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General Topic AreasCalls for Overthrow (17)Covert/Clandestine Operations (29)Diplomacy (34)Financial (4)Geopolitics (130)Hezbollah (1)Israel (26)Neoconservative Hawks (86)Nuclear Program (135)Oil and Gas (38)Opposition Groups (19)Planning (16)Predictions (13)Preparation (25)Think Tank Activities (7)US Intel on Iran (61)US Policy Papers (9)Western Business Interests (14)
Specific Cases and Issues2007 NIE on Iran (43)Arms for Hostages (22)Iran-India pipeline (18)Iran/Contra Affair (11)US MEK policy (45)
Events Recently Added to the US Confrontation with Iran timeline
7/23 - Pentagon Allegedly Fails to Provide Potentially Life-Saving Information to US Intelligence Agencies, according to Unreliable Sources, After December 9, 2001, posted by blackmax
7/16 - Neoconservative Tells Bush He Must Bomb Iran to ‘Prevent Another Holocaust’, Spring 2007, posted by blackmax
6/30 - US Refuses to Exchange Information with Iran about Islamist Militants, 2002, posted by Paul
6/21 - US Decides to Accept Iran’s Help against Al-Qaeda but Offer Nothing in Return, Late December 2001, posted by Paul
6/10 - Rumsfeld: Iraq and Iran Must be Linked in Public Perceptions, After April 18, 2006, posted by blackmax
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7/23 - Pentagon Allegedly Fails to Provide Potentially Life-Saving Information to US Intelligence Agencies, according to Unreliable Sources, After December 9, 2001, posted by blackmax
7/16 - Neoconservative Tells Bush He Must Bomb Iran to ‘Prevent Another Holocaust’, Spring 2007, posted by blackmax
6/30 - US Refuses to Exchange Information with Iran about Islamist Militants, 2002, posted by Paul
6/21 - US Decides to Accept Iran’s Help against Al-Qaeda but Offer Nothing in Return, Late December 2001, posted by Paul
6/10 - Rumsfeld: Iraq and Iran Must be Linked in Public Perceptions, After April 18, 2006, posted by blackmax
5/20 - Anti-Jewish Bombing in Buenos Aires Is Blamed on Hezbollah and Iran Despite Lack of Proof, July 18, 1994, posted by newmex
5/19 - Saudi Agency Allegedly Preparing for Nuclear Fallout from Attack on Iran’s Bushehr Reactors, March 21-22, 2008, posted by blackmax
5/18 - Israeli Embassy in Buenos Aires Is Bombed, Hezbollah and Iran Accused Despite Lack of Evidence, March 17, 1992, posted by Paul
5/3 - Neoconservative Accuses Intelligence Community of Hedging Bets on Iran’s Nuclear Program, Undermining Bush, December 3, 2007, posted by blackmax
5/3 - Right Wing Attacks Iran NIE, December 3-6, 2007, posted by blackmax
4/29 - Limbaugh Says Iran NIE a Product of ‘Sabotage’, December 6, 2007, posted by blackmax
4/29 - Neoconservative Attacks NIE on Iran, Says Intelligence Community ‘Covering their Derrieres’, December 4, 2007, posted by Paul
4/29 - Neoconservatives Level Accusations at State Department Writers over Iran NIE, December 4-6, 2007, posted by blackmax
4/29 - NIE a Victory for Bush, Neoconservative Author Claims, December 3, 2007, posted by blackmax
4/29 - GOP Presidential Candidate Asks if Iran NIE Based on Disinformation, December 5, 2007, posted by blackmax
4/29 - Neoconservative Tries to Shift Blame for Iranian Nuclear Program Uncertainty to Clinton Administration, December 4, 2007, posted by blackmax
4/29 - Neoconservative Accuses Intelligence Community of Politicizing NIE, December 4, 2007, posted by blackmax
4/23 - Intelligence Community Drafts New National Intelligence Estimate Showing Iran Stopped Its Nuclear Weapons Program in 2003, Late 2006-Fall 2007, posted by blackmax
4/17 - Washington Post Decries Iran’s ‘Race for a Bomb’, September 26, 2007, posted by blackmax
4/17 - Washington Post Columnist: Iran’s Nuclear Weapons Efforts ‘Unmistakable,’ Time ‘Running Out’ for Diplomacy, November 4, 2007, posted by blackmax
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7/2 - McFarlane and North Visit Iran to Negotiate Arms for Hostages, May 29, 1986, posted by blackmax
7/2 - Much of Al-Qaeda’s Management Council Detained in Iran, Held as Bargaining Chips with US, Spring 2002, posted by Paul
7/2 - Vice President Cheney Travels to Pakistan to Meet with Pakistani President Musharraf, February 26, 2007, posted by Paul
12/30 - Bush Warns of ‘Consequences’ to Iran if It Continues Working on Nukes, June 19, 2007, posted by blackmax
12/30 - National Intelligence Estimate Finds Iran’s Nuclear Weapons Program Halted Since 2003, December 3, 2007, posted by blackmax
12/21 - Bush Orders Pentagon to Draw Up Plans to Bomb Iran, 2006, posted by blackmax
12/21 - State Department: No Plans to Open Diplomatic Contacts with Iran, October 6, 2005, posted by blackmax
12/21 - Britain Accuses Iran of Helping Transfer Technology to Iraq’s Mahdi Army, October 5, 2005, posted by blackmax
12/21 - Women’s Organizations Protest Britain’s Opposition of Iranian Nuclear Program, October 3, 2005, posted by blackmax
12/21 - Iran Will Not Withdraw from Gas Deal with India, September 28, 2005, posted by blackmax
12/21 - Britain: No Plans to Attack Iran, September 28, 2005, posted by blackmax
12/21 - Rice Wants China, Russia, India to Join in Sanctions Against Iran, September 10, 2005, posted by blackmax
12/21 - State Department Official: Iran’s Energy Contracts with China Escalate Tensions With US, September 6, 2005, posted by blackmax
12/21 - Kurdish Activist Killed by Iranian Security, July 9, 2005, posted by blackmax
12/21 - British Consortium to Build Iranian Gas Refinery, June 23, 2005, posted by blackmax
12/21 - Pro-Monarchist Iranians Arrested, June 17, 2005, posted by blackmax
12/21 - Republican Intelligence Report on Iran’s Nuclear Program Is Fundamentally False, August 23, 2006, posted by blackmax
12/21 - Cheney’s Office Continuing to Delay Release of ‘Unsatisfactory’ NIE on Iran, November 10, 2007, posted by blackmax
12/21 - US Air Force Plans for Massive Three-Day Air Strike Against Iran, June 2007, posted by blackmax
12/21 - US Raids on Irbil Targeted Iranian Military Commanders, Says Kurdish Leader, Early April, 2007, posted by blackmax
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The Bush administration appears determined to topple the theocratic regime in Iran, which has been in power since the 1979 overthrow of the US-backed Pahlavi monarchy. Rather than have a repeat of the disastrous occupation in Iraq, the Bush administration seems to favor a regime-change strategy that rests on the promotion of instability in Iran in order to trigger an internal coup that would replace the current regime with a leadership more favorable to US interests.
The Bush administration’s official reason for confronting Iran is that the country has a nuclear weapons program. Under this pretext, the administration has moved forward with plans that could eventually lead to either US covert interference in Iran’s politics or direct military strikes that would weaken Iran’s military to the point that dissident groups could move in, rally public support and replace the government.
While the rationale for a nuclear-free region may appear sound on the surface there are indications that the United States’ confrontation with Iran has more to do with Iran’s growing role as a regional power. Recently, Iran has signed on to a number of powerful alliances in the region. In 2005, it joined Pakistan and India in an observer status role to the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO). (The SCO is a group of countries that includes China, Russia, Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan who are developing strategies to limit US hegemony in the region.) Iran has also formed several economic partnerships with the member-states of the SCO as well as with Japan, Indonesia, Pakistan, and India—countries that may be unwilling to support a US intervention that might ultimately threaten their energy security.
At stake is control over the energy supplies of China, Japan, and the countries of Southeast Asia. If the US emerges as the winner in this geopolitical struggle, it will gain substantial political and economic leverage over this region.
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