The New Dark Age

3 December 2011 — williambowles.info

Israeli Intelligence acknowledges a US Israeli led “Covert Wars” on Iran and Syria
GlobalResearch.ca Today at 17:32
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France reduces Iran embassy staff
BBC News Today at 15:43
France brings a number of diplomats and their families home from Iran, following Tuesday’s attack on the British embassy in Tehran.

Expelled Iran envoys return home
BBC News Today at 05:57
A group of Iranian diplomats who were expelled from Britain after the UK’s Tehran embassy was ransacked, have arrived home, Iranian media say.

Iran diplomats to leave UK after Tehran embassy attack
Strategic Culture Foundation Today at 02:46

`We`ll give up nukes if Iran does same`
occupation magazine – articles Today at 23:59
Yitzhak Benhorin – Ynet – Saban Center survey shows 65% of Israeli Jews willing to give up nuclear weapons if Islamic Republic waives its own program; prefer to see nuclear-free Middle East

Expelled Iran envoys return home
BBC News Today at 05:57
A group of Iranian diplomats who were expelled from Britain after the UK’s Tehran embassy was ransacked, have arrived home, Iranian media say.

Pakistani newspaper supports Iran N-program
Islamic Republic News Agency
Daily ‘Dawn’ in its editorial comments said ‘like any other country, Iran has every right to nuclear technology for peaceful purposes’. Iran, being a signatory to the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT), can use nuclear energy for peaceful means. …
http://www.irna.ir/ENNewsShow.aspx?NID=30694864&SRCH=1

In Turkey, Biden Talks About Iran and Syria
New York Times
But as he left behind the farewell rituals with troops for meetings in neighboring Turkey, crises afflicting relations with two nearby countries, Iran and Syria, were already replacing Iraq as Mr. Biden’s major preoccupations. …
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/03/world/middleeast/biden-confers-with-turkish-leaders-about-syria-and-iran.html

Oil Caps Weekly Gain as Iran Tensions Increase Supply Concern
BusinessWeek
2 (Bloomberg) — Oil rose to a two-week high to cap its first gain in three weeks amid concern that tension between Iran and the West will intensify, threatening shipments from OPEC’s second-biggest crude producer. Futures climbed 0.8 percent after the …
http://www.businessweek.com/news/2011-12-02/oil-caps-weekly-gain-as-iran-tensions-increase-supply-concern.html

Panetta: Keeping Iran Free of Nuclear Weapons a Common Goal
Department of Defense
2, 2011 – The United States and its allies and partners in the international community must do everything possible to make sure Iran never obtains a nuclear weapon, Defense Secretary Leon E. Panetta said tonight. Taking questions from the audience …
http://www.defense.gov/news/newsarticle.aspx?id=66341

EU Publishes Iran, Syria Sanctions List; Hits Ministers, TV Channel
Wall Street Journal
BRUSSELS (Dow Jones)—The European Union published its latest sanctions list on Iran and Syria on Friday, formalizing measures against 180 Iranian people and firms and implementing its asset freeze and travel ban on 23 Syrian targets. …
http://online.wsj.com/article/BT-CO-20111202-708444.html

Iranian diplomats arrive in Tehran after expulsion
Albany Times Union
Removal men carry packages from what is believed to be the residence of Iranian Diplomats into a removal lorry in London, Friday, Dec. 2, 2011. Britain ordered Iranian diplomats off its soil, pulled its diplomats out of Iran and backed new sanctions on …
http://www.timesunion.com/news/article/Iranian-diplomats-arrive-in-Tehran-after-expulsion-2339648.php

Iran-Israel conflict shadow on Goa fest
Times of India
PANAJI: Iranian director Tahmineh Milani cut short her participation at the International Film Festival of India and returned to Iran amidst reports of resentment there about her being a jury member alongside Israeli filmmaker Dan Wolman. …
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/Iran-Israel-conflict-shadow-on-Goa-fest/articleshow/10966327.cms

Empire – Targeting Iran
Al Jazeera
The latest IAEA report claims that Iran could be on the path to developing nuclear weapons. Israel has reacted with threats of war. And as the US withdraws from Iraq, how will the shift in the balance of power affect the region?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EKz7-jZHv_E

Iranian TV station accused of faking reports of Somalia drone strikes
The Guardian
An Iranian TV station appears to have faked dozens of accounts of US drone strikes in Somalia which it says have killed hundreds of civilians. Press TV, which was fined £100000 by Ofcom on Thursday after the station hid the fact that a 2009 …
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/dec/02/iranian-tv-fake-drone-somalia?newsfeed=true

Senior Iranian leader expresses solidarity with Pakistan
Pakistan Observer
Qum, Iran—Ayatollah Javadi Aamli, one of the most senior religious leaders of the Islamic Republic of Iran based in Qom, expressed his solidarity with “brotherly people of Pakistan” in the face of international pressures that they are facing now-a …
http://pakobserver.net/detailnews.asp?id=128179

Iran Urges Bonn Conference to Focus on Real Transition in Afghanistan
Fars News Agency
As regards Tehran’s expectations, Iran’s Ambassador to Germany Ali Reza Sheikh Attar told FNA on Saturday that Tehran believes that the status of the transition of power and the status of the country after the withdrawal of foreign forces should be …
http://english.farsnews.com/newstext.php?nn=9007275967

Iran re-elected to OPCW Executive Council
Tehran Times
TEHRAN – The Islamic Republic of Iran has been re-elected to the Executive Council of the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) for a two-year term. On the third day of the Sixteenth Session of the Conference of the States Parties …
http://www.tehrantimes.com/politics/93166-iran-re-elected-to-opcw-executive-council

Scope of Iran sabotage plot in Germany remains unclear
The Sun Daily
BERLIN (Dec 2, 2011) : Allegations of an Iranian sabotage plot against US military bases on German soil grew murkier Thursday as a spokesman for the federal prosecutor general’s office said there were no indications of any concrete plans. …
http://www.thesundaily.my/news/227463

Europeans Afraid Sanctions On Iran and Syria Will Hurt Belly Dancing Trade
The Spoof (satire)
The belly dancing trade, with an estimated annual worth of almost one billion American dollars, is already feeling the impacts of sanctions that were place on both Iran and Syria in separate incidents. The owner of the discothèque “1001 Arabian Nights” …
http://www.thespoof.com/news/spoof.cfm?headline=s3i102399

Iran’s ambitious Quds Force chief linked to British embassy attack
Sydney Morning Herald
LONDON: The storming of the British embassy in Tehran this week has further revealed the role of a growing, radical actor in Iranian foreign policy: the country’s Quds Force. The force is the external operations wing of Iran’s Revolutionary Guard, …
http://www.smh.com.au/world/irans-ambitious-quds-force-chief-linked-to-british-embassy-attack-20111202-1obbp.html

Navy Fully Prepared to Defend Iran’s Interests in Int’l Waters
Fars News Agency
In similar remarks earlier this week, Commander of Iran’s First Naval Zone Admiral Mohammad Reza Abbasian underlined the Iranian Navy’s commitment and preparedness to defend the country and its Islamic establishment against all types of threats. …
http://english.farsnews.com/newstext.php?nn=9007275911

Iran and Sudan must pay damages for terror attacks, US judge rules
The Voice of Russia
The governments of Sudan and Iran will be liable for potentially billions of dollars in damages to victims of suicide bombings at US embassies in Nairobi, Kenya and Dar es Salaam, Tanzania in 1998, a Washington federal judge ruled this week. …
http://english.ruvr.ru/2011/12/03/61375394.html

Iran and the Taliban: A Problematic Alliance
defpro
16:37 GMT, December 2, 2011 Iran has been accused of supplying weapons and providing training to the Taliban. The foreign troops in Afghanistan have often intercepted weapons, rockets and missiles that are said to have originated in Iran. …
http://www.defpro.com/news/details/30352/?SID=e600e2e94144e93734a3af6a9c1d74b3

Lawmaker Stresses Damaging Nature of Britain’s Ties with Iran
Fars News Agency
“The history has shown that relations with Britain have never served the interests of the Iranian nation,” Mohammad Ali Rezaei told FNA. “Britain has always been after plotting, sabotage and planning against the people and the Islamic Republic ruling …
http://english.farsnews.com/newstext.php?nn=9007275945

Avoiding war in Iran is Russia’s aim
Telegraph.co.uk
No other sphere of Russia’s foreign policy is subject to such wide-ranging scrutiny as Moscow’s policy towards Iran, says Dmitry Babich. Conservative American analysts in think-tanks such as the Heritage Foundation often view Russia as a tacit ally of …
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sponsored/russianow/opinion/8931014/Iran-Russia-foreign-policy.html

Regime change possible in Iran?
Washington Examiner (blog)
Here are a couple of items which suggest that the possibility of regime change in Iran is not nearly as remote as our policymakers have long been assuming. First, Jennifer Rubin’s Right Turn blog features New Jersey Democratic Senator Bob Menendez’s …
http://campaign2012.washingtonexaminer.com/blogs/beltway-confidential/regime-change-possible-iran/234791

Iranian Navy will counter all threats with martyrdom-seeking spirit: admiral
Tehran Times
TEHRAN – The commander of the Iranian Navy has said that the courageous sailors of the Iranian Navy will counter every threat with the slogan “Our way is the way of Imam Hussein (AS)” and by relying on their martyrdom-seeking spirit. …
http://www.tehrantimes.com/politics/93169-iranian-navy-will-counter-all-threats-with-martyrdom-seeking-spirit-admiral

Patricia DeGennaro: Iran and the Nuclear Weapons Club
By Patricia DeGennaro
The very countries calling on Iran to scrap their nuclear program are armed to the teeth with their own nuclear weapons. It’s the pot calling the kettle black.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/patricia-degennaro/iran-nuclear-weapons_b_1125465.html

Incendiary Iran – Opinion – PatriotPost.US
By Oliver North
MARINE CORPS BASE QUANTICO, Va. — Our Fox News crew is here wrapping up our 100th ‘War Stories’ documentary — with some of the ‘stars’ of previous episodes. Though most of the Marines here are recent veterans of combat in Iraq …
http://patriotpost.us/opinion/oliver-north/2011/12/02/incendiary-iran/

The Patriot Post
Iran diplomats booted out of UK | The Sun |News
DIPLOMATS at Iranian embassy in London today packed their bags and left for the UK.
http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/3975005/Iran-diplomats-booted-out-of-UK.html

Trita Parsi: Why the UK Embassy in Iran Was Attacked: The …
By Trita Parsi
Viewing the attack as a response to the increasing pressure Iran is faced with may be accurate. Trying to prove to the West that it doesn’t respond to pressure, Tehran might have calculated that upping the ante may make that message …
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/trita-parsi/why-the-uk-embassy-in-ira_b_1125027.html

democracyarsenal.org: Leon Panetta’s Follow Friday: @Iran …
By Heather Hurlburt
The Obama national security team is notorious for its habit of dropping national security news at moments that are unconducive to the news cycle, so Leon Panetta’s 6pm Friday speaking engagement at Brookings’ Saban Forum was tipped to …
http://www.democracyarsenal.org/2011/12/leon-panettas-follow-friday-iran-israel-tough-love.html

Turkey pressed to add to Iran sanctioning – News – Mail & Guardian …
The United States has urged Turkey to pass new sanctions against Iran, increasing pressure on Tehran to stop work on its nuclear activities.
http://mg.co.za/article/2011-12-02-turkey-pressed-to-add-iran-sanctioning/

The Latin American Gang of Five—and Iran
By Jen Gieselman
When the U.N. General Assembly voted on resolution A/RES/66/12 in late November, it passed easily with 106 votes. What was unusual about the otherwise routine.
http://blog.heritage.org/2011/12/02/the-latin-american-gang-of-five%E2%80%94and-iran/

Iran | War | Oliver North | The Daily Caller
By mikepiccione
Iranian regime officials, the ayatollahs’ propaganda organs and most of the Western media described the perpetrators as students. But those who stormed and trashed the British diplomatic mission weren’t really scholars at all — unless …
http://dailycaller.com/2011/12/02/incendiary-iran/

Dissuading Iran from the Bomb and Avoiding War | RAND
By RAND Corporation
By refusing to face more squarely the probability that Iran will eventually acquire a nuclear weapons capability, the American and Israeli governments actually reduce their ability to dissuade Iran from crossing that threshold, writes James …
http://www.rand.org/commentary/2011/12/02/PSE.html

David Miliband: Attacking Iran would increase the risk of nuclear war …
By Alex Hern
Alex Hern reports David Miliband’s remarks in the Financial Times, in which the former foreign secretary argues against an invasion of Iran.
http://www.leftfootforward.org/2011/12/david-miliband-attacking-iran-would-increase-the-risk-of-nuclear-war/

Iran-Contra « LewRockwell.com Blog
By Charles Burris
Peter Kornbluh’s great article today on the Iran-Contra scandal prompts me to re-post this earlier LRC blog on the topic. Bookmark/Share | Suggest a Link · « Previous: Austrian Economics at the Air Force Academy in 1995 | LRC Home | LRC …
http://www.lewrockwell.com/blog/lewrw/archives/99679.html

Report: Iran Preparing for Final Conflict with Enemies – Inside Israel …
Iran is ramping up its rhetoric against the United States and Israel after the IAEA released its report on the Islamic Republic’s nuclear program.
http://www.cbn.com/cbnnews/insideisrael/2011/December/Irans-Rhetoric-Grows-Are-They-Preparing-for-War-/

Iran Doubles Down, Threatens UK Allies Not to Support Sanctions
By Sun Tzu
Britain evacuated its diplomats from Tehran and closed down the Iranian embassy in London after scores of Basiji militia men and radical students sacked the embassy and a residential compound on Tuesday. In response, the biggest EU …
http://bigpeace.com/stzu/2011/12/02/iran-doubles-down-threatens-uk-allies-not-to-support-sanctions/

UK expels Iran diplomats after embassy attack – Yahoo! News
From Yahoo! News: TEHRAN (Reuters) – Britain shut Iran’s embassy in London and expelled all its staff on Wednesday, saying the storming of the British…
http://news.yahoo.com/iranian-protesters-storm-british-diplomatic-compounds-020152775.html

Britain, EU to ramp up pressure on Iran – World news – Mideast/N ...
Europe rapidly intensified pressure on Iran on Thursday, while a newspaper report suggested Tehran would target U.S. bases in Germany in the event of…
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/45505360/ns/world_news-mideast_n_africa/t/britain-eu-ramp-pressure-iran/

Iran: The alien theory · Global Voices
Amir Bayani writes in Article 19 “Mohammad Javad Larijani of Iran’s Judiciary ( the head of the human rights council in the judiciary) gave the world reassurance …
http://globalvoicesonline.org/2011/12/02/iranthe-alien-theory/

VIDEO: Inside Iran’s embassy on its last day
BBC News Yesterday at 21:02
Filming inside the Iranian embassy in London – had been almost impossible for journalists. BBC’s Persian service, got inside on the embassy’s last day of operation.

Iran attack ‘had state support’
BBC News Yesterday at 17:44
Tuesday’s attack on Britain’s embassy in Tehran had the ‘acquiescence and the support of the state’, says the UK’s former ambassador to Iran.

VIDEO: ‘I had to leave my dog in Iran’
BBC News Yesterday at 17:13
Dominick Chilcott, Britain’s Ambassador to Iran, has told the BBC that his dog was left behind when the British embassy in Tehran was attacked.