San Jose Mercury News – By Bob Filner and Lord Corbett: Peace movements always struggle with the balancing act of wanting to engage enemies without appeasing them. Peace activists don't want war, but they also recognize that peace at any price can be costly. In the case of Iran, these choices are becoming painful and difficult.
Don’t enable Iran’s offenses
US seeks to pressure Iran, not give incentives: Pentagon
AFP: The United States is not trying to create incentives to bring Iran to the negotiating table but rather is seeking ways to intensify pressure to force it to change its ways, the Pentagon said Thursday. Iran condemns EU for anti-Ahmadinejad stance
Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, May 15 – Iran criticised the European Union over a statement it issued condemning comments made by Iran’s hard-line President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad against the state of Israel, state media reported on Wednesday.
Bush sees talks with Ahmadinejad as “appeasement”
Reuters: U.S. President George W. Bush on Thursday decried his critics' calls for negotiations with Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad as comparable to the "appeasement" of Adolf Hitler before World War Two. Iran’s central bank chief at odds with Ahmadinejad
AFP: The head of Iran's central bank is at loggerheads with President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad over interest rates, the local press reported on Thursday, the latest criticism of his economic policies. Iran calls UN sanctions illegal, offers a proposal for talks
AP: Iran's new offer for international talks touches on a broad range of topics, but fails to address U.N. Security Council calls for Tehran to give up uranium enrichment, according to a copy of the offer obtained Thursday by The Associated Press. Gunmen wound 3 Iranian embassy staff in Baghdad
Reuters: Gunmen opened fire on a car carrying three Iranian embassy staff in Baghdad on Thursday, wounding them and their Iraqi driver, a spokesman for the Iranian embassy said. Iran Interior Minister is replaced
Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, May 15 – Iran’s hard-line president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has replaced the country's Interior Minister, state media reported on Thursday.
Iran Interior Minister is replaced
Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, May 15 – Iran’s hard-line president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has replaced the country's Interior Minister, state media reported on Thursday.
Letting Iran have nuclear arms “unforgivable”-Bush
Reuters: U.S. President George W. Bush will tell Israel's parliament on Thursday that letting Iran acquire nuclear weapons would be an "unforgivable betrayal of future generations". 