Air strikes on Iran could backfire: report
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Military strikes to destroy Iran's nuclear ambitions could backfire, increasing Tehran's determination to obtain atomic weapons and bolstering hostility toward the West, a report said on Monday.
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A senior Iranian military official said  Sunday Israel and the United States would not dare attack Iran  since it could strike back anywhere in Israel with its latest  missiles, news agencies reported.
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Military strikes against Iran could prompt it to rapidly pursue nuclear weapons, a UK think tank says.
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A new report on UN nuclear inspections in Iran may be worded in a way that undermines the US case for reporting Tehran to the Security Council this month, diplomats said Wednesday.
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Any military strike against Iran in the dispute over its nuclear program would risk destabilizing the region, French Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin said in an interview released on Friday.
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Iran has reiterated that it will retaliate if Israel carries out a preemptive strike against its nuclear program. The escalating war of words comes as a top US arms-control official has charged that Tehran
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Iran faces the risk of sanctions after a   U.N. nuclear watchdog report on Thursday likely to find that   Tehran has ignored a deadline to halt an atomic fuel program   Western leaders say could lead to bombs.
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A shock military strike against Iran's nuclear facilities would be a "mistake", the European Union's foreign policy chief Javier Solana said in a British television interview.
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U.S. News & World Report - The Bush administration's $75 million effort to promote democracy in Iran over the long run is likely to backfire, stiffening the resolve of the Islamic regime to hold on to power and landing democratic-minded activists in jail, a senior European diplomat tells U.S. News.
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The top U.S. military commander in the Mideast said Friday that Iran runs the risk of triggering an unintended conflict if its boats continue to harass U.S. warships in the Persian Gulf.
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The United States has brought forward a planned sale of advanced F-35 warplanes to Israel as part of efforts by the two allies to maintain a military advantage over Iran, an Israeli newspaper reported on Thursday.
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A military strike on Iran's nuclear facilities would be "a mistake", the EU's foreign policy chief warns.
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Despite the Bush administration's insistence it has no plans to go to war with Iran, a Pentagon panel has been created to plan a bombing attack that could be implemented within 24 hours of getting the go-ahead from President George W. Bush, The New Yorker magazine reported in its latest issue.
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Attacks by Iranian-backed groups in Iraq have increased in recent months, a senior U.S. official said on Thursday, casting doubt on the view Iran might have reduced its support for violence in the war.
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False warnings about Iraq&#39;s nuclear capabilities have undermined similar US claims about the dangers of Iran&#39;s activities, a former chief weapons inspector has said.
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TEHRAN : Iran gave cause for fresh international alarm as a top regime official announced the Islamic republic had boosted the range of its ballistic missiles and hardline MPs backed a move to defy the UN&#39;s nuclear watchdog.
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VIENNA -- The head of the UN nuclear watchdog agency said yesterday an attack on Iran over its refusal to freeze programs that could make nuclear weapons would be "an act of madness," an indirect warning to the United States and Israel.