Iran

The House-Senate conference committee on the defense authorization bill was completed today. They did not include new sanctions on Iran. The conference report is posted at [...]

This is from PhillipWeiss.com Since Kevin and Paul are leaving this week to go listen to Ah,adinejad I thought it would be appropiate to post this here. Report: ’60 Minutes’ Cut [...]

I hope this email finds you well.  As the new school year begins and campuses across the country begin to program events, lectures and screenings as part of their curriculum, we wanted to get out [...]

For months, the Bush administration has stubbornly refused to engage in direct diplomacy with Iran until it stopped its uranium enrichment – a counterproductive policy that has heightened [...]

Journalist Seymour Hersh’s recent article in the New Yorker details covert operations by the CIA and the Joint Special Operations Command (JSOC) taking place in Iran and the continued escalation [...]

A new Iran sanctions bill in the House, H Con Res 362, has a clause that could be interpreted as calling for a naval blockade, which would be an act of war. While the resolution states that [...]

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Despite the November 2007 National Intelligence Estimate concluding that Iran had halted its nuclear weapons program, the Bush administration is bolstering its case for war by labeling Iran one [...]

Hostile rhetoric with Iran is heating up again and Congress’ punitive sanctions approach to dealing with Iran is only adding fuel to the fire. Peace Action West has joined with the Campaign for a [...]

I could probably actually blog about this every single week and find plenty of fodder, but this week I saw some particularly egregious statements that undermine our efforts to enact effective [...]