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Former Intelligence Minister Urges Iran's Preemptive Action on EU Oil Embargo (cut them off now)
Post Date: 2012-01-23 13:58:02 by Brian S
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TEHRAN (FNA)- Former Iranian Intelligence Minister Ali Falahian called on Tehran authorities to stop oil supply to the European Union member states before the bloc decides on banning oil imports from Iran. Speaking to FNA on Monday, Falahian pointed to an upcoming meeting of the EU member states to decide an oil ban against Iran, and said European states need a 6-month time to find alternative sources for Iranian oil. "The best way for us is to stop oil exports before the 6-month deadline (announced by the EU) comes to an end and the oil embargo plan comes into effect so that crude prices go up and Europeans' US-driven plans for sanctioning our country's oil fall flat," ...
Russia Alarmed By EU Ban On Iranian Oil, Sanctions
Post Date: 2012-01-23 13:04:08 by Brian S
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(Reuters) - Russia expressed "regret and alarm" on Monday over the European Union's ban on Iranian oil and other economic sanctions, saying Tehran will not make concessions on its nuclear program when faced with increasing Western pressure. "It is obvious that what is happening here is open pressure and diktat, an attempt to 'punish' Iran for its intractable behavior," the Foreign Ministry said in a statement after EU nations agreed the measures. "This is a deeply mistaken line, as we have told our European partners more than once. Under such pressure Iran will not agree to any concessions or any changes in its policy," it said. Foreign Minister ...
Who Wants War With Iran?
Post Date: 2012-01-21 17:15:08 by buckeroo
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On Sept. 21, 1976, as his car rounded Sheridan Circle on Embassy Row, former Chilean ambassador Orlando Letelier was assassinated by car bomb. Ronni Moffitt, a 25-year-old American women who worked with Letelier at the leftist Institute for Policy Studies, died with him. Michael Townley, an ex-CIA asset in the hire of Chile’s intelligence agency, confessed to using anti-Castro Cubans to murder Letelier, in what was regarded as an act of terrorism on U.S. soil. Which raises a question: Are not the murders of four Iranian scientists associated with that nation’s nuclear program, by the attachment of bombs to their cars in Tehran, also acts of terrorism? Had the Stalin- or ...
Iran-Russia Trade In Domestic Currencies -Iran Envoy
Post Date: 2012-01-20 13:16:18 by Brian S
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Jan 20 (Reuters) - Iran and Russia have started using their domestic rial and rouble currencies in bilateral trade instead of the U.S. dollar, Iran's envoy to Moscow said on Friday, after the United States imposed new sanctions on the Middle East state. "(Trade) is based on our national currencies," said Iranian ambassador to Russia Seyed Sajjadi. "We started this work long ago. Iranian businessmen are buying products in Russia and are using the rouble as (payment) currency ... The U.S. dollar has no (economic) support base," he said speaking at a news conference. Iran is seeking to boost trade after the United States imposed additional sanctions in late December ...
France Deplores 'Assassination' Of Troops As It Threatens To Pull Out Of Afghanistan
Post Date: 2012-01-20 10:42:44 by Brian S
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Alain Juppé, France's foreign minister, said the unarmed soldiers had been victims of an "assassination," and President Nicolas Sarkozy ordered an immediate review of security for troops training Afghan soldiers. The killings during a training exercise at the Gwan military base in Kapisa province followed a similar attack last month when an Afghan soldier shot and killed two members of the French Foreign Legion. Friday's attack wounded a further 15 and brought the total French death toll in the Afghan campaign to 82. The Afghan attacker was captured alive. Scores of Nato troops have been shot dead in recent years by their Afghan partners raising fears of ...
Russia Vows To Block Western Intervention In Syria
Post Date: 2012-01-18 17:51:08 by Brian S
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BEIRUT (AP) – Syria's powerful allies in Russia vowed Wednesday to block any Western attempts to intervene militarily in Syria as Damascus fights off an increasingly chaotic 10-month-old revolt against President Bashar Assad. The support came as Assad was showing fresh confidence that he can ride out the uprising with the help of a small — but influential — set of friends in Russia, China and Iran. Iran also gave Syria another boost Wednesday. According to Iran's semi-official ISNA news agency, with the commander of Iran's Quds Force, Brig. Gen. Qasem Soleimani, said Assad's government enjoys public support and won't collapse. --clip The comments by ...
Canadian Company To Reapply For Pipeline Permit
Post Date: 2012-01-18 17:22:26 by Brian S
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(01-18) 13:45 PST HOUSTON (AP) -- The Canadian company seeking to build a Canada-to-Texas pipeline says it will reapply for a permit after President Barack Obama announced he had rejected the current proposal. TransCanada's CEO and president Russ Girling says Obama's announcement on Wednesday was not entirely surprising. He says the company plans to reapply for a presidential permit for the proposed 1,700-mile Keystone XL pipeline. Obama says he turned down the proposal because Congress gave him a 60-day deadline that did not allow for a thorough review of the project. He made clear the company was free to reapply for the permit. TransCanada says it is working with officials in ...
Israel-Us Military Exercise Postponed For Lack Of Money
Post Date: 2012-01-18 13:11:42 by Brian S
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Israel has postponed joint military maneuvers with the US, which were supposed to begin in the Negev in the next few months, due to budgetary constraints, JTA reports (from an Israeli source) and "The Atlantic" reports (from senior Pentagon officials). According to these reports, it was Israel that initiated the postponement of the maneuvers and not the US, as the Israeli media had claimed. Operation Austere Challenge 12 was going to be the largest US-Israeli joint exercise in history. The purpose of the maneuvers was to practice ballistic missile defense scenarios, and 5,000 soldiers from both countries' armies were to participate in them. Assistant Secretary for ...
Russian Exercises In Caucasus Prepping For Iran War?
Post Date: 2012-01-17 14:12:16 by Brian S
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Russia will be holding a series of military exercises in the North Caucasus, Armenia, Abkhazia and South Ossetia this fall, reportedly in preparation for a possible U.S.-Israeli attack on Iran. The exercises, called Kavkaz-2012, will be held in September and won't be tactical/operational but strategic (i.e. won't involve large numbers of troops). The exercises will, however, include officers from the breakaway Georgian territories. The focus on surveillance, air defense and logistics suggests that Russia is tailoring the exercise to prepare for a U.S.-Israel-Iran war, says Russian newspaper Nezavisimaya Gazeta: As suggested by the head of the Center for Military Forecasting, Colonel ...
Sinking the Petrodollar in the Persian Gulf
Post Date: 2012-01-17 13:35:49 by Brian S
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These days, with a crisis atmosphere growing in the Persian Gulf, a little history lesson about the U.S. and Iran might be just what the doctor ordered. Here, then, are a few high- (or low-) lights from their relationship over the last half-century-plus: Summer 1953: The CIA and British intelligence hatch a plot for a coup that overthrows a democratically elected government in Iran intent on nationalizing that country’s oil industry. In its place, they put an autocrat, the young Shah of Iran, and his soon-to-be feared secret police. He runs the country as his repressive fiefdom for a quarter-century, becoming Washington’s “bulwark” in the Persian Gulf ...
Iran sending pink plastic drone to President Pantywaist
Post Date: 2012-01-17 13:22:08 by Happy Quanzaa
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U.S. drone that crashed in Iran goes miniature TEHRAN — For the American government, the crash of the RQ-170 drone in Iran was an embarrassment. For the Iranian government, it was a propaganda victory. And for at least one company, according to state radio, it could be a windfall. An Iranian firm, seeking to capitalize on the frenzy that followed the crash of the drone — and American calls to have it returned — is now producing miniaturized toy versions of the craft. Most of the toys, which come in several colors and are made of Iranian plastic, have already been snapped up by Iranian government organizations, according to the group that manufactures them. At least one ...
Ezekiel Unfolding? Putin Allies Warn Against Iran Strike
Post Date: 2012-01-16 19:07:58 by Brian S
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If Israel strikes Iran's nuclear facilities this year, it can count on fierce Russian opposition. Russia has not only helped Iran build its Busher nuclear power plant. It is also reportedly arming Syria's Assad regime in its brutal crackdown on opposition forces and is cozying up to Hezbollah and Hamas. Once Vladimir Putin--who longs to return Russia to its former Soviet-era power--reassumes the Russian presidency in March, Russia will even more openly align itself with Israel's enemies in the Middle East. And none more closely than Iran. We received a preview last week from two hawkish Putin allies. First, from Russia's outgoing ...
Asserting Its Sovereignty, Iraq Detains U.S. Contractors
Post Date: 2012-01-16 14:50:53 by Brian S
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BAGHDAD — Iraqi authorities have detained a few hundred foreign contractors in recent weeks, industry officials say, including many Americans who work for the United States Embassy, in one of the first major signs of the Iraqi government’s asserting its sovereignty after the American troop withdrawal last month. The detentions have occurred largely at the airport in Baghdad and at checkpoints around the capital after the Iraqi authorities raised questions about the contractors’ documents, including visas, weapons permits and authorizations to drive certain routes. Although no formal charges have been filed, the detentions have lasted from a few hours to nearly three weeks. ...
Iran to Give ‘Firm’ Reply to Scientist Murder
Post Date: 2012-01-16 12:06:04 by Brian S
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Iran’s intelligence minister warned of a “firm response” to the killing of an Iranian nuclear scientist and a senior military adviser said “every means” will be used to defend “national interests” as the country faces growing pressure to curtail its nuclear program. “The U.S., the U.K. and Mossad,” Israel’s intelligence agency, “will see the results of their actions and Iran will deliver a firm response,” Heidar Moslehi said in the capital Tehran yesterday, according to the state-run Fars news agency. Iran will use “every means” of defense if endangered, Major General Yahya Rahim Safavi, the Iranian supreme ...
US, Israel Postpone Military Exercise Amid Tension With Iran
Post Date: 2012-01-15 17:55:56 by Brian S
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REPORTING FROM JERUSALEM -- The United States and Israel agreed to postpone a large joint military exercise from this spring to late in the year to avoid aggravating an already tense regional situation driven by conflicts with Iran, Israeli media reported Sunday. The drill, slated for May and named "Austere Challenge," was announced in November by Andrew Shapiro, U.S. assistant secretary of State for politics-military affairs, at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy. The exercise as originally planned would include more than 5,000 U.S. and Israeli forces and, among other things, simulate Israel's ballistic missile defense. It would be the "largest and most ...
Russia: Attack on Tehran is Attack on Moscow
Post Date: 2012-01-15 17:47:13 by Brian S
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Russia has given Iran its bear hug and warns Israel and the West that an attack on Tehran would be considered an attack on Moscow. The threat heightens the prospect of World War III in the event of a military strike on Iran. “Iran is our neighbor,” Russia's outgoing ambassador to NATO, Dmitry Rogozin, told reporters in Brussels. “And if Iran is involved in any military action, it’s a direct threat to our security.” Kremlin Security Council head Nikolai Patrushev accused Israel of provoking the United States towards war against Iran, the Russian Interfax news agency reported Friday. “But at the same time, we believe that any country has the right to have ...
Pantywaist-in-Chief wets his panties, postpones Israeli-U.S. defense drill
Post Date: 2012-01-15 14:35:48 by Happy Quanzaa
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'Israel and U.S. postpone massive defense drill in fear of escalation with Iran'Israeli defense officials tell Channel 2 that Washington wants to avoid causing further tensions in region after various foreign reports of U.S. and Israeli preparations for strike on Iran. Israel and the United States have postponed a massive joint defense exercise, which had been expected in the coming weeks, in order to avoid an escalation with Iran, Channel 2 reported on Sunday. According to an Israeli defense official, Washington wants to avoid causing further tensions in the region, especially in light of the sensitive situation that has been generated after various reports in the international ...
Ron Paul
Post Date: 2012-01-14 16:23:17 by buckeroo
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US military identifies all four 'urinating' Marines
Post Date: 2012-01-14 11:14:28 by buckeroo
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All four US Marines seen in a video apparently urinating on dead Afghans have been identified by American military investigators, US media say. Two of the men have already been interviewed by the US Navy's criminal investigation branch. The Marine Corps has also appointed Lt Gen Thomas Waldhauser, a three-star general, to decide what, if any, disciplinary action is to be taken. It is understood the troops served in Helmand province, Afghanistan. US media reported that the unit belonged to the 3rd Battalion, 2nd Marine Regiment, but that two of the men and the battalion's commander had moved on to other assignments before the video became public. The names of the men, who are ...
Russia Escalates War Of Words With U.S.
Post Date: 2012-01-13 19:46:04 by Brian S
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In an escalating war of words with the United States Russia has accused Washington of working to change the regimes in Iran and Syria. “Additional sanctions against Iran, as well as potentially any military strikes against it, will unquestionably be perceived by the international community as an attempt at changing the regime in Iran,” Russia's Deputy Foreign Minister Gannady Gatilov said on Friday. Mr. Gatilov also said the West's goal in Syria was to remove President Bashar al-Assad. Russian comments came as Washington penalised companies from China, Singapore and the United Arab Emirates for their failure to comply with U.S. unilateral sanctions against Iran. The ...
US To Probe Video Of Troops Urinating On Taliban Corpses
Post Date: 2012-01-12 18:16:55 by Brian S
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AFP - A video purportedly showing US Marines urinating on dead insurgents in Afghanistan prompted American condemnation and a Pentagon probe Thursday, but the Taliban said peace efforts would continue. A senior US military official said the Marines believed they had identified the unit at the center of the allegations, which evoked memories of previous abuses committed by US troops in Iraq and during the decade-long Afghan war. "We cannot release the name of the unit at this time since the incident is being investigated," a spokesman from the Marines said, referring to the images that could spark outrage and unrest in Afghanistan and the wider Muslim world. The video appeared ...
Iran plans one-kiloton underground nuclear test in 2012
Post Date: 2012-01-11 21:25:41 by A K A Stone
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Russia-Iran An underground nuclear test According to debkafile's Iranian sources, Tehran is preparing an underground test of a one-kiloton nuclear device during 2012, much like the test carried out by North Korea in 2006. Underground facilities are under construction in great secrecy behind the noise and fury raised by the start of advanced uranium enrichment at Iran's fortified, subterranean Fordo site near Qom. All the sanctions imposed so far for halting Iran's progress toward a nuclear weapon have had the reverse effect, stimulating rather than cooling its eagerness to acquire a bomb. Yet, according to a scenario prepared by the Institute for National Security Studies ...
LOL, another Iranian nuke scientist blown to smithereens w/ magnetic bomb :^)
Post Date: 2012-01-11 13:51:08 by Happy Quanzaa
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US denies killing Iran nuclear scientist with magnetic bomb'Western powers and their allies appear to be relying on covert war tactics to try to delay and degrade Iran's nuclear advancement,' security expert says 1:15 p.m. ET: The Obama administration is denying any role in the killing of an Iranian university professor working at a key nuclear facility. White House spokesman Tommy Vietor said the U.S. "had absolutely nothing to do" with Mostafa Ahmadi Roshan's death and the U.S. condemns "all acts of violence, including acts of violence like what is being reported today." Published at 9:46 am ET: Two assailants on a motorcycle attached a magnetic ...
FITCH: ECB MUST PREVENT "CATACLYSMIC" COLLAPSE
Post Date: 2012-01-11 07:11:17 by war
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FRANKFURT, Jan 11 (Reuters) - The European Central Bank should ramp up its buying of troubled euro zone debt to support Italy and prevent a 'cataclysmic' collapse of the euro, David Riley, the head of sovereign ratings for Fitch, said on Wednesday. Speaking to investors as part of a European roadshow, Riley said the collapse of the euro would be disastrous for the global economy, and while it is not Fitch's baseline scenario, it could happen if Italy did not find a way of its debt problems. 'The end of the euro would be cataclysmic. The euro is a reserve currency,' Riley said. 'What would that do in terms of financial and political stability?' 'It is hard ...
China Says War Over Iran Will Bring Disaster
Post Date: 2012-01-10 12:13:39 by Brian S
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AFP - A top Chinese diplomat said Tuesday war over the Iranian nuclear issue would bring disaster to the world economy and urged all nations involved to exercise restraint and prevent hostilities. The remarks by Chen Xiaodong, a top Chinese diplomat on Middle Eastern affairs, came as Iran's showdown with the West slid closer to confrontation as alarm over its new uranium enrichment plant and Tehran's death sentence for a "CIA spy" raised the stakes. "We urge all relevant nations to remain calm, exercise restraint, refrain from taking actions that will intensify the situation and make common efforts to prevent war," Chen said in an online interview with state ...
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