The Iran articles data-dump thread.

[bobthedrummer]

Put any article pertaining to Iran in this thread please.

Here's a few to start with.

"Rice and Gates Divided over Iran's Role in Iraq" (by Gareth Porter IPS News 1-4-2008)

"A State Department official's assertion in late December that Iran had exerted a restraining influence on Iraqi Shiite militia violence signaled a major divergence of views between Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and Secretary of Defense Robert Gates over how to portray Iran's role in Iraq..."
http://www.alternet.org/waroniraq/72664/

"After The National Intelligence Estimate (NIE) on Iran: Let The Great Debate Begin! 'Preemptive surgical strike by the intelligence community against the war party'" (by Muriel Mirak-Weissbach 1-3-2008)
http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=7722

"Bush Spins Iran's Centrifuges" (by Ray McGovern 12-8-2007)
http://www.consortiumnews.com/2007/120707.html

from The National Security Archive
"The Iran Documentation Project" (Malcolm Byrne Director)
http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/iran/index.htm

[Lisa]

1. this one's more about US perceptions of Iran ...

http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/200412/fallows