The US has deliberately tried to marginalize the International Atomic Agency because of its findings that Iran was in “substantial compliance.”

All of the talk about bombing Iran to keep them from getting nukes and threatening the 'world' distracts from our own country's abandonment of the international non-proliferation agreement as Bush is positioned to build more nuclear weapons and resume testing.

The Iranian nuclear issue has come up for discussion at the U.N. Security Council which is capable of imposing sanctions. A serious effort is needed to solve the question peacefully and diplomatically.

The Bush administration's rapid escalation of anti-Iran rhetoric in the last few months should not be dismissed as posturing.

AT the height of the campaign of murder and mayhem against Iraq in 2002, US president Bush noted that the Middle East was in the ‘process of being cleared of anarchy.’

Tehran security forces arrest transportation workers and their families for trying to improve their work conditions.

Newly elected Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is the new face of evil, US officials and media want us to believe. The dialectics that yielded such a conclusion have been offered in abundance within thousands of news broadcasts, commentaries and official pronouncements.

Secretary of State Condi Rice doesn't think the United States and European Union should continue talking to Iran about their potential nuke development. Diplomacy should end and the UN
Security Council must now take action, she says.

The deeply irresponsible comments made by Mahmood Ahmadi-Nejad, President of the regime of Velayat-e-faquih in Iran, on Wednesday October 26 about “wiping Israel off the world map” has once again put Iran in a serious political crisis.The Tudeh Party Iran, along with all progressive and democratic forces of Iran and the world, condemns this foolish and vain posturing.

If the Bush administration wants it, they’ll just take it. The threat of hurricanes and indictments isn’t going to stop these crazy guys. Nor will the Democrats, France, or that fallible United Nations. Nope, nothing is going to step in their way. Even if what they want is war on Iran.

BRITISH and US pressure on Iran to bring it into line over its nuclear programme is taking on the character of a mudfight - if enough dirt is thrown, some of it must stick.

IRAN has played its diplomatic hand deftly. On the eve of the meeting of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) in Vienna on September 24, Iran's highest authorities let it be known that in case countries which get their oil and gas from Iran vote against it, they might face retaliation.

What he said next, in this public discourse on Al Jazeera, was pointed and explosive: "Our findings in Iraq proved that the agency was right because we didn't find anything which indicated the presence of nuclear weapons in Iraq... If we want to take a lesson from Iraq, we should not rush before all realities are clarified, and this is what we want to do about Iran."

The high-ranking officials of the Islamic regime during talks with Britain, Germany and France agreed to the terms offered and brought the Nuclear Enrichment Program to a full suspension.

The Bush Administration urged the members of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) to approve an October 31 deadline on Iran for compliance or face sanctions at the UN Security Council. Bush lost that vote. Had the motion passed, that would have started the countdown to an Israel-Iran war just days before the November 2nd elections.

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