On the Web: 'Something must be done'

Information continues to pour from Iran via various Web sites and blogs reporting on what is happening there, despite a government crackdown on such communication. What follows are excerpts from those reports.

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Few things are as they seem in Tehran

They file in slowly, patiently submitting to body searches, men in one line, black-clad, head-scarved women in another. Most are poor, old or very young, and most are ready for some America-bashing.

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Iran's oil, nuclear ambitions pose risk to next president

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June is never a good month on the plains. It was 46ºC in Fortress Islamabad a fortnight ago. The hundreds of security guards manning roadblocks and barriers were wilting, sweat pouring down their faces as they waved cars and motorbikes through.

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Crisis in Iran and Lobbying the Media

So November 4 in Iran is over. Iranians all over the country came out in big and small numbers yet again to demand that their rights be granted and that the government stop its oppression. They chanted slogans, marched through the streets and showed that they still exist.

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The night before she was killed on the streets of Tehran, the woman the world would come to know simply as Neda had a dream. "There was a war going on," she told her mom the next morning, "and I was in the front."

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JERUSALEM (AP) -- Israeli naval commandos seized an arms ship Wednesday near Cyprus that was carrying missiles and anti-tank weapons from Iran to Hezbollah guerrillas in Lebanon, defense officials said.

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The Obama administration claims that construction of a second Iranian uranium enrichment facility at Qom began before Tehran's decision to withdraw from a previous agreement to inform the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) in advance of such construction.

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TEHRAN -- Iranian Interior Minister Mostafa Mohammad Najjar has said that Pakistani officials have promised to cooperate with Iran and to take the measures necessary to capture the members of the Rigi terrorist group and extradite them to Iran.

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TEHRAN - Pakistan's former chief of army staff, General Mirza Aslam Beg (ret.), has said the U.S. private security company Blackwater was directly involved in the assassinations of former Pakistani prime minister Benazir Bhutto and former Lebanese prime minister Rafik Hariri.

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The timing of the attack on the Ali ibn Abi Talib mosque in the eastern Iranian city of Zahedan in the Sistan-Balochistan province bordering Pakistan was by no means casual. Zahedan is a Sunni city.

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Is Ayatollah Khamenei of Iran dead? This is the story being put out this morning by Realite EU, a news service "supported by individuals concerned with the growing threat of Iran and extremism in Europe and the Middle East".

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Geopolitics: America's new clout from the Nobel Peace Prize somehow didn't persuade Russia to help pressure soon-to-be-nuclear-armed Tehran. But then, for nearly 20 years Moscow has been helping Iran go nuclear.

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Tehran should be more transparent but its nuclear programme does not pose a threat that is imminent, says IAEA chief Mohamed ElBaradei.

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United Nations: A confidential analysis by members of the UN nuclear watchdog concludes Iran has "sufficient information to be able to design and produce a workable" nuclear bomb, the New York Times reported.

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With respect to a recent media report, the IAEA reiterates that it has no concrete proof that there is or has been a nuclear weapon programme in Iran.

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As the dust settles with an eerie hazmat glitter on this year's opening of the United Nations General Assembly, I'm finally ready to give up on that Bush-coined phrase, "axis of evil." It's not an axis anymore. It's turning into a global conglomerate.

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NEW YORK - France and Germany fought three wars in 70 years before the bright idea dawned of enfolding their problem into something larger: the European Union. The United States and Iran have not gone to war but have a relationship of psychotic mistrust.

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TEHRAN - Iran's defence minister warned arch-foe Israel on Monday against launching any attack on the Islamic Republic, saying it would only speed up the Jewish state's own demise.

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PITTSBURGH -- The leaders of the U.S., France and Britain charged Iran has built a secret nuclear facility designed to give the Islamic republic the ability to build an atomic weapon, a revelation that significantly raises the stakes in the West's intensifying face-off with Tehra …

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PITTSBURGH — President Obama and the leaders of Britain and France will accuse Iran Friday of building a secret underground plant to manufacture nuclear fuel, saying it has hidden the covert operation from international weapons inspectors for years, according to senior administ …

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President Barack Obama and the leaders of France and Britain will accuse Iran at the opening of the G-20 economic summit Friday of building a secret facility to produce nuclear fuel, a senior White House official told The Associated Press.

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Mideast: Most of the world is content to let ordinary Iranians suffer the tyranny of Tehran's soon-to-be nuclear-armed mullahs. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, however, wants them liberated.

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His move on missile defense raises troubling questions.

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Obama's foreign policy embodies a line from "Animal House": "You [screwed] up -- you trusted us!"

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Scrapping of U.S. missile defense plans hands big victory to Russia's new czar.

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An interview with Zbigniew Brzezinski, at age 81. Scrapping missile defense was the right thing to do, says former National Security Adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski—but how the U.S. conveyed the decision to its Eastern European allies couldn't have been worse.

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Experts at the world's top atomic watchdog are in agreement that Tehran has the ability to make a nuclear bomb and is on the way to developing a missile system able to carry an atomic warhead, according to a secret report seen by The Associated Press.

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