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Executive Secretary Joe Volk Reports from Iran
2/22/2007
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Report on Trip to Iran

Tehran, Iran. Our religious delegation returned this afternoon from another marathon day of meetings with religious and government leaders to the news that Iran has failed to comply with the United Nations Security Council resolution demanding the suspension of its uranium-enrichment program.

DEBKAfile: The UN Security Council’s Iran sanctions session Wednesday is
accompanied by a US Navy buildup and Iranian war games

February 21, 2007, 12:55 PM (GMT+02:00)

The arrival in the region of the carrier USS Stennis strike group with more than
6,500 sailors to join the carrier USS Dwight D. Eisenhower is causing concern in
Tehran, which faces tougher sanctions at the Security Council for missing the
60-day deadline for suspending uranium enrichment, as confirmed by the nuclear
watchdog director Mohammed ElBaradei.

Molly Ivins has died at the age of 62. She passed away last night in her home in Austin, Texas following a long bout with breast cancer. Her weekly column appeared in over 400 newspapers making her the most widely read progressive columnist in the country. The writer Harvey Wasserman wrote this about Molly Ivins: “If Mark Twain has a female counterpart on today’s political and journalistic scene, it is Molly Ivins.

We ended 2006 at the Crawford Peace House with a candlelight vigil on Dec. 31st for the 655,000 Iraqi citizens sacrificed to war profits and greed by a fearful sleeping public who are finally waking up. It's our job to keep them awake and not to let them crawl back under the covers.