Eye on Iran: Mullen Says US Has Iran Strike Plan, Just in Case

For continuing coverage follow us on Twitter and join our Facebook group. Top Stories AP: "The U.S. military has a plan to attack Iran, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff said Sunday, although he thinks a military strike is probably a bad idea. Not long after Adm. Mike Mullen's aired on a Sunday talk show, the deputy chief of Iran's Revolutionary Guard was quoted as saying there would be a strong Iranian response should the U.S. take military action against his country." http://bit.ly/djPKNZ Fox News: "Two multinational corporations that have earned millions of dollars in U.S. government contracts are conducting business with Iran in violation of the recently signed sanctions law, according to an Iran watchdog group that has provided its research to FoxNews.com. United Against Nuclear Iran, a non-profit devoted to monitoring the rogue nation, claims that the Danish shipping giant Maersk and Komatsu, a Japanese firm that specializes in construction equipment manufacturing, are flouting U.S. law by continuing to do business in Iran." http://bit.ly/bT9CU9 AFP: "Iran will make the strategic Gulf region unsafe for all if it comes under attack by the United States over it nuclear programme, the deputy head of the elite Revolutionary Guards said on Sunday. 'If the Americans make the slightest mistake, the security of the region will be endangered. Security in the Persian Gulf should be for all or none,' Yadollah Javani told the official IRNA news agency. 'The Persian Gulf is a strategic region and if it is endangered they (Americans) will suffer losses and our response will be firm.'" http://bit.ly/d8Ln3W AFP: "Iran will set Tel Aviv on fire if Israel attacks the Islamic republic over its controversial nuclear programme, newspapers on Sunday quoted Iran's envoy to the United Nations as saying. 'If the Zionist regime commits the slightest aggression against the Iranian soil, we will set the entire war front and Tel Aviv on fire,' Mohammad Khazai said in the northeastern town of Kashmar, the Farhang-e Ashti daily reported." http://bit.ly/d8IF4h Nuclear Program AFP: "Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki has said Iran was witnessing a 'positive' feedback from the Vienna group over a proposal to supply Tehran with nuclear fuel, an Iranian television channel reported... 'We can say this process is a positive signal reflecting the political determination of the Vienna group,' he told the Al-Alam Arabic-language channel late on Sunday, referring to the United States, Russia, France that make up the group." http://bit.ly/cJMymn FT: "Washington called on China on Monday not to fill the vacuum in Iran's struggling energy sector by taking advantage of the departure of primarily European companies that have complied with atomic sanctions. Iran is the third biggest oil supplier to China, and Beijing is investing heavily in the Islamic Republic's energy fields and refineries." http://bit.ly/cB5QJF AFP: "The case of three US hikers held in Tehran is not linked to that of an Iranian nuclear scientist who returned from the United States, an Iranian official said Saturday on the one-year anniversary of their detention. 'American officials and the Western media are trying to link the two cases of Shahram Amiri and the three US spies... while these two are not related to each other,' Kazem Jalali, spokesman of parliament's foreign policy committee, was quoted as saying by the official IRNA news agency." http://bit.ly/9YTua0 Bloomberg: "Canadian Foreign Minister Lawrence Cannon said Iran is 'hiding' the truth about its nuclear program and added that the effectiveness of new sanctions will be reviewed by Group of Eight officials when they next meet in September." http://bit.ly/codzl4 Commerce AFP: "Iran's main economic partner China has invested around 40 billion dollars in the Islamic republic's oil and gas sector, a senior Iranian official said on Saturday. Deputy Oil Minister Hossein Noqrehkar Shirazi also said that Tehran's oil exports to China fell by 30 percent in the first six months of 2010 compared with the corresponding period last year. 'The volume (of Chinese investment) in upstream projects is 29 billion dollars,' Noqrehkar Shirazi told Mehr news agency, adding that Beijing had signed contracts worth another 10 billion dollars in petrochemicals, refineries and oil and gas pipeline projects." http://bit.ly/b5lmrn Human Rights AP: "Iran reiterated on Sunday that three Americans jailed a year ago should stand trial on charges of illegally crossing the country's borders. Foreign Ministry spokesman Ramin Mehmanparast said Iran is also considering other possible charges against Shane Bauer, Sarah Shourd and Josh Fattal including intentionally acting against Iranian security, according to a state media report. There has been no indication from Iran so far that formal charges against the three have been filed." http://bit.ly/9g9KqZ AFP: "President Barack Obama called on Iran Friday to 'immediately release' three American hikers being held by the Islamic republic, saying they had never worked for the US government and committed 'absolutely no crime.' Obama, ahead of the one-year anniversary Saturday of the hikers' arrest, said the trio were 'simply open-minded and adventurous young people who represent the best of America, and of the human spirit.'" http://bit.ly/9xBDEB AP: "Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva offered on Saturday to provide refuge to a woman who has been sentenced to death in Iran following her conviction for committing adultery... During a campaign rally for his party's presidential candidate, Silva appealed to Iran's president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, 'to allow Brazil to grant political asylum to this woman.'" http://bit.ly/bsu9i6 AFP: "An Iranian woman sentenced to death by stoning for adultery in Iran pleaded to be allowed to hug her children, in a letter attributed to her released by human rights activists in London on Saturday... 'I'm Sakineh Mohammadi-Ashtiani. From Tabriz Prison I thank all those who are thinking of me,' said the letter, translated from Farsi into English and released by the International Committee against Stoning." http://bit.ly/a2ELxK Foreign Affairs Daily Telegraph: "Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has invited Barack Obama, his US counterpart, to face him in a televised one-on-one debate to see who has the best solutions for the world's problems." http://bit.ly/9bYehP AFP: "Iran's deputy culture minister lashed out at Western media on Sunday, branding them 'dishonest, cocky cheats,' who will be banned from an annual press fair in the autumn, the ILNA news agency reported... 'We have eliminated them, because Western media are dishonest, cocky cheats and see themselves as the invincible sultans of the world,' he said, adding that 'there are rare exceptions' without elaborating." http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?et=1103595413641&s=30860&e=001w7yX3PAFdrtxeO6pgJSS_5vvSQxQicNT2EBHZjQ1zOkEl7FLaOUMjtSepkuYCXQ5DGO7HDMwc-mIh2GCLdIjdWBv8G0zcCek2BHrRZFACxI= Reuters: "Two Iranian banks seeking to open branches in Iraq are unlikely to get government approval due to economic sanctions imposed on Tehran in a row over its nuclear programme, an Iraqi central bank official said on Sunday." http://bit.ly/cDA1Xn Opinion Steven Simon and Ray Takeyh in WashPost: "Imagine a moment when President Obama has only two alternatives: prepare to live with a nuclear-armed Iran or embark on the perilous path of military action to stop it. Imagine that diplomacy has run its course, after prolonged and inconclusive negotiations; that surging international oil prices have undercut the power of economic sanctions against Tehran; and that reliable intelligence says the Islamic republic's weapons program is very close to reaching its goal. Facing such conditions, would Obama use force against Iran?" http://bit.ly/bwVuAB Nikolas Gvosdev in World Politics Review: "The question is whether something akin to the 2003 Libyan breakthrough is possible -- or even desirable. By that scenario, Iran would stop all of its efforts to achieve a nuclear weapons breakout capability -- notably, the ability to enrich uranium. In return, the U.S. and its Western allies would agree to lift sanctions and extend de facto security guarantees as well. Some of the preconditions for a Libya-style settlement are falling into place." http://bit.ly/94cmUf Eye on Iran is a periodic news summary from United Against Nuclear Iran (UANI) a program of the American Coalition Against Nuclear Iran, Inc., a tax-exempt organization under Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code. Eye on Iran is not intended as a comprehensive media clips summary but rather a selection of media elements with discreet analysis in a PDA friendly format. For more information please email Press@UnitedAgainstNuclearIran.com United Against Nuclear Iran (UANI) is a non-partisan, broad-based coalition that is united in a commitment to prevent Iran from fulfilling its ambition to become a regional super-power possessing nuclear weapons. UANI is an issue-based coalition in which each coalition member will have its own interests as well as the collective goal of advancing an Iran free of nuclear weapons.

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