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Iran to "hit Tel Aviv, U.S. ships" if attacked - Yahoo! News - 0 views

  • This has no relevance on dollar-shekel trade. I assume if we see a strike, there will be a reaction," said Neil Corney, treasurer for Citigroup's Israel office in Tel Aviv.
  • Iran has previously threatened to close the Strait of Hormuz if it comes under attack. About 40 percent of globally traded oil moves through the Gulf waterway.
  • The United States, France, Britain, China, Russia and Germany offered the package last month and said Iran must suspend its uranium enrichment work before formal talks on implementing it.
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    The first bullet fired by America at Iran will be followed by Iran burning down its vital interests around the globe," the students news agency ISNA quoted Ali Shirazi as saying in a speech to Revolutionary Guards.
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Interview: Bush warns Brown over plan to cut Iraq force | World news | The Observer - 0 views

  • George Bush flies into London today with a warning for Gordon Brown not to announce a timetable for a British pull-out from Iraq
  • The stern message to the Prime Minister was delivered during an exclusive interview with The Observer, and contrasted with praise for Tony Blair
  • the world is in an 'ideological struggle' and that 'ultimately freedom has to defeat the ideology of hate'.
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  • He said American and British troops were not 'intentionally killing innocent people', that large numbers had been deliberately killed by Saddam in the years before the war, and that Iraqis were now living under an elected government in a 'free society'.
  • He had already been urging King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia to increase production.
  • And the truth of the matter is that there's either got to be more supply or less demand. And demand doesn't decline overnight' - particularly with 'big consumers of hydrocarbons' such as China 'subsidising their populations'.
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    It appears that more European countries are beginning to see a huge threat from Al Qaeda and are now on board with America to defeat the threat.
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