War in Iran: External Links

The following are external links related to the article war in Iran through 2005.

• Also see external links for 2006 and 2007.

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General

• Confronting Iran: Critical Perspectives, Project on Defense Alternatives (English).
• IranMania Independent News, IranMania.com (English).
• Student Movement Coordination Committee for Democracy in Iran (SMCCDI) web site.
• U.S. for Democracy and Human Rights in Iran web site.

Coming War against Iran?

2002

• Michael Ledeen, "Faster, Please. The war falters," National Review Online, April 1, 2002.
• Michael Ledeen, "Iran, according to the Times. All the nonsense that’s fit to print," National Review Online, September 3, 2002.
• Michael Ledeen, "Iran & Afghanistan & Us. We'll have to deal with the mullahcracy, sooner or later," National Review Online, September 9, 2002.
• Michael Ledeen, "The Real War. Faster, please!," National Review Online, December 11, 2002.

2003

• Michael Ledeen, "The Axis of Evil Redux. Same place, a year later," National Review Online, January 23, 2003.
• Massimo Calabresi, "Iran's Nuclear Threat. In another worrying development for the Bush administration, Iran moves closer to operation of a facility to enrich uranium," TIME Online, March 8, 2003.
• "First Stop, Iraq," CNN, March 24, 2003: "How did the U.S. end up taking on Saddam? The inside story of how Iraq jumped to the top of Bush's agenda -- and why the outcome there may foreshadow a different world order."
• Maureen Dowd, "Hawking the Next Regime Change. Iran, Al Qaeda and Weapons of Mass Destruction," International Herald Tribune, May 26, 2003.
• "Bush hawks eyeing Iran," Gulf News, June 1, 2003.
• Lawrence F. Kaplan, "Engagement Announced," New Republic, July 23, 2003.
• Anthony Gancaski, "Ledeen on the Run. 'Faster, Please' Toward the Annihilation of Iran," Antiwar.com, August 22, 2003.
• John R. Bolton, "The New World After Iraq: The Continuing Threat of Weapons of Mass Destruction," Remarks to the Bruges Group, London, United Kingdom, October 30, 2003.
• John R. Bolton, "The Continuing Threat of Weapons of Mass Destruction," Remarks at the American Spectator Dinner, Washington, DC, November 12, 2003. Scroll down to section on Iran.
• Gary Fitleberg, "Iraq, Iran & North Korea: Who’s Next In The 'War On Terrorism'?", American Daily, November 26, 2003.
• Aton L. Gutierrez, "National Security Advisor's Recommendation to President Bush on Iran's Nuclear Program Crisis," Stanford University, December 1, 2003, and May 1, 2004.
• John R. Bolton, "Nuclear Weapons and Rogue States: Challenge and Response," Remarks to the Conference of the Institute for Foreign Policy Analysis and the Fletcher School’s International Security Studies Program, Washington, DC, December 2, 2003.
• Joseph A. Kéchichian, "Comment: The Iraq-Libya-Iran WMD triangle," Gulf News, December 28, 2003.

2004

• David Bleidistil, "The Next Bush War: Iran," Discourse and Diatribe.com, (undated 2004).
• Erika Tepler, "U.S.-Led Counter-Proliferation Effort Targets Illicit Weapons Traffic. 16 Nation PSI Initiative Eliminates 'Gray Area' of International Transportation," JINSA Online, March 4, 2004.
• Robert Dreyfuss and Laura Rozen, "Still Dreaming of Tehran," The Nation, March 25, 2004; April 12, 2004 (issue).
• John R. Bolton, "Bolton Says Proliferation of WMD Becoming Riskier," U.S. Department of State Press Release, March 31, 2004: "Threat has not been eliminated despite progress, he says."
• Edith M. Lederer, "U.S. Sees Nuclear Network Threat," Washington Times, April 28, 2004.
• Ron Paul, "Don't Start a War With Iran Now!," LewRockwell.com, May 6, 2004: "Statement on H. Con. Res. 398: Expressing the concern of Congress over Iran's development of the means to produce nuclear weapons."
• "Iran: Report Shows No Nukes," CBS/AP, June 2, 2004.
• Sharon Behn, "'Testing time' seen for Tehran," Washington Times, June 25, 2004.
• George W. Bush, "President Bush Discusses Progress in the War on Terror," Remarks by the President on the War on Terror, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee, July 12, 2004.
• Jennifer Johnston, "Regime change in Iran now in Bush’s sights," Sunday Herald, July 14, 2004.
• Michael Ledeen, "The Discovery of Iran. Are you sitting down? Iran is a terrorist state," National Review Online, July 19, 2004.
• Charles Krauthammer, "Axis of Evil, Part Two," Washington Post, July 23, 2004.
• Michael Isakoff and Mark Hosenball, "More Evidence of an Iran-Al Qaeda Connection," Newsweek, July 23, 2004.
• Transcript: Wolf Blitzer interview with Condoleezza Rice, CNN, August 8, 2004.
• Paula Wolfson, "US Looking at Options on Iranian Nuclear Program," Voice of America News, August 8, 2004.
• William C. Mann, "Rice Cites International Concern Over Iran's Nuclear Intentions," Washington Post, August 9, 2004.
• John R. Bolton, "Preventing Iran from Acquiring Nuclear Weapons," Hudson Institute, August 17, 2004.
• John R. Bolton, "A Turning Point? George W. Bush, John Kerry and American Policy toward Iran," Keynote Address, Hudson Institute, August 17, 2004. [broken link].
• "Iran hints at pre-emption over threat from U.S.," International Herald Tribune, August 20, 2004.
• "Iran's brinkmanship," Southwest Asia Blogspot, August 20, 2004.
• Patrick J. Buchanan, "America's Next War?," LewRockwell.com, August 23, 2004.
• Joshua Micah Marshall, Laura Rozen and Paul Glastris, "Iran-Contra II? Fresh scrutiny on a rogue Pentagon operation," Washington Monthly, September 2004.
• "Iran's nuclear program not an 'imminent threat': ElBaradei," Agence France Presse, September 19, 2004.
• "Is U.S. Rhetoric Fuelling Iran's Nuclear Program?", Democracy Now!, September 22, 2004. DM speaks with "Iranian-born author and former diplomat Mansour Farhang about the increasing tensions in the United States towards Tehran. [includes rush transcript]."
• Michael Ledeen, "Iran, Impossible? Nope. The mullahs will go the way of the Evil Empire," National Review Online, September 24, 2004.
• "Bush: Iran will not get nuclear weapon," China Daily, September 27, 2004.
• Michael Ledeen, "Iran, When? The war on terror cannot be won without addressing Iran," National Review Online, October 5, 2004.
• Laura Rozen, "The revolution next time. As Iran moves to the front burner, some in Washington are arguing that with a little help exiles and dissidents can topple the mullahs and establish a pro-Western democracy. Sound familiar?" Boston Globe, October 10, 2004.
• "Bush Administration Remains Skeptical of Europe's Iran Strategy," U.S. Department of State International Information Report, October 24, 2004: Richard Armitage "says U.S. is receptive to improved relations with Syria."
• Kaveh L, Afrasiabi, "Beyond the nuclear stalemate," Asia Times, October 30, 2004.
• Siddharth Srivastava, "India and the road to Osama," Asia Times, November 3, 2004.
• B. Raman, "India and the US game," Asia Times, November 5, 2004.
• Sultan Shahin, "India digests Bush's second coming," Asia Times, November 6, 2004.
• Saloumeh Peyman, "Pressure on Iran could backfire," Asia Times, November 9, 2004.
• Safa Haeri, "Nuclear fissures in Iran," Asia Times, November 10, 2004.
• Jeet Heer and Laura Rozen, "Overthrow Iran? Not so Fast," Los Angeles Times (jeetheer.com), November 15, 2004.
• M.K. Bhadrakumar, "South Asia in a spot over Iran," Asia Times, November 16, 2004.
• Kaveh L. Afrasiabi, "Iran's Faustian nuclear bargain," Asia Times, November 17, 2004.
• Mahan Abedin, "Iran's reformists lie in wait," Asia Times, November 24, 2004.
• Kaveh L. Afrasiabi, "The Persian puzzle, or the CIA's?", Asia Times, December 3, 2004.
• Dilip Hiro, "Defusing Iran's 'bomb'," Asia Times, December 4, 2004.
• Kaushik Kapisthalam, "US tied over nuclear kingpin," Asia Times, December 10, 2004: "With the re-election of President George W. Bush, the neo-conservatives within the administration want to ensure that the Bush second term looks at every option, including a military one, to prevent Tehran from developing and deploying nuclear weapons."
• "Bolton's War," Tom Paine, December 14, 2004.
• Ehsan Ahrari, "ElBaradei in Washington's crosshairs," Asia Times, December 14, 2004.
• Ritt Goldstein, "Iran not off the hook yet," Asia Times, December 15, 2004.
• Syed Saleem Shahzad, "US goes back to the nuclear source," Asia Times, December 15, 2004.
• Kaveh L. Afrasiabi, "How Iran will fight back," Asia Times, December 16, 2004.

2005

• "The evidence for and against Iran's alleged nuclear weapons program" (Four-part series), Asia Times, January 2005.
• CNN Late Edition with Wolf Blitzer. Interview With Dan Bartlett; Interview With Seymour Hersh, CNN, Aired January 16, 2005.
• "Report: U.S. Conducting Secret Missions Inside Iran," Reuters, January 16, 2005.
• Peter Spiegel, "Pentagon lashes out at Iran claim," Financial Times, January 17, 2005.
• "Journalist: U.S. planning for possible attack on Iran. White House says report is 'riddled with inaccuracies'," CNN, January 17, 2005.
• Statement from Pentagon Spokesman Lawrence DiRita on Latest Seymour Hersh Article, Department of Defense News Release, January 17, 2005.
• Google Search: "Seymour Hersh's alternative history of Bush's war," January 18, 2005.
• Matthew Clark, "US covert military operations in Iran? The US, Pakistan, Iran all criticize Hersh's latest bombshell – for different reasons," Christian Science Monitor, January 18, 2005.
• Amy Goodman, "Iran: The Next Strategic Target," AlterNet, January 19, 2005.
• Ehsan Ahrari, "Once more, the heat's on Iran," Asia Times, January 19, 2005.
• "German Politicians Worried About US' Iran Stance," Deutsche Welle, January 19, 2005.
• "Why the hawks are circling over Iran," Independent UK, January 19, 2005: "As George W. Bush prepares for a second term, his administration is setting its sights on Iran. But, Rupert Cornwell reports, a new foreign policy adventure could be disastrous."
• Ehsan Ahrari, "Israel in the Iran fray, too," Asia Times, January 20, 2005.
• Adam Entous, "Cheney Says Iran Tops List of Trouble Spots," Reuters, January 20, 2005.
• "Europe united on Iran as Bush refuses to rule out military action," AFP, January 20, 2005.
• "Unfriendly acts of intimidation," Op-Ed, gulfnews.com, January 21, 2005.
• "Cuba and Iran step up bilateral cooperation after US' Rice's 'tyranny' speech," AFX (Havana), January 21, 2005.
• George Gedda, "U.S. Views Iran As Potential Trouble Spot," Associated Press, January 21, 2005.
• Paul Richter, "U.S. Adds Israel to the Iran Equation," Los Angeles Times, January 21, 2005.
• "'Outposts of tyranny' Cuba and Iran thumb noses at Bush with cooperation deal," AFP, January 21, 2005.
• Seymour M. Hersh, "The Coming Wars. What the Pentagon can now do in secret," The New Yorker, January 24 and 31, 2005.
• Richard Sale, "USAF playing cat and mouse game over Iran", UPI, January 26, 2005.
• Editorial, "Military rumblings on Iran", The New York Times (via International Herald Tribune), January 28, 2005.
• "U.S. denies regime change plan for Iran," BigNewsNetwork.com, February 4, 2005.
• Michael Ledeen, "Faster, Please. Iran needs change. We need to help — now," National Review Online, February 5, 2005.
• Andrew Tully, "David Kay: Bush Iran Talk Sounds Like Run-Up To Iraq War," albionmonitor.com, February 7, 2005.
• David Kay, "Let's Not Make the Same Mistakes in Iran," Washington Post, February 7, 2005.
• "Rice: Iran must halt nuclear program. Secretary of state says Iran could be referred to Security Council," CNN, February 9, 2005.
• Brian Knowlton, "Iran warns Washington 'not to play with fire'," International Herald Tribune, February 14, 2005.
• Jerome Corsi, "War clouds forming in Iran," WorldNetDaily.com, February 16, 2005.
• Parisa Hafezi, "Iran Calls Blast Scare U.S. 'Psychological Warfare'," Reuters, February 17, 2005: "Iran said on Thursday a brief worldwide scare over a blast near its only nuclear reactor was engineered by Washington as part of 'psychological warfare' against Tehran and its nuclear program."
• Mark Jensen, "Scott Ritter says US attack on Iran planned for June," united for peace, February 19, 2005.
• Robert Scheer, "The Force Bush Won't Use on Iran," The Nation, March 1, 2005.
• Raymond McGovern, "Tomgram: McGovern on the Iranian and Israeli nuclear programs," Tom Dispatch, March 1, 2005: "But Bush administration policy toward the Middle East is being run by men -- yes, only men -- who were routinely referred to in high circles in Washington during the 1980s as 'the crazies'."
• "Iran 'given Pakistan centrifuges'," BBC, March 10, 2005: "Pakistan has confirmed that the former head of its nuclear weapons programme, AQ Khan, gave centrifuges for enriching uranium to Iran."
• David E. Sanger and Steven R. Weisman, "U.S. and European Allies Agree on Steps in Iran Dispute," New York Times, March 11, 2005.
• Leon Hadar, "Operation Iranian Freedom? Same director, similar script. We’re beginning to think we’ve seen this movie before …," The American Conservative, April 25, 2005.
• Michael T. Klare, "The Iran War Buildup," The Nation, July 21, 2005.
• Dafna Linzer, "Iran Is Judged 10 Years From Nuclear Bomb. U.S. Intelligence Review Contrasts With Administration Statements," Washington Post, August 2, 2005.
• Ray McGovern, "Preempting Cheney," Tom Paine.Common Sense, August 3, 2005.
• Bill Christison, "Bush and Neocons will Continue Extreme Aggressiveness Toward Iran and Syria. The New National Intelligence Estimate on Iran's Nuke Will Make Little Difference," CounterPunch, August 5, 2005.
• "Manufactured bombs 'smuggled from Iran to Iraq'," Sydney Morning Herald (Australia), August 10, 2005: "If US intelligence is correct about the latest find, it would suggest Iran's Revolutionary Guard is moving into a conflict that for the past year has been dominated by Sunnis rather than Shi'ites."
• "Bush hints at military option for Iran," Herald Sun (Australia), August 13, 2005.
• Ali Akbar Dareini, "Iran Says It Won't Stop Uranium Conversion," Associated Press (Yahoo! News), August 14, 2005.
• Andrew Porter and Tom Walker, "Britain keeps distance from talk of strike on Iran," Sunday Times (London), August 14, 2005.
• Patrick J. Buchanan, "Is this Iran crisis for real?" WorldNetDaily, August 15, 2005.
• Barry Schweid, "U.S. Minimizes German Differences on Iran," Associated Press (Yahoo! News), August 15, 2005.
• Paul Craig Roberts, "Get Ready for World War III," antiwar.com, August 15, 2005: "In a recent interview with Israeli TV, Bush said 'All options are on the table' with regard to Iran."