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BRICS warns US against action on Iran

While the central banks of Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa are set to sign agreements for promoting trade amongst the five nations in local currencies, the BRICS leaders may this week also close ranks to warn US and Israel against any military action on Iran and try to iron out differences within the five-nation bloc on international response to the crisis in Syria.

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BRICS states warn about terrible consequences of conflict in Iran

Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa warn about catastrophic aftermath if the situation around Iran escalates into a conflict.

http://www.itar-tass.com/en/c154/378423.html



Brics' move to unseat US dollar as trade currency

South Africa will this week take some initial steps to unseat the US dollar as the preferred worldwide currency for trade and investment in emerging economies. Thus, the nation is expected to become party to endorsing the Chinese currency, the renminbi, as the currency of trade in emerging markets.

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Germany official: Meeting with Israel s Barak left me 'more concerned' of war with Iran

Defense Minister Thomas de Maiziere says feels some Israeli cabinet members do not give enough thought to the negative consequences that could develop in wake of a strike of Iran s nuclear facilities.

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Rand Paul blocks Iran sanctions bill

''Before sending our young men and women into combat, we should have a mature and thoughtful debate over the ramifications of war, over the advisability of war and over the objectives of war.''

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Iran Could Recover From Attack Within Six Months, Says U.S. Report

By Haaretz

U.S. congressional report says Israel and U.S. do not know exact location of Iran nuclear facilities, which may be dispersed in such a way that an Israeli attack would not be successful.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article30936.htm



US gears up for land operation in Persian Gulf?

The US is sending an amphibious assault group and a couple of thousand US Marines to the Persian Gulf. With another US carrier making its way to Iran s doorstep, US military still insist that this is a ''regularly scheduled deployment''.

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Iran is the new Iraq

By Pepe Escobar

Iran is the new Iraq; and whatever the highway, to evoke the neo-con motto, real men go to Tehran via Damascus, or real men go to Tehran non-stop.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article30954.htm



'Hotheads' in Middle East provoking Iran, Russia says

Deputy Foreign Minister Sergey Ryabkov, warning that the Middle East standoff could boil over into military action at any moment, has called for urgent talks of the Sextet of Middle East mediators with Iran.

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Israeli politicians are playing number games with a war against Iran

There are a number of ways one could understand the leaked security cabinet briefing that Channel 10 reported Monday night, which detailed expectations of a worst-case scenario of an all-out war with Iran on all fronts, resulting in a three-week bombardment and up to 300 civilian casualties.

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From Information Clearing House

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War With Iran? Sen. Rand Paul Calls the Question

Robert Naiman, Truthout: ''Before we have a war with Iran, shouldn t the Senate and the House have at least one debate and vote on it? Isn t that what the Constitution demands? ... If you agree to the principle that Congress should debate and vote on a war with Iran before any such war takes place (which also happens to be the Constitution and the law), when do you think a good time would be for the Senate and the House to start taking up the question?''

http://truth-out.org/opinion/item/8192-war-with-iran?-sen-rand-paul-calls-the-question



Israel Shields Public From Risks of War With Iran

Gareth Porter, Inter Press Service: ''The message that Iran is too weak to threaten an effective counterattack is contradicted by one of Israel s leading experts on Iranian missiles and the head of its missile defence programme for nearly a decade, who says Iranian missiles are capable of doing significant damage to Israeli targets.''

http://truth-out.org/news/item/8206-israel-shields-public-from-risks-of-war-with-iran



Scrutinizing the Threat from Iran

Lauren Feeney, Moyers & Co.: ''In the lead up to war in Iraq, misinformation about weapons of mass destruction went virtually unchallenged by the mainstream media. But three reporters for Knight Ridder newspapers (now McClatchy) were skeptical, and their probing investigation of the Bush administration s justifications for war eventually proved prescient. We caught up with one of them, Jonathan Landay, now a senior national security and intelligence correspondent for McClatchy Newspapers, to get his thoughts on the current standoff with Iran.''

http://truth-out.org/opinion/item/8225-scrutinizing-the-threat-from-iran



The Pledge of Resistance Could Change the Game Against a War With Iran

Robert Naiman, Just Foreign Policy: ''If people were convinced that there were a 90% chance of war in the next three months ... many people would be in the streets.... By inaction on the threat of war with Iran, people are effectively saying: 'so we're on a slow path? Give me a call when we are on a fast path. I have other demands on my time.' The problem with this is that by the time we are on a fast path to war, our political leverage to stop the war will be very small, much smaller than it is today.''

http://truth-out.org/news/item/8253-the-pledge-of-resistance-could-change-the-game-against-a-war-with-iran

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Iranian Diplomat Says IAEA Undermined Recent Talks to Satisfy Israel and West
http://www.commondreams.org/video/2012/04/03



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