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What to do about the Iranian threat

November 7, 2008 by ncpda

By Alireza Jafarzadeh
A multitude of foreign policy challenges, perhaps chief among them how to deal with the ayatollahs’ regime in Iran, awaits President-elect Barack Obama.
The global consequences of a nuclear-armed theocratic regime with an extremist, expansionist ideology were not lost on candidate Obama. He expressed a keen awareness that as president he must confront Tehran’s […]

Filed Under: Iran, News, Regional Security, Sanctions, Terrorism, WMDs Tagged With: Alireza Jafarzadeh, Behavioral Changes, Bermuda Triangle, European Allies, Global Consequences, International Conflict, Iranian President Mahmoud, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Keen Awareness, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, National Security Interest, Nuclear Weapons Program, Perpetual Crisis, President Elect, President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Tehran Iran, Tehran Time, Terrorism In Iraq, U S Presidents, World Demands

Iran Looms As Nuclear Party Crasher

August 2, 2008 by ncpda

Few crises are more dangerous than a forced entry into the nuclear weapons club by an outlier nation. Iran seems determined to
ruin the honeymoon of the next American president by doing just that.
Saturday, Aug. 2, 2008
by James KitfieldMissiles flare through the skies above Iran. U.S. and British warships stage all-hands-on-deck maneuvers in the Persian Gulf. […]

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Appeasing Iran’s Mullahs

July 24, 2008 by ncpda

By: Kazem Kazerounian
Iran’s lobbyists in Washington are celebrating the White House announcement that U.S. Undersecretary of State William Burns will attend talks in Geneva between the EU foreign policy chief Javier Solana and Iran’s negotiator Saeed Jalili.
However, many political observers are puzzled by the unexpected change of heart of the U.S. administration of George W. […]

Filed Under: Human Rights, Iran, Iraq & Camp Ashraf, Literature, News, Terrorism, WMDs, Women's Rights Tagged With: Appeasement Policy, Ayatollah Khamenei, Bush Junior, Bush Senior, Change Of Heart, Insurgency In Iraq, Interest Section, Iranian Supreme Leader, Javier Solana, Kazem, Khobar Saudi Arabia, Mullahs, Opposition Figures, Peace Process, Policy Chief, Political Observers, Supreme Leader Ayatollah, Unexpected Change, Uranium Enrichment Program, William Burns

Exile group claims Iran is developing nuclear warheads

February 20, 2008 by ncpda

By MARC CHAMPION
The Iranian opposition group that first exposed Iran’s controversial nuclear-fuel program has given the United Nations’ nuclear watchdog details of what the group says is a working nuclear-warhead-development facility.
The facility at Khojir, a defense-ministry missile-research site on the southeast edge of Tehran, is developing a nuclear warhead for use on Iranian medium-range missiles, […]

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Inside Iran’s secretive Qods Force

January 14, 2008 by ncpda

Claude Salhani
Since 2003 Iran has spent billions of dollars in Iraq, mobilized vast government resources and unleashed the Qods Force of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, all in an effort to spread its hegemony and the Islamic revolution, according to sources in the Iranian resistance. In a speech U.S. President George W. Bush delivered on […]

Filed Under: Human Rights, Iran, Iraq & Camp Ashraf, News, Terrorism, WMDs, Women's Rights Tagged With: Ali Khamenei, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Ballistic Missiles, Democracy In The Middle East, Force Operations, Iranian Resistance, Iraqi Affairs, Irgc, Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, Jafari, Kermanshah, Marivan, Navy Units, Qassem, Revolutionary Guards, Southwestern City, Supreme Leader Ayatollah, Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, U S Navy, Western Iran

Iran Counter-Proliferation Act of 2007; H.R. 1400

September 25, 2007 by ncpda

110th CONGRESS
1st Session
H. R. 1400
AN ACT
To enhance United States diplomatic efforts with respect to Iran by imposing additional economic sanctions against Iran, and for other purposes.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE AND TABLE OF CONTENTS.
(a) Short Title- This Act […]

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Lautenberg Measure To Penalize U.S. Companies Doing Business With Iran Introduced

March 28, 2007 by ncpda

Senator Takes Action To Make American Companies Like Halliburton Cut Business Ties With Iran
Michael Pagan (202) 228-6393
Wednesday, March 28, 2007
WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Sen. Frank R. Lautenberg (D-NJ) introduced a measure to deter subsidiaries of U.S-controlled companies from doing business in Iran.
“We cannot knowingly allow U.S. companies to do business with terrorist states like Iran. […]

Filed Under: Human Rights, Iran, Media, News, Press Releases, Sanctions, Terrorism, WMDs Tagged With: Business Ties, Controlled Companies, Corporate Profits, Counter Proliferation, Doing Business With Iran, Economic Powers, Economic Sanctions, Energy Sector, Export Credit Guarantees, Halliburton, Halliburton Subsidiary, International Emergency, Lautenberg, Loophole, Oil Drilling Equipment, Organization Membership, Rogue Nations, Sanctions Against Iran, Terrorist States, World Trade Organization

Stop Arming Iran Act (Introduced in House); H.R. 1441 IH

March 9, 2007 by ncpda

110th CONGRESS
1st Session
H. R. 1441
To prohibit the sale by the Department of Defense of parts for F-14 fighter aircraft.
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
March 9, 2007
Ms. GIFFORDS (for herself and Mr. PEARCE) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the
Committee on Foreign Affairs, and in addition to the Committee on Armed Services, for a period […]

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Remarks by Mr. Mohammad Alafchi at the UN Plaza NYC

October 13, 2004 by ncpda

Mr. Mohammad Alafchi
President of American Iranian Association- New York
October 13, 2004
UN General Assembly is once again meeting soon to address various issues of concern to the world body. Among these issues would certainly be proliferation of weapons of mass destruction and status of human rights. There are only a handful of countries that both of […]