From today’s Omega Letter by Jack Kinsella:
OPEC’s second largest oil producer — and therefore a major player in the international oil cartel, is the Islamic Republic of Iran.
And, as the world’s second largest producer of oil, Iran insists it needs nuclear power to meet its domestic energy needs.
For reasons that confound logic, that [...]

Back in July Sen. Clinton took Sen. Obama to task for saying he would negotiate with Iran.
The question that sparked the controversy at Monday’s debate seemed simple enough: Would the candidates for president be willing to meet, within their first year in office, with the leaders of Iran, Syria, Venezuela, Cuba and North Korea?
Obama [...]

Newly elected French President Nicolas Sarkozy has said if diplomacy doesn’t work in getting Iran to give up their nuclear capabilities the only other option would be Iran bombing someone or someone bombing Iran.
Sarkozy said a nuclear-armed Iran would be unacceptable and that major powers should continue their policy of incrementally increasing sanctions against Tehran [...]

Speaks for itself.
the United Nations Security Council slapped economic sanctions on Shahid Hemmat Industrial Group for its role in weapons proliferation as Iran’s maker of liquid-fueled ballistic missiles.
Known as SHIG, the Iranian firm produces the Shahab III rocket, which has a range of at least 800 miles, according to the U.S. Treasury Department. That [...]

What the hell is a soft revolution? Must be something like Cindy Sheehan is doing. If it is, keep her in jail. I’m just kidding.

An American-Iranian academic detained for the past three months on charges of “espionage” and plotting to topple Iran’s Islamic regime was released yesterday after her family paid £160,000 bail.
Haleh Esfandiari, Middle [...]

What can I say? Someone needs to topple the barbaric bast***s.
Iran has hanged up to 30 people in the past month amid a clampdown prompted by alleged US-backed plots to topple the regime, The Observer can reveal.
Many executions have been carried out in public in an apparent bid to create a climate of intimidation while [...]

The United States has decided to designate Iran’s Revolutionary Guard Corps, the country’s 125,000-strong elite military branch, as a “specially designated global terrorist,” according to U.S. officials, a move that allows Washington to target the group’s business operations and finances.
The Bush administration has chosen to move against the Revolutionary Guard Corps because of what U.S. [...]

Speaks for itself.
Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki met with officials in Iran on Wednesday to seek help in reining in violence in his country, reaching out to a nation the U.S. accuses of fueling Iraq’s turmoil by backing Shiite militants.
It was al-Maliki’s second visit to Tehran in less than a year, coming days after [...]

This story pretty much speaks for itself.
U.S., Iranian and Iraqi officials held the first meeting in Baghdad on Monday of a sub-committee intended to improve cooperation on Iraqi security among the three countries, officials said.
“It’s the sub-committee they’ve been talking about for some time now. They’re meeting today at the expert level. It’s hosted [...]

This Omega Letter report I got yesterday seems to tie in well with the headline I read this morning:
Hezbollah: We Are Ready to Strike Israel Again
First, the first four paragraphs from the AP story today:
BEIRUT, Lebanon — Hezbollah’s leader said Saturday that the militant Islamic group’s war last summer with Israel has left the [...]

This speaks for itself.
The balance in the internal White House debate over Iran has shifted back in favour of military action before President George Bush leaves office in 18 months, the Guardian has learned.
The shift follows an internal review involving the White House, the Pentagon and the state department over the last month. Although the [...]

The Iranian government gave its citizens a two hour notice of gas rationing of 100 liters of fuel a month.
I’m no expert in the metric system, but I think a liter is somewhere over a quart. This would translate to about 25 gallons of gas a month.
At least 12 petrol stations have been torched [...]

The US and Iranian ambassadors to Iraq met for four hours yesterday in the Green Zone, talking about ways to make Iraq safer.
The United States and Iran broke a 27-year diplomatic freeze yesterday with a four-hour meeting on Iraqi security. The American envoy said there was broad policy agreement but that Iran must stop [...]

This is video taken from The Beltway Boys
It doesn’t last that long, so please listen to what they are saying.

The above headline is directly from the San Francisco Gate.
Please pay attention to the important words “may be interested”.
It does not say they are interested or they will go.
Rep. Lantos has said he is sponsoring a bill he expects to pass in May that would make available for all nations, including Iran, [...]

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has announced the British sailors and Marines kidnapped by Iran have been pardoned and will go free.
This is wonderful news for the captives, their families and Great Britain.
TEHRAN, Iran — Fifteen British sailors and marines seized by Iranian naval personnel have been pardoned and will be freed, President Mahmoud [...]

According to this UK newspaper the capture of the 15 British Marines and sailors is all the fault of the United States for taking Iranian hostages in Iraq.
A failed American attempt to abduct two senior Iranian security officers on an official visit to northern Iraq was the starting pistol for a crisis [...]

She certainly looks thrilled to be there to me. NOT!

Great Britain says GPS devices show the sailors and marines were 1.7 nautical miles inside Iraqi waters. They were, by the way, performing a mission for the UN.

Iran has announced the British hostages will be paraded on television but they will release the female hostage.
If they show them in big red and white striped outfits I’ll swear I’m living Groundhog Day and it’s Hanoi circa the late 60’s and early 70’s.
While at the dentist’s office today they had CNN on (I [...]

From this report:
LONDON — Iran said Monday it was interrogating 15 detained British sailors and marines to determine whether they intentionally entered Iranian waters — an indication the country might be seeking a way out of the confrontation with Britain.
Britain denies its personnel had left Iraqi territory when they were captured and detained [...]

Anyone who has been reading or watching the news since Friday knows fifteen British sailors and marines (including one woman) have been captured by the Revolutionary Guards of Iran for supposedly being in Iranian waters while on a patrol in Iraqi waters while searching for smugglers.
The Brits claim they were in Iraqi waters and the [...]