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Consequences

Today Condoleezza Rice expressed America's hopes that the standoff would be cooled down by the security council, while Cheney warned of meaningful consequences if the Council did not. "The Iranian regime needs to know that if it stays on its present course the international community is prepared to impose meaningful consequences," said Cheney to AIPAC (American Israel Public Affairs Committee.) It also turns out that Russia did not put up a proposal to allow Iran to conduct small research, as reported yesterday. "There is no compromise proposal and there could not be any compromise proposal," said Sergey Lavrov, the foreign minister of Russia.
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America Against Proposed Pipe Line

"As we stated before, the U.S. government does not support the Iran-Pakistan-India pipeline," White House National Security Council spokesman Frederick Jones said. This was due in part of "international participation in energy projects with Iran." The project would cost 7 billion and run through Iran, India and Pakistan.
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It's all a Bluff

Brigadier General Ali-Reza Afshar, a veteran Revolutionary Guards commander and director of propaganda and cultural affairs in the high command of the Armed Forces, said that America is waging a psychological war with Iran.
“The bulk of America’s threatening propaganda against Iran is just political bluff.” The General said that there are 4 parts psychologicalcal war; peace, threats, crisis and war. “Now the enemy is trying to use other tools against us, including ethnic and religious conflicts and partisan strife, but we mrecognizenise these and be ready to confront them.”
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