said on Iranian television late Sunday.

http://www.cbc.ca/cp/world/060101/w010152.html


From Information Clearing House

Why is every decent American citizen not jumping to denounce the likely invasion of Iran? (And, down the road, the threatened invasion of Syria and North Korea?) Insularity and laziness are not the explanation, in my opinion.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article11438.htm

Recent reports in the German media suggest that the United States may be preparing its allies for an imminent military strike against facilities that are part of Iran's suspected clandestine nuclear weapons program.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/010106Y.shtml

Iran is NPT compliant: German official :

A member of the German parliament’s foreign policy committee, Ruprecht Polenz, has said that Iran presently complies with the NPT regulations, U.S. media reported Thursday.

http://www.mehrnews.com/en/NewsDetail.aspx?NewsID=272005


From Information Clearing House

German media sources have recently reported that the Bush Administration is preparing its North Atlantic Treaty Organization allies for a potential attack on nuclear sites in Iran.

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/664518.html



Is Washington Planning a Military Strike?

Recent reports in the German media suggest that the United States may be preparing its allies for an imminent military strike against facilities that are part of Iran's suspected clandestine nuclear weapons program.

http://service.spiegel.de/cache/international/0,1518,392783,00.html


From Information Clearing House

http://www.ufppc.org/content/view/3858/


Informant: jensenmk

From ufpj-news

http://archiv.tagesspiegel.de/archiv/28.12.2005/2259564.asp

(Tagesspiegel)

Vor dem Hintergrund des anhaltenden Atomstreits mit Iran prüfen die USA jetzt alle Möglichkeiten, auch militärische, um das Mullah-Regime zum Einlenken zu bewegen. Wie der Tagesspiegel aus Nato-Sicherheitskreisen erfuhr, wurden die westlichen Verbündeten davon in Kenntnis gesetzt, dass Experten der Armee noch einmal die Anlagen ins Auge fassen sollen, die als Ziel von militärischen Schlägen in Frage kommen.


G.Wendebourg / metainfo hamburg

Link zum Beitrag / Hintergrundinfo oder Pressehinweis:
http://www.hh-online.com?lid=23326 und
http://links.net-hh.de?lid=23326


Infopool / metainfo hamburg www.hh-online.com

New U.S. sanctions against nine foreign companies accused of aiding Iran's weapons programs could signal a harder line toward Tehran by the Bush administration and could hinder diplomatic efforts by Europe to end the standoff over Iran's nuclear program.

http://iht.com/articles/2005/12/28/news/sanctions.php


From Information Clearing House

Only the American people can stop it.
http://www.antiwar.com/orig/hirsch.php?articleid=8312


Informant: Kev Hall

A major U.S. intelligence review has projected that Iran is about a decade away from manufacturing the key ingredient for a nuclear weapon, roughly doubling the previous estimate of five years, according to government sources with firsthand knowledge of the new analysis.

http://www.skyhen.org/Focus/iran/iran_is_judged_10_years_from_nuclear_bomb.php


From Information Clearing House