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Letters of Anti-War Advocates to Iran's Supreme Leader: Do Not Take the Country to War

Yesterday: Iraq. Tomorrow: Iran?
It was 10 years ago this week that George Bush launched his ill-fated war of choice in Iraq. The anniversary comes as politicians in Washington and Israel continue to discuss the option of military action against Iran. The parallels with a decade ago are striking. -David Cortright, TIME - 3/18/13





Iranian-Jewish Dialogue on the Cyrus Cylinder
The Center for World Religions, Diplomacy, and Conflict Resolution (CRDC), Federation of Zoroastrian Associations of North America (FEZANA), and National Iranian American Council (NIAC) invite you to a shared panel and celebration in honor of the presence in Washington of the Cyrus Cylinder and its significance for the peaceful interaction of civilizations based on universal human rights and human dignity. - 3/16/13

The Senate's 10-Year Iraq War Anniversary Gift: War With Iran
When we mark the grim 10-year anniversary of the U.S. invasion of Iraq next Tuesday, most Americans will be reflecting on the enormous human, economic, and geopolitical costs that the disastrous war and occupation inflicted. What they won't be doing is hoping for an anniversary gift from the people who got us into that war. -Jamal Abdi - 3/16/13

3 Facts to Note in 2013 Worldwide Threat Assessment Report
Almost ten years to the day of the foolish invasion of Iraq, the discrepancy that existed between the media description of the Iraqi threat and the non-manipulated assessment of the U.S. intelligence community is being seen again -- but this time on Iran. -Trita Parsi, Huffington Post - 3/15/13

American Pie

"The Backdoor to War with Iran" - Wilkerson Attacks Senate Resolution
Col. Lawrence Wilkerson: Resolution S.RES.65 sends the message to Iran that the US objective is regime change, not a negotiated settlement to nuclear question - 3/14/13

The Promise of Almaty
Could the Almaty talks have been the turning point the international community has so long been yearning for? "Useful" and "realistic" are two words not generally used when characterizing Iranian nuclear negotiations, yet that's exactly how American and Iranian officials labeled the Almaty talks that concluded on February 27th. -Omid Irani - 3/14/13

Pop Up tour exhibiting works of Iranian stencil/street artists Icy and Sot
ICY (born 1985) and SOT (born 1991) are stencil artists from Tabriz - IRAN. they started their professional career in 2008 they had uploaded previous works as early as 2006 and they influenced and dragged their friends to street art. Their works are about peace, war, Love, hate, hope, despair, children, human rights and the Iranian culture. - 3/10/13

Crying wolf over Iran's nuclear program
After producing his comic diagram during his speech at the United Nations General Assembly last September, drawing a red line in order to stop Iran's alleged imminent nuclear bomb, the Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu called for immediate action against Iran before it was too late. -Farhang Jahanpour - 3/8/13

Do not repeat Iraq's mistake on Iran: Hans Blix
Ten years after the US invaded Iraq, Hans Blix, and former head of IAEA warned world powers, "not to repeat Iraq's mistake about Iran." World "memories are short," the now 82-year-old Swedish ex-diplomat told a small group of journalists at a press gathering in Dubai. "Memories of the failure and tragic mistakes in Iraq are not taken sufficiently seriously," he said. - 3/7/13

Mujahedin Supporters Envision "Tit for Tat" Campaign Against Iran

The P5+1 meeting with Iran: Did someone blink?
On March 1, 2010, an essay in Haaretz titled "Who will blink first in Iran's nuclear poker game?" stated that "Israel is on the verge of a preemptive war to try to foil Iran's nuclear program." So, the question was who would blink first? Would it be Iran that would give up its nuclear program? Would it be Israel that would be forced to withdraw its threat of military attack? Or would it be the US that would ratchet up the pressure on Iran to please Israel? -Sasan Fayazmanesh - 3/5/13

JUST THINKING FREELY: Potentials for a US-Iran Rapprochement
On Tuesday, February 26, the P5+1 and Iran commenced negotiations in Almati, Kazakhstan, and Chuck Hagel began his first day on the job as the new Secretary of Defense. Both these events bore great significance, considering what had gone on to lead to this stage of the game. -Kam Zarrabi - 3/2/13

Senators Push Promise to Support Israeli Strikes on Iran
New legislation introduced by Senators Lindsey Graham (R-SC) and Robert Menendez (D-NJ) calls for the U.S. to provide military, economic, and diplomatic support for Israel should its government decide to launch military strikes on Iran. - Jamal Abdi, NIAC - 3/2/13

On Heels of Argo Oscar, Former Hostages Say U.S. and Iran Must Break "Wall of Mistrust"
On the heels of Argo's Oscar victory, and on the eve of renewed Iranian nuclear negotiations retired Ambassadors Bruce Laingen and John Limbert - two former hostages held at the U.S. embassy in Tehran during the 444 day crisis - called for sustained diplomacy and an expansion of U.S.-Iran talks. -Solmaz Elmi-Sarabi, NIAC - 3/1/13

Senators Push Resolution Committing US to Aid Israel in Attack on Iran
A bipartisan group of US senators is pushing a resolution declaring that if Israel attacks Iran "in self-defense," the United States will join in the military assault on Israel's behalf. Leaving aside the fact that under no reasonable definition of "self-defense" could Israel conceivably justify an attack on Iran, the resolution is both an illustration of Congress's fealty to Israel, as well as their aggressiveness towards Iran. -John Glaser, Antiwar - 3/1/13

THE IRAN JOB: Journey of An American Professional Basketball Player to Iran

The Syrian Back Door to War With Iran
So why in the name of all that's holy are we allying with and arming these monsters? In a word: Iran. The Western alliance with the Syrian sons of Osama bin Laden is a cold geopolitical calculation. We're out to show the mullahs of Tehran that we mean business. Syria could wind up opening an oh-so-convenient back door to war with Iran. -Justin Raimondo, Antiwar - 3/1/13

On Iran, try backscratching, not blackmail
If someone threatened to punish you unless you did something you didn't want to do, how would you respond? Unless the threatened punishment was really horrible you'd refuse, because giving into threats encourages the threatener to make more demands. But what if someone offered to pay you to do something you didn't want to do? -Stephen M. Walt, FP - 2/28/13

Jack Straw (Former British FM): Even if Iran gets the Bomb, it won't be worth going to war
What Iran seeks is twofold. First, it wants its "full rights" under the NPT for civil nuclear power. It can fairly point out that three nuclear weapons states - Israel, India and Pakistan - have always refused to join the NPT, while North Korea, now boasting about its atomic capability, withdrew from the Treaty in 2003. Second, it seeks an end to its international isolation and a recognition (especially by the US) of its regional status. -Telegraph, UK - 2/27/13

US, Iran Go to the Mat for Olympic Wrestling
The United States and Iran rarely agree on much. But now sports officials in both countries are going to the mat to try to save wrestling as an Olympic sport. World Championship wrestling in Tehran pits the United States against Iran. But the match is about more than victory for one side or the other. For the wrestlers and their coaches, it is the start of a shared struggle. - 2/23/13

Iran is cooperating in global Human Proteome Project
A researcher of Royan Research Institute said here Saturday Iran is cooperating with 19 developed countries in the global Human Proteome Project (HPP) in the fields of medicine and science. - 2/23/13

Mollah Nassreddin's Blanket: That's What It's All About!

Photos: Iran overpowers US freestyle wrestling team 6-1 at World Cup in Tehran
Defending World champion Iranian freestyle wrestling team in a brilliant performance on Thursday evening overpowered US free style wrestling team 6-1. Iranian team set a shining record on the first day of the international tournament and powerfully won all five teams in its pool. - 2/22/13

New Congressional Push to Prevent War, Establish Diplomatic Envoy to Iran
Representative Barbara Lee (D-CA) and ten of her colleagues are renewing a push to establish a Special Envoy to Iran who would lead efforts to pursue a diplomatic resolution to the nuclear dispute, prevent war, and support human rights. - 2/22/13

Diplomatic Solution? The US and Iran
On January 30, 2013, The HAND Foundation and Ploughshares Fund hosted a reception and talk titled Iran: Is there still time for a diplomatic solution? Over 150 people attended this event in Redwood City, California. The engaged audience heard former U.S. Ambassador William H. Luers, Lieutenant General Frank Kearney, and Ambassador James Dobbins share their insights about the possibility of reaching a diplomatic solution with Iran on their nuclear program. - 2/20/13

Room for optimism in Iran and the P5-plus-1 talks
Iran and the P5-plus-1, which includes the United States, will meet again on 26 February in Kazakhstan. This is the first time that the two sides will meet in an atmosphere of continuing mutual suspicion since the third round of talks held in Moscow on 18-19 June 2012 ended in stalemate. -Farhang Jahanpour - 2/20/13

Sports brings nations together: U.S. wrestling coach
The United States freestyle wrestling coach Zeke Jones has said that sports bring nations together. In an email interview with the Tehran Times on Tuesday, Jones also talked about the 2013 Freestyle World Cup, which will be held in Tehran from February 20 to 21. - 2/20/13

IAEA reports on Iran: Mr. Amano and Regime Change

Opposition to War with Iran: Lessons of the Last Decade
Hardly any day goes by in which the mass media does not speculate on the possibility of military attacks on Iran. The mainstream media consistently blows way out of proportion the "threat" that the Islamic Republic supposedly poses to Israel and the West, and ignores the decade-long covert war waged by Israel on Iran. -Muhammad Sahimi - 2/13/13

Despite Offer of Direct Talks, U.S. Intensifies "Sanctions-Centric" Economic War Against Iran
The Obama administration is ratcheting up its economic war against Iran ahead of nuclear talks slated for Kazakhstan later this month. Last week, the White House announced a new expansion of sanctions that pressure countries buying Iran's oil to withhold direct payments and instead force Iran to purchase their goods. The Treasury also widened the sanctions list to include Iranian state media. -Democracy Now - 2/12/13

Organizations Call for Obama to Allow Medicine and Humanitarian Trade with Iran
Twenty-five organizations called on President Obama to ensure that existing U.S. sanctions on Iran do not block access for medicine, food, and basic humanitarian goods for Iranian civilians. In a letter led by the Friends Committee on National Legislation (FCNL) and signed by NIAC and other anti-war, human rights, and humanitarian organizations, the groups urged the President to exempt humanitarian transactions from sanctions against Iran's banking sector. - 2/11/13

Top Former General Warns Against Self-Fulfilling Prophecy of Iran War
The former Vice-Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff warned on Wednesday that a military strike on Iran would require the U.S. to occupy Iran for "tens of years" and urged instead for a diplomatic solution. - 2/8/13

Featured Project: Reviving Iran's Image

Chuck Hagel's Confirmation Hearings: Poor Performance? Let's Wait and See!
I watched the entire eight-hours-long confirmation hearing of Chuck Hagel, President Obama's nominee for the new Defense Secretary, at the Senate Armed Services Committee on Thursday. I watched it with disgust and delight at the same time. -Kam Zarrabi - 2/5/13

Waking Up to Iran's Real History
Americans have a deeply distorted understanding of Iran and what has driven that country's political change over the past six decades. This false history has become the backdrop for a possible new war, as David Swanson notes in reviewing a new book, Waking Up in Tehran. -Consortiumnews - 2/5/13

Supervisor of Intelligence Estimate Hailed for Preventing War with Iran
Professor Thomas Fingar wins the Sam Adams award for integrity in intelligence, while others warn of an unprecedented crackdown on intelligence agency whistleblowers. Thomas Fingar, now a Professor at Stanford University, oversaw the National Intelligence Estimate on Iran in 2007, during a period when the Bush administration was beating the drums of war. -RNN - 2/4/13

"Iranian Mothers for Peace" Alert the World on Sanctions and Shortage of Medicines
"Iranian Mothers for Peace," in an open letter of January 2013 to Mr. Ban Ki-moon, the UN Secretary General, and Dr. Margaret Chan, the Director General of the World Heath Organization, have alerted the responsible world bodies and human rights organizations to the critical shortage of vital medication due to the US/EU-led sanctions on Iran and their deadly impact on the lives and health of the Iranian population. -Farid Marjai and Mehrnaz Shahabi - 2/3/13

The U.S. needs a completely different approach to Iran
As Washington and its great power partners prepare for more nuclear negotiations with Iran, the Obama administration and policy elites across the political spectrum talk as if America is basically in control of the situation. -Flynt and Hillary Leverett, Reuters - 2/2/13

Experts Discuss Delays and Future Negotiations on Iran Nuclear Issue
With a new round of nuclear negotiations involving the U.S. and Iran facing continued delays, experts analyzed the future of U.S.-Iran diplomacy at the Woodrow Wilson Center on Tuesday. Bijan Khajehpour, managing partner of Atieh International, warned against an overplaying of the sanctions card by the U.S. and its partners. -Nadia Hakim, NIAC - 2/1/13

FBI pursuit of Stuxnet leaks reignites whistleblower debate
The FBI is ramping up its efforts to find out who leaked information about the Stuxnet worm used to attack Iranian nuclear facilities in 2010, and that has reignited debate over whether the Obama administration's aggressive pursuit of those who leak classified information is trampling privacy rights. -Infoworld - 2/1/13

How to Influence Iran's Foreign Policy Debate
There is still time for diplomacy to work and the Obama administration should pursue it vigorously and comprehensively in its second term while defending its domestic flank from AIPAC and its formidable network of supporters in Congress and the media. -Thomas J. Buonomo, Huffington Post - 1/30/13

Iranian Official Warns Against Attack On Syria
A senior Iranian official says his country would consider any attack on Syria an attack on itself. The semiofficial Mehr news agency quoted Ali Akbar Velayati, an adviser to Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, as saying on January 26 that the Syrian regime played a "key role in the region for promoting firm policies of resistance." - 1/26/13

Syrian Refugees Tell U.S. Officials "Heartbreaking" Stories
Top U.S. aid officials were in the Islahiye Camp in Turkey January 24, spending hours with camp staff and refugees. The United States is a major donor to the humanitarian aid effort to support these refugees and Syrians still in their country needing assistance. In Ankara January 25, the United States announced a further $10 million increase in aid. - 1/26/13

Devil Is in the Details for Iran Nuclear Deal
After a year of fruitless negotiations that are expected to resume soon, Iranian and U.S. experts are urging both sides to show more flexibility and make more concessions on its nuclear programme. -Jasmin Ramsey, IPS - 1/26/13

'This is war propaganda, and you are the target': Latest anti-Muslim subway ads get another makeover
The latest installment of anti-Muslim advertisements put out by Pamela Geller have gone up in New York City subway stations. But they have quickly received a makeover, just as the last batch did. -Alex Kane, Mondoweiss - 1/24/13

Widely Cited Government Study on Iranian Spies 'Pulled for Revisions'
An official with the Library of Congress says a widely cited but poorly sourced report his office did on Iran's intelligence ministry has been pulled from circulation. -Justin Elliott, Pro Publica - 1/23/13

Iranian cyclist on world tour arrives in Rome
Iranian cyclist Yavar Samadi, carrying the message of environment protection, arrived in Rome on Thursday after pedaling 9000km in Europe. Upon arrival in Rome, Samadi conveyed message of peace, friendship and environment protection of Tehran's Municipality and Iranian government and nation to Italy's government and nation. - 1/5/13

2012 Predictions of war with Iran that didn't Happen (20th Anniversary Edition)
A new year, with new possibilities, which will probably include more talk of an impending war with Iran. Elections are coming up in both Israel and Iran, opening the door to a range of events that can seriously impact the US and Israel's Iran policy, as well as Iranian foreign policy. And while total peace may be unlikely, one can at least hope that past predictions of war with Iran will be as accurate in 2013 as they have been in the past. -Marsha B. Cohen, Lobelog - 1/3/13

Iran denounces WSJ article nuclear scenarios as Iranophobia
Iran responds to an opinion piece by the Wall Street Journal on the threshold of a new round of talks between Tehran and the six major world powers (P5+1), asserting the country's "inalienable right" to the nuclear fuel cycle. - 12/31/12

The Frontier Mentality: On Killing Children (and Others)
Whether Americans are paying attention or not, their government, their elected officials, continue to make sure that the U.S. remains out and about across the globe, projecting the nation's power via guns and sanctions, and thereby helping to lower the world's burgeoning population in the most negative of all possible ways. -Lawrence Davidson, Counterpunch - 12/31/12

More Than Just About Hagel
Hagel's detractors appear to be motivated by two factors. First, vengeance over Hagel's push to have the U.S. leave Iraq and end the neoconservatives' pet project. Second, fear that Hagel's independence and insistence on asking tough questions and ensuring that force is only used as a measure of last resort will complicate the neoconservatives' other pet project: preventive war with Iran. -Trita Parsi, Huffington Post - 12/28/12

New Iran Sanctions Could Derail Upcoming Negotiations
"The time is ripe for a deal, and wrong for more sanctions," according to analysis last week from former Representative Lee Hamilton, Ambassador Thomas Pickering and General Anthony Zinni. - Brett Cox, NIAC - 12/23/12

Sanctions: Silent War - Iranian Artist's 'Pill Protest' Highlights Harmful Side Effects Of Sanctions
Young Iranian artist Sanaz Sohrabi has a mission: to raise awareness of the impact crippling international sanctions are having on ordinary Iranians, especially those living with illnesses. She took the first step this week, setting up a small performance-art protest across the street from UN headquarters in New York. -Courtney Brooks, RFE - 12/22/12

Officials to Obama: Act Now to Reach Deal on Iran's Nuclear Program
In a letter to President Obama, a group of twenty-four experts and former senior officials are calling on the White House "to direct your team vigorously to pursue serious, sustained negotiations with the Iranian government on an arrangement that guards against a nuclear-armed Iran." - 12/22/12

Daniel Pipes wants to take down Iranian-American group so he can get a war
The right-wing Middle East Forum has the National Iranian American Council (NIAC) in its sights for one reason: it wants a war on Iran, and NIAC is trying to stop that from happening. -Alex Kane, Mondoweiss - 12/22/12

Commentary: Seek deal with Iran, not new sanctions
As Congress prepares to tighten the vise around Iran with new sanctions, American leaders need to ask what previous measures have accomplished and whether additional ones would help or hurt efforts to prevent Iran from acquiring a nuclear weapon. -Lee Hamilton, Thomas Pickering and Anthony Zinni - - 12/19/12

The Impact of Sanctions on Iranian Society and Artists
Economic sanctions are not only shattering the lives of the Iranian people but also strangling Iran's social and cultural development. Iran is headed for a humanitarian catastrophe unless steps are taken to avert it. -Mehrnaz Shahabi, UK - 12/11/12

The War on Gaza and Iran-US Talks
The debates on the necessity of holding direct negotiations between Tehran and Washington, which had started just before the recent presidential elections in the United States by American political and journalistic circles and were even supported by such renowned analysts as Henry Kissinger, have been marginalized for a while. -Afsaneh Ahadi - 12/11/12

Mr President, tear down this wall
A newly re-elected Obama must rethink his strategy with Iran if he ever hopes to break down the wall of mistrust. -Pepe Escobar, Al Jazeera - 12/9/12

Iran, Israel and International Law
The trite old phrase 'What's Sauce for the Goose is also Sauce for the Gander' means quite simply that if a person does something that is approved by society, then another person should not be criticized or penalized for doing exactly the same thing. That seems fair enough. But it doesn't apply in international affairs, in which sauce-allocation is the privilege of the powerful. -Brian Cloughley, Counterpunch - 12/7/12

Snake Tale: How Venom Binds U.S., Iran
Relations between Iran and the U.S. are poisonous, with one exception: an antidote for snake bites. In a surprising-and irony-rich-byproduct of the Afghan war, the Pentagon finds itself dependent on a scientific research arm of the Iranian government to treat bites by Oxus cobras, Haly's pit vipers and other snakes peculiar to the battlefields of southwest Asia. -WSJ - 12/3/12

Update: AP Issues Clarification
Chalk up another win for media accountability. Thanks to everyone who took action at IranFact.org to call out the Associated Press for its misleading article, "Graph Suggests Iran Working on a Bomb," we once again succeeded in stopping the pro-Iran war narrative in its tracks. -Jamal Abdi - 12/2/12

AP's dangerous Iran hoax demands an accounting and explanation
Although it was intuitively obvious that the graph trumpeted by AP as scary and incriminating of Iran's nuclear program was actually a farce, there is now new, overwhelming, very compelling scientific evidence that is the case. - Glenn Greenwald, Guardian - 12/2/12

New Sanctions Are Incremental Step to Iran War, Include No Medicine Fix
NIAC Policy Director Jamal Abdi released the following statement regarding the Senate's passage of new Iran sanctions as part of the Defense Authorization: This is not the total embargo that hardliners were pushing, but is another incremental step towards the full exhaustion of sanctions and to a military endgame. - 12/1/12

NIAC: Demand AP Clarify Warmongering Report
This week, the Associated Press (AP) ran an "exclusive" story claiming to uncover bombshell evidence in support of war with Iran. The evidence? A crude, hand drawn graph. - 11/30/12

American Pie
It feels good for whatever reasons -- That Mr. Obama -- Is re-elected -- Heard the news -- Through an e-mail from Citizen Journalist -- Just that very minute the results were announced in US -- Here in Iran... -Roya Monajem, Tehran - 11/28/12

AP Presents Shoddy Evidence From Dubious Sources as Proof of Iranian Weapons Program
An Associated Press report by a journalist with a reputation for speculative and misleading coverage of Iran's nuclear program claims that a shoddy Iranian diagram, leaked by "a country critical of Iran's atomic program" suggests the Islamic Republic is working on a nuclear weapon. -John Glaser, Antiwar - 11/28/12

Study Predicts Stunning Costs for Diplomatic Failure with Iran
A new study by the Federation of American Scientists estimates that escalating conflict with Iran would impose stunning costs to the global economy. A war with Iran, according to the study, could cost up to $1.8 trillion in the first three months, while new sanctions that Congress is considering passing before year's end would set the economy back $64 billion. - 11/27/12

Brzezinski: US Should Not Follow Israel on Iran Like a "Stupid Mule"
"I don't think there is an implicit obligation for the United States to follow like a stupid mule whatever the Israelis do," said Zbigniew Brzezinski. "If they decide to start a war, simply on the assumption that we'll automatically be drawn into it, I think it is the obligation of friendship to say, 'you're not going to be making national decision for us.' - 11/27/12

Let My People Go!
As the second American presidential term begins, trepidation permeates pages of daily lives. National problems abound: from secession petition of the ignorant to the soap opera of propinquity of marriage, sex and lust. -Soosan M Alemansoor - 11/23/12

ANIMAL PLANET: The Law of the Jungle
We are looking at an ongoing conflict of interests between the tenth most powerful military in the world, supported unequivocally by the world's most powerful empire, against the occupants of a tiny, overcrowded and destitute concentration camp equipped with homemade miniature missiles that do not always even carry any explosives! -Kam Zarrabi - 11/22/12

Iranian director adapts Khayyam poetry for anti-war play
The Iranian director Zahra Sabri has adapted Omar Khayyam's poetry and thoughts for an anti-war play. The play entitled "Count to One" was staged at Tehran's Play Workshop on November 18. - 11/21/12

Speaking to the Palestinians in the language of death, but still there is hope
When Israel rained death and destruction on the Gaza Strip four years ago, Chris Hedges wrote the following. "Israel uses sophisticated attack jets and Naval vessels to bomb densely crowded refugee camps, schools, apartment blocks mosques and slums, to attack a population that has no air force, no air defense, no navy, no heavy weapons, no artillery units, no mechanized armour, no command and control, no army and calls it a war. It is not a war. It is Murder. -Alan Hart - 11/20/12

The Roots of Israeli Attack on Gaza
Phyllis Bennis: Well, I think that what we're looking at is a huge escalation on the part of Israel against Gaza, very reminiscent in a number of ways of the Operation Cast Lead of 2008, 2009, also beginning shortly after the election-the first election, that time-of President Obama, and before the inauguration in both cases. - 11/19/12

Conference in Washington, DC -- Iran 2013: Making Diplomacy Work
2013 will be the critical year to resolve the Iranian nuclear standoff. With sanctions escalating, Iranian nuclear capabilities increasing, a soft war simmering and warnings of full blown military conflict on the horizon, it has never been more vital that the United States and Iran find a diplomatic off ramp to prevent disaster. - 11/17/12

Iran, Denmark launch cooperation in controlling diabetes
Chancellor of Tehran Medical Sciences University Bagher Larijani said Wednesday that the university signed a cooperation agreement on prevention and curbing diabetes with a complex procedure of treating the disease in the EU. - 11/14/12

Is Netanyahu Planning Nuclear Attack on Iran?
Netanyahu thinks ballistic missiles carrying tactical nuclear warheads will be necessary to take out Iran's Fordow uranium enrichment facility near the city of Qom. The site is buried deep beneath a mountain. -Common Dreams - 11/12/12

International Physicians for Prevention of Nuclear War to visit Iran
Tehran Peace Museum said that the team composed of physicians from Sweden, Turkey, Norway and Denmark will pay a visit to Tehran at an invitation from Tehran Peace Museum and the Society for Supporters of Chemical Weapons Victims. - 11/10/12

Sleazy Salesman vs. the Tongue-tied Incumbent: The Foreign Policy Debate Farce
For me personally, the national debt, health care, unemployment and other issues of high priority debated between Romney and Obama during the presidential campaigns, although of great concern, take the backseat to the direction that our foreign policy might take past this coming November. -Kam Zarrabi - 10/31/12

Who Owns the World? Noam Chomsky on U.S.-Fueled Dangers, from Climate Change to Nuclear Weapons
In the week when President Obama and Republican presidential hopeful Mitt Romney debated issues of foreign policy and the economy, we turn to world-renowned political dissident, linguist, author and MIT professor, Noam Chomsky. -Democracy Now - 10/31/12
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