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US Confrontation with Iran

455 events in this timeline

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  1. 2005-10-06 October 6, 2005: State Department: No Plans to Open Diplomatic Contacts with Iran
  2. 2005-11-21 November 21, 2005: Neoconservative Recommends Using MEK as Insurgency Against Iran; Advocates Nuclear Bombing of Iranian Nuclear Facilities
  3. 2006-01-11 January 11, 2006: Media Learns Iranian Arms Dealer Attempted to Fabricate Story of Stolen Uranium Involving Iraq, Iran
  4. 2006-01-11 January 11, 2006: Rice: US Is Seeking ‘a New Strategic Alignment in the Middle East’
  5. 2006-01-22 January 22, 2006: New York Times Columnist Says Iran Will Not Shut Down Nuclear Program
  6. 2006-02-07 February 7, 2006: Fear of US Military Strikes Driving Iran’s Nuclear Ambitions, Experts Say
  7. 2006-04-12 April 12, 2006: Former National Security Adviser Warns that Attacking Iran Will ‘End America’s Present Role’ in the World
  8. 2006-04-18 After April 18, 2006: Rumsfeld: Iraq and Iran Must be Linked in Public Perceptions
  9. 2006-04-24 April 24, 2006: Neoconservative Advocates US Bombing of Iran
  10. 2006-07-14 July 14, 2006: Kristol Calls for US Strike against Iran Nuclear Facilities
  11. 2006-08-23 August 23, 2006: Republican Intelligence Report on Iran’s Nuclear Program Is Fundamentally False
  12. 2006-09-14 September 14, 2006: IAEA Terms House Report on Iran ‘Outrageous, ‘Erroneous,’ and ‘Misleading’
  13. 2006-09-26 September 26, 2006: Former Reagan Official Says US Will Nuke Iran
  14. 2006-10-24 October 24, 2006: No Iranian Nuclear Weapon Before 2015, German Intelligence Says
  15. 2006-11-06 November 6-8, 2006: Defense Secretary Rumsfeld Resigns after Midterm Elections; Replaced by Robert Gates
  16. 2006-11-17 November 17, 2006: Netanyahu Calls for Military Strikes Against Iran
  17. 2006-12-11 December 11, 2006: Prince Turki Al-Faisal Resigns as Saudi Ambassador to US
  18. 2006-12-21 December 21-29, 2006: US Captures Two Iranian Al-Quds Commanders, Releases Them
  19. 2006-12-25 Before December 25, 2006: Bush Issues Presidential Order Authorizing CIA to Indirectly Support Sunni Groups in Lebanon
  20. 2007-01-05 January 5, 2007: Negroponte Steps Down as Director of National Intelligence
  21. 2007-01-10 January 10, 2007: President Bush Announces Deployment of Additional Aircraft Carrier to Persian Gulf
  22. 2007-01-11 January 11, 2007: US Troops Capture Iranian Officials in Kurdish Iraq
  23. 2007-01-26 January 26, 2007: Bush Says Iran Wants Nuclear Weapons; Says Nations Banding Together to Oppose Iranian Nukes
  24. 2007-02-09 February 9, 2007: Congressmen Ask Bush for Information and Explanation about Iran Offer
  25. 2007-02-14 (February 14, 2007): Iran Expert Warns of ‘Accidental War’
  26. 2007-02-20 February 20, 2007: US Air Strike Plans for Iran Extend Past Nuclear Facilities
  27. 2007-02-20 February 20, 2007: McConnell Replaces Negroponte as Director of National Intelligence; Considered More ‘Amenable’ to White House Position on Iran
  28. 2007-02-26 February 26, 2007: Vice President Cheney Travels to Pakistan to Meet with Pakistani President Musharraf
  29. 2007-03-05 March 5, 2007: US Plans to Strike Iranian Nuclear Facilities May Actually Spur Iranian Development of Nuclear Weapons
  30. 2007-03-16 March 16, 2007: Naval Admiral Takes Command of Centcom, Possibly to Oversee Military Strikes against Iran
  31. 2007-03-31 March 31, 2007: Bush Asserts Iran Actively Working on Nuclear Weapons
  32. 2007-04-01 April 1, 2007: VOA Introduces Anti-Iranian Sunni Militant as ‘Leader of the Iranian People’s Resistance Movement’
  33. 2007-05-13 May 13, 2007: Iran Border Guards Capture 10 Individuals Crossing into Iran with $500K, Maps, and Modern Spying Cameras
  34. 2007-06-19 June 19, 2007: Bush Warns of ‘Consequences’ to Iran if It Continues Working on Nukes
  35. 2007-07-12 July 12, 2007: Bush Says Iran Nukes Part of a ‘Broader Struggle’
  36. 2007-08-06 August 6, 2007: Bush Says Iran’s Nuclear Weapons Ambitions Is ‘Destabilizing’ Middle East
  37. 2007-08-09 August 9, 2007: Bush Adjusts Rhetoric Towards Iran’s Nuclear Program
  38. 2007-09-12 September 12, 2007: Conservative Terrorism and Security Expert Fabricates Interviews
  39. 2007-09-24 September 24, 2007: Gingrich: Blow Up Iran’s Gas Refinery
  40. 2007-09-26 September 26, 2007: Washington Post Decries Iran’s ‘Race for a Bomb’
  41. 2007-10-07 October 7, 2007: Reporter: US Intelligence Community Will Attempt to ‘Slow Down’ Administration’s Push for War with Iran
  42. 2007-10-20 October 20, 2007: Bush Says Global Leaders Risk ‘World War III’ Unless Iran’s Nuclear Program is Stopped
  43. 2007-10-21 October 21, 2007: Cheney Escalates Iran War Rhetoric
  44. 2007-10-23 October 23, 2007: Washington Post Columnist: Says Iran Presenting a ‘Pugnacious, Somewhat Nutty Profile’ Over Nuclear Weapons Program
  45. 2007-10-26 October 26, 2007: Putin Calls US Policy towards Iran that of ‘A Madman with a Razor Blade’
  46. 2007-10-28 October 28, 2007: Presidential Candidate Giuliani’s Foreign Policy Adviser Says US Must Bomb Iran; Would Take ‘Five Minutes’
  47. 2007-11-04 November 4, 2007: Experts Doubt Existence of Iranian Nuclear Program
  48. 2007-11-04 November 4, 2007: Washington Post Columnist: Iran’s Nuclear Weapons Efforts ‘Unmistakable,’ Time ‘Running Out’ for Diplomacy
  49. 2007-11-06 November 6-9, 2007: US Releases Some Iranians Detained in Iraq
  50. 2007-11-10 November 10, 2007: Cheney’s Office Continuing to Delay Release of ‘Unsatisfactory’ NIE on Iran