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Iran ‘to retaliate’ if UN gets tough - Gulf Times - Iran warned yesterday it would retaliate if the UN Security Council passed a resolution ordering it to stop sensitive nuclear work, but also made a fresh appeal for negotiations "without preconditions".

US military doubts bombing of Iran would succeed: report - Information Liberation - Senior military officers have warned the US administration that bombing raids against Iran would likely fail to destroy the country's nuclear program due to a lack of reliable intelligence

Last Stand - Seymour Hersh - The New Yorker - The military’s problem with the President’s Iran policy.

Iran: war by October? - Paul Rogers - Open Democracy - Washington's political timetable may turn harsh rhetoric into military escalation, unless voices of restraint in both the United States and Iran can prevail.

Islam forbids weapons of mass destruction: Iranian minister - Khaleej Times - 27/06/06 - Iran has no intention of producing nuclear weapons as Islam forbids the production of weapons of mass destruction, Iran’s minister for science, research and technology said here on Tuesday.

Iran war 'could triple oil price' - BBC - World oil prices could triple if the West's stand-off over Iran's nuclear programme escalates into conflict, the Saudi Arabian government has warned.

"Bush won't rule out nuclear strike on Iran" - Edmund Blair - Reuters - "President Bush refused on Tuesday to rule out nuclear strikes against Iran if diplomacy fails to curb the Islamic Republic's atomic ambitions"

"Seymour Hersh: Bush Administration Planning Possible Major Air Attack on Iran" - Democracy Now - " We speak with Pulitzer Prize winning journalist Seymour Hersh about his latest article in the New Yorker that the Bush administration has increased clandestine activities inside Iran and intensified planning for a possible major air attack"

"The war on Iran" - Pepe Escobar - Asia Times " The ominous signs are "on the table" for all to see. The Pentagon has its Long War, the rebranded "war on terror" that Vice President Dick Cheney swears will last for decades, a replay of the war between Eastasia and Oceania in George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four"

"High likelihood of US military action against Iran" - Eleanor Hall - transcript from The World Today - "Dr Michael Nacht, who is now Dean of Public Policy at University of California, predicts that there is a high likelihood that there will be a military confrontation between Iran and the United States before the end of President George W. Bush's term."

"US condemns Iran nuclear advance" - BBC

"Bush dismisses 'Iran attack plan'"

"Iran attack debate raises nuclear prospect" - Paul Reynolds

"Iran Maintains Energy Program Is Peaceful" - Ali Akbar Dareini - Washington Post

"The Iran Plans - Would President Bush go to war to stop Tehran from getting the bomb?" - Seymour Hersh - The New Yorker

"US dismisses Iran attack claims" - BBC report

"The countdown to war" - Paul Rogers - Open Democracy - " The timing and nature of a United States attack on Iran can be gauged by a close look at air traffic and base security in western England."

"US plans strike to topple Iran regime" - Julian Borger in Washington and Bob Tait in Tehran - The Guardian - "US 'intent on Iran attack' Bush accused of 'messianic' mission"

Tony Blair has said: "People are asking 'are we about to go and invade Iran?' It is important that fear is laid to rest...Nobody is talking about that, nobody is planning for it, nobody is wanting to do it." But he added: "You don't ever take any option off the table." - report

Blairs "warning" to Iran - report

- Philip Giraldi, a former CIA Officer, writing on the contingency plans for a US led "large-scale air assault on Iran employing both conventional and tactical nuclear weapons" - American Conservative article here

"Why Iran will lead to World War 3" - Mike Whitney - on the threat of a new global conflict (08/08/05)

"Q&A: Iran's nuclear stand-off" - BBC, Aug 2005

"Planned US-Israeli Attack on Iran" - Michel Chossudovsky (May 2005)

Scott Ritter claims U.S. are planning an attack on Iran - report (Feb 2005)

Scott Ritter article - "Sleepwalking to disaster in Iran" (March 2005)

Analysis of the rhetoric before the war in Iraq - and now before the "conflict" in Iran - "Attack On Iran Inevitable Or Inconceivable?" (May 2005)

"Why An Attack On Iran Is Inevitable" - John Laughland (Jan 2005)

"The Coming Wars" - Seymour Hersh - The New Yorker magazine (Jan 2005)

"...a US attack could come (on Iran) with no warning at all." - Is Tony Blair and the Government on the on the brink of taking the UK into another disastrous and illegal conflict, by following the USA into war with Iran?

"Are we going to war with Iran?" - Dan Plesch

Audio files of Scott Ritter talking on War with Iraq & Iran