War in Iran: External Links 2006

The following are external links for 2006 related to the article war in Iran.

Also see 2002-2005 and 2007.

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Coming War against Iran?

January

• Larisa Alexandrovna, "Spurious attempt to tie Iran, Iraq to nuclear arms plot bypassed U.S. intelligence channels," The Raw Story, January 11, 2006.
• Scott McClellan, Transcript: White House Briefing, January 13, 2006.
• Justin Raimondo, "War, Lies, and Videotape. First Iraq - Now They're Moving on Iran," Etherzone, January 13, 2006.

February

• Justin Raimondo, "Masters of Deception. And now for the real news…," Antiwar.com, February 15, 2006.

March

• Ilan Berman, "On Message in Iran," The American Spectator, March 1, 2006.
• Elise Labott, "U.S. to sharpen focus on Iran. Office of Iran Affairs to 'facilitate change in Iranian policies'," CNN, March 2, 2006.
• Barry Schweid, "State Dept.: Iran Has Itself to Blame," Washington Post, March 2, 2006.
• Joy-Ann Reid, "Operation Repeat Performance," The Reid Report, March 2, 2006.
• Guy Dinmore, "New US focus on promoting democracy in Iran," Financial Times (InformationClearinghouse.info), March 2, 2006.
• "U.S. State Department to have new office of Iranian affairs," Xinhua (People's Daily Online (China)), March 4, 2006 (updated).
• Larisa Alexandrovna, "Conversations with Machiavelli's ghost: Denials mark neoconservative's account of past and present scandal," The Raw Story, March 7, 2006.
• Antony Loewenstein, "Spinning us to war in Iran," ZNet, March 8, 2006.
• William Douglas, "Bush accuses Iran of meddling in Iraq, but touts progress," Knight Ridder Newspapers, March 13, 2006.
• Peter Baker and Glenn Kessler, "U.S. Campaign Is Aimed at Iran's Leaders: Uneasy About Tehran's Nuclear Plans, Bush Administration Tries to Build Opposition to Theocracy", Washington Post, March 13, 2006.
• Robert Dreyfuss, "Deja Vu All Over Iran," TomPaine.com, March 14, 2006.
• "Inside the US's regime-change school," Asia Times, March 14, 2006; also posted at truthout.
• Scott McClellan, Transcript: White House press briefing, March 16, 2006.
• "Bush reaffirms first-strike policy, calls Iran biggest possible threat," Associated Press (CNN), March 16, 2006.
• Gareth Porter, "'Cabal' Blocked 2003 Nuclear Talks With Iran," Inter Press Service (truthout), March 28, 2006.

April

• Dana Priest, "Attacking Iran May Trigger Terrorism. U.S. Experts Wary of Military Action Over Nuclear Program," Washington Post, April 2, 2006.
• Jorge Hirsch, "War Against Iran, April 2006 Biological Threat and Executive Order 13292," Bella Ciao, April 2, 2006.
• David Frum, "Nuclear Jihad," Il Foglio (Italy) (American Enterprise Institute), April 5, 2006.
• William M. Arkin, "Iran Threat Rhetoric Grows," Early Warning/Washington Post Blog, April 6, 2006.
• William M. Arkin, "Debating the Iranian 'Trendmill'," Early Warning/Washington Post Blog, April 7, 2006.
• Josh Levinger, "Pottery Barn Foreign Policy," The Tech/MIT, (Volume 126, Number 16) April 7, 2006.
• Rep. Ron Paul, "Iran: The Next Neocon Target," Antiwar.com, April 7, 2006.
• Fred Kaplan, "A Global Game of Chicken. Can Washington and Tehran avoid war?" Slate, April 7, 2006.
• Guy Dinmore, "Iran ready for high-level talks, US resists," Financial Times (UK), April 7, 2006.
• Michelle Brand, "What's Driving the Iranian Nuclear Crisis? The US / EU Connection," CounterPunch, April 7 / 9, 2006.
• Dave Eriqat, "Why The United States Will Attack Iran," Countercurrents.org, April 8, 2006.
• Opinion: "Who is the real threat?" Salt Lake Tribune, April 8, 2006.
• Peter Baker, Dafna Linzer and Thomas E. Ricks, "U.S. Is Studying Military Strike Options on Iran. Any Mix of Tact, Threats Alarms Critics," Washington Post, April 8, 2006.
• Stuart Grudgings, "U.S. steps up plans for possible Iran attack-report," Reuters, April 9, 2006.
• "White House Official: Iran Story Short on Facts," Fox News, April 9, 2006.
• "Iran Says US Waging Psychological Warfare in Nuclear Dispute," Voice of America News, April 9, 2006.
• Hannah Allen, "Iran's weapons pose little threat but are a political boon, experts say," Knight Ridder Newspapers (The Mercury News), April 9, 2006.
• "Bush accused of planning to strike Iran," The Age (Australia), April 10, 2006.
• "US insists Iran focus is on diplomacy," Stuff (New Zealand), April 10, 2006.
• Paul Krugman, "Yes He Would," New York Times, April 10, 2006.
• Seymour M. Hersh, "The Iran Plans. Would President Bush go to war to stop Tehran from getting the bomb?" The New Yorker, April 10, 2006 (posted); April 17, 2006 (issue).
• Fred Kaplan, "Are We Really Going To Nuke Iran? Decoding our options," Slate, April 10, 2006.
• Billmon, "Mutally Assured Dementia," Whiskey Bar, April 11, 2006.
• "Iran Could Produce Nuclear Bomb in 16 Days, U.S. Says" (Update2), Bloomberg News, April 12, 2006.
• Richard A. Clarke and Steven Simon, "Bombs That Would Backfire," New York Times, April 16, 2006.
• Billmon, "The Flight Forward," Whiskey Bar, April 16, 2006.
• Larisa Alexandrovna, "Cheney has tapped Iranian expatriate, arms dealer to surveil discussions with Iran, officials say," The Raw Story, April 20, 2006. re Manucher Ghorbanifar
• "War Pigs," Birch Blog / The New American, April 21, 2006.
• Judd Legum, "Bush Meets Privately With Think Tank Promoting Military Strike On Iran," Think Progress, April 23, 2006.
• "Tehran insider tells of US black ops," Asia Times, April 25, 2006.
• Gary Leupp, "The Secret Cabal Got What It Wanted: No Negotiations. Wilkerson Fingers the Neo-Cons on Iran," CounterPunch, April 26, 2006.
• "Security Council must act against Iran, Rice says," CBC News (Canada), April 27, 2006.
• Anne Gearan, "Rice Calls on Libya to Release Nurses," Associated Press, April 28, 2006: "Tehran faces a Friday deadline from the Security Council to stop enriching uranium, a process that can lead either to nuclear power for electricity or to development of weapons. ... 'It's pretty clear Iran is not going to meet those requirements,' Rice said. 'When that happens the international community, represented by the Security Council, is going to have a choice.'"

May

• Laura Rozen, "U.S. Moves to Weaken Iran. A campaign to promote democracy and fund dissidents prompts speculation that the administration's goal is to change the regime," Special to the Los Angeles Times (InformationClearinghouse.info), May 19, 2006.
• Patricia H. Kushlis, "The US and Iran: What’s next? Regime change or nuclear containment?" WhirledView, May 23, 2006.
• Justin Raimondo, "Scary Reunion," antiwar.com Blog, May 26, 2006.
• Gary Leupp, "'Echoes of Germany Under Hitler'. The Office of Iranian Affairs, Embedded Journalism, and the Disinformation Campaign for War on Iran," Dissident Voice, May 29, 2006; CounterPunch, May 30, 2006.
• Justin Raimondo, "Showdown Over Iran. Washington grudge match: neoconservatives versus Republican realists," antiwar.com, May 29, 2006.

June

• Judd Legum, "Bolton: ‘This is Put Up or Shut Up Time For Iran,’ Unilateral Military Action Is ‘On The Table’," Think Progress (The Raw Story), June 1, 2006.
• Larisa Alexandrovna, "Pentagon confirms Iranian directorate as officials raise new concerns about war," The Raw Story, June 15, 2006.
• "Iranian Directorate: the Office of Special Plans Refurbished," Another Day in the Empire, June 15, 2006.

July

• Robert Dreyfuss, "Next We Take Tehran. The confrontation with Iran has very little to do with nukes—and a lot with the agenda of empire," Mother Jones, July/August 2006.
• "Ted Koppel: 'United States is already at war with Iran'," The Raw Story, July 22, 2006.
• James Bamford, "Iran: The Next War," Rolling Stone, July 24, 2006.
• Robert Kall, "Once the Iran War Starts," OpEdNews, July 25, 2006.

August

• Max Blumenthal, "Birth Pangs of a New Christian Zionism," The Nation, August 8, 2006. See Sarah Posner's "Pastor Strangelove," The American Prospect, June 6, 2006, re John Hagee.
• Wayne Madsen Wayne Madsen Report, August 16, 2006.
• Faiz Shakir, "Kristol: 'We Could Be In A Military Confrontation With Iran Much Sooner Than People Expect'," Think Progress, August 22, 2006.
• Mahdi Darius Nazemroaya, "Beating the Drums of War. US Troop Build-up: Army & Marines authorize 'Involuntary Conscription'. The Timing of U.S. Troop Build-up: Iran and the Broader Middle East," Global Research (Canada), August 23, 2006.
• Vince Soodin, "Terror war 'benefits' Iran," The Sun Online (UK), August 24, 2006.
• Brent Cunningham, "Psst! Iran Helped Plan September 11 ...," CJR Daily, August 24, 2006.
• Juan Cole, "Republican Congressional Report on Iran Riddled With Errors," Informed Comment, August 25, 2006. re "Recognizing Iran as a Strategic Threat: An Intelligence Challenge for the United States," Staff Report of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence Subcommittee on Intelligence Policy, August 23, 2006.
• Tgossard, "War with Iran an Neocon Rapture," TPM Cafe, August 24, 2006.
• Jim Kouri, "Israel Prepares for War with Iran," The Conservative Voice, August 25, 2006.
• Harry de Quetteville, "Israeli general plots war with Iran," The Sunday Telegraph (UK) (Washington Times), August 27, 2006.
• Ismael Hossein-zadeh, "Behind the Plan to Bomb Iran," OpEdNews, August 28, 2006.
• "Report: U.S. seeks Iran sanction allies," UPI and Washington Times, August 28, 2006.
• Bill Van Auken, "US spy agencies pressed for 'intelligence' to justify war against Iran," WSWS.org, August 28, 2006.
• Stanley Kurtz, "Our Fallout-Shelter Future. We’ll be back to duck and cover if we don’t stop Iran first…," National Review Online, August 28, 2006.

September

• "Retired Colonel: 'We Are Conducting Military Operations Inside Iran Right Now. The Evidence Is Overwhelming'" (includes video link) and CNN Transcript, Think Progress, September 18, 2006.

October

• Michael T. Klare, "Beware empires in decline," Asia Times, October 20, 2006.

November

• Laura Rozen, "Iran Hawks Reorganize. Meet the Iran Enterprise Institute. Its name might sound familiar," The American Prospect, November 13, 2006. re Iran Enterprise Institute and Amir Abbas Fakhravar
• Seymour M. Hersh, "The Next Act. Is a damaged Administration less likely to attack Iran, or more?" The New Yorker, November 20, 2006 (posted); November 27, 2006 (issue).

December

• Muhammad Sahimi, "'Leave Us Alone,' Iranian Reformers Say," The Progressive, December 2006.
• Robert Parry, "A Very Dangerous New Year," consortiumnews, December 21, 2006.
• Anne Penketh and Kim Sengupta, "UN to impose nuclear embargo on Iran," The Independent (UK), December 22, 2006.
• Robert Fox, "Two men on the wrong mission. Their tough talk suggests Bush and Blair may be preparing to attack Iran," The First Post (UK), December 25, 2006.