Future Events - The Iran War [Archive] - The Project Avalon Community Forum

Merkhava

3rd April 2010, 21:53

In my private exchanges with Bill Ryan over the years, I had made it a point that I do not advocate the Iran War. My purpose is to highlight and raise conscious awareness of movements on the ground that take the world closer to this timeline. This timeline must be avoided because the potential outcome is horrific.

I have always steadfastly held to the opinion when I've discussed this future event with Bill (and indirectly to the people I suspect are monitoring Bill's activities) that the Iran War will not involve an attack from Israel on the Iranian nuclear sites. If this war event occurs, it will begin by an American air attack primarily using B2 stealth bombers from the island of Diego Garcia.

The fact that information has recently leaked to the press about the bunker buster bombs being sent by the US to Diego Garcia was enough to cause me some alarm.

The Iranian War must be avoided absolutely. Those who possess intense consciousness and effective power should exert themselves to help divert the world away from this timeline. Divine intervention should be requested and invoked to help us all.

I also wish to express my appreciation and applaud the efforts made recently by President Lula of Brazil to work towards this effort.

Best Regards to all,
Merkhava

Merkhava

3rd April 2010, 21:56

lightpotential

3rd April 2010, 22:22

The interesting thing about the so called 'bunker buster' bombs is that from what I have read, they can be a cover for the use of low yield nuclear bombs. In Afghanistan in 2002 such weapons were used on various mountain ranges thought to hold Taliban Militia. However, one analyst said that these bombs were actually not conventional but nuclear, having a yield of about 1/3 Hiroshima, or 5000 Tonnes of TNT.

LP

bashi

3rd April 2010, 22:44

The area arround Garcia has been declared a maritime wildlife reserve:

http://www.zeenews.com/news615967.html

This might get used as an excuse to cordon the area off within a 320 km radius.

Merkhava

6th April 2010, 02:23

Obama Limits When U.S. Would Use Nuclear Arms

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/06/world/06arms.html

But the president said in an interview that he was carving out an exception for “outliers like Iran and North Korea” that have violated or renounced the main treaty to halt nuclear proliferation.

Northern Boy

6th April 2010, 02:48

Where did you hear that?

Obama was in Russia last week under the guise of nuclear arms reduction between both nations . Do you really believe they would reduce those weapons with every thing thats going on ? That I feel is just the cover story so the real excuse for going there would not be questioned . America is trying to convince Russia and China to allow a nuclear strike on Iran it can not take place unless the UN security council OKs it all members of the council must be on board just one dissenting voice and it can not be done legitimately . So covert action must take place where better to hide the Bunker Busters than a wildlife preserve and all thats missing are Israeli planes or a ship coming in to get them . This is why America has MILITARY BASES SPREAD OUT ALL OVER THE WORLD to conduct covert operations on foreign soil and accomplish there objectives with out being noticed

JesterTerrestrial

6th April 2010, 02:56

It seems there are many utterly determined to see Iran engaged, or wait for Iran to make the tiniest mistake so they can all move in.
The vultures are circling...

Been this way for years!!!

BOMB BOMB BOMB
BOMB BOMB IRAN

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Do you think it has something to do with star gates?

I VOTE NO WAR!!!

shybastid

6th April 2010, 03:24

So JT? Your saying the war is immenent? I'm not that sure. Don't forget the French have been supplying nuclear expertise to Iran amongst other foriegn nations for years. France is the largest exporter of Nuclear Power generators for profit on the planet. It does'nt mean their an "accomplice" for nuclear proliferation..it means as a Nation,they make money in Nuclear Reactors.Been that way a while.
Don't mix up profit for politicle "strategic alliance" according to who.(Changes weekly)
Their just not on the radar in global Headlines... Thats by choice... LOL What else do you thing the French contribute right now to the Global Currency? Wine and Food? NOPE Nuclear Power and their good at at it my friend.

Merkhava

7th April 2010, 21:48

One of the important future events in the Iran War timeline that I shared with Bill involved a US aircraft carrier. Because of a recent action taken by Iran, I have chosen to mention that detail now.

In the Iran War timeline, after the initial US air attack, Iran will take several military actions in retaliation. It will attack a US aircraft carrier battlegroup and will successfully engage and cripple the USS John C Stennis (CVN-74). The world media will report the event as the first ever battlefield defeat of a US nuclear super-carrier.

Iran gets fast sporting powerboat for arming with Russian torpedoes

http://www.debka.com/article/8698/

After laying hands on the record-breaking 61.5 mph speedboat, built for a British sporting adventurer, the Iranian navy plans to arm it with the reputedly fastest torpedo in the world, the Russian-designed Shkval (Squall), which moves at speeds of 360 kph. DEBKAfile's military sources report Tehran is aiming for a seaborne weapon able to sink a US carrier in the Persian Gulf.

Best Regards,
Merkhava

bashi

10th April 2010, 21:53

One of the important future events in the Iran War timeline that I shared with Bill involved a US aircraft carrier. Because of a recent action taken by Iran, I have chosen to mention that detail now.

Why have you chosen to disclose that detail now? Only because of recent events, or because the timeline has become more probable/very likely/certain?

TheTruth

10th April 2010, 22:46

Thats a very good question Bashi.

Merkhava

13th April 2010, 17:19

bashi

14th April 2010, 08:34

Hi Merk,
will you be able to have an eye on the movements of the Stennis and post them here?

There had been a meeting in a hotel in a certain place in Nevada of two groups on the 28th march 2009. In that meeting a certain event, with a 0.118 probability to occur, was “celebrated” to have not occurred.
Are you aware of that meeting?
Have you been an attendee of that “dynamic” event?

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lightblue

14th April 2010, 09:52

The purpose of revealing the future is to create the potential to change it.

Best Regards,
Merkhava

or to mark it inevitable

i do not like the title of this thread :stop:

bacause of the message it carries...may stick into unconscious mind and help it happen...god forbid...in your place, i'd change it. ..

K626

14th April 2010, 10:30

or to mark it inevitable

i do not like the title of this thread :stop:

bacause of the message it carries...may stick into unconscious mind and help it happen...god forbid...in your place, i'd change it. ..

I agree. As I'e said earlier there will be no attack on Iran. When all things point to one place look in another. Iran's air defence sys have also been upgraded in the last few years by the Russians and Iran has signed oil deals with China. An attack on Iran is more or less a proxy war on China who apart from oil have huge economic deals with Iran. China has already in private told Obama that they will mass drop U.S. bonds on the market which would crash the dollar, the Amnericans aren't realdy for that nor are the ready for $100 barrel oil prices as Iraninan hit teams take out refinery assets in the Gulf if there was an initial U.S. or Israeli strike. Iran isn't Iraq and the blow back will be massive. Lot of sabre rattling is going on and a lot of pantomine, but will there be a strike on Iran? No. In a a year or two when Iran tests its first nuke, they will all be around the table cutting deals with Iran as they have done with India and Pakistan.

bashi

14th April 2010, 20:45

I am not afraid to talk possibilities, because if you can clearly recognize the danger of an accident, then you prevent it or curb the effects.
This is not about “Hush, Hush, don’t talk about the devil, otherwise he will come and it will be your fault!”
Following this argument will not allow the vid “Anglo-Saxon mission”, it will not even allow this forum.
It`s about pointing the finger and creating awareness for the bigger picture and maybe the possibilities at hand to prevent it.
Who knows who is reading this. Somebody, a small part of the big gearbox, might suddenly realize:
”These things are going on right under my nose, and I am unknowingly part of it.”
Then that person can make a conscious decision whether to be part of it or not. It might help to avoid these probabilities becoming reality.

I agree with your arguments, K626, that an attack would be sheer madness, and that logic and common sense are dictating a NO to the attack. But to conclude therefore that it will be impossible, is wrong. There is already a lot of insanity in this world, and it does not go away by not mentioning it.

Israel has a history of sacrificing even its allies if it gets more advantage out of it. And the US had been several times the blindsided henchmen for Israel, even when taken the beating from them.

Do you know that Israel had in the past wiped out the Pakistan gov in order to prevent them from becoming nuclear?
Do you know that Israel made a false flag on an US ship to drag them into nuclear war with Egypt during the 6 days war? The result was that Cairo was only minutes away from being nuked into non-existence by US bombers, which were already approaching the target.
Do you know that the israelian consulate general in NY has unusual readings of nuclear radiation emanating from it, which can not be argued away as coming from medical equipment?
Well, now you know.

Do you really think that this mentality has changed?

The diversion of the bunker-busters indicates that Israel has convinced a certain group within the US that an attack is feasible, and that the US is again on the way to become Israels willing instrument.

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Merkhava

14th April 2010, 21:31

Hi Lightblue,

In an ancient time, when the prophet Jonah was sent by the Lord God to the Assyrian city of Nineveh, he was given a message to warn the city of its future destruction. The people of Nineveh did not ignore Jonah's message and they embraced what he had told them. They made choices which altered their future. The city was not destroyed during their lifetime.

Eventually the city of Nineveh was destroyed just as God had declared it. But the event had been postponed by that generation because they repented to God of their sinful way and obtained His mercy.

The point I'm stressing is that human beings alter the future all the time by the choices they make and by the consciousness and spiritual growth they achieve. Some future events are utterly eradicated from probability, while other future events are postponed when a critical mass of people accomplish this.

When a man with a gift of foresight gives a message to people concerning the future, the purpose of it is to provide warning so that other choices and changes might be made. The revealing of a potential future does not make it inevitable. It is the stubborn hard-heartedness and lawless violence of people that makes a bad future inevitable. But if we embrace the principles of Heaven and harmonize our way to the Light of the World, there is always a better future waiting for us.

The message from God is constant, "Repent!". What that word means is that we are all to change what we are doing and how we are behaving to a better way so that our future arrives at a more desirable outcome.

The purpose of this thread is to raise awareness of the Iran War timeline, to log significant events has they unfold and to constantly warn of the folly and the sinfulness of the choices and actions which can bring this time path into our reality.

Best Regards,
Merkhava

lightblue

15th April 2010, 00:20

hi merkhava, thanks for your response

The revealing of a potential future does not make it inevitable.
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The purpose of this thread is to raise awareness of the Iran War timeline, to log significant events has they unfold and to constantly warn of the folly and the sinfulness of the choices and actions which can bring this time path into our reality.

your text reveals potential future - i believe and agree that the warnings are critically important.

your title imprints inevitability. - i don’t believe its charge is beneficial… too similar to what’s all over the main stream and what i experience as violence..

thanks for the biblical allegories, but i don’t relate to those…just don't work for me .. surely, this will be interesting to other readers here.

bashi,

I am not afraid to talk possibilities, because if you can clearly recognize the danger of an accident, then you prevent it or curb the effects.
This is not about “Hush, Hush, don’t talk about the devil, otherwise he will come and it will be your fault!”
Following this argument will not allow the vid “Anglo-Saxon mission”, it will not even allow this forum.
It`s about pointing the finger and creating awareness for the bigger picture and maybe the possibilities at hand to prevent it.

i. am not on about superstition but about different wisdom.

there’s ways and ways of presenting the same set of arguments to a different effect.. anglo saxon mission is a precious set of information ..its’ most precious aspect is the way it is told… with a positive spin...taking responsibility.

this thread projects a done deal – unless we repent.... i’ll be giving it a miss.

”These things are going on right under my nose, and I am unknowingly part of it.

you can't unknowingly be part of military and related services..

bashi

15th April 2010, 09:56

hi merkhava, thanks for your response

your text reveals potential future - i believe and agree that the warnings are critically important.

your title imprints inevitability. - i don’t believe its charge is beneficial… too similar to what’s all over the main stream and what i experience as violence..

thanks for the biblical allegories, but i don’t relate to those…just don't work for me .. surely, this will be interesting to other readers here.

bashi,

i. am not on about superstition but about different wisdom.

there’s ways and ways of presenting the same set of arguments to a different effect.. anglo saxon mission is a precious set of information ..its’ most precious aspect is the way it is told… with a positive spin...taking responsibility.

this thread projects a done deal – unless we repent.... i’ll be giving it a miss.

you can't unknowingly be part of military and related services..

you are right about the title. maybe "possible future events.." would have been better.

many people in the military are good humans. they have ideals and ethics. maybe some are disillusioned, but still "doing time". They see themselves as doing their country a service, a service for stability and security.
Many of these people would never want to be an active part of an assault which will plunge humanity into darkness and chaos.
To create an AWARENESS what is going actually going on, thisd is what Project Avalon is for.

Merkhava

18th April 2010, 07:34

Obama sets deadline for Iran to respond

http://www.jpost.com/International/Article.aspx?id=173415

"Obama set a deadline of the end of 2009 for Iran to respond to his offer of dialogue to resolve concerns about Iran's accelerated nuclear development.

Iran spurned the offer, and since then the administration has pursued what it calls the "pressure track," a combination of stepped-up military activity in Iran's neighborhood and a hard push for a new round of international sanctions that would pinch Iran economically."

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Same news as reported from Iran's point of view ...

http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=123635&sectionid=351020101

"A secret memo by US Defense Secretary Robert Gates urges Washington to consider the use of military force against Iran if diplomacy fails to scrap the country's nuclear program.

In what seems to be a new twist in US efforts to tackle Iran's enrichment activities, The New York Times reveals that a three-page memorandum, which has been circulating in Washington since January, has advocated military action against Tehran."

Best Regards,
Merkhava

Gita

18th April 2010, 12:06

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Iran Rightfully Calls for America to be Suspended From IAEA
Sunday, 18 April 2010 09:08

'The leader of Iran Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has rightfully called on the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) to suspend America for constantly threatening to use nuclear weapons against his country and other states; and his bold stance could be a significant opportunity for the non-European world to stand up to western terrorism.'

Read more: Iran Rightfully Calls for America to be Suspended From IAEA (http://www.minorityperspective.co.uk/2010/04/17/iran-rightfully-calls-for-america-to-be-suspended-from-iaea/)

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Gita

18th April 2010, 12:42

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Secret US Memo Urges War on Iran

http://www.davidicke.com/images/stories/April_2010/barghi20100418044453750.jpg

'A secret memo by US Defense Secretary Robert Gates urges Washington to consider the use of military force against Iran if diplomacy fails to scrap the country's nuclear program. In what seems to be a new twist in US efforts to tackle Iran's enrichment activities, The New York Times reveals that a three-page memorandum, which has been circulating in Washington since January, has advocated military action against Tehran.

The classified memorandum, according to unnamed government officials quoted by the Times, warns that Washington lacks an effective policy in dealing with Iran's nuclear program and should therefore come up with new options.'

Read more: Secret US Memo Urges War on Iran (http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=123635&sectionid=351020101)

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Source (http://www.davidicke.com/headlines)

Merkhava

23rd April 2010, 18:21

Iran displayed a remote controlled, radar evading fast torpedo/missle boat for attacking US aircraft carriers.

http://www.debka.com/article/8732/

"Thursday, April 22, the first day of their large-scale military exercise in the Straits of Hormuz, the Iranian Revolutionary Guards put their new radar-evading, unmanned Ya Mahdi speedboat through its paces.

Operated by remote control, this vessel is claimed by Iran to be able to track warships and drive 7-meter holes in their hulls with its missiles. "

Best Regards,
Merkhava

bashi

24th April 2010, 16:55

Is it history repeating?

Ron Pauls statement regarding Iran sanctions before the US House of Representatives:

http://america-hijacked.com/2010/04/23/sanctions-on-iran-is-an-act-of-war/

Merkhava

25th April 2010, 11:24

It appears that the Six Party Talks have effectively gridlocked. The West is now being forced into the hard choice of accepting a nuclear Iran or using force to stop it.

http://english.pravda.ru/world/asia/21-04-2010/113108-china_iran-0

"China does not intend to support radical sanctions against Iran that could stop its nuclear program, says the statement made on April 20th by Chinese foreign ministry spokeswoman Jiang Yu."

Best Regards,
Merkhava

Merkhava

25th April 2010, 19:16

http://www.cnn.com/2010/POLITICS/04/18/us.iran/index.html

"The Pentagon and U.S. Central Command are updating military plans to strike Iran's nuclear sites."

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http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/LD23Ak02.html

"The war of words has become particularly harsh, and threats are now being exchanged openly between the United States and Iran."

Best Regards,
Merkhava

bashi

25th April 2010, 22:14

Is this us or the Stinnes?

http://img101.imageshack.us/img101/1504/sinkingboat.jpg (http://img101.imageshack.us/i/sinkingboat.jpg/)

BTW, where is it now?

Gita

26th April 2010, 08:13

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Stage Being Set for Dirty Bomb False Flag Attack

'Rumours of an upcoming terror attack to be blamed on Iran are moving around the world, “backchannel chatter.” The primary suspect is Israel who is said to have a number of small “suitcase” type nuclear weapons, some primarily “dirty bombs,” possibly supplied secretly by a previous US administration. These devices are in the “40 ton” range, highly radioactive, extremely small and can be engineered to leave the signature of a primitive device. They were originally designed for use against Soviet armor and troop concentrations in Europe if a massed attack on NATO were to occur. Current conventional system have made this type of weapon obsolete.'

Read more: Stage Being Set for Dirty Bomb False Flag Attack (http://www.veteranstoday.com/2010/04/24/gordon-duff-stage-being-set-for-dirty-bomb-false-flag/)

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Source (http://www.davidicke.com/headlines)

Merkhava

26th April 2010, 11:00

Ayoub Kara, Druze deputy minister for development in the Negev and Galilee, told a meeting at Ramat Gan near Tel Aviv that a scholar with ties to Iran's nuclear programme recently asked for asylum in Israel after it helped him to defect.

"It is too soon to provide further details," Kara said, adding only that the unidentified academic was "now in a friendly country."

http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5j0DgkozyHVo_m7oG-Id2RxXnfWSQ

Merkhava

28th April 2010, 04:15

Hi Gita,

I think you are possibly referring to NLE10, which is a US government planned training exercise scheduled to occur in Nevada about May 2010.

NLE10 is a national emergency exercise simulating a small nuclear bomb going off in Las Vegas.

http://publicintelligence.net/national-level-exercise-2010-nle-10-exercise-overview/

http://publicintelligence.net/national-level-exercise-2010-nle-10-training-manual/

It appears this exercise may get cancelled or postponed due to Northcom pulling out.

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2010/apr/26/military-cancels-nuclear-attack-test/print/

Best Regards,
Merkhava

Merkhava

30th April 2010, 00:43

The carrier USS Eisenhower was buzzed by an Iranian airforce surveilance jet on 4/21/2010. The jet flew over the carrier within 1000 yards.

http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D9FCFB1O0&show_article=1

Same event as reported from Iran...

http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=124920&sectionid=351020101

Best Regards,
Merkhava

Swanny

30th April 2010, 09:32

Good for them :)

bashi

3rd May 2010, 19:19

There was a newspaper article, which has been removed.
This:

878

It seems Israel is getting set for a nuclear hit in November.

Obama has announced a conference for the same time:

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/obama-to-hold-global-summit-if-latest-middle-east-talks-fail-1959629.html

Merk: Do you think the Israeli will sit down for more talk or will they burn Obama publicly and go ahead with the hit?

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K626

3rd May 2010, 22:09

I'm still pretty certain there will be no 'hit' on Iran from either Israel or the U.S. this year. I'd look elsewhere, for instance they have been pretty quiet about venezuela lately.

Merkhava

9th May 2010, 19:23

Hi Bashi,

I am fairly certain that Israel will NOT attack Iran. I have been in the Knesset and had a face to face discussion with an MP about Iran. Israel's intent is to have the international community deal with Iran, because the issue is a global issue that affects all nations.

Israel has a much more immediate problem on it's northern border.

http://www.jpost.com/Israel/Article.aspx?id=175289

“Israel has no intention of attacking its neighbors, contrary to false rumors which have been spread on the subject.”

Best Regards,
Merkhava

HURRITT ENYETO

9th May 2010, 19:50

Iran already has between 100 and 300 operational nuclear warheads. This is the sole reason Iran has not already been attacked.

Decibellistics

10th May 2010, 00:54

If Hurritt is incorrect and I am not saying you are mate

If Iran has success in making a bomb, where is the logic in testing it somewhere outside Tehran????
They would have one chance, so I'm sure they would use it wisely.
Then again, why would you sacrifice your entire country for one success?
72 virgins I spose.

Rocky_Shorz

10th May 2010, 03:18

Bashi... I chose to offer that detail as a sign post or a marker. And yes... we are now more probable as I showed with the news article to which I linked on the post concerning fast boats and high speed Russian torpedoes.

It is an explicit detail. The aircraft carrier's name has been revealed. If the specific aircraft carrier named is actually counter attacked and critically damaged by Iran after an American first strike air attack on their country, then it will indicate we are on the timeline that I'm warning against.

Currently the Stennis is in PIA on the West Coast. A PIA is a normally scheduled preventive maintenance and repair activity done on Navy ships at periodic intervals. The PIA will last several months.

The purpose of revealing the future is to create the potential to change it.

Best Regards,
Merkhava

Well a little more research for you, underground shutes have been built in the straights that can open up and simultaneously launch at once, the 2-3000 suicide bomber boats are just a distraction for the defense weapons on the Carrier group. Iran has been mass producing these Torpedoes for the last 3 years. I read estimates of over 10,000 have already been produced, Iran already knows it isn't a question on whether a war is coming, but when...

bashi

11th May 2010, 09:37

Folks, no offence intended, but you are posting fantasy-numbers here:

100-300 warheads?
2000-3000 suicide boats?
10000 torpedoes?

and all without a link to a serious source of that info. Thats not the way to discuss this issue.

The fact that Israel has not bombed Iran up to now, indicates that the info in the Anglo-Saxon Mission vid can be correct:
Iran has WMDs. 3-4 are enough to deter the Israelis. most likely provided by China.

i doubt that the US military is trigger-happy with the Iranians. There are even indications that Israeli planes on their way to Iran will not be allowed to use Iraks airspace and are threatened to get shot down by the US.

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morguana

11th May 2010, 10:25

Folks, no offence intended, but you are posting fantasy-numbers here:

100-300 warheads?
2000-3000 suicide boats?
10000 torpedoes?

and all without a link to a serious source of that info. Thats not the way to discuss this issue.

The fact that Israel has not bombed Iran up to now, indicates that the info in the Anglo-Saxon Mission vid can be correct: That Iran has WMDs. 3-4 are enough to deter the Israelis. most likely provided by China.

i doubt that the US military is trigger-happy with the Iranians. There are even indications that Israeli planes on their way to Iran will not be allowed to use Iraks airspace and are threatened to get shot down by the US.

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thank you bashi for speaking words of reason, always good to have a little grounding these days. yes folks can links be provided? it really helps to be able to note the source and read around subjects.

bashi

11th May 2010, 17:03

Were empty coffers not always a good reason to start a war? This sounds different:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/7701718/US-cannot-afford-another-Afghanistan-or-Iraq-warns-Defence-Secretary.html

Swanny

11th May 2010, 17:07

I often wonder how they can afford all the wars we are in :confused:

stardustaquarion

11th May 2010, 17:11

I often wonder how they can afford all the wars we are in :confused:

Oh it is easy, tptb debases the currency by printing more money, after all they invented money...

morguana

11th May 2010, 18:55

I often wonder how they can afford all the wars we are in :confused:

by cutting out essential staff with in the public sector, like midwives, nurses, teachers etc etc thats how.......just look at how skeleton our public sector is.
by cutting back on things that should be for the benifit for all, makes me sooooooo mad. before the labour went and bombed innocent folk in afganistan and iran the uk cash thingy was in the green, from what i can remember. so they closed our hospitals and downsized departments, which is utter maddness as the population is growing.
really its all criminal, thats OUR money they have spent on blowing our fellow humans up.

Merkhava

15th May 2010, 00:27

Etherios

15th May 2010, 01:18

Trilateral Commission (TC) members, angry over their failure to establish a world government and the economic crisis they generated, called for war with Iran when they gathered behind closed doors here in Dublin, Ireland May 7-10.

http://www.americanfreepress.net/html/tucker_trumps_trilats_222.html

Best Regards,
Merkhava

can we trust these posts? i mean they cant be that stupid to make those kind of mistakes ... and talk like that to the wrong ppl... then again we will never know the truth

Gita

15th May 2010, 15:57

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Trilateral Commission Wants War With Iran

http://www.davidicke.com/images/stories/May20103/140510top.jpg

'Trilateral Commission member Mikhail Slobodovsici, a chief adviser to the Russian leadership, unwittingly provided a revealing insight into the plans of the global elite during the group’s recent meeting in Dublin Ireland, when he mistakenly told a We Are Change Ireland activist he thought was a fellow TC member that the globalists are planning a war with Iran.

According to Jim Tucker’s fascinating report on the story, Slobodovsici also let slip to We Are Change Ireland’s Alan Keenan that the Trilateralists and their BIlderberg counterparts are intent on exploiting the economic crisis to finalize plans for a world government, but that this agenda is being severely hampered by so-called “nationalists” who are becoming increasingly aware of the impact that global government will have on their freedom and standards of living.

“We are deciding the future of the world,” Slobodovsici told Keenan. “We need a world government,” he said, but, referring to Iran, said “we need to get rid of them".'

Read more: Trilateral Commission Wants War With Iran (http://www.prisonplanet.com/trilateral-commission-wants-war-with-iran.html)

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Source (http://www.davidicke.com/headlines)

Merkhava

16th May 2010, 03:53

Hi Ehterios,

The report on the Trilateralist Commission should be seen as another dot to connect as we all try to understand and form a picture of the agenda being pursued by the global elitists.

Jim Tucker has been a relentless and tireless reporter for many years of the meetings and agenda of those people.

The most encouraging bit of information I got out of that article is that the elitists seem to be getting demoralized by their constant failures to achieve their milestones towards a one world government. So longs as we all remain vigilant and alert and we exert our conscious wills and activites to resist and repulse these people, we may succeed in ensuring the NWO never realizes their goals during our generation.

Best Regards,
Merkhava

bashi

16th May 2010, 09:57

Another route for Israel has been blocked:

http://www.almanar.com.lb/NewsSite/NewsDetails.aspx?id=137326&language=en

Merkhava

17th May 2010, 22:07

The IDF Home Front Command has launched a media campaign in preparation for the national Home Front exercise known in Hebrew as Nekudat Mifneh 4 (Turning Point 4).

The joint exercise will be held by the National Emergency Management Authority, the IDF Home Front Command, the Israel Police, Magen David Adom emergency services, government offices and local authorities. It will simulate various emergency scenarios and responses provided to civilians in Israel. The focus will be the sounding of a siren across Israel on Wednesday, May 26, at 11:00 AM, requesting that all residents enter protected spaces specified in advance.

Best Regards,
Merkhava

Gita

18th May 2010, 09:39

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Iran’s Uranium Deal a Serious Blow to War Party

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'In a move that will likely drive a stake into the heart of the near-term prospects for the US-backed “crippling sanctions” against Iran, Turkey and Brazil have managed to come up with a compromise deal that provides everything the Western nations claimed to have wanted from the third-party enrichment deal in the first place.

The deal was announced last night but details were only made available this morning. According to the announcement, Iran will ship 1,200 kg of its 3.5% enriched uranium to Turkey, exactly the amount sought in the P5+1 enrichment deal, and will receive fuel rods for its medical reactor one year later, again the amount of time given in the P5+1 deal. Though the inclusion of Turkey is a new rub, everything else about the deal seems to be designed to be verbatim to the P5+1 deal in October, which the Obama Administration has repeatedly demanded Iran sign.'

Read more: Iran’s Uranium Deal a Serious Blow to War Party (http://news.antiwar.com/2010/05/17/irans-uranium-deal-a-serious-blow-to-war-party/)

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Source (http://davidicke.com/headlines)

Gita

20th May 2010, 08:42

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Rigi: US, Israel paid for assassination

Captured Jundallah leader Abdolmalek Rigi has said that while in Morocco, suspected Israeli or US agents had given him a list of people to assassinate in Tehran.

In a recent interview, Rigi told Press TV that before his arrest Jundallah had held a series of meetings in Casablanca with a group who had claimed to be NATO contacts.

"When we looked back at all the things that had happened we felt that two things were unclear. First, if they are from NATO why did they not meet with us in Afghanistan where they have bases and where they can contact us in a much more easy and secure manner," said Rigi.

"The second issue was that the first time they informed us that NATO forces wanted to meet with us we thought they were going to speak about eastern parts of Iran, because NATO forces are stationed in Afghanistan," he added.

"But they insisted that we should transfer our operations from the eastern border region to the capital. We thought that this was very strange. When we thought about it we came to the conclusion that they are either Americans acting under NATO cover or Israelis," he further explained.

http://www.presstv.ir/photo/20100519/jalili20100519065239983.jpg

Accordign to Rigi, the Israeli or US agents said they would provide him with a list of names, addresses, and photos of people who they had to assassinate in Tehran as well as any other equipment and explosives they may need to carry out their operations.

He further pointed out that they had promised him very high sums for the overall project as well as specific amounts for each assassination.

Iranian security forces arrested Rigi while he was onboard a flight from Dubai to Kyrgyzstan in late February.

Jundallah, which is based in Pakistan, has carried out numerous bombings, assassination attempts, and terrorist attacks in Iran, one of which killed at least 40 people in the southeastern city of Pishin.

After his arrest, the ringleader confessed that Western intelligence agencies supported his terror activities against Iran.

During the interview, Rigi also said that his activities were undoubtedly the result of "a mix of ignorance and hatred."

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Source (http://presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=126963&sectionid=351020101)

Gita

20th May 2010, 08:47

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US adamant on Iran sanctions despite swap declaration

In a meeting with 37 American Jewish Congressmen, US President Barack Obama underscored his support for Israel. One way Obama wants to demonstrate his commitment to the Israeli regime is by insisting on new sanctions against Iran.

The US, supported by its European allies, has prepared a draft resolution in the UN Security Council that calls on Iran to suspend its uranium enrichment activities or face a fourth round of sanctions.

The draft resolution came just two days after Iran issued a joint nuclear declaration with Turkey and Brazil that declared its readiness to engage in a nuclear fuel swap with the West under which Tehran would send some 1,200 kg of its low-enriched uranium to Turkey for a timely exchange with 120 kg of higher enriched uranium that would serve as the fuel required by the Tehran Nuclear Reactor to produce medical isotopes.

Press TV spoke to Riad Kahwaji, CEO of a Beirut-based military think tank, the Institute for Near East & Gulf Military Analysis (INEGMA) on the issue. The following is the rush transcript of the interview.

Press TV: It's been an interesting few days. To the run-up of the tri-lateral declaration between Iran, Turkey and Brazil, there was much optimism but the day after we see that the US has handed in this Security Council draft resolution. What do you make of the timing of all this?

Riad Kahwaji: Iran's agreeing to the agreement with Turkey and Brazil for the swap of the enriched uranium was a surprise move. I don't think the West was expecting it. It came at a time that the US and the West were pushing for sanctions at the UN. Now that it has been passed, the US is moving forward aggressively with the intention of saying that this is not enough. The objective here is that Iran should completely stop the enrichment of uranium, Iran should give up its enrichment program and the sanctions should be aimed at achieving this objective.

Continued here. (http://presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=126963&sectionid=351020101)

Gita

22nd May 2010, 09:10

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US Begins Massive Military Build Up Around Iran, Sending Up To Four New Carrier Groups In Region

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'As if uncontrollable economic contagion was not enough for the administration, Obama is now willing to add geopolitical risk to the current extremely precarious economic and financial situation. Over at Debkafile we read that the president has decided to “boost US military strength in the Mediterranean and Persian Gulf regions in the short term with an extra air and naval strike forces and 6,000 Marine and sea combatants.” With just one aircraft carrier in proximity to Iran, the Nobel peace prize winner has decided to send a clear message that peace will no longer be tolerated, and has decided to increase the US aircraft carrier presence in the region by a 400-500% CAGR.'

Read more: US Begins Massive Military Build Up Around Iran, Sending Up To Four New Carrier Groups In Region (http://www.infowars.com/us-begins-massive-military-build-up-around-iran-sending-up-to-4-new-carrier-groups-in-region/)

Source (http://www.davidicke.com/headlines)

Gita

23rd May 2010, 11:19

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Nuclear Fuel Swap Deal: US Sabotages ‘Unique Opportunity’ for Peaceful Resolution with Iran

'In his inaugural speech in January 2009, US president Barack Obama promised a new beginning in foreign policy towards Iran, saying “we will extend a hand if you are willing to un-clench your fist”. He didn’t actually mention Iran by name then, but everyone knew he was saying that the Bush administration’s confrontational approach to the Islamic Republic was being replaced by a more reasonable policy based on mutual dialogue.

Well, we better return to examine everything else promised in that address – about “decent jobs and affordable healthcare” and “America being a friend to each nation and to every man, woman and child” – because the 44th president is now shown to be a liar.'

Read more: Nuclear Fuel Swap Deal: US Sabotages ‘Unique Opportunity’ for Peaceful Resolution with Iran (http://globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=19253)

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Source (http://www.davidicke.com/headlines)

bashi

23rd May 2010, 12:16

Read more: Nuclear Fuel Swap Deal: US Sabotages ‘Unique Opportunity’ for Peaceful Resolution with Iran (http://globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=19253)

"Clinton’s evident glee from pushing for tougher sanctions in place of a workable dialogue reveals that the US is hell-bent on confrontation with Iran."

Thats the inevitable conclusion from what is happening.

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Merkhava

26th May 2010, 00:48

Hi Gita,

Not too much should be read into that article from Debka about the carriers. The USS Truman is going on a 6 month deployment to the 5th Fleet area and will be relieving the USS Eisenhower which is finishing up its 6 month deployment.

The two carrier groups will be in the Gulf area together for a short time as they transfer watch duty responsibilities. Then "the Ike" will go home.

This is all normal and usual fleet movement.

Best Regards,
Merkhava

Gita

26th May 2010, 13:26

"Clinton’s evident glee from pushing for tougher sanctions in place of a workable dialogue reveals that the US is hell-bent on confrontation with Iran."

Thats the inevitable conclusion from what is happening.

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Totally agree Bashi. The shame of it is that US is prepared to let the oceans go to hell rather than allow the Iraninans to sort out the oil gush disaster. They truly are of a different mindset to the rest of the human beings. :sad:

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Thanks Merkhava. I do hope you are right but I won't be surprised if yet another flase flag situation arises just to give then the excuse to lurk there a while longer.

Gita

30th May 2010, 10:17

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Israel stations nuclear missile subs off Iran

Three German-built Israeli submarines equipped with nuclear cruise missiles are to be deployed in the Gulf near the Iranian coastline.

The first has been sent in response to Israeli fears that ballistic missiles developed by Iran, Syria and Hezbollah, a political and military organisation in Lebanon, could hit sites in Israel, including air bases and missile launchers.

The submarines of Flotilla 7 — Dolphin, Tekuma and Leviathan — have visited the Gulf before. But the decision has now been taken to ensure a permanent presence of at least one of the vessels.

The flotilla’s commander, identified only as “Colonel O”, told an Israeli newspaper: “We are an underwater assault force. We’re operating deep and far, very far, from our borders.”
Each of the submarines has a crew of 35 to 50, commanded by a colonel capable of launching a nuclear cruise missile.

The vessels can remain at sea for about 50 days and stay submerged up to 1,150ft below the surface for at least a week. Some of the cruise missiles are equipped with the most advanced nuclear warheads in the Israeli arsenal.

The deployment is designed to act as a deterrent, gather intelligence and potentially to land Mossad agents. “We’re a solid base for collecting sensitive information, as we can stay for a long time in one place,” said a flotilla officer.

The submarines could be used if Iran continues its programme to produce a nuclear bomb. “The 1,500km range of the submarines’ cruise missiles can reach any target in Iran,” said a navy officer.
Apparently responding to the Israeli activity, an Iranian admiral said: “Anyone who wishes to do an evil act in the Persian Gulf will receive a forceful response from us.”

Israel’s urgent need to deter the Iran-Syria-Hezbollah alliance was demonstrated last month. Ehud Barak, the defence minister, was said to have shown President Barack Obama classified satellite images of a convoy of ballistic missiles leaving Syria on the way to Hezbollah in Lebanon.

Binyamin Netanyahu, the prime minister, will emphasise the danger to Obama in Washington this week.

Tel Aviv, Israel’s business and defence centre, remains the most threatened city in the world, said one expert. “There are more missiles per square foot targeting Tel Aviv than any other city,” he said.

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http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/europe/article7140282.ece

Gita

31st May 2010, 12:33

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Obama's Letter to Lula Exposes White House Forked Tongue On Iran

By Steve Hynd

May 28, 2010 "NewsHoggers" --May 27, 2010 -- Via Robert Naiman, it appears that President Lula of Brazil has decided to shine some light on the Obama administration's machinations on Iran. He has finally released the full text of Obama's 20th April letter to Brazil about the proposed TTR fuel swap deal and the entire thing appears today in Brazilian Foreign Policy.

The letter reads, in part:

The letter also specifically mentions the compromise of using Turkey as the location for Iran's fuel to be held "in escrow".

I would urges Brazil to impress upon Iran the opportunity presented by this offer to "escrow" its uranium in Turkey while the nuclear fuel is being produced.

This letter's authenticity is not disputed by the White House. It exposes the Obama administration's forked-tongue response to the Brazil and Turkey brokered swap. The White House is now in full spin mode, but the spin has already been undercut by the release of the letter's full text. Of late, Hilary Clinton has been the main vehicle for the White House's double-talk, which is now entirely aimed at closing down opportunities to find a negotiated settlement to the Iran nuclear issue no matter what the new National Security Strategy might say. But Obama must also bear the burden of blame, his is the desk where the buck stops.

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http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article25566.htm

bashi

31st May 2010, 18:16

This does not sound good:

"US Nuclear Submarine Sails Past Straits of Hormuz"

"Tehran reports that an Iranian naval patrol Thursday, May 27, detected a US nuclear submarine sailing through the strategic Strait of Hormuz, through which most of the oil produced by Persian Gulf states passes on its way to world markets. debkafile's Iranian sources report Tehran has placed its navy and army on high alert.

Western intelligence and naval sources confirm that a nuclear-armed American submarine has in fact entered the Persian Gulf. This confirms debkafile's report of May 20 that the Obama administration had decided to boost US military strength in the Mediterranean and Persian Gulf regions in the short term with an extra air and naval strike forces and 6,000 Marine and sea combatants. Carrier Strike Group 10, headed by the USS Harry S. Truman aircraft carrier, was due to sail out of the US Navy base at Norfolk, Virginia Friday, May 21. On arrival, it was to raise the number of US carriers off Iranian shores to two.

Thursday's arrival of a US nuclear submarine also ties in with the currently rising military tensions along Israel's borders with Syria and Lebanon.
Up until now, President Barack Obama kept just one aircraft carrier stationed off the coast of Iran, the USS Dwight D. Eisenhower in the Arabian Sea, in pursuit of his policy of diplomatic engagement with Tehran."

link: http://www.virtualjerusalem.com/news.php?Itemid=2917

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Gita

3rd June 2010, 21:55

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George W. Bush: ‘Starting Wars In Middle East Good For The Economy’ Take a wild guess who convinced George W. Bush that starting wars in the Middle East would be “good for the economy”? Oliver Stone interviews former Argentina president Néstor Kirchner

Oliver with former President Nestor Kirchner discussing President Bush.
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source (http://www.davidicke.com/headlines)

Gita

9th June 2010, 11:25

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Russia warns against Iran sanctions

Russia and China have warned against attempts to lobby for further sanctions against Iran in a UN Security Council vote due to be held on Tehran's nuclear program.

"We are against forcing the voting process," Interfax news agency quoted Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov as saying in Beijing on Friday.

The United States has been stepping up efforts to persuade veto-wielding UNSC members Russia and China to agree to a new round of sanctions against Iran.

The US and European powers, along with Israel, accuse Iran of efforts to obtain nuclear bombs.

Iran, however, strongly dismisses the allegations, insisting its nuclear activities are completely peaceful, aimed at meeting the growing domestic energy demand and providing the radio medicine needed for treating cancer patients.

A number of Western diplomats have revealed that the Security Council is expected to vote next week on the US-brokered resolution which, if approved, would impose new sanctions on Iran.

The US-led campaign for sanctions comes despite the issuance of a fuel swap declaration by Iran, Brazil and Turkey on May 17.

Under the declaration, Iran agreed to send some 1,200 kg of its 3.5 percent enriched uranium to Turkey in exchange for a total of 120 kg of 20 percent uranium for the Tehran research reactor.

"Even if approved by the UN Security Council, a new anti-Iran resolution would be inefficient," Ali-Akbar Salehi, director of the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran said on Thursday.

Salehi added that due to Tehran's lawful position and strong diplomacy the case would eventually end in Iran's favor.

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Source (http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=129036&sectionid=351020104)

Gita

9th June 2010, 11:36

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Bilderbergers Green Light Attack On Iran

The 2010 Bilderberg agenda has been revealed by veteran Bilderberg sleuth Jim Tucker and it paints a picture of crisis for the globalists, who are furious at the increased exposure their gatherings have received in recent years, as well as being dismayed at their failure to rescue both the euro and the failing carbon tax agenda, but more alarmingly according to Tucker, the majority of Bilderberg members are now in favor of military air strikes on Iran.

American Free Press muckraker Tucker has proven routinely accurate with the information he obtains from sources inside Bilderberg, which makes this year’s revelations all the more intriguing.

According to Tucker, Bilderberg luminaries are dismayed at the fact that “many important people” are not attending this year because, due to increasing exposure, invitees are “getting in trouble at home” and constituents are embarrassing them by asking irate questions such as “what are you doing with these monsters?”

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Continued here. (http://www.infowars.com/bilderbergers-green-light-attack-on-iran/)

Gita

9th June 2010, 11:43

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Iran’s Disappeared Nuclear Scientist: Video Points to Unlawful US Abduction

The mysterious disappearance of an Iranian nuclear scientist took another twist with the broadcast of a video message in which he claims that he was abducted by American and Saudi intelligence agents and taken to the US where is being held against his will.

Reuters said that the identity of Shahram Amiri was not independently verified, but the Iranian foreign ministry seemed convinced of the video’s authenticity and said that it was now following up legal measures with the US over the case.

The video was first broadcast on Iranian state television news on 7 June. It apparently shows Amiri speaking in his native Farsi into a computer wearing head phones. He claims that he was kidnapped by the CIA and the Saudi spy agency and that during his detention he was tortured in order to coerce him to make statements that were subsequently reported by ABC. [2] In his alleged confession, Amiri says that he willingly defected to the US and that Iran is conducting a secret nuclear weapons programme.

CIA sources told ABC then that they considered Amiri’s purported defection an “intelligence coup”.

Amiri, who according to Iran worked as a scientist at Malek Ashfar University in Tehran researching radioactive isotopes for medical treatment, went missing in early June 2009 during a religious pilgrimage he was making in Saudi Arabia. He was travelling to the holy city of Mecca, but is believed to have been detained by Saudi police in Medina.

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Continued here. (http://globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=19625)

Gita

9th June 2010, 11:58

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Israel preparing for prolonged ME war

Israel seems to be preparing for a prolonged war in the Middle East, demanding the United States for more military equipment and a boost of US-held arsenals in Israel.

The requests were brought up during recent visits to Washington by high-ranking Israeli defense officials, and in conversations with senior administration and Congress officials, Haaretz revealed in an article published on its website on Tuesday.

Among the requested weapons are US bombs and precision guidance kits, such as Joint Direct Attack Munition (JDAM) that add GPS/INS guidance to bombs.

The JDAM kits have been increasingly used by the Israeli air force in recent offensives, including in the 2006 war against Lebanon and the 2008 Gaza war.

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Continued here. (http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=129501&sectionid=351020202)

Gita

10th June 2010, 09:14

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UNSC slaps new sanctions on Iran

The UN Security Council (UNSC) has voted in favor of imposing a fourth round of sanctions against Iran over its nuclear program.

Of the 15 UNSC member states Brazil and Turkey voted against the new round of sanctions on Wednesday, while Lebanon abstained from vote.

The fourth round of sanctions was adopted against Iran over its uranium enrichment -- which has been portrayed as a threat in the West despite repeated assurances from the IAEA on the non-diversion of nuclear material in the country.

This is while 118 member states of the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) voiced support for Iran's right to the peaceful use of nuclear energy on Tuesday.

The resolution, which is claimed to be "the most significant" of its kind, tightens a previously-adopted arms embargo on Iran and bans the country from activities such as uranium mining.

The resolution zeroes in on 22 Iranian entities over their alleged links with Iran's enrichment plans and missile programs while placing travel restrictions and financial sanctions on 40 individuals and groups.

Javad Rahiqi, the head of the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran's Isfahan nuclear technology center, is among those facing new travel restrictions.

Also targeted in the resolution are 15 entities, which the US says are "owned, controlled, and acting on behalf of the Islamic Revolution Guard Corps" and three others which are managed by the Islamic Republic of Iran Shipping Lines.

Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad had earlier warned that he would end negotiations on his country's nuclear program in the event of fresh UNSC sanctions.

Ahmadinejad also added that the new round of sanctions will not have any effect on the country's nuclear stance.

In a bid to help resolve the standoff over its nuclear program Iran issued a declaration with Turkey and Brazil on May 17.

Based on the declaration Tehran announced readiness to send some 1,200 kg of low-enriched uranium to Turkey in exchange for a total of 120 kg of higher enriched uranium to be used in the Tehran research reactor, which produces medical isotopes for cancer patients.

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Source (http://presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=129739&sectionid=351020104)

Merkhava

12th June 2010, 09:29

Saudi Arabia gives Israel clear skies to attack Iranian nuclear sites

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/middle_east/article7148555.ece

Best Regards,
Merkhava

Merkhava

13th June 2010, 04:07

Saudis say they won't help Iran's enemy

http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=130164&sectionid=351020205

This denial by the Saudi government is to be expected and it fits the potential timeline. The probability is extremely low that the Iran War will start from an attack by Israel.

At this moment, the highest probability for an air attack is by American B-2 stealth bombers flying from the island of Diego Garcia.

Best Regards,
Merkhava

Gita

14th June 2010, 08:27

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SEA BATTLE FEAR AS IRAN SENDS FLOTILLA TO GAZA

IRANIAN President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has vowed to breach Israel’s blockade of Gaza, as two aid ships and a military escort prepare to set sail.

In a provocative move the ¬Iranian Red Crescent was this weekend due to send two vessels packed with food and medical aid and 70 relief workers.
A third ship, carrying an operating theatre, could follow.
President Ahmadinejad raised the spectre of a sea battle as he warned the ships would be carrying an escort of “volunteer marines” ready to “teach Israelis a lesson”.

Ali Shirazi, the Revolutionary Guard’s spokesman for Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, said it was “Iran’s duty to defend the innocent people of Gaza”. Foreign Secretary William Hague described the intervention as “unhelpful”.

The blockade has been in place since Hamas took control of Gaza in 2006 despite inter¬national concern about a humanitarian crisis.

That concern turned to condemnation on May 31 when, in a raid on a Turkish aid flotilla, nine people were killed by Israeli commandos.

Despite promises of an inquiry the affair has all but destroyed relations between Israel and its main ally in the Muslim world.

Abdolrauf Adibzadeh, the Red Crescent’s director of inter¬national affairs, said the ships were being sent in co-ordination with the Turkish government.

Meeting Turkish leaders in Istanbul last week the Iranian president said the vessels would not shrink from a head-on clash with Israeli military.

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Continued here. (http://www.express.co.uk/posts/view/180605/Sea-battle-fear-as-Iran-sends-flotilla-to-Gaza)

greybeard

15th June 2010, 08:26

Ive re posted this from another thread as it seems relevant here.

God grant me the serenity
to accept the things I cannot change
The courage to change the things I can
and the wisdom to know the difference

I know nothing.
I can read this and that but it is some one else's opinion.
Most news is slanted by the point of view of the writer.

There are many case in history of propaganda news, where innocent people on the same side have been killed and evidence manufactured to "prove" that the enemy did it, in order to whip up hatred of the enemy.
Some must be sacrificed in the name of the cause.

The moment one side says "Thats it I give up this senseless conflict" and let go of the tug of war it ends.
History proves this. Japan surrendered that was not and end to them they grew from there. Germany surrendered they were quickly forgiven and now are a peaceful force in the world.
The conflict in Northern Ireland went on for ages and now we have ex IRA in government. They gave up the conflict.

I have no opinion the rights or wrongs of the current conflicts except that the truth probably lies in the middle and its up to opposing parties to say enough is enough.

I leave it with the prayer above.

Chris

Gita

16th June 2010, 09:20

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Israeli Nuclear Missile Boats Off Iranian Coast

by James Dunnigan
June 14, 2010

Israel is stationing three of its five Dolphin class submarines in the Red Sea, and will keep one of them operating off the Iranian coast at all times. These subs will be armed with cruise missiles (equipped with nuclear warheads).

Last year, Israel has received two more German built Dolphin class submarines, giving it a total of five (the others were received 9-10 years ago). The older boats have since been upgraded to include larger fuel capacity, converting more torpedo tubes to the larger 650mm size, and installing new electronics. The fuel and torpedo tube mods appear to have something to do with stationing the subs off the coast of Iran. Larger torpedo tubes allow the subs to carry longer range missiles. The larger fuel capacity makes it easier to move Dolphins from the Mediterranean to the Indian ocean. Although Israel has a naval base on the Red Sea, Egypt had, until recently, had not allowed Israeli subs to use the Suez canal. So the Dolphins were modified to go around Africa, if they had to. But now the Egyptians, who are also feuding with Iran, regularly allow Israeli subs to use the canal.

Larger fuel capacity also allows the subs to spend more time on station off the Iranian coast. Currently the Dolphins can stay at sea for about 40 days (moving at about 14 kilometers an hour, on the surface, for up to 8,000 kilometers). Larger fuel capacity extends range to over 10,000 kilometers, and endurance to about 50 days.

The two new Dolphins cost about $650 million each, with Germany picking up a third of the coast, as part of their reparations for World War II atrocities against Jews. The Dolphins have a fuel cell based propulsion system which enable them to stay under waters for over a week at a time. The Dolphins are also very quiet, and very difficult for the Iranians to hunt down and destroy. The first three Dolphins didn't have the AIP (Air Independent Propulsion) system.

Israel equipped it's new Dolphin class submarines with nuclear cruise missiles in 2002. Israel also fitted their 135 kilometer range Harpoon missiles with nuclear warheads. These missiles are fired from the sub's torpedo tubes. The 1,625 ton Dolphins can carry 16 torpedoes or missiles and have ten forward torpedo tubes (four of them the larger 650mm -26 inch- size). The Dolphins are considered the most modern non-nuclear subs in the world. The first three cost $320 million each. All have a crew of 35 and can dive to a depth of more than 600 feet. The Dolphin design is based on the German 209 class subs, but has been so heavily modified that it is considered a different class.

The Israelis have developed a cruise missile, which is has a range of 1,500 kilometers and carries a 200 kiloton nuclear warhead. The objective of deploying nukes on subs is to further enhance deterrence to any nation launching a nuclear strike against Israel. If one of the Dolphins are always at sea, even a first strike against Israel would not prevent a nuclear strike by submarine launched nukes.

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Source (http://www.strategypage.com/dls/articles/Israeli-Nuclear-Missile-Boats-Off-Iranian-Coast-6-14-2010.asp)

Oliver

16th June 2010, 13:25

Listen how this Palestinian kid speaks out about their situation.
It broke my heart.

Greetings,

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4vprhpeLI5Y&feature=player_embedded

Gita

16th June 2010, 13:33

Oliver - can you please move the above vid to the Israel thread here (http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?2542-Israel-Reportedly-Attacks-Palestinian-Aid-Flotilla/page16). Thanks angel.:thumb:

Gita

17th June 2010, 09:05

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Iranian threats over Gaza keep USS Truman carrier in Mediterranean

The USS Harry S. Truman carrier, complete with its strike group of 60 warplanes and 6,000 seamen, has been ordered to turn course from the Persian Gulf and deploy with the US Sixth Fleet in the Mediterranean for the time being, debkafile’s military and Washington sources report. The administration’s decision was prompted by incoming intelligence attesting to heightened marine and military tensions between Israel, Turkey and Iran, in the wake of the Turkish premier Recep Erdogan’s determination to give his screws on Israel another turn – or two.

He was solidly backed up from Tehran Wednesday, June 16, by parliamentary speaker Ali Larijani, who threatened military retaliation against Persian Gulf and Mediterranean shipping for any interference with the vessels Iran was sending to the Gaza Strip. He did not specify what kind they were.

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Continued here. (http://theintelhub.com/2010/06/16/iranian-threats-over-gaza-keep-uss-truman-carrier-in-mediterranean/)

Gita

19th June 2010, 11:44

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Turkey warns EU against Iran sanctions

A top Turkish official warns the European Union against its recent decision to tighten the screws on Iran over its nuclear program, saying the sanctions will affect the interests of the European bloc.

Speaking to reporters on Friday at the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum in Russia, Turkish Energy Minister Taner Yildiz criticized the idea of imposing additional sanctions on Iran, saying the EU was ignoring commercial realities.

Yildiz argued that the energy sanctions on Iran were not commercially sensible as they would "ignore the world's second-largest natural gas reserves."

The Turkish minister went on to warn EU countries about the decision, saying the bloc is more likely to be affected by the recent sanctions than Turkey.

Yildiz also stated that the EU would likely reconsider the decision in the near future.

In addition to a resolution passed by the 15-member UN Security Council on June 9 which imposed a fourth round of sanctions on Iran over its nuclear program, EU foreign ministers have akso agreed to adopt tougher measures against Tehran.

The new EU sanctions, which could come into effect within weeks, include the financial, transport, and banking sectors as well as investments in or sale of equipment to Iranian oil and gas companies.

The EU decision comes as Tehran rejects Western accusations of seeking to develop nuclear weapons, arguing that the International Atomic Energy Agency in numerous reports has confirmed the non-diversion of nuclear material in the country.

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Source (http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=131071&sectionid=351020101)

Gita

19th June 2010, 11:48

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GOODBYE ARABIA? ...

http://www.davidicke.com/images/stories/2010-02/goodbyearabia.jpg

… IF IRAN GOES, THEY ALL GO

Every day more Palestinians die at the hands of the insane Israeli military and from the consequences of the Gaza concentration camp being closed by Israel to essential supplies; every day more Palestinian homes are bulldozed and farming land seized to be handed to illegal Jewish ‘settlers’; every day the Palestinian people have their lives systematically disrupted and their ability to survive systematically destroyed to serve the goal of their genocidal extinction.

Yet every day the cosseted, bloated billionaires of the Arab ‘leadership’ – mostly imposed ‘leadership’ – cast their eyes in the other direction.

‘Oh, how terrible it is to see the plight of our brothers and sisters in Gaza – the king was only saying so the other day when we were celebrating the latest oil figures.’

How outrageous that it takes Turkish and non-Muslim nationals to attempt to break the Gaza blockade while the gutless and self-obsessed ‘leadership’ of the Middle East does nothing.
Not their problem, eh?? I have news for them, it bloody well is.

Maybe they know the game is almost up and they are planning to take their riches and relocate. Or maybe, and I wouldn’t rule this out, either, they still can’t see the blatantly friggin’ obvious.
If so, I think I can help them there.

When people think of the Arab world and the Middle East they perceive a vast land of riches and power under the control of the religion of Islam in all its many and various forms.
But that’s not how it is. The Middle East is not, overwhelmingly, controlled from Riyadh, Mecca, Dubai or Tehran. It is controlled from Washington, New York, London and Tel Aviv. It is controlled ultimately by the House of Rothschild which, in turn, controls Washington, New York, London and Tel Aviv.

http://www.davidicke.com/images/stories/2010-02/iranyourenext.jpg

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Gita

19th June 2010, 11:52

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Most Americans and Europeans Support Impending Attack on Iran

Remember Hitler’s maxim that the bigger and the more outrageous the lie, the more likely the masses are to believe it? Following the results of a recent poll we once again get an object lesson demonstrating that Hitler knew what he was talking about.

“Majorities in many Western and some Muslim countries are willing to consider military action against Iran to prevent the Islamic republic from obtaining nuclear weapons, a global poll showed on Thursday,” reports the Sydney Morning Herald today. “The Pew Research Center’s poll conducted in 22 countries found majorities or pluralities in 16 countries endorsing the possibility of military intervention.”

Naturally Americans are more susceptible to neocon propaganda than other people around the world. In America, a sucker is born every minute, as P. T. Barnum said (actually it was “Paper Collar Joe” Bessimer who made the cynical comment).

“Americans are among the most supportive of a military option to deal with Iran with 66 per cent of those who oppose a nuclear-armed Iran saying they would consider the use of force, a figure second only to Nigeria’s 71 per cent.”

No explanation why Nigerians are more brain-dead than Americans who spend large periods of time sucking up fallacious and absurd propaganda disseminated by a corporate media that works hand-in-glove with transnational corporations and the military-industrial complex, or maybe that should be military-industrial-media complex.

The death merchants have burrowed deep inside the corporate media — the Carlyle Group at the New York Times (the “liberal” newspaper instrumental in propagating neocon murder disinfo prior the invasion of Iraq), Bechtel at NBC (owned by mega-death merchant General Electric), Boeing and Halliburton at ABC, and Lockheed-Martin at Gannett.

Both Fox News and CNN enthusiastically cheered the invasion of Iraq. CNN not only sought advice from the Pentagon on new hires during the invasion, but during a previous invasion the Pentagon ran the show at the news network.

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Eric J (Viking)

19th June 2010, 12:05

I know we have our hands full with the Oil spill ect etc ...

But keep your eye on the ball!!! ... Iran is bubbling...!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t6uoVGDeSWw&playnext_from=TL&videos=RxCpo_BZMvQ&feature=sub

viking

bashi

19th June 2010, 22:40

U.S., Israeli warships cross Suez Canal toward Red Sea

More than twelve United States Naval warships and at least one Israeli ship crossed the Suez Canal towards the Red Sea on Friday, British Arabic Language newspaper Al-Quds Al-Arabi reported Saturday.

source: http://www.haaretz.com/news/diplomacy-defense/report-u-s-israeli-warships-cross-suez-canal-toward-red-sea-1.297068

Eric J (Viking)

20th June 2010, 10:46

Hey thanks Bashi ... some more news here...

Roee Nahmias
Published: 06.19.10, 14:55 / Israel News

Eleven American battleships and an Israeli one crossed the Suez Canal Friday en route to the Red Sea, the London-based al-Quds al-Arabi newspaper reported.

According to the report, traffic in the canal was halted for several hours in order to allow US Navy vessels, which included an aircraft carrier and carried infantry troops, armored vehicles and ammunition, to pass from the Mediterranean Sea to the Red Sea.

It was further reported that eyewitnesses detected an Israeli warship among the vessels. No confirmation has been received from Egyptian authorities.

http://beforeitsnews.com/story/81/709/11_US_battleships_cross_Suez_Canal.html

viking

Lost Soul

20th June 2010, 16:48

Great. Iran sends a ship to escort the Gaza convoys. The Israelis and the USN deploy jointly in response.

BTW, Alfred Thayer Mahan would proudly point out that by sending one or two ships to the Med, the Iranians have lessened the presence of hostile warships near its own waters. It's an excellent example of a fleet in being tying down disproportionate forces.

Gita

21st June 2010, 08:36

Who the hell do the US government think they are telling other countries what to do? Seriously sick!

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US wants Pakistan to forgo pipeline deal

The US special envoy to Pakistan says he sought to dissuade Islamabad from signing a gas pipeline deal with Tehran, amid plans to intensify pressure on Iran.

US President Barack Obama's special envoy to Afghanistan and Pakistan Richard Holbrooke told reporters on Sunday that Washington is now busy processing bills that if passed could target the project, as well as any countries or firms involved.

"We cautioned the Pakistanis not to over-commit themselves until we know the legislation," he said but did not elaborate on the anticipated sanctions beyond a caution that that they could be "comprehensive."

"This can range from legislation which could be so comprehensive that something like this could create a major problem for any company or country," Holbrooke warned.

The announcement comes one week after Iran and its neighbor formally signed an export deal, under which Iran agrees to deliver 21.2 million cubic meter (750 million cubic feet) of natural gas per day to Pakistan from 2014.

The 7.6-billion-dollar deal was finalized after the UN Security Council voted to impose a fourth round of sanctions against Tehran, broadening earlier financial and military restrictions over allegations that Iran's nuclear program may not be civilian.

Pakistan has stressed that the deal with Iran does not fall within the new UNSC sanctions.

The US has sought to increase pressure on Iran through further unilateral sanctions -- a lead closely followed by Australia and the European Union -- which would not have been approved by veto-wielding Russia and China in the Security Council.

India -- which was originally part of the pipeline projects but pulled out last year over pipeline security concerns -- rebuffed similar US efforts earlier this year.

"We have no comments to make on what the US official has said. But energy security is of prime concern to the government, and the India-Pakistan-Iran pipeline has to be seen in this context," an official within India's foreign ministry said last April.

Iran says its nuclear program is solely aimed at the peaceful application of the technology.

Iran firmly rejects Western allegations that its nuclear program harbors a secret military drive and says its nuclear program aims to employ the peaceful aspects of the technology for civilian electricity generation and medical research.

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Gita

21st June 2010, 09:02

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Gates optimistic on Iran sanctions

In the wake of a fresh set of UN Security Council (UNSC) sanctions against Iran, the US secretary of defense claims the sanctions have a "real potential" to pressurize Iran.

Speaking to Fox News on Sunday, Defense Secretary Robert Gates said "targeted economic pressures" has "real potential" to force the Islamic Republic to halt its nuclear enrichment program.

Gates said there is "a reasonable chance" that Iranian government officials would "finally come to their senses and realize their security is probably more endangered by going forward than by stopping."

The remarks come days after the majority of the 15-member UNSC voted on June 9 for the adoption of a fourth set of sanctions against Iran, under the allegation that Tehran's nuclear program is aimed at developing nuclear weapons.

Authorities in Tehran have repeatedly rejected the Western claim, arguing that as a signatory to the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, Iran has the right to a peaceful nuclear program for civilian electricity generation and medical research.

Iran has also warned about the adverse effects of exerting pressure on the Islamic Republic, saying sanctions would only strengthen the Iranian nation's resolve regarding the nuclear issue.

Meanwhile, the top US defense official went on to reject the policy of "containing a nuclear Iran," explaining that US efforts were aimed at preventing Tehran from acquiring nuclear weapons.

"I don't think we're prepared to even talk about containing a nuclear Iran. I think... our view still is we do not accept the idea of Iran having nuclear weapons," Gates said.

"And our policies and our efforts are all aimed at preventing that from happening," he added.

Gates went on to reiterate the US stance regarding a confrontation with Iran, saying that all options including a military strike still remained on the table.

The warnings come as Iran has rejected the new UNSC sanction resolutions against its nuclear program, arguing that the International Atomic Energy Agency has in numerous reports asserted that its inspectors and surveillance equipment have found no evidence of diversion in Iran's declared nuclear material.

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has criticized the resolution for lacking legal value, calling it "a worthless piece of paper."

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Gita

22nd June 2010, 08:06

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Israel's Planned Attack on Iran from Caucasus Base

A week ago, Israel leaked to the press that they had permission from Saudi Arabia to use their air space to attack Iran. The Saudi’s quickly denied this. The effort on Israel’s part was a ruse to cover their real plans, to attack from the Republic of Georgia, close to Iran’s northern border. However, the breakdown in relations with Turkey after miscalculating the response to their Flotilla raid on a Turkish ship in international waters may have ended this operation.

Israel, whose arms agreements with Turkey mounted to nearly $5 billion dollars over a period of years, had been training pilots in Turkey for bombing attacks on Iran. During these training missions, Israel was smuggling aircraft through Turkish airspace.

Sources indicate that Georgia has become a major transhipment point for narcotics from Afghanistan and other countries in the region. Both a land route through Turkey and into Northern Cyprus and air and sea routes directly into Europe and North America have been cited.

Turkey had allowed Israel to use their air space for training because their terrain closely resembled areas of Iran that Israel planned to attack. However, Turkey was unaware that planes involved in this effort were being relocated to forward staging areas in the Republic of Georgia, making Turkey, technically, fully complicit in this planned illegal attack.

Helping coordinate the attack are intelligence units forward stationed in Azerbaijan, under the guise of technicians, trainers and advisors under the broad armaments agreements with that small nation.

Supply operations, moving necessary ordnance, much of it supplied by the United States under ammunition storage agreements, is being moved through the Black Sea to the Georgian Port of Poti, a major site for exporting coal and manganese ore.

Cover for the supply operations is being performed by the Georgian Coast Guard, set up by Israel and manned with Israeli observers. Their job is to keep Russian surveillance craft away from supply operations under the guise of a “Gaza type” naval blockade of Abkhazia, a separatist province supported by Russia.

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Gita

22nd June 2010, 08:12

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Iran after ties with all but US, Israel

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has reiterated the Islamic Republic's interest in establishing close ties with all countries throughout the globe except the US and Israel.

President Ahmadinejad's remarks came in a meeting with new Iranian ambassador to Nicaragua Morteza Khalaj, before his departure to Managua Monday morning.

"Iran is after establishing close relations with all countries of the world except for the United States and the Zionist regime," IRNA quoted the president as saying.

President Ahmadinejad further called for the expansion of cooperation between Tehran and Managua.

"Efforts must be made to expand the level of Iran-Nicaragua collaborations in economic, political and cultural fields," the Iranian president emphasized.

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Gita

22nd June 2010, 08:43

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Iran to ban two nuclear inspectors

(CNN) -- The head of Iran's atomic energy agency said Monday that the nation will ban two U.N. atomic watchdog inspectors from visiting nuclear facilities, the semi-official Iranian Student News Agency reported.

Ali Akbar Salehi, the chief of the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran, said Tehran barred the International Atomic Energy Agency inspectors "due to their presentation of false information and early disclosure of official data," according to the news agency.

The IAEA confirmed that Iran objected to two of its inspectors.

"The IAEA has full confidence in the professionalism and impartiality of the inspectors concerned," Greg Webb, an agency press officer, said in a statement.

The agency "will continue to monitor the situation carefully" and share news about the situation "as appropriate," Webb said.

Countries have the right to limit IAEA inspectors, according to an IAEA official in Vienna, Austria. The official said it only becomes a problem if the practice impedes the agency's ability to assess the country's nuclear activities by barring too many.

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Gita

22nd June 2010, 09:08

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Iran warns against cargo inspections

In response to a US-sponsored sanctions resolution imposed by the UN Security Council against Iran, Tehran threatens to retaliate if its cargo ships come under inspection.

"Our naval forces will respond in the same way if our cargo ships are inspected," Head of the National Security and Foreign Policy Commission of Iran's Majlis Alaeddin Boroujerdi said in a meeting with Iranian Navy Commander Rear Admiral Habibollah Sayyari on Monday.

According to IRNA, the top lawmaker said that the unilateral inspection of Iranian cargo ships run counter to the country's sovereignty, criticizing the presence of arrogant powers in the Persian Gulf and the Sea of Oman.

The recent UN sanction imposed against the Islamic Republic authorizes more stop and search operations of Iranian cargo ships as part of punitive measures against the country's nuclear program.

"The presence of foreign forces in our seas is out of the question and we will not allow arrogant powers to weaken the sovereignty of the Islamic Republic," Boroujerdi continued.

He also reiterated the importance of reinforcing Iranian navy forces in the Persian Gulf.

Tehran has repeatedly rejected Western claims that it is seeking to build nuclear weapons, arguing that the International Atomic Energy Agency has in numerous reports asserted that its inspectors and surveillance equipment at Iran's nuclear facilities have found no evidence of diversion in the country's declared nuclear material.

Earlier, in similar remarks, Iranian Parliament Speaker Ali Larijani had warned of taking tough actions against Western ships in the Persian Gulf and the Sea of Oman.

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Gita

23rd June 2010, 07:29

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Iran bashes UAE officials' behaviour

A top Iranian official says 'irresponsible' remarks made by certain authorities of the United Arab Emirates (UAE) will harm Tehran-Abu Dhabi relations.

"A central plank of Tehran's foreign policy is to enhance relations with neighbors and Muslim countries, and to promote unity in the Islamic community", spokesperson for the Iranian Parliament's National Security and Foreign Policy Committee Kazem Jalai told IRNA.

He was talking in response to the UAE Federal National Council Speaker Abdul Aziz Al Ghurair's inappropriate behavior in a meeting of the Inter-Parliamentary Union's (IPU) Executive Committee in Dubai which resulted in the Iranian delegates walking out of the session.

"Certain countries swayed by the US and other Western states promote Iranophobia in the region and across the world. They make undiplomatic remarks out of naivety and profiteering, which has a negative impact on reciprocal ties", said Jalali.

Iran's representative to the Dubai meeting added the West tries to advance its own interests, and seeks peace in the Middle East with the aim of selling military weapons and creating a false competition in the region, which, he said, will finally serve its materialistic interests.

"The UAE owes the better part of its economic development to Iran and Iranian investors", Jalali underlined.

Unfortunately, he added, irresponsible behavior and comments by some UAE officials have created a wall of mistrust in the court of Iranian public opinion.

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Gita

23rd June 2010, 09:00

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Israel to spy on Iran with new satellite

Israel says it has launched a new spy satellite in a southern military base which will reportedly enable Tel Aviv to spy on Iran's nuclear facilities.

"A few minutes ago…Israel launched the Ofek-9 (Horizon-9) satellite from the Palmachim base," AFP quoted the Israeli Foreign Ministry as saying in a statement on Tuesday.

"The results of the launch are being examined by the technical team," the statement added.

The ministry did not elaborate on the satellite, but Israel's public radio said the device, like its predecessors in the Ofek series, is cable of taking high resolution pictures.

Developed by Israel Aircraft Industries and launched on a Shavit rocket, the satellite is aimed at monitoring Iran's nuclear program, the radio added.

According to director of Israel's military space program Chaim Eshed, the Ofek-9 -- which is Israel's sixth spy satellite in space -- is expected to increase the speed at which Israel can receive high-resolution images of subjects of interest.

Israel, the Middle East's sole wielder of nuclear weapons and believed to own an arsenal of 200-300 nuclear warheads, accuses Iran of making efforts to produce nuclear weapons.

This is while the International Atomic Energy Agency has in numerous reports asserted that its inspectors and surveillance equipment have found no evidence of diversion in Iran's declared nuclear material.

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Gita

23rd June 2010, 10:42

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US bid to cut Iran-Iraq border trade

US military forces stationed in Iraq have set up watch-towers near Iran's border to scrutinize the extent of commercial dealings between the two neighboring nations.

The mayor of Iran's western city of Mehran said the outposts in question are equipped with surveillance equipment and have been rigged up to monitor volume and nature of trade between Iran and Iraq with the specific aim of taking measures to reduce the amount of the bilateral border trade .

"According to our intelligence sources, US forces have been deployed in a market on the Iraqi side of the border, located straight across from a similar market in the Iranian border town of Mehran, have established these towers in an effort to screen Iranian exports at the Mehran border checkpoint," said the mayor, Valiullah Hayati, on Wednesday.

"In the past few months, following tightened restrictions by Iraqi customs officials, the inflow of Iran's non-oil exports [into Iraq] has sharply declined at the international and commercial Mehran border station," Hayati noted.

The mayor attributed the recent reduction of Iranian border trade with Iraq to the current political instability in the country as well as the political pressure exerted by American authorities.

The Mehran border terminal, located 90 kilometers (56 miles) south of Western provincial capital Ilam, is one of the busiest crossing points that handles the daily passage of about 5,000 Iranian pilgrims that travel to Iraq's shrine cities and the traffic of over 700 truckloads of Iranian goods to the Arab nation.

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Gita

23rd June 2010, 20:11

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'Israel too weak to attack Iran'

The Iranian president has warned the Zionist regime of Israel against any potential military action against Iran, saying Tel Aviv is not capable of doing so.

"The Zionist regime is too weak to launch aggression against Iran. They long to deal a blow to Iran, but wouldn't dare even think about it", Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was quoted by IRNA as saying in an interview with Turkey's ATV network.

"They all know that playing with Iran is like playing with a lion", added President Ahmadinejad.

Elsewhere in his remarks, the president underlined the Israeli attack on the Gaza-bound aid flotilla was the most despicable act the Zionist regime could have done.

"Today, world nations are all ears to hear what freedom-seeking peoples are saying", President Ahmadinejad further said.

"Fortunately, freedom-seeking and justice-seeking nations reacted to the Zionist regime's brutal actions, and we hope protests to the occupying regime will continue", added the president.

He underlined the Gaza siege should be lifted as soon as possible.

President Ahmadinejad then said the enemy's infiltration into the region and other parts of the world has made complete unity among nations hard to achieve.

In another part of his interview with the Turkish network, President Ahmadinejad described the Tehran Declaration as a historic one, adding today it has turned into a yardstick against which to measure world countries' compliance with the law.

"If Western countries opt to follow the same course they have already taken, a nuclear fuel swap will be pointless", highlighted President Ahmadinejad.

He said Tehran will continue to work towards dialog and peaceful relations.

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OnyxKnight

23rd June 2010, 20:35

Turkey and my country would most likely side with Iran.

I wonder what chances we have against USA and Israel ... :(

Fredkc

23rd June 2010, 20:37

Gita;
I suggest you have a read here. (http://www.timebomb2000.com/vb/showthread.php?t=364573)
Too much to copy/paste back and forth, but.... worth a read.

Fred

Caution: theres some krazy folk over there, on that forum.

Gita

23rd June 2010, 20:44

Fred had a quick look at the link/forum and got more confused than I already am!!:confused::blink: What are you trying to do to me kingy?? I may have to go back and take a better look when my brain isn't so mushed - a bit late in the night here. Give us a clue hun. :becky:

Fredkc

23rd June 2010, 20:54

In short, abouty a month ago, Saudi Arabia gave Isreal "fly over rights" where attacking Iran is concerned. The story's links talk about Israel landing planes, and support supplies at an air field inside Saudi Arabia.

People keep forgetting that the real enemies in the ME are actually Iran (Shi ite), and Saudi Arabia (Sunni).

That no one was more upset about the US invading Iraq than the Saudi's were, because, as nasty as Saddam was, he did perform a service to the Saudis. He operated a "secular" government (religious in name only, and only when it suited him) and a large territorial buffer between Iran and S.A. In short, he was the "junk yard dog" so mean no one would cross him, and so he kept the Iranians at bay.

Then along comes the US, and in their idiocy, not only gets rid of the dog, but hands a huge portion of land (Iraq) over to a shia majority. Iran and Iraq will sooner or later become either close allies, or one country. And this bodes ugly for the Saudis.

think back on all the heat the Saudis took for allowing even the US to place troops in their country... now imagine what they're going to get over allowing Israel to fly-over... and now base planes and supplies within the "holy country"?

So, if this be where things stand, imagine the desperation the Saudis must feel re. Iran's status. Imagine the heat both Israel and the Saudis are willing to take over this.

"Interesting times", no doubt.

Fred

Gita

24th June 2010, 07:43

Thanks Fred. I’m not sure if I agree with some of it as it was Iraq under orders of US that attached Iran which led to the 10 year war between them and I just can’t see the two countries merging any time soon to be honest. I’ve also been under the impression that the Saudis and US are bed partners so whatever is projected on the surface is probably the opposite to what’s actually going on underneath. Interesting times indeed. :wink:

Gita

24th June 2010, 07:51

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Pakistan to go ahead with Iran gas deal

Pakistan has brushed aside the unilateral US sanctions against Iran, saying it will go ahead with the Iran-Pakistan gas pipeline project as planned.

"We could start the project as soon as possible to meet the energy crisis which the country faces," a Press TV correspondent reported Pakistan's Foreign Ministry spokesman Abdul Basit as saying on Wednesday.

Basit added that measures were underway by the Pakistani government to start implementing the multi-billion-dollar contract on the import of natural gas from Iran in 2014.

The comments come days after Pakistani Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi announced the sealing of a deal between Islamabad and Tehran in view of Pakistan's growing energy needs.

"This agreement is in the interest of Pakistan and it will only see its interests and the international laws…… the Iran-Pakistan gas pipeline agreement will not come under the ambit of the sanctions on Tehran," Qureshi said on Monday.

Earlier in the week, the US special envoy to Pakistan, Richard Holbrooke, warned Pakistan not to "over-commit" itself to the deal as it comes in violation of new US-adopted sanctions against the Islamic Republic which target the Iranian energy sector.

Iran, however, has completed the construction of more than a third of the 2,600-kilometer gas pipeline, which is estimated to cost $7 billion.

Under the deal, Iran will supply its southeastern neighbor with 760 million cubic feet (21.5 million cubic meters) of gas per day, which amounts to 20 percent of the recipient's demands.

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Gita

24th June 2010, 08:17

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Iran sanctions, 'no beginning for talks'

In the wake of a new UN Security Council (UNSC) resolution against Iran, the country's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad dismisses the notion that sanctions will pave the way for further negotiations with the Islamic Republic.

Speaking on Wednesday, President Ahmadinejad criticized the fourth round of UNSC sanctions on Iran, saying "The recent resolution against the Iranian nation was in fact a loud announcement of the fall of liberalism and humanism."

The Iranian chief executive went on to stress the futility of such punitive measures, saying that "Those who ratified the resolution are perfectly aware that it will have no impact."

"They have stated clearly that this resolution is the start of negotiations with Iran, but they are mistaken," President Ahmadinejad said, adding that the West cannot overpower the Iranian nation by resorting to such outdated threatening measures.

He also lashed out at the West for using the carrot and stick policy, warning that "the Iranian nation will break their stick by its logic."

The remarks came as earlier on June 9, the majority of the 15-member UNSC voted in favor of a US-drafted fourth round of sanctions which broadens previous financial and military restrictions against Iran.

The sanctions were approved as the International Atomic Energy Agency has in numerous reports asserted that its inspectors and surveillance equipment at Iran's nuclear facilities have found no evidence of diversion in the country's declared nuclear material.

Tehran has rejected the resolution as lacking legal basis, saying that such punitive measures would only strengthen the Iranian nation's resolve in its pursuit of the nuclear technology for peaceful purposes.

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777

24th June 2010, 08:45

Gita

24th June 2010, 12:13

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Iran renews call for nuke-free world

Iran's Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki blames nuclear-armed states for the failure of efforts aimed at global disarmament, calling for a world free from weapons.

"Nuclear-armed countries are responsible for failure of efforts aimed at dismantling nuclear weapons," IRNA quoted Mottaki as saying at the International Conference on Nuclear Disarmament in Central Asia and the Caspian Sea Littoral States in Turkmenistan's capital Ashgabat on Thursday.

He voiced Iran's full support for dismantling nuclear weapons in Central Asia as part of Tehran's push for international nuclear disarmament.

The Iranian minister expressed confidence that such moves would be "fruitful" in tightening security in countries of the region.

Mottaki said that using the issue of such weapons as a tool to achieve political aims is the worst form of "blackmailing" and called on the international community to prevent nuclear-armed countries from accessing such weapons.

He went on to say that the first step towards global disarmament is that nuclear-armed countries must outline a timetable for dismantling their atomic weapons and added, "Otherwise, all efforts aimed at establishing a world free of nuclear weapons will be futile."

Mottaki also stressed that Israel, which is the only possessor of nuclear weapons in the Middle East, endangers the region's peace and security.

Turkmen President Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov inaugurated the one-day conference on Thursday, which was also attended by Kazakhstan and Tajikistan and deputy foreign ministers from Kyrgyzstan, Russia, and Azerbaijan.

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Gita

24th June 2010, 12:20

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Reports: IAF Landed at Saudi Base, US Troops near Iran Border

The Israeli Air Force recently unloaded military equipment at a Saudi Arabia base, a semi-official Iranian news agency claimed Wednesday, while a large American force has massed in Azerbaijan, which is on the northwest border of Iran.

Both reports follow by less than a week the Pentagon’s confirmation that an unusually large American fleet sailed through the Suez Canal Saturday. Several reports stated that an Israeli ship joined the armada.

The Pentagon played down the news, saying the American maneuvers were routine. However, a report by Iran on Wednesday that it has enriched dozens of pounds of 17 per cent enriched uranium serves as a reminder that time is running out to stop Iran from being able to produce a nuclear weapon.

Iran’s Fars News Agency said the Israeli military aircraft landed 10 days ago at the Saudi base near the city of Tabuk, located in northwest Saudi Arabia, one of the closest areas in the oil kingdom to Iran.

Fars said that the Tabuk base will be the central station for an Israeli attack on Iran. It quoted an Islamic news site that a commercial airline passenger said the airport in Tabuk was closed to all other traffic during the alleged Israeli landings. The passenger said that "no reasonable explanation” was given for shutting down the airport and those passengers were compensated financially and booked in four-star hotels.

“The relations between Saudi Arabia and Israel have become the talk of the town,” the passenger added. The chief authority in Tabuk, Prince Fahd ben Sultan, was reported be coordinating the cooperation with Israel.

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Gita

24th June 2010, 15:40

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Iran to reveal condition for nuclear talks

Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad says he will announce the conditions for talks with countries, which voted in favor of the anti-Iran UN resolution next week.

Speaking at a gathering of Friday Prayers leaders in Tehran on Thursday, the Iranian president said that the Islamic Republic would “use its logic to negotiate with the West in a manner that would make them regret their anti-Iran decision.”

“By adopting the [anti-Iran] resolution they made their move and now its our turn,” President Ahmadinejad added.

He went on to say that while certain countries consider the anti-Iran 1929 Resolution as an indication of their strength and Iran's weakness, the adoption of the resolution signaled the Islamic Republic's power.

The UN Security Council approved on June 9 a US-drafted resolution to impose a fourth round of tougher sanctions against Iran.

The sanctions were approved as the International Atomic Energy Agency has in numerous reports asserted that its inspectors and surveillance equipment at Iran's nuclear facilities have found no evidence of diversion in the country's declared nuclear material.

Tehran has rejected the resolution as lacking any legal basis, saying that such punitive measures would only strengthen the Iranian nation's resolve in its pursuit of nuclear technology for peaceful purposes.

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Gita

25th June 2010, 20:00

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'US sanctions will not stop Iran progress'

Iranian lawmakers say new unilateral sanctions by the US cannot undermine the Islamic Republic's determination to pursue peaceful nuclear activities.

The US Congress on Thursday endorsed new unilateral sanctions targeting Iran's energy and banking sectors on top of a fourth round of sanctions approved by the United Nations Security Council earlier in May.

"Americans in recent months have done their utmost to pressure Iran to give up its inalienable right to peaceful nuclear energy but got no result," IRNA quoted Hossein Sobhaninia as saying on Friday.

This caused the US administration to reach a “political deadlock,” he said, describing the recent sanctions by the US Congress as “hasty measures to help Washington exit this impasse and its internal crisis.”

Sobhaninia said the US would not succeed in achieving its goals, given long years of US-led sanctions against the Iranian nation, adding that the move would only "promote unity and stability" in Iran.

The lawmaker vowed Tehran's determination to use “all its diplomatic capacity to fight off the sanctions by clarifying its just policies across the world” and said that the energy-stripped, recession-stricken West would be the real loser of this game.

"The US has imposed the most sanctions against Iran so far and it realizes the futility of such measures the most," said lawmaker Ismail Kowsari.

“Americans are well aware that such measures are aimed at helping their country out of the deadlock over Iran's just nuclear stance and this is why the sanctions have not yielded any results so far,” he added.

“By adopting such measures the US seeks to derail Iran from its just path and discourage it from reaching its goals but they are wasting their time and unless their leaders change their obstinate and malevolent ways against Iran they will get nowhere."

Kowsari stressed that real dialogue could only be achieved by respecting the sovereignty and independence of other nations.

While the US possesses and has used nuclear weapons in the past, Washington, in a politically-motivated move, is imposing unilateral sanctions against Iran, which does not possess nuclear weapons nor does it seek to develop such weapons.

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Gita

25th June 2010, 20:05

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Russia slams unilateral Iran sanctions

Russia has slammed unilateral sanctions imposed by the US and the European Union against Iran, warning them against risking Russian business interests.

"We do not support them. We think they are totally wrong in substance and in tactics," Russian ambassador to the EU, Vladimir Chizhov, told reporters in Brussels on Friday.

"We will certainly not accept any infringement of the rights and of the activities of Russian companies on the basis of those unilateral decisions," he said.

The remarks came in response to a move by the US and the European bloc to impose sanctions on Iran's oil and gas sectors -- measures beyond the fourth round of UN Security Council sanctions approved in May.

The Russian diplomat, whose country along with other veto-wielding members of Security Council approved the US-brokered sanctions, criticized the follow-on measures by the European Union as "not clever."

"If you want to dissuade Iran from pursuing a nuclear program ... then why the hell are you banning the supply of equipment for the oil and gas industry?" AFP quoted Chizhov as saying.

The Russia envoy criticized the sanctions for hindering diplomatic efforts to solve the West's standoff with Iran over its nuclear program because Iranian officials "will immediately sense a difference of views" among world powers.

Expressing concern over the interference of the sanctions with Russian business interests in Iran, the envoy warned that the move could affect Moscow's cooperation with the EU on Tehran's nuclear program.

Russia's cooperation with the European Union "will certainly depend on the degree to which the EU will be taking into consideration our sensitivities regarding the interests of Russian companies involved," Chizhov said.

The United States and Israel have managed to persuade the EU to oppose Iran's nuclear activities over alleged concerns that Tehran might be seeking nuclear weapons — a claim repeatedly rejected as politically-motivated by the Islamic Republic.

The allegations and the unilateral sanctions against Iran come while the US possesses a nuclear arsenal and has used atomic weapons in the past.

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Merkhava

28th June 2010, 13:17

In my opinion...

Israel must not attack Iran and must resist the pressure from the Western elitists who are trying very hard right now to goad them into an attack.

If an attack on Iran's nuclear facilities were to be done, Israel would need to commit the majority of its air force to the mission. The risk is too great and the losses of planes and pilots would leave Israel's skies defenseless. A failure of the mission would embolden Israel's enemies like nothing ever before has done and would virtually guarantee a simultaneous multi-national attack on several borders.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu must stand down. The consequences to Israel are catastrophic if he does not.

I have always warned over the years that the Iran War must not be allowed to happen.

1) If Israel carries out the attack, then Israel will not long survive before being conquered by a simultaneous multi-front war launched by the Muslim nations. That is what the timeline looks like if Israel launches its planes to Iran.

2) If the Americans carry out the attack, Israel will survive in that timeline, but the consequences for the whole world will be catastrophic.

3)If the Iran War never happens, there is hope for us in that timeline.

Best Regards,
Merkhava

Rocky_Shorz

29th June 2010, 07:48

Iran canceled the aid flotilla and decided to use Hezbollah to prod Israel into action through Lebanon...

TORONTO (Reuters) - Russian President Dmitry Medvedev said Sunday he was alarmed by U.S. assertions that Iran may have enough fuel for two nuclear weapons and warned that if confirmed the Islamic Republic may face new measures.

Central Intelligence Agency Director Leon Panetta told ABC's "This Week" television program that the agency thinks Iran has enough low-enriched uranium now for two weapons, but that Tehran would have to further enrich the material first.

"As to this information -- it needs to be checked," Medvedev told reporters in Toronto, where he was attending the Group of 20 summit of rich and emerging nations.

"In any case, such information is always alarming because today the international community does not recognize the Iranian nuclear program as transparent," Medvedev said.

Russian leaders rarely comment on CIA statements and Medvedev's sharp comments indicate the gulf that has grown between Moscow and Tehran over recent months.

The Kremlin and Tehran had a public row last month after Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad admonished the Kremlin for bowing to what he said was U.S. pressure to agree further sanctions.

story link (http://www.iranfocus.com/en/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=20879:russia-alarmed-by-cia-view-of-irans-weapons&catid=8:nuclear&Itemid=45)

Gita

29th June 2010, 16:50

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'Attacking Iran, incredibly destabilizing'

Chairman of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff Admiral Mike Mullen warns that any military action against Iran would be "incredibly destabilizing" to the region.

The US and Israel understand that the use of force against Iran would be "incredibly destabilizing," Mullen said addressing the Aspen Security Forum on Monday.

The top US military official, however, renewed allegations that Iran is pursuing nuclear weapons under the guise of peaceful nuclear work and said that that there is "no reason to trust" Iran.

According to Mullen, who had previously threatened Tehran with military options, Iran's access to nuclear weapons would be "incredibly dangerous" for the Islamic Republic.

The top US commander also expressed skepticism that the exertion of sanctions would be an effective tool to make Iran relinquish its nuclear activities.

Mullen's statements came in the wake of the estimations of CIA Director Leon Panetta who said on Sunday that he "thinks" Iran was in possession of enough low-enriched uranium to produce two atomic weapons within two years.

In an interview with ABC's "This Week", Panetta stressed that there was "some debate" as to whether Iran would be interested in making a nuclear weapon, but that the hypothetical step would take the country at least two years.

The United Nations Security Council (UNSC) passed a fourth round of sanctions on Iran as punishing measures against the country's nuclear program. The UN sanctions were followed by a series of unilateral sanctions approved by the US Congress on Iran's energy and banking sectors.

The UNSC resolution was approved despite the opposition of 118 member states of the Non-Aligned Movement, which backed Iran's right to the peaceful use of nuclear energy.

The United States along with its Western allies have been accusing Iran of seeking military objectives in its nuclear program. Iran, a signatory to the Non-Proliferation Treaty rejects the allegations, arguing that all its nuclear program and activities are under the full supervision of the International Atomic Energy Agency.

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Gita

29th June 2010, 17:46

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Obama DOCTRINE: Congress Just Declared Preemptive WAR on Iran

War with Iran has already been decided by the powers that be and the modern-day quasi-declaration happened last Thursday. Using the same legislative and propaganda playbook that led to the Iraq War, the U.S. Government has just officially declared War on Iran. Reuters reported “Congress on Thursday approved tough new unilateral sanctions aimed at squeezing Iran’s energy and banking sectors, which could also hurt companies from other countries doing business with Tehran. The House of Representatives passed the bill 408-8 and sent it to President Barack Obama for signing into law. The Senate had approved it 99-0 earlier in the day.”

Congress hasn’t officially voted for a Declaration of War since World War II. In modern times they use creative wording in bills that authorize the broad use of force across borders in the sweeping “War on Terror.” The Bush Doctrine of preemptively attacking countries because they may pose a threat to America in the future was universally trashed by progressives, but is alive and well under Obama, the Prince of Peace, without one dissenting vote in the Senate. This authority is what the Obama Administration claims also gives them the legal argument to bomb sovereign countries likePakistan.

This unilateral decision by the United States Congress comes on the heels of a 12-2 U.N. Security Council vote on June 8th to impose a “modest tightening of sanctions” against Iran. Of course, Russia and China have been assured that sanctions won’t apply to their energy needs in order to secure their votes. After the vote President Obama asserted that, “these sanctions do not close the door on diplomacy.”

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Continued here. (http://www.activistpost.com/2010/06/obama-doctrine-congress-just-declared.html)

Ron Paul: Iran Sanctions = Act of War
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Tuza

30th June 2010, 06:45

Gita

30th June 2010, 08:26

I hope the bloody thing breaks and falls down to earth, I have just about had enough of that lot, they do nothing but look for a fight.

Iran is well aware of the Zionist plans and are not afraid of broadcasting it. They are a major obstacle in achieving NWO and Israel (government) and its whores are trying to eradicate the ‘problem’ but lets hope they have got more than they bargained for. Time will tell.

Gita

30th June 2010, 08:47

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Pressure on Iran 'over Palestinian issue'

Iran's Parliament speaker says the existing Western pressure on the country has its roots in the stance adopted by the Tehran government on the Israeli-Palestinian issue.

Speaking in a meeting with Hamas political leader Khaled Mashaal late Tuesday, Iranian Majlis Speaker Ali Larijani dismissed the ongoing pressure on the Islamic Republic over its nuclear program as politically motivated.

He went on to explain that based on information disclosed by a foreign minister from a country which is a permanent UN Security Council member, if Iran makes a compromise with the West over the Palestinian issue, all pressure will be eliminated.

"Our main problem with you is not over your nuclear dossier. Even if Iran builds a nuclear bomb, we won't have any problem with it," Larijani quoted the unnamed foreign minister as saying.

"Our problem with Iran is over the Palestinian-Israeli issue and should we reach an agreement on that we will have no problem with Tehran," he added.

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Gita

30th June 2010, 09:27

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NY police 'beat up' Iranian professor

A US-based Iranian university professor and senior political analyst, Kaveh Afrasiabi, says he has been brutally beaten up by police officers in New York.

Speaking to IRNA on Tuesday, professor Afrasiabi explained about the unusual manner in which he was arrested, saying that he was handcuffed and sent to jail under the pretext that he had not paid his traffic ticket.

"While handcuffed I was pushed to the front. Then my head hit a metal rod and I was seriously wounded. I was then sent to the hospital in an ambulance due to severe injuries," said Afrasiabi who could hardly speak.

After he was discharged from the hospital, the police took him to court where the judge ordered his release.

Afrasiabi said his arrest came over a traffic ticket which he had to pay 25 years ago.

Afrasiabi has taught political science at Tehran University, Boston University, and Bentley College. He has also been a visiting scholar at Harvard University, UC Berkeley and Binghamton University.

The Iranian professor, who is a former consultant to the UN program of Dialogue Among Civilizations, has appeared on numerous television talk shows, including Press TV, CNN, MSNBC and Al-Jazeera. He has also worked as a consultant to CBS's 60 Minutes program.

He has also authored the book After Khomeini: New Directions in Iran's Foreign Policy' and is a co-author of Reading in Iran Foreign Policy After September 11.

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Gita

30th June 2010, 11:01

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Israeli Nuclear Espionage: The Art of Keeping America at Risk for Fun and Profit

This week, newspapers around the world received reports and signed documents from South Africa. The reports said that, in 1975, Israel agreed to sell South Africa nuclear weapons. South Africa then released an arms agreement signed by current Israeli President Shimon Peres. This is the document “heard round the world.”

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Meetings are being held in New York to set up a conference for 2012 to guarantee that the Middle East is nuclear free. Israel has been informed that it will not be able to hide behind denials and that the nuclear arsenal put on the sale block by Israel in 1975, and nobody knows how many times since, has to go. When Israel was finally caught, it changed at least one part of a game, but the game will go on.

What does it mean? Neither South Africa nor Israel is admitting that the nukes were delivered. General beliefs are that they were, a real shock to Nelson Mandela when he took office, from prisoner of apartheid to commander of a nuclear power. What is proven by this is that Israel was, even 35 years ago, a nuclear state, in direct violation of numerous international treaties. It also proves that Israel offered nukes to South Africa, a rogue nation under sanctions that covered not only any weapons but trade as well. This made Israel a criminal state and Mr. Peres a war criminal.

More than that, it makes any aid America gives Israel illegal. If Israel is nuclear, which is now official, and in violation of international treaties, just as with Iraq and Iran, then America has to demand inspections and disarmament. There is no choice. This is the law. Law for Iran, law for Iraq is also law for Israel. Israel has expected this day for years. The US can’t give or sell arms to any country with an illegal nuclear arsenal. Worse than this, we are sworn to defend the world from any nation that would spread nuclear weapons, a charge made by the South African government, one that has been made before, but can no longer be ignored.

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Gita

30th June 2010, 11:08

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Attack On Iran Imminent, Warns Fidel Castro

As I was writing every one of my previous Reflections, and a catastrophe was quickly zeroing in on humanity, my major concern was to fulfill the primary duty to inform our people.

Today, I feel more relax than 26 days ago. As the situation evolves, I can reiterate and expand on the information to the national and international public.

Obama has committed to attend the quarterfinals match on July 2, if his country’s team makes it to that stage. He supposedly knows better than anyone that the quarterfinals will not be contested because very serious developments will take place before that; or at least he should know.

Last Friday, June 25, an international press agency known for the attention to details in its reports, published a statement by the “…Navy Commander of the elite Corps of the Guardians of the Islamic Revolution General Ali Fadavi…,” warning “…that if the United States and its allies inspect Iranian ships in international waters ‘they will have their response in the Persian Gulf and the Strait of Hormuz.’”
The information was taken from the local news agency Mehr of Iran.

According to the press dispatch, said news agency reported that “Fadavi added that ‘the Navy of the Revolutionary Guardians currently has hundreds of vessels equipped with missile launchers.’”
The information, produced approximately at the same time of what Granma published or perhaps before, seemed at some points an exact copy of the Reflections elaborated on Thursday June 24th and ran by that paper on Friday 25th.

The coincidence can be explained by the simple use of a logical reasoning. I was completely unaware of what the Iranian local agency had published.

I have absolutely no doubt that as soon as the American and Israeli warships are deployed –alongside the rest of the American military vessels positioned off the Iranian coasts– and they try to inspect the first merchant ship from that country, there will be a massive launching of missiles in both directions. At that moment exactly the terrible war will begin. It’s not possible to estimate how many vessels will be sunk or from what country.

Knowing the truth timely is the most important thing for our people.

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Gita

30th June 2010, 12:01

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US pushing EU for new Iran sanctions

The US is pushing the European Union into imposing new sanctions against Iran over Tehran's nuclear program, a senior US official says.

Robert Einhorn, the US State Department coordinator for Iran sanctions, said he held meetings in Brussels with EU officials on Tuesday to discuss measures being drafted against Iran.

"What we hope is that stronger measures on the pressure side, on the sanctions side will give leaders in Iran strong incentives to come to the negotiating table and work with us on a solution to the nuclear issue," AFP quoted Einhorn as saying.

"We very much welcome the declaration that was adopted on June 17 by the European Council," he added.

While the US has asked for even more pressure on Iran, EU leaders in a European Council summit held in Brussels on June 17, have already approved new sanctions against Iran that include a ban on new investment, technical assistance and technology transfers to Iran's huge gas and oil industry, particularly for refining and liquefied natural gas.

Tehran has repeatedly declared that it will not give up the legitimate nuclear rights of the Iranian nation under Western pressure.

While the US possesses and has used nuclear weapons in the past, Washington, in a politically-motivated move, is imposing unilateral sanctions against Iran, which does not possess nuclear weapons nor does it seek to develop such weapons.

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Gita

1st July 2010, 08:23

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Turkey renews call for diplomacy on Iran

Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu has highlighted the importance of continuing diplomatic efforts to find a solution to the dispute over Iran's nuclear program.

"We attach great importance to the continuation of diplomatic efforts, despite the new sanctions resolution," Davutoglu said, referring to a US-proposed sanctions resolution against Iran that was approved by the UN Security Council on June 9.

"We have always called on all parties to avail themselves of the opportunities offered by the Tehran declaration to find a peaceful solution," Turkey's Cihan news agency quoted Davutoglu as saying on Wednesday.

The foreign ministers of Iran, Turkey, and Brazil signed a declaration in Tehran on May 17, according to which the Islamic Republic would ship 1200 kilograms of its low-enriched uranium to Turkey to be exchanged for 120 kilograms of 20 percent enriched nuclear fuel rods to power the Tehran research reactor, which produces radioisotopes for cancer treatment.

On Wednesday, Iranian Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki said Tehran would respond to a proposal by Russia to meet with the Vienna Group (the US, Russia, and France) after consulting with Brazil and Turkey.

"After coordinating with Brazil and Turkey over the next two days, a location for this meeting will be decided. However, we propose holding the talks in Tehran," Mottaki stated.

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john.d

1st July 2010, 09:08

morguana

1st July 2010, 09:58

It seems like the anglo saxon mission is underway . Iran's threat of weapons of mass destruction sounds very familiar ey ........
The U.S. and Israeli Navi massing near Iran is worrying and frustrating . I mean what can we do to stop the beast apart from spread information ? That hasnt helped with the other two illegal wars , we need to find a way of stopping this bully .

John

seems that way doesnt it john :( i hope so much that this will not happen.

gita i also just wanted to say a HUGE big thank you for you dedication in getting information out there for others to read.......your a star
love m

Majorion

1st July 2010, 10:28

It seems like the anglo saxon mission is underway.
I am less convinced this has anything to do with the Masons and more to do with Israel just waiting for the U.S to fulfill their prophecy for them, of course this is only in reference to the radical elements within the U.S and Israeli governments, this is not to do with the majority of citizens of both countries.

Gita

1st July 2010, 11:00

You are most welcomed Morguana. :hug:

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'Iran economy ups despite sanctions'

The volume of transactions in Iran's investment market has seen a 10 percent growth despite new UN Security Council (UNSC) sanctions, an Iranian official says.

The UNSC adopted new sanctions against the Islamic Republic last month. The sanctions came after US's hard lobbying for new punitive measures against Tehran over its nuclear work.

Behrouz Alishiri, Deputy Minister of Economic Affairs and Finance, said Thursday that the new sanctions have proved to be futile as the volume of transactions in Iran's investment market has seen a 10 percent growth since the ratification of the UN resolution, IRNA reported.

The Iranian official further pointed out that according to the reports released by the International Monetary Fund, foreign investment in Iran has risen from $900 million in 2007 to $3 billion in 2009.

Alishiri, who is also the Director of the Organization for Investment, Economic and Technical Assistance of Iran, said that cheap energy resources and skillful human force were among the reasons behind foreign investment in the country.

According to Alishiri, Iran's stable economic condition has also attracted foreign investment to the country.

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Gita

1st July 2010, 11:05

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Poll reveals UN 'hypocrisy' on Iran

An opinion poll suggests that the new UN Security Council (UNSC) sanctions on Iran's civilian nuclear program have exposed the body's double standards in nuclear policy.

More than 58 percent of respondents participating in the latest Press TV poll believe that last month's sanctions adopted by the UNSC indicate that the international body lacks a consistent framework in its nuclear policies and deals markedly dissimilarly with different countries.

In addition, around 17 percent of those polled said that the fourth round of UNSC sanctions will not affect the country as it has been under sanctions for about 30 years.

Meanwhile, some 19 percent of the participants maintain that the UNSC's move was politically-motivated and lobbied by the US despite its possession and historical application of nuclear weapons.

Only less than 5 percent of the respondents said that the new measures will force Iran to backtrack from its nuclear energy pursuit.

In the course of a June 9 session, the UNSC voted in favor of a resolution to impose further sanctions against the Islamic Republic over its nuclear program.

The fourth round of sanctions was adopted against Iran over its uranium enrichment -- depicted as a threat in the West despite repeated assurances from the IAEA on the non-diversion of nuclear material in the country.

This is while 118 member states of the Non-Aligned Movement has recently voiced support for Iran's right to the peaceful use of nuclear energy.

The controversial resolution tightens a previously-adopted arms embargo on Iran and bans the country from activities such as uranium mining. It also aims to hurt the country's energy and financial sectors.

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Gita

1st July 2010, 11:09

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'Israel would never dare to attack Iran'

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has ruled out the possibility of a military attack on Iran over its nuclear program, saying no country would dare to launch an offensive on the country.

In an interview with the Kyodo news agency, when asked about prospects for an Israeli attack on Iran, Ahmadinejad said, "No one dares to do so."

"Israel is on a course of decline. Moreover, Iran is a great country and was not established by occupying other countries' land or through terrorism, imprisonment, and killing. Iran has a 7,000-year-old civilization," Ahmadinejad said in the interview, according to a report posted on the Iranian Presidential Office's website on Wednesday.

"The United States, which is the master of the Zionists, does not dare to attack Iran, let alone a fake regime (Israel) whose existence is dubious," the Iranian president added.

Ahmadinejad also stated that new sanctions imposed on Iran over its nuclear program will not compel the Islamic Republic to relinquish its rights.

"They assume that if they brandish a stick during negotiations, they can take advantage of Iran, but they should know that this will not happen," the Iranian president said.

Israel — the only entity in the Middle East that possesses nuclear weapons — has repeatedly voiced its determination to stop Iran's nuclear program, even through military means.

Tehran says its nuclear program is completely peaceful and has never been diverted to weapons production.

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Micjer

1st July 2010, 12:18

Iran Is Surrounded By U.S. Troops In 10 Countries
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/138284

Third US Carrier, 4,000 Marines Augment US Armada Opposite Iran
http://www.debka.com/article/8879/

USS Carrier Harry Truman Officially Off Iran; Imminent Israeli Strike?
http://www.zerohedge.com/article/uss-carrier-harry-truman-now-officially-just-iran-israel-allegedly-plotting-imminent-tehran-

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Gita

3rd July 2010, 14:20

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Total: Iran sanctions serious mistake

The CEO of French energy giant Total, Christophe de Margerie, says imposing sanctions against Iran over its nuclear program was a "serious mistake."

Speaking at an economic forum in Aix-en-Provence in southern France, Margerie confirmed Total had suspended fuel deliveries to Iran in line with sanctions adopted by the UN, US and the EU.

"I maintain this is a mistake. The embargo affects the population, too many things are politicized these days," he told the media on Friday.

Margerie noted that an embargo on petrol products would harm ordinary people in Iran.

"We do not think an embargo on the delivery of petrol products is a good way to settle differences of a political nature," he said.

He stressed that Total would resume deliveries at the first opportunity, saying it was a "serious mistake to mix things that are civil and political."

The UN Security Council adopted a fourth round of sanctions against Iran on June 9, despite strong opposition by Turkey and Brazil — both temporary members of the council.

This is while in addition, US President Barack Obama approved unilateral Iran sanctions on Thursday. The EU is also set to finalize further measures at a meeting of foreign ministers on July 26.

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Gita

3rd July 2010, 18:05

(From PrisonPlanteTv, 2 July)

Israel Suspected in Bogus Claim Iran Developing Nuclear Trigger

Back in December, 2009, a story published by The Sunday Times warned that Iran was in the process of developing a neutron initiator, the component of a nuclear bomb that triggers an explosion. “Foreign intelligence agencies date them to early 2007, four years after Iran was thought to have suspended its weapons programme,” Catherine Philp wrote for the British newspaper. “An Asian intelligence source last week confirmed to The Times that his country also believed that weapons work was being carried out as recently as 2007.”
As it turns out the story about Iran’s supposed nuclear trigger was not provided by Asian intelligence but more likely the Israeli government with possible help by the British.

“U.S. intelligence has concluded that the document published recently by the Times of London, which purportedly describes an Iranian plan to do experiments on what the newspaper described as a ‘neutron initiator’ for an atomic weapon, is a fabrication, according to a former Central Intelligence Agency official,” reports IPS. “Philip Giraldi, who was a CIA counterterrorism official from 1976 to 1992, told IPS that intelligence sources say that the United States had nothing to do with forging the document, and that Israel is the primary suspect. The sources do not rule out a British role in the fabrication, however.”

The bogus claim prompted a new round of support for more aggressive U.S. and European sanctions against Iran. It also underscored a U.S. intelligence report in 2007 concluding that Iran had conducted secret research on building a nuclear weapon until 2003, when its leaders stopped the effort in response to international pressure, according to the Washington Post. European and Middle Eastern analysts claim Iran resumed a nuclear weapon research in 2005.

Continued here.
http://www.infowars.com/israel-suspected-in-bogus-claim-iran-developing-nuclear-trigger/

Gita

3rd July 2010, 18:20

(From Press TV, 2 July)

'Iran knows how to bypass sanctions'

An Iranian lawmaker says Tehran has learned how to bypass sanctions and by establishing ties with different countries turn threats into opportunities.

"If resolutions and sanctions were going to be effective, the first resolutions would have worked and there would be no need for passing four UN Security Council (UNSC) resolutions," member of Majlis (Parliament) National Security and Foreign Policy Committee Seyyed Hossein Naqavi Hosseini said.

He went on to add that the head of International Atomic Energy Agency has reiterated the non-diversion of Iran's nuclear program in nearly 22 statements and said, "The US is merely pursuing political objectives and intends to tighten pressure on Iran."

Naqavi Hosseini said that the Israeli lobby was the force behind the adoption of resolutions against Iran and described sending messages to international personalities in defense of the Iranian nation's nuclear rights as the only way to counter anti-Iran efforts.

The Iranian lawmaker went on to add that Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki's letters to the 15 members of the UNSC written in critique of serial resolutions against Iran was effective.

On June 9, the UNSC adopted a resolution imposing a fourth round of sanctions on Iran over its nuclear program. The US and EU also imposed unilateral sanctions against Tehran shortly afterwards.

Tehran rejects Western accusations that it intends to develop nuclear weapons, and has asserted that Iran's nuclear capabilities are only aimed at peaceful purposes such as the development of the country's energy and medical infrastructure.

http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=133230&sectionid=351020101

Gita

3rd July 2010, 18:39

(From PressTV, 3 July)

Sanctions 'costly for US,' Larijani says

Iranian Parliament Speaker Ali Larijani has rejected US pressure on Iran over its peaceful nuclear program, saying pursuing failed policies of the past will prove costly for Washington.

Speaking to reporters on Friday, Larijani dismissed the effectiveness of threats for resolving Iran's nuclear standoff with the West, saying the issue will only be solved through political means.

"If the US wants to act in the same way as before, this approach would prove costly for them," Larijani explained, adding that Tehran would not tolerate the language of threat.

Referring to US efforts to impede Iran's progress on the industrial and nuclear stage over the past thirty years, the top Majlis official said the Iranian nation has overcome every such obstacle, ISNA reported.

The remarks come as the US spearheaded efforts for passing a UN Security Council (UNSC) sanctions resolution against Iran over its nuclear work last month.

In addition to the UNSC sanctions, US President Barack Obama on Thursday signed new unilateral sanctions into law, seeking to prevent Iran's access to refined oil products.

The unilateral US sanctions mainly focus on gasoline exports to Iran and target companies that help improve Iran's domestic refinery capacity.

Iran, however, says the sanctions will put no pressure on the country as Tehran has the ability to meet its energy demands on its own.

"We are capable of producing petroleum in our petrochemical complexes," Iranian Oil Minister Massoud Mirkazemi told reporters on Wednesday.

Iran's Deputy Oil Minister Ali Reza Zeighami also said on Thursday that despite sanctions, Iran would achieve self-sufficiency in the production of gasoline within two years, adding that the country would begin gasoline export afterwards.

http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=133185&sectionid=351020101

Gita

3rd July 2010, 19:08

(From PressTV, 3 July)

UN chief warns of fresh Middle East war

UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon has warned that a fresh conflict could erupt in the Middle East, following an increase in tensions between Israel and Lebanon.

In a report to the UN Security Council on Friday, Ban said the mounting tensions "raised the specter of a miscalculation by either party leading to a resumption of hostilities, with potentially devastating consequences."

The UN chief went on to accuse both sides of violating the 2006 cease-fire resolution that ended the 33-day war between Israel and the Lebanese resistance movement of Hezbollah.

Israel continues to defy international law by conducting daily military flights over Lebanon and by refusing to withdraw from the disputed northern border village of Ghajar, the UN chief said.

He also expressed concern about Israel accusing neighboring Syria of having provided Scud missiles to Lebanon's Hezbollah, saying it has "resulted in increased tension" in the region.

The Israeli accusations were leveled against Syria as both governments in Damascus and Beirut have categorically denied the missile transfer allegation.

The secretary general also voiced concern over the recent scuffles between Lebanese civilians and the UN Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL).

The confrontation came after UNIFIL staged a controversial maneuver at the beginning of July, which raised public ire in southern Lebanon.

The unilateral drill, which was reportedly aimed at protecting Israel from possible missile attacks from southern Lebanon, was stopped amidst civilian protests.

The Lebanese people have denounced the move as out of ordinary and not in accordance with the mandate of the UNIFIL. They have also blamed the peacekeepers for their inaction toward the almost daily violation of the UN-drawn Blue Line by Israeli forces.

http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=133163&sectionid=351020203

Gita

3rd July 2010, 20:04

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'Enemies confess Iran sanctions futile'

In the wake of fresh UN Security Council sanctions against Tehran, Iranian Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki has shrugged off punitive measures.

"Even the enemies of the Islamic Republic confess that sanctions will have no impact on the resolve of the Iranian nation to continue its righteous path," said Mottaki on Saturday.

He added that Iran's firm logic at the 2010 Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) review conference in New York has helped change the views of certain countries.

Mottaki noted that the constant resistance of the Iranian nation resulted in an important international organization obliging Israel to become a signatory to the NPT.

The review conference ended with a collective call for the full implementation of a former resolution aimed at establishing a nuclear-weapons-free zone in the Middle East.

Tel Aviv, widely believed to be the possessor of the region's sole nuclear arsenal, was also urged to join the NTP.

While the US possesses and has used nuclear weapons in the past, Washington, in a politically-motivated move, is now imposing unilateral sanctions against Iran, which does not possess nuclear weapons nor seek to develop such weapons.

Iran has repeatedly rejected the West allegations, reserving its right to a peaceful nuclear energy as a member of the International Atomic Energy Agency and a signatory to the NPT.

Unquote

http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=133259&sectionid=351020104

Rocky_Shorz

13th July 2010, 14:48

Sanctions are crippling Iran's economy...

Iran: Regime considers raising gas prices up to six times

Currently, rationed gas prices sell at about 10 cents a liter and 40 cents in the open market.

But “the assessments made by the smart subsidies working group shows that among the available options, the price hike of up to 65 cents is more probable than the others.”

According to the state-run ILNA, the Iranian regime’s officials have also considered other prices for gasoline, including 50, 90, and 96 cents a liter.

story (http://ncr-iran.org/content/view/8490/1/)

only 40% of the countries oil reserve remain floating in tankers since April...

Khamenei can hear protests from his house, IRGC commander complains

I am glad that you are not here and I hope that you will never hear the news that the front lines have reached Islamic Republic avenue, and the Commander-in-Chief [Khamenei] can hear the ominous sounds [of anti-regime protests] from his house. You cannot believe it, dear Ahmad. If you were here, today the front lines would have been in Europe and the Middle East, not in our own house.”

Qasemi also underlined the Iranian regime’s meddling in Lebanon and dispatching IRGC members to create chaos in that country and export terrorism to the region...

story (http://ncr-iran.org/content/view/8502/1/)

Iran Guards profiting from sanctions: Karroubi

TEHRAN (AFP) — Opposition leader Mehdi Karroubi has said Iran's elite Revolutionary Guards back sanctions against Tehran as they make "astronomical profits" from the punitive measures, a website said on Sunday.

"I believe that part of the Iranian rule as well as the Revolutionary Guards are in favour of sanctions as they make gigantic and astronomical profits from them," Karroubi was quoted as saying on opposition website Rahesabz.net.

story (http://www.iranfocus.com/en/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=21020:iran-guards-profiting-from-sanctions-karroubi&catid=31:economy&Itemid=46)

TEHRAN, July 12 (Reuters) - With shops that sell everything from herbs and spices to carpets and gems now firmly closed, Tehran's Grand Bazaar is on strike with merchants warning that higher taxes could force them to shut down for good.

The usually bustling corridors of the centuries old market, known as "Iran's economic pulse", have been deserted for the past week in a standoff between the hard-line government and merchants. Some shops were draped with black banners in protest.

Work stoppages are rare in Iran but President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's decision to raise the rate of Value Added Tax (VAT) on goods set off a strike that merchants have threatened to extend despite a government offer to suspend the increase.

story (http://www.iranfocus.com/en/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=21031:irans-grand-bazaar-on-strike-in-tax-showdown&catid=31:economy&Itemid=46)

Russia warns of Iran's potential to build nuclear bomb

MOSCOW (AFP) — Iran is close to having the potential to build a nuclear weapon, Russian President Dmitry Medvedev said on Monday in the clearest indication of Moscow alarm over Tehran's atomic drive.

"Iran is nearing the possession of the potential which in principle could be used for the creation of a nuclear weapon," Medvedev said at a meeting with Russian diplomats quoted by Russian news agencies.

Russia, traditionally a diplomatic and economic ally of the Islamic Republic, has in the past taken a milder line against Tehran than Western powers but has noticeably hardened its position in recent months.

Iran has over the past months been announcing steady advances in its nuclear programme, in defiance of international calls for Tehran to freeze its sensitive uranium enrichment operations.

Iranian atomic chief Ali Akbar Salehi on Sunday said Tehran has produced around 20 kilogrammes of 20 percent enriched uranium.

story (http://www.iranfocus.com/en/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=21029:russia-warns-of-irans-potential-to-build-nuclear-bomb&catid=8:nuclear&Itemid=45)

NCRI - The Arab-language daily Asharq al-Awsat published an article by the director of al-Arabiya TV, supporting comments made by the United Arab Emirates’ ambassador to Washington who had said, “The cost of an attack against the Iranian regime will be less than a nuclear-armed regime.”

Abdolrahman Rashed, the former editor-in-chief of Asharq al-Awsat, wrote in the article, “Two weeks ago, the Iranian regime’s officials announced a decision to inspect ships heading towards Arab countries in the region in response to the UN Security Council resolution which called for the inspection of ships headed to Iranian ports if there are suspicions about the shipments.”

“The Iranian regime does not dare to threaten the many American, European or Russian ships with inspection, and has restricted the threat to Arab countries only. This is despite the fact that the Gulf states have no involvement in the UN Security Council resolution and none of the six states has a seat on the Security Council.”

The article added, “Prior to this, Iranian regime officials had announced that in the event of an attack by the US or Israel, they will target the Gulf states. In such a poisonous atmosphere, it is natural for an Arab politician or diplomat to declare that a nuclear-armed Iran will be counted as a threat for us.”

The former editor-in-chief of Asharq al-Awsat adds, “The unambiguous comments of the UAE ambassador were correct. He said we have concerns over what the Iranian regime is currently doing in the region. Imagine how this regime will behave if it were to possess nuclear weapons.”

Rashed also said, “Imagine a nuclear-armed Iranian regime for a second. This regime will not attack Israel, because the Israelis will bury it under hundreds of atomic weapons (in response). The regime may also not attack the Gulf states, but it will try to impose its hegemony. So, the final word is, why is it wrong for an Arab diplomat to say that an attack against the Iranian regime today will be less costly than living alongside a nuclear-armed Iranian regime tomorrow?”

story (http://ncr-iran.org/content/view/8501/1/)

looks like the little chimp is running out of friends...

Studeo

14th July 2010, 23:10

http://www.worldbulletin.net/news_detail.php?id=61112

Turkey, China help Iran on fuel supplies after "US bite"

Friendly powers in the international arena are helping Iran get fuel supplies after the U.S. passed unilateral sanctions a week ago.
Friday, 09 July 2010 11:02

Friendly powers in the international arena are helping Iran get fuel supplies after the U.S. passed unilateral sanctions a week ago that aim to hinder Tehran's fuel imports.

The Islamic Republic is buying around half of its July gasoline imports from Turkey and the rest from Chinese sellers, oil traders said on Thursday, as most other suppliers have stopped selling due to the U.S. sanctions.

Turkish refiner Tupras began supplying gasoline to Iran in June after a hiatus of at least 18 months, trade sources said, just days after Turkey and Brazil brokered a nuclear fuel swap plant with Tehran.

Western powers rejected the plan, and Turkey and Brazil responded by voting against the fourth round of sanctions on Iran at the U.N. security council.

China, one of Iran's main trade partners and a permanent member of the security council, signed up to the U.N. sanctions. But before it did so, Beijing demanded the measures avoid targeting Tehran's oil and gas industries. Earlier this week, China denounced the United States for imposing its own sanctions on Iran.

Two of the gasoline cargoes coming from Turkey were scheduled to load from Turkish refiner Tupras' Izmit refinery, while two or three were scheduled to load from Tupras' Izmir refinery, sources said. The cargoes would be loaded load onto ships owned by the state energy giant National Iranian Oil Company (NIOC), they added.

A Tupras spokeswoman was not immediately available for comment on Thursday.

"US bite"

Iran would import around 90,000 barrels per day (bpd) of gasoline in July, steady from June, oil traders said. It would take around nine cargoes, four or five of them from Turkey and the rest from Chinese sellers, they said.

The limited pool of suppliers was driving up the cost of gasoline for Iran and making it harder for the Islamic Republic to buy the quantities it needs, traders said.

Iran is OPEC's second-largest oil producer but relies on imports to meet up to 40 percent of its gasoline needs as it lacks the refining capacity needed to meet domestic demand.

U.S. sanctions aim to target those imports, allowing for the imposition of bans on access to the U.S. banking system, property transactions and foreign exchange in the United States for international suppliers of gasoline to Iran.

The sanctions were also impacting the international flights operated by Iranian airlines. Two Iranian airplanes have been forced to fly from Hamburg airport without refuelling this week, an airport spokesman said on Thursday.

Washington has not spelled out whether its new sanctions are intended to force firms to refuse to fuel Iranian jets at airports in third countries, but U.S. officials have made it clear they are pleased with reports sanctions had begun to bite.

noxon medem

15th July 2010, 12:16

Please leave Iran alone, like you want them to do you.
If you feel the need to sanction actual, proven misdeeds,
then sanction against yourself, USA and Israel.
Leave this world alone, we need to rest now. And to
dream and to think, long slow thoughts, about tomorrow.

No more need for more drama, our insatiable thirst for cathastophy
and disaster has come to an end. It is done, it is over.

Cheers and horray for the best possible future ..

1367

and Happy, well tempered, summer to all.

Rocky_Shorz

15th July 2010, 21:05

I envy those who can close their eyes and believe what they don't know won't hurt them... ;)

let's all close our eyes and forget Iran through religion is taking over 55 countries...

Let's all close our eyes and forget Iran has declared a Holy War against all infidels, which is everyone not bowing down to their Supreme Leader...

Let's all close our eyes and forget Iran has the second largest oil fields in the World but since their little chimp came to power instead of building refineries to help the people he has pumped money into their Nuke program...

Let's all close our eyes and forget our oceans are being destroyed by pollution and oil... so it makes 70% of our oxygen, who needs it...

Let's all close our eyes and forget we are at the closest point to the beginning of WW III in history, Anglo Saxon Mission is in full swing and doesn't look stoppable...

You know it worked I'm feeling better already, I'm off to the beach... ;)

Studeo

30th July 2010, 19:30

Resolution Green-Lighting Israeli Strikes on Iran Introduced by House Republicans

Republicans in the House of Representatives have introduced a measure that would green-light an Israeli bombing campaign against Iran. The resolution, H.Res. 1553 (in full below), provides explicit support for military strikes against Iran, stating that Congress supports Israel's use of "all means necessary" against Iran "including the use of military force".

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jamal-abdi/resolution-green-lighting_b_657608.html

bashi

5th August 2010, 20:31

There is a growing fear that Israel might decide to attack Iran this very month. Several articles seem to lead to that conclusion.

I do not think that under the present circumstances Israel will carry out an attack this month.
There are several reasons for it:

1. The newly scheduled talks about the enriched uranium. Without officially “failed”
talks, Israel will lack support from the US

2. The National Intelligence Estimate (NIE) from 2007, which states that Iran had
stopped working on WMDs since 2003.

3. The sanctions against Iran are too fresh to had any significant impact on the country.

4. The 4 newly acquired S300 missiles, which Iran managed to get. This is the key
obstacle, because this powerful weapons-system means Iran can put up virtual “Nofly”
zones with a radius of 90 km around sensitive sites. A sure sacrifice of 4 Israeli
bombers during an attack will not be survivable politically for any Israeli leader. Its
also highly unlikely that the US will send in their stealth bombers first to destroy the
S300 sites.

If I would be an Isreali leader, who is hell-bent to attack Iran, I would now do the following:

1. I would use any means to make sure that these talks are being sabotaged.
2. I would wait until the “tweaked” of NIE is ready and published, in which an attack
on Iran seems to be the logical conclusion to get rid of the problems/mullahs.
3. I would wait 5-6 months until the sanctions have delivered enough grinding effect
on Iran`s infrastructure.
4. I would wait until i get my own stealth bombers. WHAT? - you might ask.
Yes, Israel will take delivery of 25 US-built stealth aircrafts THIS YEAR, ahead of all other countries. See official delivery schedule, without Israel:

http://img842.imageshack.us/img842/541/f35deliveryschedule.gif (http://img842.imageshack.us/i/f35deliveryschedule.gif/)

But here it comes:
link: http://www.spacewar.com/reports/Israel_close_to_deal_on_F-35_999.html

Then, after playing the disgruntled dove of peace for months and all things in place again, I will strike in

NOVEMBER THIS YEAR.

That’s the most likely road map to WWIII.

magnusthor

5th August 2010, 21:52

A lot seems to point to WWIII beginning this November. May I ask you which indicators you have come across which point to this specific month as the beginning point?

bashi

7th August 2010, 19:13

Magnusthor, you have style.
Instead of lambasting me for using the old and outdated story of the F-35 deal, you keep asking.
The question here is: How did he come across the period of November, while using invalid data?
Which tells me that you too have strong pointers.
What about sharing something here which has not been posted yet? But please: No web bot stuff.

Deal?

Studeo

9th August 2010, 07:54

Fidel Castro Goes Live With Warning of Nuclear Holocaust

Former Cuban President Fidel Castro warned today of imminent nuclear war and said the world's fate was in President Barack Obama's hands, as he addressed the Cuban National Assembly for the first time since taking ill four years ago.

Castro said the most recent U.N. sanctions on Iran will trigger a nuclear holocaust if the United States inspects the country's ships come September, as called for in the June resolution.

Only world pressure on Obama can avert the conflagration that will bring all major economies to a standstill, he said.

"In this critical situation President Barack Obama is the one who will have to give the order for this so-often announced and proclaimed attack," Castro said, calling on world leaders to weigh in with the U.S. president before it's too late....

http://abcnews.go.com/International/fidel-castro-warns-nuclear-holocaust/story?id=11350666

Rocky_Shorz

11th August 2010, 17:56

I wonder what the US plans to do with the troops being pulled out of Iraq this month?

Iran: Leaking information harmful to regime is considered treason, Majlis deputy warns

NCRI - A member of the Iranian regime’s Majlis (Parliament) has warned that providing the regime’s “enemies” with information showing signs of the regime’s weakness would be considered treason.

According to the state-run Abrar daily on Sunday, Hamid-Reza Taraqi, one of the members of the Mo’atalefeh faction, told reporters in response to questions about imprisoned journalists, “It is unfortunate that reporters like you keep ignoring the misdeeds committed by the imprisoned journalists.”

He added, “Those journalists who are incarcerated today transferred information about the regime to outsiders.”

“Passing on intelligence that shows weaknesses of the establishment to the enemy is treason against the country, and journalists who leak secrets and information to outsiders are traitors,” Taraqi added.

story link (http://ncr-iran.org/content/view/8663/1/)

bashi

11th August 2010, 18:45

This is a very informative - 6 pages long - article:

http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2010/09/the-point-of-no-return/8186/1/

Excerpt:

But, based on my conversations with Israeli decision-makers, this period of forbearance, in which Netanyahu waits to see if the West’s nonmilitary methods can stop Iran, will come to an end this December. Robert Gates, the American defense secretary, said in June at a meeting of NATO defense ministers that most intelligence estimates predict that Iran is one to three years away from building a nuclear weapon. “In Israel, we heard this as nine months from June—in other words, March of 2011,” one Israeli policy maker told me. “If we assume that nothing changes in these estimates, this means that we will have to begin thinking about our next step beginning at the turn of the year.”

I wonder whether the installation of a second cascade at Natanz has shortened the estimated period...

.

bashi

12th August 2010, 20:03

Some new developments:

Russian S-300s in Abkhazia will block a possible Israeli air route to Iran

http://www.debka.com/article/8968/

bashi

13th August 2010, 06:35

No comment:

lf-ddaot1gU

bashi

13th August 2010, 09:46

Russia will start to fuel the iranian Bushehr nuclear power station on August 21. That means a HUGE collateral damage will be generated in case of a bombing raid by Israel after the 21 st August.

http://www.thenational.ae/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20100813/FOREIGN/708139888/1011/rss

At the same time Russia blocks a possible corridor for israeli war-planes:

http://www.debka.com/article/8968/

Its a tense time....

bashi

13th August 2010, 17:03

After quoting Goldstein, here now the other side:

"Goldberg alludes only vaguely to the possibility that the threat of an attack on Iran is a strategy designed to manipulate both Iran and the United States. In a March 2009 article in The Atlantic online, however, he was more straightforward, conceding that the Netanyahu threat to strike Iran if the United States failed to stop the Iranian nuclear programme could be a "tremendous bluff". "

source: http://ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=52482

bashi

16th August 2010, 16:52

Maybe thats a poker-move:

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/world/iran-to-build-new-uranium-enrichment-sites/article1674426/?cmpid=rss1&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+TheGlobeAndMail-International+%28The+Globe+and+Mail+-+World+News%29

But if not, then i will be very pessimistic about the future ...

Bomack

18th August 2010, 17:34

Israel Has Until Week's End to Strike Iran Nuclear Facility, Bolton Says

Israel has until the weekend to launch a military strike on Iran's first nuclear plant before the humanitarian risk of an attack becomes too great, former U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations John Bolton said Tuesday.

A Russian company is expected to help Iran start loading nuclear fuel into its plant on Saturday, after which an attack on the Bushehr reactor could trigger harmful radiation, which Israel wants to avoid, Bolton said. So unless the Israelis act immediately to shut down the facility, it will be too late.

"Once it's close to the reactor ... the risk is when the reactor is attacked, there will be a release of radiation into the air," Bolton told FoxNews.com. "It's most unlikely that they would act militarily after fuel rods are loaded."

Earlier Tuesday, Bolton told Fox Business Network the Israelis will have to move in the "next eight days" if they want to attack the Bushehr facility -- a reference to the window between when the start-up was announced last week and the loading date. Bolton said Tuesday that the date has fluctuated, but he described the start-up as the ultimate deadline.

Michael Oren, Israel's ambassador to the United States, told Fox News that the nation is hopeful sanctions -- passed by the United Nations, European Union and United States -- will "modify" Iran's behavior. Oren said Israel is "committed" to the sanctions program and will assess its impact at a later date.

"Until that time, the position of the government of Israel -- as the position of the Obama administration -- is that all options will remain on the table," he said, without commenting directly on Bolton's remarks.

Though Iranian officials insist the reactor is for peaceful purposes, Bolton warned about the danger of the up-and-running reactor.

"What this does is give Iran a second route to nuclear weapons in addition to enriched uranium," Bolton said. "It's a very, very huge victory for Iran."

Bolton, who was U.S. ambassador during the Bush administration, expressed doubt that Israel was planning a military strike but suggested it's an open question.

"If they were going to do anything, they certainly wouldn't be talking about it," he said.

He noted that the reactor gives Iran something that both Iraq and Syria were never able to achieve because their facilities were destroyed.

"Iran will have achieved something that no other opponent of Israel, no other enemy of the United States really in the Middle East has, and that is a functioning nuclear reactor," he said on Fox Business Network.

Iranian officials on Tuesday warned Israel not to take military action. Iranian media quoted Ahmad Vahidi, Iran's defense minister, as saying Israel would be taking a huge risk with such an attack.

"We may lose a power plant, but the whole existence of the Zionist regime will be jeopardized," Vahidi was quoted as saying.

The reactor project has been in existence for decades, but the Russians have helped push it to the finish line. Russian state firm Rosatom announced last week that the Bushehr facility would be starting up on Aug. 21. According to the Iranian state Mehr news agency, the head of that company, Sergey Novikov, says the plant "just generates electricity."

Related Video:

http://video.foxnews.com/v/4313396/israel-eyeing-iranian-nuclear-plant?playlist_id=86857

Source: http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2010/08/17/israel-weeks-end-strike-iran-nuclear-facility-bolton-says/

PathWalker

18th August 2010, 18:53

Dear reader,
If you fall into fear, you are under TPTB control. No matter if the WW3 starts or not.
Take care when assimilating the fear mongering information. Is it for you (personally) to take action?
Maybe TPTB spread the ideam and seed the perception in the public, in order to materialize it. It is known that all reality is generated from perception.

Kristoffer

18th August 2010, 19:44

whos affraid? i dont know if anyone fears them still. Its some old geezers that think they are all "that" but they as we are all bound to death and its comming for them as it comes for us one day. Tbh i have reached a point where it really dosent matter. Do they really think im dying cause my body dies. The only people who fear death is the once who fear life. I am therefore i will always be, nothing can stop me, you or anybody for being everything cause we are all the same thought. Ive known this all my life, im not here to educate people or come up with answers, im just a man sitting on the bus of life, looking at it as it passes by the windows. Im here cause i needed to be here, we all heard the call, we all took the chanse to experience this. What tptb does regarding staring wars, they are just stagepeople in our lives. Look at life as you look on a theatre. When the show ends, next one starts.

Studeo

21st August 2010, 22:25

There's no way for the U.S. to win a non-nuclear war with Iran

When Admiral Mike Mullen, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and
the highest-ranking American officer, was asked recently on NBC’s Meet
The Press whether the United States has a military plan for an attack
on Iran, he replied simply: “We do.”

General staffs are supposed to plan for even the most unlikely future
contingencies. Right down to the 1930s, for example, the United States
maintained and annually updated plans for the invasion of Canada—and
the Canadian military made plans to preempt the invasion. But what the
planning process will have revealed, in this case, is that there is no
way for the United States to win a non-nuclear war with Iran.

The U.S. could “win” by dropping hundreds of nuclear weapons on Iran’s
military bases, nuclear facilities and industrial centres (i.e.
cities) and killing five to 10 million people, but short of that,
nothing works. On this we have the word of Richard Clarke,
counter-terrorism adviser in the White House under three
administrations.

In the early 1990s, Clarke revealed in an interview with the New York
Times four years ago, the Clinton administration had seriously
considered a bombing campaign against Iran, but the military
professionals told them not to do it.

“After a long debate, the highest levels of the military could not
forecast a way in which things would end favourably for the United
States,” he said. The Pentagon’s planners have war-gamed an attack on
Iran several times in the past 15 years, and they just can’t make it
come out as a U.S. victory.

It’s not the fear of Iranian nuclear weapons that makes the U.S. Joint
Chiefs of Staff so reluctant to get involved in a war with Iran. Those
weapons don't exist, and the whole justification for the war would be
to make sure that they never do.

The problem is that there’s nothing the U.S. can do to Iran, short of
nuking the place, that would really force Tehran to kneel and beg for
mercy. It can bomb Iran’s nuclear sites and military installations to
its heart’s content, but everything it destroys can be rebuilt in a
few years. And there is no way that the United States could actually
invade Iran.

There are some 80 million people in Iran, and although many of them
don’t like the present regime they are almost all fervent patriots who
would resist a foreign invasion. Iran is a mountainous country, and
very big: four times the size of Iraq. The Iranian army currently
numbers about 450,000 men, slightly smaller than the U.S. Army—but
unlike the U.S. Army, it does not have its troops scattered across
literally dozens of countries.

If the White House were to propose anything larger than minor military
incursions along Iran’s south coast, senior American generals would
resign in protest. Without the option of a land war, the only lever
the United States would have on Iranian policy is the threat of yet
more bombs—but if they aren’t nuclear, then they aren’t very
persuasive. Whereas Iran would have lots of options for bringing
pressure on the United States.

Just stopping Iran’s own oil exports would drive the oil price
sky-high in a tight market: Iran accounts for around seven percent of
internationally traded oil. But it could also block another 40 percent
of global oil exports just by sinking tankers coming from Iraq, Saudi
Arabia, and the other Arab Gulf states with its lethal Noor anti-ship
missiles.

The Noor anti-ship missile is a locally built version of the Chinese
YJ-82. It has a 200-km range, enough to cover all the major choke
points in the Gulf. It flies at twice the speed of sound just metres
above the sea’s surface, and it has a tiny radar profile. Its
single-shot kill probability has been put as high as 98 percent.

Iran’s mountainous coastline extends along the whole northern side of
the Gulf, and these missiles have easily concealed mobile launchers.
They would sink tankers with ease, and in a few days insurance rates
for tankers planning to enter the Gulf would become prohibitive,
effectively shutting down the region’s oil exports completely.

Meanwhile Iran would start supplying modern surface-to-air missiles to
the Taliban in Afghanistan, and that would soon shut down the U.S.
military effort there. (It was the arrival of U.S.-supplied Stinger
missiles in Afghanistan in the late 1980s that drove Russian
helicopters from the sky and ultimately doomed the whole Soviet
intervention there.)

Iranian ballistic missiles would strike U.S. bases on the southern
(Arab) side of the Gulf, and Iran’s Hezbollah allies in Beirut would
start dropping missiles on Israel. The United States would have no
options for escalation other than the nuclear one, and pressure on it
to stop the war would mount by the day as the world’s industries and
transport ground to a halt.

The end would be an embarrassing retreat by the United States, and the
definitive establishment of Iran as the dominant power of the Gulf
region. That was the outcome of every wargame the Pentagon played, and
Mike Mullen knows it. So there is a plan for an attack on Iran, but he
would probably rather resign than put it into action. It is all bluff.
It always was.

http://www.straight.com/article-336907/vancouver/gwynne-dyer-theres-no-way-us-win-nonnuclear-war-iran
By Gwynne Dyer, August 3, 2010

Studeo

25th August 2010, 08:02

IRAN: Building a Nuclear Weapon? You're Kidding, Right?

August 21, 2010 posted by Bob Nichols ·

(San Francisco) Many people are asking if Iran can build a nuclear weapon. The answer is No, they cannot. Iran does not have the tools or material to do so. Some 40 countries would probably like to build a reactor, though, according to the IAEA, the International Atomic Energy Agency. A reactor is the first step to a nuclear weapon.
Mushroom Cloud

An image always associated with a nuke weapon.

But, the President of the US, politicians in Israel and other important people say Iran "might" be able to build a weapon in a few years. So what? I might like to jump over the moon too; but, it ain't gonna happen.

Same thing with Iran building a nuclear weapon. Iran does not have the tools to do so. Iran cannot get them or even make the tools required. Iran cannot even buy the tools. Try calling up Japan Steel and ordering a few tons of Marange Speciality Steel and see what happens.

Talk is cheap; building nuclear weapons is not. Building nuke weapons is a very expensive, dirty, nasty business. Lots of people talk glibly about building nuclear weapons and have not a clue what they are talking about; only a few people can actually do it. Freelancers, independents and "terrorists" don't have a chance of doing so. No, building nuclear weapons is an exclusively state run business.

Here, in a brief Flash video by nuclear reactor expert `Ace' Hoffman, is how nuclear weapons changed the face of America.

In fact, building nuclear weapons is the kind of big industrial enterprise that can be detected from satellites in outer space. The US has plenty of spy satellites; at least one is "parked" over Iran right now. And, making "small" nuclear weapons is even harder than building 10,000 lb, (4,545 kilogram) Atomic Bombs!

That being said, two world wide "nuclear capable corporations" as Ann Garrison, my colleague and a noted writer at the San Francisco Bay View calls them, are Bechtel and Halliburton. There actually is a Mr Bechtel, he lives in San Francisco, just down a bit from his old friend "Nuclear Nancy" Pelosi, Speaker of the US House of Representatives. Hmm, San Francisco is quite a small town, actually.

Anyway, Bechtel Corp runs the privatized US nuclear weapons program and Halliburton runs the equally privatized British nuclear weapons program at the quaintly named AWE, or Atomic Weapons Establishment at Aldermaston, England. There is certainly a lot of money to be made from nuclear weapons and the hand maiden to nuke weapons – nuke power plants.

True, the only thing nuke power plants actually produce is 1400 plus very radioactive isotopes and they all leak, all the time. One of those is Plutonium 239 or Pu 239 for short. It is entirely made by humans and did not really exist before its tryout detonation at Alamogordo, New Mexico and its Prime Time Debut detonation at Nagasaki, Japan in 1945. Pu 239 makes a thermonuclear bomb, the big ones with no theoretical upper limit on size. It is the man made metal bomb makers crave.
This is your lung on radiation.

Lung Tissue and Radiation

Sometime in September, Iran's big nuclear reactor starts up and begins making Pu 239 by the ton. Russia, Iran's patron, promises the Nuclear States and the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) to bring all the old 50 Ton, plus new isotope growth, highly radioactive reactor cores back to Mother Russia's Control rather than let Iran keep the bomb making Plutonium 239 even for one second. We all shall see.

That is the bare fact situation as of right now in August 2010. What happens next all depends on who has control of the Pu 239 from Iran's big reactor. US and Israeli spy satellites and ground assets will be trying to "catch" Iran stealing the old reactor core with its load of tons of Pu 239 to use for a thermonuclear weapon.

Everything else is just CIA front group fluff, fake media distraction, professional hair-do news readers on TV, and NYTIMES misinformation.

What do You think is going to happen next?
Keys to the Kingdom

Now, most importantly, stay Focused. Don't go off half cocked and start wildly firing. In two to 3 years we have a lethal, highly radioactive 50 Ton Plus old reactor core, that will kill exposed humans in 10 seconds, coming out of the cooker in Iran.

The hot reactor core will also catch fire if exposed to air and cremate your quite dead, radioactive body if you let it. What'cha gonna do? Explain your steps. Don't hold back.

http://www.veteranstoday.com/2010/08/21/iran-build-a-nuclear-weapon-your-kidding-right/

Studeo

25th August 2010, 23:27

Iran unveils first bomber drone

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad (right) pulled away a sheet to reveal the "Karrar" drone
Iran has unveiled what it says is its first domestically built unmanned - or drone - bomber.

President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said the plane could serve as a "messenger of death", but that its key message was one of friendship.

Iranian state TV later showed the "Karrar" aircraft in flight.

It said it had a range of 1,000km (620 miles) and could carry two 250-pound (115kg) bombs, or a precision bomb of 500 pounds.

The plane is the latest in a series of new pieces of military hardware unveiled by Iran.

"This jet is a messenger of honour and human generosity and a saviour of mankind, before being a messenger of death for enemies of mankind," President Ahmadinejad said after unveiling the Karrar at a ceremony with defence officials.

"The key message is friendship," he added. "We must make efforts to render all the enemy's weapons useless with our defence potential."

The unveiling came amid continuing concerns over Iran's nuclear programme.

Western states suspect Iran is trying to obtain a nuclear bomb, though Iran says its programme is designed to boost domestic power supplies.

On Saturday, Iran began loading fuel rods at the Bushehr nuclear power station built and operated by Russia.

The US said it saw no "proliferation risk" from the plant, though Israel condemned the move.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-11052023

Studeo

28th August 2010, 21:43

Fidel Castro warns of war

Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez met for five hours with Fidel Castro behind closed doors, and state television said they discussed the former Cuban leader's warnings about impending nuclear war.

Castro has been using his written opinion columns to warn for months that the US and Israel will launch a nuclear attack on Iran and that Washington could also target North Korea - predicting Armageddon-like devastation and fighting.

The state TV broadcast Wednesday night also said Chavez expressed satisfaction at Castro's "magnificent" health.

Venezuela's socialist leader later met with President Raul Castro before leaving Cuba.

There was no immediate video or photos of either encounter.

Chavez is a close ally of Fidel Castro and visited him frequently during the four years he disappeared from public view following emergency intestinal surgery in July 2006.

Wednesday was the first time, however, that Chavez had visited since Castro began making a string of public appearances in recent weeks.

http://www.stuff.co.nz/world/americas/4064633/Fidel-Castro-warns-of-war

Rocky_Shorz

2nd September 2010, 20:12

Iran: Sunni homes attacked by Iranian regime forces in northwestern city

NCRI - The Iranian regime’s suppressive forces have attacked a number of Sunni residences and followers of the Allameh Moftizadeh order in Seqez. So far 10 people have been arrested.

According to Harana news agency, on August 19 and 20, the regime’s Special Guards, intelligence operatives, State Security Forces (SSF) and plainclothes agents attacked people attending a special Sunni religious ceremony for Ramadan at homes belonging to followers of Ahmad Moftizadeh (a Quran school). People were beaten with batons and six were taken to undisclosed locations.

At 14:00 local time on Thursday, August 19, intelligence agents raided people’s houses and confiscated their belongings such as CDs, books, papers, pictures, home and car ownership documents, identification cards and birth certificates.

On August 21, intelligence and security agents once again raided the houses of detainees and arrested four more individuals, taking them to unknown locations.

During a third raid which lasted from 17:00 to 23:00 local time on the same day, at least 1,000 suppressive agents, including special guards, plainclothes agents, and anti-riot female units, laid a siege on residential areas, indiscriminately breaking home windows and doors to instill fear in the community.

On August 26, regime’s forces prevented the holding of religious ceremonies once again from 17:00 to 20:30 local time, according to reports.

Some of the people arrested on Thursday, August 19, were: 1. Naser Zamanian, a bank employee; 2. Mohammad Jamal Habaki, a high school chemistry teacher in Seqez; 3. Salar Tofiqpour; 4. Mokhtar Mohammadi; 5. Aboubakr Eshqi; and 6. Jamal Moradi.

Some of the people arrested on Saturday, August 21, were: 1. Ali Esmaili, retired; 2. Mohammad Taher Soltani Ardalan; 3. Mostafa Mohammadi, retired; 4. Hamed Jalali, a high school chemistry teacher in Seqez.

Previously in 2007, during the month of Ramadan, more than 600 followers of the Allameh Moftizadeh school were detained in various parts of Kurdistan province simply because they were Sunnis. They were also not allowed to hold any religious ceremonies.
Story Link (http://ncr-iran.org/content/view/8813/1/)

wasn't Saddam's mistake attacking the Kurds?

CAIRO (AFP) — Egypt said Thursday it has postponed a visit to Cairo by Iranian Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki over comments criticising the role of some Arab leaders in facilitating Middle East peace talks.

The head of the Iranian interests section in Cairo was summoned to explain comments attributed to Mottaki in which he criticised "the participation of certain Arab leaders in the relaunch of direct peace talks between the Palestinians and Israelis in Washington," the foreign ministry said.

The ministry informed the Iranian diplomat that "due to this development" the meeting in Cairo on Monday of the Non-Aligned Movement "troika" -- Iran, Egypt and Cuba -- has been postponed, the ministry said.

It was not immediately clear to which remarks of the Iranian foreign minister the Egyptian ministry was referring.

Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak and King Abdullah II of Jordan support the restart of direct peace talks between the two parties, and both of them are in Washington to participate in that...

talks (http://www.iranfocus.com/en/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=21600:egypt-halts-iran-fm-visit-over-peace-talks-comments&catid=4:iran-general&Itemid=26)

a storm is heading their way... time to talk fast...

and this time, get something done...

bashi

9th September 2010, 14:44

To make it clear: I am not a biased towards Israel or its policy, but i am trying to understand the tough stand it takes.

There were some really worrying developments in the last weeks.

Obviously Israel is getting ready for a big operation. In August it requested funds from the US to stockpile 5-10 times its annual consumption of aviation fuel and diesel:

http://www.dsca.mil/PressReleases/36-b/2010/Israel_10-41.pdf

That this is an unusual big volume of fuel, is refected even by a sentence within the document:
“Israel will have no difficulty absorbing this additional fuel into its armed forces.”

Aviation fuel has a limited shelf live of ~ 8 months. I guess it will be delivered latest this month.

If you consider the thinking of a military logistics planer and use this fuel order as a yardstick, then the time-frame for a possible military campaign is within the next ~4 months.

http://img64.imageshack.us/img64/4020/obamawarneg.jpg (http://img64.imageshack.us/i/obamawarneg.jpg/)

Israel made it clear from the very beginning: They will not tolerate WMD`s in the hands of Teheran.
Israel considers these mullas as too crazy and will not tolerate to be at their mercy.

This is my opinion, because from what i read i can easily conclude that it is a FACT.

One of the greatest fears of Israel is: That the US will just watch Iran getting nuclear while promoting a toothless policy of containment.

Recently an adviser (Riedel), close to Obama, was advocating that Israel should accept the idea of a nuclear Iran and should concentrate on a retaliatory strike capacity:

http://nationalinterest.org/article/israel-attacks-3907

That shows how less an Israeli mindset is understood. This mindset has been formed by constant conflict with other societies through history. It is very clear in that respect: ZERO TOLERANCE to any major threat.

A very legitimate question is: How many atomic bombs are needed to destroy Israel once and for all? Only 10? Or just 20?
Did this Obama adviser really thought it all through?

The Israeli answer to the Riedel article is here:

http://www.debka.com/article/8990/
(Here the uploaded PDF, in case the link ceases: 2272 )

It asks in the end:
“And what good would all the wonderful new military systems be to Israel for a second-strike capability when an initial Iranian nuclear attack would suffice to destroy the tiny Jewish state?”

It is clear that the US proposal has been rejected.

.

Luke

9th September 2010, 15:02

Hmm. Knowing these guys mindset, there is no place these guys would stop.
The "besieged fortress" mindset is burned into every young Israeli. And they have Holocaust to prove what would happen if they would not act. And, the second US stops backing Israel, there would be holocaust, from all the signs red.
Lack of support is then read as treason.
Math says "Sum of all fears" scenario is likely in that case.

bashi

10th September 2010, 20:41

The IAEA has a new report on Iran.
Instead of being confidential, it was immediately brought into the public. Obviously to show the world what is going on. The report has not been condemned by Iran as a propaganda paper full of lies, so we can assume the stated info is undisputed fact. The report does not indicate that Iran is willing to play ball with the IAEA. It shows that many things are out of balance…

"Iran has failed to meet…
Iran shall, without further delay, take the steps required....
Iran shall cooperate fully with the IAEA on all outstanding issues.....
Iran shall, without delay, comply fully and without qualification....

Iran remains the only State with significant nuclear activities which has a comprehensive safeguards agreement in force that is not implementing the provisions of the modified Code 3.1.

The consequences for safeguards of these seal breakages will be evaluated by the Agency upon completion of the next PIV, which is currently planned for October 2010.

Iran has estimated that, between 23 November 2009 and 6 August 2010, it produced an additional 995 kg of low enriched UF6,6 which would result in a total production of 2803 kg of low enriched UF6 since the start of operations in February 2007

7.The nuclear material at FEP (including the feed, product and tails), as well as all installed cascades and the feed and withdrawal stations, are subject to Agency containment and surveillance.

8.The Agency reminded Iran, in a letter dated 19 July 2010, of a number of incidents involving the breaking of seals by the operator at FEP.

Iran has estimated that, between 9 February 2010 and 20 August 2010, a total of approximately
310 kg of UF6 enriched at FEP was fed into Cascade 1 and that 22 kg of UF6 enriched up to 20%
U-235 was produced.

In September 2009, Iran informed the Agency that it was constructing the Fordow Fuel
Enrichment Plant (FFEP), located near the city of Qom. The Agency verified that FFEP was being
built to contain sixteen cascades, with a total of approximately 3000 centrifuges.

15. The Agency has asked Iran on a number of occasions to provide additional information regarding the chronology of the design and construction of FFEP, as well as its original purpose
......

In a letter to the Director General, dated 4 June 2010, Iran stated that there were “no legal bases” upon which the Agency could request information on the chronology and purpose of FFEP

In its reply dated 21 August 2010, Iran did not provide the Agency with the
requested information but reiterated that it was “continuing to cooperate with the Agency in
accordance with its Safeguards Agreement”.

the Agency again requested that Iran reconsider its decision of 16 January 2007 to request the Agency to withdraw the designation of 38 Agency inspectors and its requests (dating back to 2006) to withdraw the designations of four other inspectors with experience in conducting inspections in Iran."

All this does not sound good.
Iran can not built a bomb without converting the Uranuim-Hexafluoide gas into a solid U-Oxide. This is a VERY CRITICAL THRESHHOLD. Once the conversion-equipment is installed, running and the enriched gas available, it will be just a matter of days to complete a conversion of quantities sufficient to built a bomb, since it is only a chemical process.
That’s the absolute last moment Israel has to strike, if it doesnt want a nuclear Iran.

So this particular info stands out:

"During the DIV on 4 August 2010, Iran informed the Agency that the installation of equipment at UCF for the conversion of the UF6 enriched up to 20% U-235 to U3O8, required for the fabrication of fuel for TRR, would start in November 2010"

It seems we are in for a

Ride in November…

link: http://isis-online.org/uploads/isis-reports/documents/Iran_report.pdf

.

bashi

11th September 2010, 20:56

Snowbird

13th September 2010, 00:55

It seems that the Israelis did know already in early April about the installation of the conversion equipment:

Israel will be compelled to attack Iran’s nuclear weapons facilities by this November

link: http://www.newsmax.com/KenTimmerman/Timmerman-Israel-Iran-nuclear/2010/04/02/id/354614

If Israel invades using conventional weaponry, this November time frame attack may very well happen. If they are planning a nuclear attack, I seriously doubt that this will happen.

May I also suggest that you go over to the Channeled Information thread to A Message from Matthew and scroll down about 2/3 of the message. There is some very interesting info located there.

O.I.C.

bashi

13th September 2010, 17:27

If Israel invades using conventional weaponry, this November time frame attack may very well happen. If they are planning a nuclear attack, I seriously doubt that this will happen.

I lean more towards this opinion piece: http://www.ocregister.com/opinion/iran-262010-states-military.html

Channeled Information thread: link?

wynderer

13th September 2010, 17:39

i think it's a miracle that a nuclear WWIII has not started yet -- & figure it's only a matter of time -- all the channelers who say 'the ETs will never allow a nuclear war '' -- they seem to forget that we are already irradiating this planet -- DU everywhere -- they're even putting it in household products --

it does seem to me that Israel is being slowly but inexorably pushed to war on Iran -- pawns in the NWO game plan

bashi

13th September 2010, 17:51

Let me give you the script of what’s going to happen regarding Israel/Iran/Palestine and the “peace-talks”. That’s only my opinion about the ongoing charade and may not come true.

The meeting is not about Palestine, but about negotiating the war with Iran.
For me it’s clear that the US proposal to contain a nuclear Iran had been rejected by Israel. They are hell-bent for a violent massive strike, but they can’t do it without the Americans. So how to get them into the boat?

Netanyahu will publicly act like a dove with an olive-branch.
He is right now following my former script, as mentioned before in the last 4 lines here:

http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?609-Future-Events-The-Iran-War&p=41746&viewfull=1#post41746

But hoe to drag the US into the war? Easy, they are saying: ”We will strike in any case”. That will pressurise the Americans, because an Israeli strike will be a blow to Obama’ s public ratings.
Therefore a kind of damage control bargain gets implemented, because all is about public appearance.
One of the sweets which Netanyahu can offer is a limited freeze on settlement-construction beyond the 2nd November, the day of elections in the US.
That’s a big sacrifice, because then he will have domestic trouble, not only with his foreign minister.
That offer will be made only in the last stage of negotiation.
But that sacrifice comes at a price: The participation of the US in the strike against Iran.
Then Obama will insist on a strike after the 2nd November, which Netanyahu will be able to agree on. He would be just like Shimon Peres, who told Kennedy: ”We don’t want to win over the US president, we want the president to win.”

The full mobilization of the strike groups might take a few days. This mobilization will not be ordered before the election, to avoid that any leaked information may influence the vote.
The strike will be carried out as soon as technically possible after the 2nd November.

So, if you are celebrating the “good” news of a settlement-freeze and a successful completion of the “peace-talks”, then keep in mind that the start of WW3 (or Anglo-Saxon mission scenario) might have been agreed upon and the fate of the world has been sealed.

This is not about fearmongering or hell-manifestation through thought implanting.
Its about seeing beyond the public curtain.
Motto: Forwarned is Forarmed !

And yes, wynderer, the Israeli are engineering their own demise, not aware of the bigger picture.

wynderer

13th September 2010, 18:42

And yes, wynderer, the Israeli are engineering their own demise, not aware of the bigger picture

but couldn't you say that about all countries? almost all the countries of the world have leaders who are stooges/patsies for the NWO -- if the leaders don't toe the line, they get offed sooner or later

lightblue

13th September 2010, 19:05

bashi

13th September 2010, 19:09

bashi

13th September 2010, 19:22

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i think russia or china might wack one of the countries out of existence :rapture:..they are not into nwo as much, if at all...i feel iran would sit quiet and pray to god...absorb a blow, if there are any...strongly hope not.... l

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i remember seeing a picture where Putin, Kofi Anan, Merkel etc came together during a "conference" in some kind of resort. they were standing outside on a little tribune and each of them was wrapping around themselves a strange big blanket. On the blanket were printed only BEES.
That time i was wondering about this blanket. thats why i can still remember it.
By now i know that the Order of the ILLUMINATI was first considered by Weisshaupt to get a different name: Order of the BEES....

frank samuel

13th September 2010, 19:56

Unocal who has been building a gas pipe line in Afghanistan since before the 911 invasion and has been interested in taking a short cut through Iran because is billions of dollars less expensive. Unocal has many investors among them the infamous Carlyle group which is has investors like Dick Cheney ex vice president of the US. I always say if you follow the money trail you can find the truth.

Iran was a long time alley of the US, while some will point the evils of Iran because of the treatment of women, but as we have seen in all the Arab countries where the US is actively involved the rights of women do not improved, so much for that excuse.

Russia's support for Iran has put a big time halt on the long time plans of the US to invade Iran.
The plans has been in effect long before the invasion of Afghanistan, will they succeed without the support of the European and Arab countries, my honest guess is that it would be the biggest mistake the US ever made.

The only way it could happen if they stage a false flag attack blaming Iran, but in my opinion it will not be in the Saudis best interest therefore the US will have many countries doing counter intelligence to protect their interest in Iran.

Of course this is just my opinion and speculative facts, since I have never visited Russia , Iran or Saudi Arabia.

Many many blessings to all.

bashi

14th September 2010, 19:47

“The strike will be carried out as soon as technically possible after the 2nd November. “

Lets narrow it down a little bit more.
From previous wars in the Gulf we have learned that the most likely time of starting the action is at or around New Moon.

The 6th November is New Moon day…

There are actually many pointers which are indicating that during the first week of November something will happen, which will change the world as we know it.

wynderer

14th September 2010, 21:41

i think a lot of us have the growing feeling that something big & bad is coming soon -- i sure do -- so i give thanks, a lot, for all the simple & good things in life

truthseekerdan

14th September 2010, 21:52

norman

25th September 2010, 02:07

The 7th of October comes even sooner ( next new moon ).....

With the false drama at the UN after the Iranian President stood up there and said most of the people of America and indeed most of the world believe 9/11 was an American conspiracy to protect Israel, I'm thinking a hair trigger is ready for a nod. If the fuss at the UN seems appropriate to them they might go sooner rather than later.

A young pharmacist in Texas phoned Alex Jones a couple of months ago to point out that they were having great difficulty in getting supplies of certain drugs and treatments that happen to be in "battlefield" size packages!.... His older collegues told him that it was just the same as during the immediate runup to the first gulf war.

The implication is that the armed services are bulk buying up fresh supplies in readiness for pending war, and leaving the civilian buyers high and dry without supplies for a while.

I'm very sure the November elctions in the US are key to the current agenda, not so sure if they want big dramatic changes just before the vote or if they are going to wait for the reaction to the 'results', though. If I had to bet, I'd put my money on them doing something dramatic just before the vote.

Another 'timing' event is the end of the party political conference season here in the UK. I think the climax will be the Tory Party conference. They are in a young coalition government with the old outsider party, the Liberal Democrats who are just finishing theirs. It would give the tories a boost to be still in conference and on the telly and front pages showing off their philosophy just as a big world changing event kicks off. They could look and sound engaged and responsive just at the right time to give their coalition partners a shunt out of the way of influence.

I know that's only, at most, a politically mercinary wish list but that big united slapdown at the UN sounded a lot like the band tuning up to me.

Studeo

27th September 2010, 06:27

Worm hits Iran nuclear plant

I'm wondering if this is the first salvo of an organized attack on Iran?

A complex computer worm capable of seizing control of industrial plants has affected the personal computers of staff working at Iran's first nuclear power station weeks before the facility is to go online, the official news agency reported Sunday.

The project manager at the Bushehr nuclear plant, Mahmoud Jafari, said a team is trying to remove the malware from several affected computers, though it "has not caused any damage to major systems of the plant," the IRNA news agency reported.

It was the first sign that the malicious computer code, dubbed Stuxnet, which has spread to many industries in Iran, has also affected equipment linked to the country's nuclear program, which is at the core of the dispute between Tehran and Western powers like the United States.

Experts in Germany discovered the worm in July, and it has since shown up in a number of attacks - primarily in Iran, Indonesia, India and the US

The malware is capable of taking over systems that control the inner workings of industrial plants.

In a sign of the high-level concern in Iran, experts from the country's nuclear agency met last week to discuss ways of fighting the worm.

The infection of several computers belonging to workers at Bushehr will not affect plans to bring the plant online in October, Jafari was quoted as saying.

The Russian-built plant will be internationally supervised, but world powers are concerned that Iran wants to use other aspects of its civil nuclear power program as a cover for making weapons. Of highest concern to world powers is Iran's main uranium enrichment facility in the city of Natanz.

Iran, which denies having any nuclear weapons ambitions, says it only wants to enrich uranium to the lower levels needed for producing fuel for power plants. At higher levels of processing, the material can also be used in nuclear warheads.

The destructive Stuxnet worm has surprised experts because it is the first one specifically created to take over industrial control systems, rather than just steal or manipulate data.

The United States is also tracking the worm, and the Department of Homeland Security is building specialized teams that can respond quickly to cyber emergencies at industrial facilities across the country.

On Saturday, Iran's semi-official ISNA news agency reported that the malware had spread throughout Iran, but did not name specific sites affected.

http://www.stuff.co.nz/technology/4170121/Worm-hits-Iran-nuclear-plant

Studeo

27th September 2010, 06:35

AP Last updated 11:03 27/09/2010

Computer attacks linked to wealthy group or nation

A powerful computer code attacking industrial facilities around the world, but mainly in Iran, probably was created by experts working for a country or a well-funded private group, according to an analysis by a leading computer security company.

The malicious code, called Stuxnet, was designed to go after several "high-value targets," said Liam O Murchu, manager of security response operations at Symantec Corp. But both O Murchu and US government experts say there's no proof it was developed to target nuclear plants in Iran, despite recent speculation from some researchers.

Creating the malicious code required a team of as many as five to 10 highly educated and well-funded hackers. Government experts and outside analysts say they haven't been able to determine who developed it or why.

The malware has infected as many as 45,000 computer systems around the world. Siemens AG, the company that designed the system targeted by the worm, said it has infected 15 of the industrial control plants it was apparently intended to infiltrate. It's not clear what sites were infected, but they could include water filtration, oil delivery, electrical and nuclear plants.

None of those infections has adversely affected the industrial systems, according to Siemens.

US officials said last month that the Stuxnet was the first malicious computer code specifically created to take over systems that control the inner workings of industrial plants.

The Energy Department has warned that a successful attack against critical control systems "may result in catastrophic physical or property damage and loss."

Symantec's analysis of the code, O Murchu said, shows that nearly 60 percent of the computers infected with Stuxnet are in Iran. An additional 18 percent are in Indonesia. Less than 2 percent are in the US

"This would not be easy for a normal group to put together," said O Murchu. He said "it was either a well-funded private entity" or it "was a government agency or state sponsored project" created by people familiar with industrial control systems.

A number of governments with sophisticated computer skills would have the ability to create such a code. They include China, Russia, Israel, Britain, Germany and the United States. But O Murchu said no clues have been found within the code to point to a country of origin.

Iran's nuclear agency has taken steps to combat the computer worm that has affected industrial sites in the country,ghout the country, including its first nuclear power station just weeks before it was set to go online. Experts from the Atomic Energy Organisation of Iran met this past week to discuss how to remove the malware, according to the semiofficial ISNA news agency.

The computer worm, which can be carried or transmitted through portable thumb drives, also has affected the personal computers of staff working at the plant, according to IRNA, Iran's official news agency. The news agency said it has not caused any damage to the plants major systems.

German security researcher Ralph Langner, who has also analysed the code, told a computer conference in Maryland this month that his theory is that Stuxnet was created to go after the nuclear program in Iran. He acknowledged, though, that the idea is "completely speculative."

O Murchu said there are a number of other possibilities for targets, including oil pipelines. He said Symantec soon will release details of its study in the hope that industrial companies or experts will recognise the specific system configuration being targeted by the code and know what type of plant uses it.

At the Homeland Security Department's National Cybersecurity & Communications Integration Center, a top US cyberofficial on Friday displayed a portable flash drive containing the Stuxnet code and said officials have been studying it in the lab.

"I've let this run wild to see what it would do," said Sean McGurk, director of the cyberoperations center. "So far we haven't seen a lot of smoke coming out, so we know it's not doing anything specifically malicious right now."

Experts at the Energy Department's Idaho National Laboratory have been analysing it.

McGurk said that "it's very difficult to know what the code was developed for. When you talk about specifically attributing it to a facility with a set purpose from a nation-state actor or criminal actor or 'hacktivist,' it's very difficult for us to say specifically, 'This is what it was targeted to do.'"

Experts in Germany discovered the worm, and German officials transmitted the malware to the US through a secure network. The two computer servers controlling the malware were in Malaysia and Denmark, O Murchu said, but both were shut down after they were discovered by computer security experts earlier this summer.

In plain terms, the worm was able to burrow into some operating systems that included software designed by Siemens AG, by exploiting a vulnerability in several versions of Microsoft Windows.

Unlike a virus, which is created to attack computer code, a worm is designed to take over systems, such as those that open doors or turn physical processes on or off

http://www.stuff.co.nz/technology/digital-living/4170800/Computer-attacks-linked-to-wealthy-group-or-nation

Swami

27th September 2010, 09:20

IRAN BOMBS IRAQ -- UP TO 30 KILLED

The commander the IRGC Ground Forces Brigadier General Mohammad Pakpour
Iran's Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) has killed the main elements behind the terrorist attack in the northwestern Iranian city of Mahabad.

A bomb explosion in West Azarbaijan Province on Wednesday left 12 people dead and at least 80 others injured. The blast took place when people were watching a military parade.

"The soldiers of Hamzeh Seyyed al-Shohada base have killed the main perpetrators of the recent terrorist attack in Mahabad," the commander of the IRGC Ground Forces Brigadier General Mohammad Pakpour said on Sunday.

Iranian police arrested two people in connection with the terrorist attack on Wednesday.

Earlier on Thursday, Iran's Intelligence Minister Heidar Moslehi had said that the group behind the terrorist attack had been identified.

"Investigations show that the Israeli spy agency [Mossad] was the mastermind of the Mahabad terrorist attack," Fars News Agency quoted Pakpour as saying.

http://gazbom.blogspot.com/2010/09/iran-bombs-iraq-up-to-30-killed.html

Studeo

27th September 2010, 10:38

Ahmadinejad says Iran may end enrichment

Iran is trying to compromize by offering to halt all enrichment if the west will provide 20% uranium. If the west do not take the deal this time they are hell bent on bringing war nomatter what and will be condemed for it. This game is starting to heat up. Russia needs to step up and act as a go between to keep things civill. It is highly likely that a false flag attack has already started via the cyber warefare section of the ptb. If the perp is discovered and it turns out to be state sponsored Iran will have grounds to declare war IMHO. Share the peace plpe and chill. All will be alright. Peace to all, Studeo.

AP Last updated 09:49 25/09/2010

Iran would consider ending uranium enrichment, the most crucial part of its controversial nuclear activities, if world powers send Tehran nuclear fuel for a medical research reactor, President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said.

Addressing a packed press conference in a New York hotel, Ahmadinejad also said Iran was prepared to set a date for resumption of talks with six world powers to discuss Tehran's nuclear programme, saying October would be the likely time for the two sides to meet.

Ahmadinejad also defended his remarks at the UN a day earlier in which he claimed most people in the world believe the United States was behind the September 11, 2001 terror attacks and again challenged the United Nations to set up a commission to probe the attacks.

"I did not pass judgment, but don't you feel that the time has come to have a fact finding committee?" Ahmadinejad asked.

Ahmadinejad said Iran had no interest in enriching uranium from around 3.5 per cent to 20 pe rcent purity but was forced to do so after the world powers refused to provide nuclear fuel that is needed for a Tehran reactor that produces medical isotopes for patients.

That level is far below the more than 90 per cent purity needed to build a nuclear weapon, but US officials have expressed concern Iran may be moving closer to an ability to reach weapons-grade level.

Tehran began higher enrichment in February after talks stalled over a UN-brokered proposal that the United States hoped would - at least temporarily - leave Iran unable to produce a warhead. The US and its allies accuse Iran of seeking to build a nuclear weapon, a claim Iran denies.

"We were not interested to carry out 20 per cent enrichment. They (the US and its allies) politicised the issue. We were forced to do it to support the (medical) patients," Ahmadinejad said. "We will consider halting uranium enrichment whenever nuclear fuel is provided to us."

Ahmadinejad said pressure was counterproductive, but respectful talks will bear fruit.

"The era of following a policy of carrot and stick is over. Even such words are insulting to nations. It's only good for cowboys and those of retarded people. Definitely it has no effect," he said. "They issued resolutions as talks were underway. Still, we are ready for talks."

The Iranian leader said an Iranian representative will probably meet with members of the five permanent members of the Security Council - the US, Britain, France, Russia and China as well as Germany in October.

He suggested that a specific date could be set should European Union foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton contact Iran.

"Probably in October; we are ready for talks. The doors are open for talks within the framework of justice and respect," he said. However, he warned that Iran won't give in to pressure. "They are definitely mistaken if they think they can trample the rights of the Iranian nation through coercion in the talks."

http://www.stuff.co.nz/world/4167814/Ahmadinejad-says-Iran-may-end-enrichment

bashi

29th September 2010, 13:08

The Iran has also to cope with a mutating infection:

"Impressions from talking to European computer experts approached for aid was that the Iranians are getting desperate. Not only have their own attempts to defeat the invading worm failed, but they made matters worse: The malworm became more aggressive and returned to the attack on parts of the systems damaged in the initial attack.

One expert said: "The Iranians have been forced to realize that they would be better off not 'irritating' the invader because it hits back with a bigger punch."

source: http://www.debka.com/article/9050/

Its another effort to grind down Iran's capabilities before the final onslaught.

.

bashi

1st October 2010, 21:26

The Stuxnet worm code targets industrial control software made by Siemens called WinCC/Step 7, but is designed to deliver its malicious payload to only a particular configuration of that system. About 68 percent of infected systems in Iran have the Siemens software installed, but researchers don’t know if any have the targeted configuration. By contrast, only 8 percent of infected hosts in South Korea are running Step 7 software, and only about 5 percent of infected hosts in the U.S. do. An apparent “kill” date in the code indicates that Stuxnet is designed to stop working June 24, 2012.

As of September 29, 2010, the data has shown that there are approximately 100,000 infected hosts:

http://img42.imageshack.us/img42/7956/stuxnetinfectedhosts.jpg (http://img42.imageshack.us/i/stuxnetinfectedhosts.jpg/)

This worm is not only a threat to Iran, but to most industrial installations around the world. More systems will get infected over time and it can easily evolve into a global threat.

source: http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2010/10/stuxnet-deconstructed/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+wired27b+%28Blog+-+27B+Stroke+6+%28Threat+Level%29%29
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bashi

1st October 2010, 22:01

Some more info about Stuxnet:

"Analyzing the different types of samples Symantec has observed to date has shed some light on how long this threat has been under development and/or in use. The development of the threat dates back to at least June of 2009. The threat has been under continued development as the authors added additional components, encryption,
and exploits. The amount of components and code used is very large. In addition to this the authors ability to adapt the threat to use an unpatched vulnerability to spread through removable drives shows that the creators
of this threat have huge resources available to them and have the time needed to spend on such a big task; this is not a teenage hacker coding in his bedroom type operation."

"The real-world implications of Stuxnet are beyond any threat we have seen in the past. Despite the exciting challenge in reverse engineering Stuxnet and understanding its purpose, Stuxnet is the type of threat we hope to never see again."

The worm checks a certain value in the registry of the computer.
"If this value is equal to 19790509 the threat will exit. This is thought to be an infection marker or a “do not infect” marker. If this is set correctly infection will not occur. The value appears to be a date of May 9, 1979. While on May 9, 1979 a variety of historical events occured, according to Wikipedia “Habib Elghanian was executed by a firing squad in Tehran sending shock waves through the closely knit Iranian Jewish community. He was the first Jew and one of the first civilians to be executed by the new Islamic government. This prompted the mass exodus of the once 100,000 member strong Jewish community of Iran which continues to this day.” Symantec cautions readers on drawing any attribution conclusions. Attackers would have the natural desire to implicate another party."

"After the threat has installed itself, dropped its files, and gathered some information about the system it contacts
the command and control server on port 80 and sends some basic information about the compromised computer to the attacker via HTTP. Two command and control servers have been used in known samples:

www[.]mypremierfutbol[.]com
www[.]todaysfutbol[.]com

The two URLs above previously pointed to servers in Malaysia and Denmark; however they have since been redirected to prevent the attackers from controlling any compromised computers."

"This feature gave Stuxnet backdoor functionality, as it had the possibility (before the *futbol* domains were blocked) to upload and run any code on an infected machine. At the time of writing no additional executables were detected as being sent by the attackers, but this method likely allowed them to download and execute additional
tools or deliver updated versions of Stuxnet."
This feature gave Stuxnet backdoor functionality, as it had the possibility (before the *futbol* domains were blocked) to upload and run any code on an infected machine. At the time of writing no additional executables were detected as being sent by the attackers, but this method likely allowed them to download and execute additional
tools or deliver updated versions of Stuxnet.This feature gave Stuxnet backdoor functionality, as it had the possibility (before the *futbol* domains were blocked) to upload and run any code on an infected machine. At the time of writing no additional executables were detected as being sent by the attackers, but this method likely allowed them to download and execute additional
tools or deliver updated versions of Stuxnet."

source: http://www.wired.com/images_blogs/threatlevel/2010/10/w32_stuxnet_dossier.pdf

Studeo

1st October 2010, 22:37

Energy firms to quit Iran to comply with US sanctions

Four major energy companies are pulling out of Iran in order to comply with US sanctions, the state department says.
Royal Dutch Shell, Total, Statoil and Italy ENI will now avoid US penalties targeting companies which do business with Iran.

Naftiran Intertrade Co, based in Switzerland, will face new sanctions .

The US has tightened sanctions on Iran over concerns about its nuclear ambitions, which Washington fears are aimed at acquiring atomic weapons.

'Conduit for cash'

Recent legislation gives the US administration the power to penalise foreign companies which invest more than $20m ($12.7m) in Iran's energy sector.

However, companies taking steps to comply with the law are exempted from penalties.

"People are increasingly reaching the conclusion that it's simply not worth it to engage in activities with Iran," Deputy US Secretary of State James Steinberg was quoted as saying by Reuters news agency.

Other energy companies are under investigation for possibly breaching sanctions, but the state department has declined to name them.

Mr Steinberg described Naftiran - a subsidiary of the National Iranian Oil Company - as a key conduit for cash into the Iranian oil industry.

In practice, US companies are already prohibited from doing most forms of business with Naftiran. But US officials say the extra sanctions will dissuade non-US companies from doing business with it.

This latest announcement comes a day after the US froze the US assets of eight senior Iranian officials accused of serious human rights abuses following the disputed presidential election in June 2009. They will also barred from travelling to the US and from doing business with companies there.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-11448952

Studeo

2nd October 2010, 20:14

Iran arrests 'nuclear spies' accused of cyber attacks
The Stuxnet worm affected staff computers at Iran's Bushehr power station Iran has arrested "nuclear spies" on suspicion of being behind cyber attacks on its nuclear programme, Iranian state media report.

Press TV says "a number" of people have been apprehended as part of an operation by Iran to counter "massive enemy schemes".

The report comes after the complex worm Stuxnet infected staff computers at Iran's first nuclear power station at Bushehr.

No details of the arrests were given.

Iranian Intelligence Minister Heidar Moslehi was cited by Press TV as saying his ministry was capable of countering any threats.

"We are always facing destructive activities by these [espionage] services, and, of course, we have arrested a number of nuclear spies to block the enemy's destructive moves," Mr Moslehi said.

But he did not say how many people were detained, or specify whether the cyber attack referred to the Stuxnet virus.

While the worm also affected computers India, Indonesia and the US, it has spread the most in Iran.

Reports suggest that the Stuxnet virus mutated in Iran and infected 30,000 computers.

It is believed to be the first worm designed to target major infrastructure facilities.

Iran's Russian-built Bushehr plant will start generating power in January, two months later than planned, but officials have said the delay was not due to the virus.

Some experts have said the virus was designed to target Tehran's nuclear programme, with some saying the complexity could only have been created by a state.

Iran has been subject to four rounds of UN sanctions because of its uranium enrichment programme, which is separate from Bushehr.

The West fears Tehran wants to build a nuclear weapon, but Iran insists its plans are for peaceful energy production.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-11459468

Swami

3rd October 2010, 15:41

Iran arrests 'nuclear spies' accused of cyber attacks

Iran has arrested "nuclear spies" on suspicion of being behind cyber attacks on its nuclear programme, Iranian state media report.

Press TV says "a number" of people have been apprehended as part of an operation by Iran to counter "massive enemy schemes".

The report comes after the complex worm Stuxnet infected staff computers at Iran's first nuclear power station at Bushehr.

No details of the arrests were given.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-11459468

Swami

3rd October 2010, 16:47

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Vk_hsHM1zg

bashi

4th October 2010, 21:32

Ahmadinejad is having a hard time:
After the game of distributing a false transcript of his UN speech, the cold reception in NY and now the Stuxnet desaster, his tone became more harsh:

"In a speech Sunday he went a step further using a deeply offensive insult in response to U.S. statements that the military option against Iran is still on the table.

"May the undertaker bury you, your table and your body, which has soiled the world," he said using language in Iran reserved for hated enemies."

source: http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5goykFnHZsAqRUFl1bXBuWbVNcpkgD9IK6PJG0?docId=D9IK6PJG0

bashi

5th October 2010, 09:11

Iran opens airspace to China warplanes:

http://www.presstv.ir/detail/145078.html

bashi

9th October 2010, 17:33

My assessment that Nethanyahu has to please somehow Obama was based that Obama has means to pressurize Neth.
But that is obviously not the case, see here also:

GRP5zz0OmQo

Adding to that is the appointment of Tom Donilon as National Security adviser:

"National Security Council officials Tom Donilon and Dennis Ross have been playing in pushing the administration towards a more and more confrontational stance against Iran"

source: http://justworldnews.org/archives/003970.html

Donilon had been forced upon (former NSA) Gen. Jones as Deputy by Rahm Emanuel, before getting replaced by him .
Now you have an AIPAC National Security Adviser with no practical military experience advising Obama how to ...

bashi

9th October 2010, 22:29

Some more on Donilon:

"He was a top lobbyist at Fannie Mae during the housing bubble, when Fannie fought — with Democratic help — to avoid any restrictions or curbs on its work to inflate home values and get more people under mortgage. Before that, Donilon was a lobbyist at O’Melveny and Myers, where Fannie was a client.

In 2008, according to his financial disclosure forms, Donilon was a paid consultant for Citigroup, Goldman Sachs, and Apollo Investments."

Washington Examiner: http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/blogs/beltway-confidential/rahms-replacement-a-fannie-mae-lobbyist-in-the-pay-of-goldman-102434589.html

Does it sound good?

Studeo

10th October 2010, 10:35

Larry King interviews President Ahmadinejad shortly before UN speech.

Part 1

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UClTcQS6i-Q

Part 2

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M3xiASPRiNY

Part 3

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XN3N73SWX5s

bashi

12th October 2010, 18:59

Time’s Up

link: http://www.thejewishweek.com/news/new_york/israel_iran_times_up

bashi

12th October 2010, 20:59

No more talks by the EU ...

http://www.dailystar.com.lb/article.asp?edition_id=10&categ_id=2&article_id=120308#axzz12BEJ7HS8

bashi

14th October 2010, 18:46

The White House has changed Obamas schedule for his next foreign tour:

He was originally supposed to depart on the 7th November to India.
Now he is departing on 5th November to arrive just after Diwali, the indian festival of LIGHT.

So on 6th November he will not be in the US...

Beth

14th October 2010, 19:06

What's going on the 6th of November?

bashi

14th October 2010, 19:10

What's going on the 6th of November?

pls, read my posts on this thread

Beth

14th October 2010, 19:14

pls, read my posts on this thread

There's 20 pages to this thread, can you give me a hint?

bashi

14th October 2010, 19:45

There's 20 pages to this thread, can you give me a hint?

change your settings to the max, then you will have only 5 pages. then look for a bashed blue eye...

¤=[Post Update]=¤

There's 20 pages to this thread, can you give me a hint?

it starts here: http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?609-Future-Events-The-Iran-War&p=41746&viewfull=1#post41746

bashi

28th November 2010, 20:23

"Around the World, Distress Over Iran"

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/11/29/world/middleeast/29iran.html?_r=1&src=mv&ref=world

Is Wikileaks used to sanction the war?

JoshERTW

29th November 2010, 02:10

NY Times is extremely Pro-Israel, and would therefore be Anti-Iran

The Der Spiegel article mentioned that the Iranian president got slapped in the face by a military general because he wanted Iran to have "freedom of the press."

The MSM will try to spin whatever comes out of these cables in whatever way furthers their agenda, and will ignore the stuff that doesn't fit into their narrow frame. I'm looking forward to reading through the actual documents myself once they become available.

Rocky_Shorz

4th December 2010, 22:33

everyone has seen a US Presidential motorcade...

http://projectavalon.net/forum4/attachment.php?attachmentid=3145&d=1291501536

very few people have had a chance to see Iran's Presidential Motorcade...

http://projectavalon.net/forum4/attachment.php?attachmentid=3146&d=1291501555

http://projectavalon.net/forum4/attachment.php?attachmentid=3147&d=1291501567

bashi

4th December 2010, 22:43

These are funny pics!

PathWalker

5th December 2010, 11:52

Using Iran as target, TPTB failed to start WW3 in time. Now they try another path/plan.
The FUD (Fear Uncertainty Doubt) mongering is always pushed on low intensity, they must save their cause and face. As they did with weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. The main issue now is supressing the new energy and alternative technology popping all over the globe. These technologies and science are much greater threat and the effort required to supressing them increase exponentialy.

I am very positive on TPTB collapsing soon.

Leon

5th December 2010, 18:53

Why all the talk of Iran, is it due to their nuclear program? why? if they wanted nuclear weapons it would be easier to purchace these. It would not surprise me that there are allready special units operating in Iran... Let the country be... let it sort itself out...

bashi

9th December 2010, 17:42

Some good news:

US eases military pressure on Iran, tries concessions :

http://www.debka.com

.

bashi

14th December 2010, 23:08

WikiLeaks cable reveals: 'Not even Obama can stop Israeli attack on Iran'

http://www.haaretz.com/news/diplomacy-defense/italy-pm-said-not-even-obama-can-stop-israeli-attack-on-iran-wikileaks-cable-reveals-1.330274

Australia feared Israeli strike on Iran could spark nuclear war, WikiLeaks cables reveal:

http://www.haaretz.com/news/diplomacy-defense/australia-feared-israeli-strike-on-iran-could-spark-nuclear-war-wikileaks-cables-reveal-1.330386

.

Rocky_Shorz

14th December 2010, 23:15

They're digging hard...

Regime envoy to Switzerland disappeared with intelligence

NCRI - A former regime ambassador to Switzerland, who was also a senior member of the regime’s negotiating team for nuclear talks, has not returned to Iran and taken loads of information with him, a state-run media has reported.

The state-run Jahan News said Sirous Naseri “who was part of the Hassan Rohani team, has never returned to the country and has taken intelligence with him.”

It added that another official, “Moussavian, is also accused by the intelligence ministry of handing over nuclear intelligence to westerners.”

Jahan News derided Hassan Rohani’s negotiating team and said, “The achievements of this team was to accept all of the West’s conditions. It accepted to close Natanz and UCF, suspended nuclear activities and according to statements by the western side, it even accepted to suspend nuclear activities for 10 years.”

story link (http://www.ncr-iran.org/en/news/nuclear/9451-regime-envoy-to-switzerland-disappeared-with-intelligence)

Rocky_Shorz

14th December 2010, 23:20

well don't forget they said it had to be done by the end of 2010 or they would lose the window of opportunity...

tick... tick... tick...

look out Israel, he's coming to get you and he's bringing his top fighters...

http://projectavalon.net/forum4/attachment.php?attachmentid=3146&d=1291501555

Rocky_Shorz

18th December 2010, 18:37

They are stepping things up fast against Iran right now...

The Wall Street Journal

By DAVID CRAWFORD
The U.S. and representatives of the European Union have agreed to impose joint sanctions against Iran in January and are considering breaking off talks with the country...

Top US officer says Iran still driving for a bomb

The Associated Press

MANAMA, Bahrain (AP) — Iran is trying to build a nuclear bomb, posing a threat to its neighbors, and the United States is "very ready" to counter Iran should it make a move, the top U.S. military officer said Saturday.

Adm. Mike Mullen, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, reassured Persian Gulf nations nervous that an increasingly militarized government in Iran might try to start a war.

"The United States takes very seriously our security commitments in the Gulf region," Mullen said following a meeting with Bahrain's king. Bahrain, directly across the Gulf from Iran, is home to a large U.S. Navy base that would be on the front lines of any war with Iran.

Rocky_Shorz

22nd December 2010, 01:02

my watch must be off, 3 days 5 minutes...

TEHRAN (AFP) — A 6.5-magnitude earthquake struck southeastern Iran, wrecking villages, bringing down power lines, and killing up to seven people and injuring hundreds more, Iranian media reported on Tuesday.

The late Monday quake, with its epicentre near the town of Hosseinabad in Kerman province, was followed by more than 30 further tremors, including one of 5.0 magnitude, the Mehr news agency said, quoting the geophysics department of Tehran university.

State media reported that mild tremors continued into Tuesday near the epicentre of the main quake.

"So far damage has been concentrated in villages in the areas of Sahraj, and seven dead and hundreds of injured have been pulled from the debris," Mehr quoted Kerman governor Esmail Najjar as saying.

"Considering the damage, the death toll is expected to rise," he added.

Other Iranian media gave slightly different casualty tolls. The state television website quoted the head of Iran's emergency medical services, Gholam Reza Masoumi, as saying that four people had died.

The deputy governor of Kerman province, Javad Kamali, told state television that five people had died and that the death toll could rise.

"Around 30 villages are still cut off as they are in a mountainous region. Our helicopters have been despatched since early morning and we will get a fuller assessment later in the day," Kamali said.

The quake struck at 10:12 pm (1842 GMT) on Monday and was felt as far away as the neighbouring province of Sistan-Baluchestan on the Pakistan border.

Rocky_Shorz

23rd December 2010, 21:12

as things once again heat up in the Koreas, we see the media coming forward with a new spin...

Iran recruiting nuclear scientists for weapons programme
Iran is operating a worldwide recruitment network for nuclear scientists to lure them to the country to work on its nuclear weapons programme, officials have told the Daily Telegraph.

What officials?

They claim that the country is particularly reliant on North Korean scientists but also recruits people with expertise from African countries to work on developing missiles and nuclear production activities.

North Korea relies on an lucrative financing agreement with Iran to fund its expanding nuclear activities. In return for Iranian money and testing facilities, North Korea sends technology and scientists.

Mohamed Reza Heydari, a former Iranian consul in Oslo, told The Daily Telegraph, that he had personally helped scores of North Koreans enter the country while working for the foreign ministry's office in Tehran's Imam Khomenei airport.

"Our mission was to coordinate with a team from the Ministry of Intelligence in checking the visas of the foreign diplomatic and trade delegates who visited Iran, with special attention to VIPs," he said.

"We had the instructions to forego any visa and passport inspections for Palestinians belonging to Hamas and North Korean military and engineering staff who visit Iran on regular basis.

telegraph link (http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/iran/8219315/Iran-recruiting-nuclear-scientists-for-weapons-programme.html)

http://i.telegraph.co.uk/telegraph/multimedia/archive/01791/iran_1791346c.jpg

Merkhava

9th July 2011, 09:08

Israel must not attack Iran!

Netanyahu and Barak are considering launching an attack soon. This is madness and will have dire consequences for the State of Israel that will set it on a path the will eventually result in the destruction of the nation. Dagan's voice is a voice of reason and his restraint and advice should be heeded.

Those that live by the sword will die by the sword. Those who trust in jets, tanks and smart bombs will find themselves ruined.

Bibi and Ehud, remember that Israel's existence belongs to the Lord. Wait upon the Lord and trust in Him. Do what is righteous and good to friend and enemy. If we trust Him and keep faith to do what is right in His eyes, then He will absolutely deliver the nation with His strong right hand.

Shalom,
Merkhava

Lord Sidious

9th July 2011, 09:15

Mostafa

9th July 2011, 11:02

If West needs war to keep the money going so be it. But if they want a chance to spend that money they need to wipe everything that moves clean off within the borders of Iran cause one thing I'm sure about these guys and their Chinese allies: they won't go easy.
That's mass-destruction, not only for Iran.

seko

9th July 2011, 13:42

Lord Sidious

9th July 2011, 17:07

Darla Ken Pearce

9th July 2011, 17:19

Gosh, Diego Garcia being used for these bombs now? Needs to be cleansed for sure. I remember when working on a satellite project for Loral Space Systems and the Air Force providing logistic support for those satellites on Diego Garcia. Many of the supplies included liquor because of the isolation involved in some of the locations, so far out of reality are they located. This was just one of them with others on Thule in Greenland. Now that they are filthering it up out there, it will probably be part of the Pacific that needs to be cleaned up. Never focus your attention on such negativity and potentialities. Turn instead to focus on happy days ahead when there will be no wars.

This is possible now but it will take all of our concentration to get there from here. Do not keep fueling the fear here in these dark thoughts of creating new wars. No war is possible at least on Earth in these last days during her Ascension into higher frequencies and realms. Its not a good effort to support any time but especially now. Think and imagine a new world without wars and conflicts where brothers are not lusting after each others homes, possessions and lives. Where peace and wellbeing come forth and are available for everyone not just a few select people but for all of us without exception.

You have a lot of power whether you can appreciate it or not. Don't spend any effort thinking about whether some idiots would like another war or what silly things they are doing in secret or out in broad daylight. We do not support any of these dark efforts. Stop fueling FEAR and move ahead. Much love! xoxoxoxoxoxo

Mostafa

9th July 2011, 17:41

it's actually funny how some people in Iran think a war can liberate them from the oppression. It's like when you're fed up, you'll go for suicide.

Koyaanisqatsi

9th July 2011, 19:15

Well, here we are July of 2011. No war yet. Just lots and lots of people around the globe waking up to financial terrorism from the IMF, Eu, Goldman Sachs, etc. TPTB have much bigger worries now than Iran, Greece may inspire all of Europe to say "**** YOU" to the banks/bailouts and default instead, setting a shining example for all european nations to follow. The house of cards may be falling soon….

Rocky_Shorz

19th July 2011, 16:11

Iran has driven tanks into Kurdistan, northern Iraq and are bombing villages...

Iran is back on its feet again financially, sending Billions to Syria, so Hezbollah is getting funded again...

The firestorm is building...

Rocky_Shorz

19th July 2011, 17:19

that last post was 9:11 for me, rising of the beast?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mvb0JpdluJU

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lGNiQpxccfg

Kurdistan is Blessed and a perfect example for the rest of the region, and friends of the world...

you've pissed off the fiercest fighters in the world...

If I help Israel find a peaceful solution for the world, do you think they aren't standing with me against you?

the worst part is, Iranians are my people...

It should not come to this...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LvFf6mKZwxc

Rocky_Shorz

19th July 2011, 17:34

time to repaint a new picture for everyone...

four countries will divide into 5 states plus Israel and Palestine to start a 7 state Nation, Jordan, Saudi, Egypt, Libya, Lebanon along with all the others in the region will step forward to join.

These are the worlds Holy Lands and no more wars will be fought...

seko

19th July 2011, 19:44

Rocky_Shorz

19th July 2011, 20:20

well, wars since the beginning of religion have been over the Holy Lands, I'm glad I don't live on them... ;)

The rest of the world has already found peace, isn't it time the center of religion joins us?

Rocky_Shorz

19th July 2011, 21:28

On July 11, Iran’s official news agency IRNA quoted a senior Iranian army official as saying Tehran reserves the right to attack PJAK bases within Iraq.

“The terrorists will not be allowed to take sanctuary in Iraq’s territory and attack Iran with the support of America and the Zionist regime,” the official said.link (http://www.khaleejtimes.com/displayarticle.asp?xfile=data/middleeast/2011/July/middleeast_July434.xml&section=middleeast&col=)

so does the Zionist regime get the same right to attack the Terrorist in Iran? The ones torturing and killing those who speak out for their rights... the Dictator with the boot on the throat of Iranians... The one funding terrorists to keep the wars going in the middle east... The one that decided creating a nuclear weapon to attack his 1300 year old enemy is more important than feeding children...

Rocky_Shorz

19th July 2011, 22:25

Most former Mossad chiefs wary of Netanyahu

Baer was especially impressed by the unprecedented warning about Netanyahu's plans by former Mossad chief Meir Dagan. Dagan left the Israeli intelligence agency in September 2010. Two months ago, he predicted that Israel would attack and said that doing so would be "the stupidest thing" he could imagine. According to Haaretz:

When asked about what would happen in the aftermath of an Israeli attack Dagan said that: "It will be followed by a war with Iran. It is the kind of thing where we know how it starts, but not how it will end."

The Iranians have the capability to fire rockets at Israel for a period of months, and Hizbollah could fire tens of thousands of grad rockets and hundreds of long-range missiles, he said.

According to Ben Caspit of the Israeli daily Maariv, Dagan's blasts at Israel's political leadership are significant not only because Mossad chiefs, in office or retired, traditionally have kept their lips sealed, but also because Dagan is very conservative on security matters.

Caspit writes that Dagan is "one of the most rightwing militant people ever born here. ... When this man says that the leadership has no vision and is irresponsible, we should stop sleeping soundly at night".

Dagan describes the current Israeli government as "dangerous and irresponsible" and views speaking out against Netanyahu as his patriotic duty.

And his abhorrence of Netanyahu is not uncommon in the Israeli security establishment. Accordingto Think Progress, citing the Forward newspaper, 12 of the 18 living ex-chiefs of Israel's two security agencies (Mossad and Shin Bet), are "either actively opposing Netanyahu's stances or have spoken out against them". Of the remaining six, two are current ministers in Netanyahu government, leaving a grand total of four out of 18 who independently support the prime minister.

In short, while Congress dutifully gives Netanyahu 29 standing ovations, the Israelis who know the most about both Netanyahu and Israel's strategic situation think he is a dangerous disaster.

But according to Baer, we ain't seen nothing yet.

There is almost "near certainty" that Netanyahu is "planning an attack [on Iran] ... and it will probably be in September before the vote on a Palestinian state. And he's also hoping to draw the United States into the conflict", Baer explained... link... (http://english.aljazeera.net/indepth/opinion/2011/07/201171775828434786.html)

How do Israelis stand up against these Madmen? Do they need to get out in the streets and start protesting?