Updated at: 2250 Pakistain Standard Time, Friday, March 06, 2009
RABAT: Morocco has cut its diplomatic relations with Iran, the Moroccan Foreign Ministry said on Friday over statements by the government of Iran questioning Bahrain's sovereignty.
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Here's an interesting article on the history of Bahrain and Iran -- Bahrain is important to us since the USN 5th Fleet makes it home there!
The article is somewhat short, a little difficult to read because of some of the language (may be it has been translated, and some words translated strangely)
Guicciardi with the UN, in 1970, was sent to determine the political future of the British territory. He concluded the people wanted independence from both Britain and Iran.
The report of Guicciardi was surrounded to the Security Council of the United Nations and in the meeting of 11th May 1970 was discussed. Following the ratification of this report, the mentioned resolution of Security Council was conveyed to the Governments of Iran and Britain.
The Governments of Iran reported the result of the mission and the resolution of the United Nations to the two assemblies (The lower and upper houses of Parliaments). The report of The Government was ratified by Iranian National Assembly (Mjles-e Shoray-e Melli) in 14th of May, and by Iranian Senate (Majles-e Sena) on 18th of May.
Iran is now rattling swords. Curious, as they now are feeling stronger and stronger with The One now in power, if they will attempt to pull a Saddam and attempt to get the island back.
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Any attack on Bahrain would involve a huge number of foreign nationals and business interests from much of the world. China has a big footprint in Bahrain, and owes them a big favor for sponsoring China into the WTO.
So this would not just be a head-on attack against the US Navy.
VIENNA (Reuters) - The United States said on Wednesday that U.N. inspectors had found growing evidence of covert nuclear activity in Syria, and European allies said a lack of Syrian transparency demanded utmost scrutiny.
The U.N. nuclear watchdog, the International Atomic Energy Agency, is looking into U.S. intelligence reports that Syria had almost built a North Korean-designed, nuclear reactor meant to yield bomb-grade plutonium before Israel bombed it in 2007.
Last month, the IAEA said inspectors had found enough traces of uranium in soil samples taken in a trip to the bombed site granted by Syria last June to constitute a "significant" find, and satellite pictures taken before the Israeli bombing revealed a building resembling a reactor.
But the IAEA report said Syria, citing national security reasons, had ignored many agency requests for further on-the-ground access and documentation to back up its assertion that Israel's target was a purely conventional military building. "This report contributes to the growing evidence of clandestine nuclear activities in Syria," Gregory Schulte, U.S. ambassador to the IAEA, said during a debate by its 35-nation Board of Governors in Vienna. "We must understand why such (uranium) material -- material not previously declared to the IAEA -- existed in Syria and this can only happen if Syria provides the cooperation requested."
He said it was also essential that Syria allow inspectors to examine debris removed from the bombed facility to an unknown location immediately after Israel's strike. This applied as well, Schulte said, to three other military sites which satellite pictures showed Syria "sanitized" -- landscaping them and whisking away equipment -- shortly after the IAEA asked to check them out.
Last week, Damascus said the uranium particles were not "significant." It said they came from depleted uranium used in Israeli munitions, contradicting an IAEA finding that this was chemically processed uranium not in Syria's declared inventory. Syria also suggested IAEA analyses were faulty and that satellite imagery Washington gave to the IAEA was fabricated. Its only declared nuclear site is an old research reactor, and it has no known nuclear energy capacity.
In a statement to the closed-door IAEA gathering, the 27-member European Union voiced concern at the "possibility that Syria has not declared all its nuclear installations. Any obstacles, unnecessary delays or a lack of cooperation ... undermine the credibility of the agency's verification capabilities. Such cases, therefore, deserve our utmost attention," it said."
Vienna diplomats said Syria had told the IAEA it had built a missile facility on the desert tract hit by Israel, a disclosure apparently meant to reinforce the Syrian refusal to grant more IAEA access on national security grounds.
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But...but....Doesn't our (unfortuantely MY) Senator from Frawnce won't to talk to them without preconditions???? Doesn't that mean they're good guys????
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Nah, it would be a waste of perfectly good Nukes
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Redneck, I was thinking more along the lines of the Silo-gaurds and operaters losing their jobs since their won't be anything to gaurd anymore. THAT would be the real tragedy here.
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Actually Charles I was saying the several hundred million dollars is more than their nation's worth.
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Britain said Wednesday it was prepared to engage in direct contacts with the political wing of the Lebanese group Hezbollah, which became part of a national unity government last year.
London has had no official talks with Hezbollah since 2005, and last July added its military wing to a blacklist of designated terrorist groups.
"We have reconsidered the position ... in light of more positive developments within Lebanon," Foreign Office Minister Bill Rammell told a parliamentary committee. "For that reason we have explored establishing contacts."
He said he was referring to the formation in July last year of a unity government in which Hezbollah and its allies in the opposition hold effective veto power, as agreed under a deal that ended a paralyzing political conflict in the country.
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What benefit can come from talking to those pigs?
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