- Iran importerer 40% av mengden raffinert petroleum som landet forbruker.
[rediger] Iran i media
- 2005-12-11: - Vil angripe Iran +
- "Israel planlegger et mulig angrep på et hemmelig, iransk anlegg hvor det anrikes uran, skriver The Sunday Times."
- 2005-12-20: Forbyr popmusikk +
- "Irans president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad forbyr all vestlig musikk på radio og TV."
- "Også filmer vil bli underlagt streng sensur - med et spesielt forbud mot filmer som forherliger "arrogante krefter" - en åpenbar henvisning til USA."
[rediger] Mahmoud Ahmadinejad om "jødeutryddelsen"
- 2005-12-08: President benekter holocaust +
- "Irans president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad uttrykker tvil om at jødeutryddelsen under annen verdenskrig virkelig fant sted, og foreslår samtidig å flytte Israel til Europa."
- 2005-12-14: Irans president kaller holocaust en myte +
- "Irans president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad kom onsdag med et nytt utspill mot Israel og kaller Nazi-Tysklands jødeutryddelse en myte. USA og EU reagerer skarpt."
Holocaust ER BEVISELIG en LØGN og en MYTE.[trenger referanse] Denne hendelsen viser sterkt hvor skremmende effektivt vestlige medier sammen med skolesystemet klarer å fabrikkere og forfalske historien.
Det er også vel verd å merke seg hvordan media fremstiller dette som et spørsmål om politikk og ideologi. Har sannheten noe med politikk å gjøre? Har sannheten noe med ideologi å gjøre? Eller er det kun et enkelt spørsmål om å sant eller usant?
[rediger] Invasjonen av Iran
«Ensuring lasting peace for all mankind based on justice and spirituality is the goal of the Iranian government and nation. We believe that what the present world needs is reason, ethics, justice and spirituality and not biological, chemical and atomic weapons or arsenals. This is the very path which the great Iranian nation is treading.» --Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, 2006-01-17 +
Gode grunner til å ikke bombe Iran. Norge invaderer Iran 28. Mars 2006 gjennom medlemskapet i NATO-alliansen. USA sine styrker vil primært stå for de innledende kampene.
Gode grunner til å ikke bombe Iran:
"Another remarkable feature of the new "crisis" is that Iran is successfully portrayed as a villain and threat based on a distant prospect of its acquiring nuclear weapons, even as the United States and Israel brandish those weapons and threaten Iran with attack. If Iran did acquire nuclear weapons it could never use them against Israel or the United States without committing national suicide, whereas the United States has used them in the past and could do so now without threat of nuclear retaliation. However, if Iran built a small stock of such weapons it could pose a low probability threat of a nuclear response to a direct attack. So Iran's real "threat" is the threat of being able to defend itself (see Herman, "Iran's Dire Threat," Z Magazine, October 2004)."
(The Iran "Crisis" A prelude to aggression by Edward S. Herman & David Peterson +
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May 24, 2005. New York, N.Y.
- Craig Whitney gave some interesting statements:
- "The main reason that the Bush administration gave for going to war against Iraq, as we should remember, was that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction [WMD] and links with the terrorists or the kind of terrorists who had carried out the 9/11 attacks against the United States. But we now know that Saddam Hussein had no weapons of mass destruction to speak of in 2003, when we went to war."
- "Does it matter to Americans that our country went to war on a false premise?"
- "People in a democracy I think, need to know why their elected leaders make mistakes when they make them, and voters need to be able to draw their own conclusions about what went wrong when things go wrong. And that’s why Public Affairs commissioned this book, The WMD Mirage, which collects basic documents from the United States and from the United Nations with the idea of offering readers, voters, a factual starting point at least to help build an understanding of what went wrong and what’s been done to try to right the wrong, because WMD has not gone away as an issue in America’s and the world’s attempts to deal with two other important countries: Iran and North Korea."
- Charles Duelfer:
- "Secondly, and we describe this in some detail in the report, there was a greater concern than we could appreciate sitting here in Washington of the threat posed by Iran. And we just, you know, that our gut feeling for that was not the same as the gut feeling one would have sitting in Baghdad, where you had invaded and killed a lot of those people, and then every once in a while they were throwing rockets at you, so there was an ongoing conflict there. And Saddam was certainly aware of the WMD assessments of Iran and he created intentionally a certain ambiguity about what his capabilities were. So there were mixed motivations."
- 2005-09-26: Gulf factor key to PM’s Iran vote decision +
- "Top-ranking Americans have told equally top-ranking Indians in recent weeks that the US has plans to invade Iran before Bush’s term ends. In 2002, a year before the US invaded Iraq, high-ranking Americans had similarly shared their definitive vision of a post-Saddam Iraq, making it clear that they would change the regime in Baghdad."
- 2005-12-11: - Vil angripe Iran +
- "Ifølge israelske militære kilder har statsminister Ariel Sharon gitt ordre om at de væpnede styrkene skal forberede seg på mulig flyangrep i slutten av mars."
- 2005-12-31: Iran War Looms +
- "The peace movements of the entire world should be in crisis mode right now, working non-stop to prevent the U.S. and Israel from starting a war against Iran. The reckless and unnecessary dangers arising from such a war are so obvious that one wonders why normal political forces in the two aggressor countries -- both of whom love to glorify themselves as democracies -- would not prevent such a war from happening."
- 2006-01-03: (Michel Chossudovsky, Global Research) Nuclear War against Iran +
- "Coalition partners, which include the US, Israel and Turkey are in "an advanced stage of readiness". "
- "The US sponsored military plan has been endorsed by NATO, although it is unclear, at this stage, as to the nature of NATO's involvement in the planned aerial attacks."
- 2006-01-16: (bbc) Uncertain outcome to Iran impasse +
- "Iran denies it plans to develop nuclear weapons, but also says it will not be intimidated by international pressure."
- "The Western powers represented at the meeting are pretty clear that it is time to take Iran to the Security Council - even if they are not sure what it should then do."
- "Russia has hinted that it will not stand in the way of such a move. China's position is more opaque."
- "Iran talks of wanting to maintain dialogue, but it also complains of big-power bullying."
- "From Washington, the word remains that the United States will not and should not take the military option off the table, and that will be in the back of many people's minds."
- 2006-01-16: (nysun.com) Alarm Spreads Over Defiance By Iranians +
- "A committee led by the French, which includes America and other European powers, is drawing up a list of sanction options likely to influence any resolution put before the U.N. Security Council next month."
- "Today America's undersecretary of state for political affairs, Nicholas Burns, will meet in London with representatives from the five permanent members of the U.N. Security Council to discuss the prospects of holding an emergency meeting of the U.N. nuclear agency to refer Iran to the Security Council."
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[rediger] Atomvåpen-unnskyldningen for å rettferdiggjøre invasjonen
- 2002-02-14: Iran, Israel and Nuclear Weapons in the Middle East +
- "While in New York recently, Israeli Defense Minister Binyamin Ben-Eliezer asserted that Iran will have nuclear a capability by 2005. A recent U.S. National Intelligence Estimate states that Iran could produce a nuclear weapon by the end of the decade, although one participating agency, assuredly the Department of State, judges it will take longer."
- "The British government, with Prime Minister Tony Blair in the lead, argued that the time was ripe to strengthen the hand of reformers within Iran through engagement. Continued hostility, they said, played into the hands of hardliners who used Western aggression as an excuse to mask their own failure in governance. Moreover, dual containment of both Iran and Iraq, many critics argued, had proved both costly and ineffectual. There seemed to be compelling reasons to repair the two-decade-old breach between Washington and Tehran."
- 2006-01-12: Iran har gått over streken +
- "(VG Nett) USAs utenriksminister Condoleezza Rice mener Iran har gått over en viktig grense. Nå vil stormaktene at Iran meldes til FNs sikkerhetsråd."
- "Ifølge FNs generalsekretær Kofi Annan er Iran fortsatt interessert i å diskutere landets atomprogram med EU. Annan hadde torsdag kveld en 40 minutter lang telefonsamtale med Irans sjefforhandler, Ali Larijani."
- "Også Tony Blair uttrykker dyp misnøye med at forseglingene fra IAEA ved iranske atominstallasjoner er brutt. Til Sky News sier den britiske statsministeren at Iran høyst sannsynlig må diskuteres på høyeste plan i FN."
- "DISKUTERER SANKSJONER: Utenriksminister Jack Straw (t.v) og EUS utenrikspolitiske koordinator Javier Solana diskuterte i dag nye sanksjoner mot Iran."
- 2006-01-15: - Sanksjoner kan gi dyr olje +
- "Eventuelle sanksjoner fra FNs sikkerhetsråd mot Iran vil kunne føre til økt oljepris, sier Irans finansminister Davoud Danesh-Jafari."
- "Storbritannias utenriksminister Jack Straw sier at det kan bli aktuelt å innføre sanksjoner mot Iran dersom landet ikke retter seg etter kravene som stilles til atomprogrammet."
- 2006-01-16: (people.com.cn) Refer Iranian nuke issue to the UN, so what? +
- 2006-01-17: (Islamic Republic News Agency) President Ahmadinejad allows CNN to resume broadcasts +
- «The ban imposed on CNN on Monday said that the network and its reporters were no longer authorized to operate in Iran after they misquoted and/or distorted President Ahmadinejad's remarks at a press conference on Saturday.»
- «At the press conference, President Ahmadinejad stressed that Iran had the right to produce nuclear energy but was misquoted in CNN programs as saying "The use of nuclear weapons is Iran's right." According to government spokesman Gholam-Hossein Elham, President Ahmadinejad wrote to Minister of Culture and Islamic Guidance Mohammad-Hossein Safar Harandi asking him to lift the ban on CNN's broadcasts.»
- «"Taking into account the CNN's apology, we are asking that the channel be allowed to resume its activities, although we maintain the view that the news it broadcast was contrary to professional ethics of journalism which requires truthful dissemination of news in the interest of all," he said.»
- 2006-01-17: (scotsman.com) Iran lifts ban on CNN after apology +
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