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Hearts Without MindsCommon sense and experience have confirmed, time after time, that making concessions to terrorism and barbarity produces more of each – a lesson repeatedly unlearned by the same Europeans who so enjoy condemning President Bush's "cowboy" policies. more By FrontPageMagazine.com

Posted 2/4/2007 @ 8:46:43 GMTHow to Fight Tehran The Iranian seizure of 15 British naval personnel is an outrage--and an opportunity. Iran invaded Iraqi territorial waters, attacked British naval personnel enforcing resolutions of the UN Security Council and committed an act of piracy and kidnapping. more By Frontpagemag.com

Posted 2/4/2007 @ 8:38:12 GMTIran Appears Dug in for Lengthy StandoffTEHRAN, Iran -- The standoff over 15 captured British sailors shows no signs of abating, and analysts say that Iran's tough stance is a demonstration of the power of hardliners unafraid to confront the West. more By The Associated Press

Posted 2/4/2007 @ 8:24:43 GMTCalifornia Seeks to Ban Investment in IranSAN FRANCISCO -- It is the kind of political movement that fits handily on a bumper sticker: Divest Iran. Over the past year, one state, Missouri, has opted to do just that, while several others, including New Jersey, have also begun to write or to consider legislation to divest. more By The New York Times

Posted 2/4/2007 @ 7:55:33 GMTIran Sanctions Boost Civil Nuclear Disaster Risk, Report SaysInternational sanctions to starve Iran's nuclear programme have heightened the risk of a radiological disaster that could spread across the Gulf, according to a new British report. John Large of Large and Associates, UK nuclear consultants, writes that once the Bushehr civilian reactor in southern Iran goes into operation this year, a safety failure - a radioactive leak - could threaten Gulf shipping lanes and Arab Gulf states. more By The Financial Times

Posted 2/4/2007 @ 7:36:30 GMTProtecting Tehran, Knifing Tony BlairNow that she has won House passage of legislation that would micromanage the way to defeat in Iraq, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi finds herself struggling to come up with a coherent policy toward Iran. more By The Washington Times

Posted 2/4/2007 @ 7:30:49 GMTFire Razes Anti - Zionist N.Y. Synagogue MONSEY, N.Y. -- A fire destroyed the synagogue and residence of a senior rabbi of an anti-Zionist, ultra-Orthodox Jewish group whose members attended an Iran-sponsored conference late last year that debated the occurrence of the Holocaust. more By The New York Times

Posted 2/4/2007 @ 7:22:57 GMTBritain Sending Envoy to TehranLONDON -- Britain intends to send a senior Royal Navy officer to Tehran with a face-saving plan to win the release of 15 sailors and marines, officials said amid confirmation of direct contacts with Tehran over the matter. more By Sunday Telegraph

Posted 2/4/2007 @ 7:16:35 GMTIran Accuses US Jets Of Violating Airspace Two US airplanes violated Iran's airspace in the southwestern oil-rich province of Khuzestan, Iran's state television Sunday quoted a local military commander as saying on its website. more By Nasdaq

Posted 1/4/2007 @ 23:43:21 GMTIran Forces Israeli Rethink Uzi Arad, former director of intelligence at Israel's spy agency, Mossad, has made a lifetime's study of revolutionary Iran. If international sanctions and diplomatic arm-twisting fail to halt its suspect nuclear activities, he is clear what the west must do: bomb Tehran. more By The Guardian

Posted 1/4/2007 @ 23:38:50 GMTBritain Tries to Placate TehranBritain is ready to defuse the Iran hostage crisis by discussing its operations in the northern Gulf with Tehran and by stating that the Royal Navy would never enter Iranian waters without seeking permission, it emerged yesterday. The offer was described by senior defence officials as a "confidence-building" measure to reassure the Iranians, but would not involve an apology, nor acceptance of claims that the 15-strong British crew were in Iranian waters when they were captured by revolutionary guards on March 23. more By The Guardian

Posted 1/4/2007 @ 23:32:45 GMTThe War of HumiliationOur Marines are hostages. Two more were shown on Iranian TV. Petrol bombs burst behind the walls of the British embassy in Tehran. But it's definitely not the war on terror. It's the war of humiliation. The humiliation of Britain, the humiliation of Tony Blair, of the British military, of George Bush and the whole Iraqi shooting match. And the master of humiliation - even if Tony Blair doesn't realise it - is Iran, a nation which feels itself forever humiliated by the West. more By Independent

Posted 1/4/2007 @ 23:18:43 GMTCaptured Crew in TV 'Confession' as Iranians Turn Up the TensionBritain’s ten-daydispute with Iran turned ugly last night when two more captured servicemen were paraded on official television, after hundreds of hardliners besieged the British Embassy in Tehran, pelting it with stones and thunderflashes. more By The Times

Posted 1/4/2007 @ 17:3:14 GMTSmall Blasts Rock UK Embassy in IranTEHRAN -- Several small blasts rocked the British embassy in Iran and smoke rose from inside the compound in central Tehran on Sunday during a protest over 15 detained sailors and marines, but no one was hurt. Britain said no damage had been done and no one was hurt in the protest by about 100 people. Reuters witnesses also said the blasts did not appear to do any damage, although each sent a small plume of smoke into the air. more By Reuters