#1
Don't worry. Be happy. Obama will ask them nicely not to, and so they won't.
Posted by: Rambler in Virginia ||
10/06/2009 17:11 Comments ||
Top||
#2
Uh, uh, NOTSWINE in APPLE/PEAR GROUP LOVE???
Gut nuthin.
ARTIC > IMO iff true it shows that Radical islam includ ISLAMIST IRAN are trying to secure the hinterlands = periphery of future ISLAMIST NUCLEAR ASIA, FKA AS RUSSIA, CHINA + INDIA, ETC, and ENCLAVES THEREFROM.
#3
This sounds like total BS. To begin with, chemical weapons are a two-edged sword. You can't effectively use them unless you have protection yourself. The Iranians are intensely aware of this going back to the Iran-Iraq war. Chemical protective and decontamination equipment is prohibited anywhere near Iran, unless the US military has it.
Second thing is that right now, if Iran attacked Iraq, there is a strong possibility that Iraq would kick seven bells out of Iran. Iraq's status of forces right now would make even Russia hesitate before getting into a fight with them.
Third is that the Saudis are sure as hell not going to make a deal with the Iranians, because the Iranians want the Saud family and the Wahabbis deposed, and for Shiites to rule Mecca and Medina. And the Saudis have some pretty formidable teeth as well.
Finally, nobody likes the Iranians. If they try any kind of stunt like this, there is going to be a "pile on" like nobody's business. Even the Egyptians might decide to play.
Iran plans to install a more advanced type of centrifuge at its newly revealed uranium enrichment site, an Iranian newspaper reported Tuesday, a development certain to add to international concerns about the country's nuclear work.
A Western intelligence assessment that has been cited by diplomats says the new site is meant to house no more than 3,000 enriching centrifuges much less than the more than 8,000 machines at Natanz.
That assessment also notes that the site could be set up for more advanced domestically developed centrifuges that would process uranium at much higher speed and efficiency, adding to concern that such a site could be used to enrich uranium to the higher levels needed to make weapons.
Continued on Page 47
Posted by: ed ||
10/06/2009 10:31 ||
Comments ||
Link ||
[11146 views]
Top|| File under:
#1
Shortround needs a war to get the people behind him!
[Iran Press TV Latest] Israeli Army Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Gabi Ashkenazi and his American counterpart Admiral Mike Mullen have held secret talks in France with a special focus on Iran.
The two officials, who met in the northern French region of Normandy on Sunday, also discussed the Middle East, reports say.
Ashkenazi also discussed the developments in Iran with French Armed Forces Chief of Staff General Jean-Louis Georgelin.
The meeting comes ahead of the US and Israel's largest military drill, which is scheduled for later this month. The maneuver is planned to simulate missile strikes on Israel.
For years, Israel has threatened to bomb Iran's nuclear installations.
Dodging scrutiny over its own arsenal of up to 200 nuclear weapons, Israel accuses Iran of refining uranium for military purposes.
Iran, however, continues to dismiss the allegation, saying its nuclear activities are solely aimed at peaceful application of the technology.
Tehran says its nuclear program is aimed at generating electricity, under close monitoring by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA).
Iran has vowed a 'firm response' to any military action by foreign invaders, while downplaying the threat of any attack on the country by Israel.
"Talk of an Israeli attack on Iran is merely a ploy," Iran's Armed Forces Joint Chief of Staff Major General Hassan Firouzabadi had said in September.
Continued on Page 47
Posted by: Fred ||
10/06/2009 00:00 ||
Comments ||
Link ||
[11141 views]
Top|| File under: Govt of Iran
[Al Arabiya Latest] A former spy of Iran's Revolutionary Guards reveals Monday the existence of thousands of intelligence cells for the Islamic Republic in most Arab countries, especially those in the Arab Gulf.
The former undercover agent, who declined to be named for security reasons, said there are 40,000 Iranian spies in the Arab Gulf states, 3,000 of them in Kuwait alone. He added that many are mercenaries paid for limited services while others are regular employees in the Revolutionary Guards.
" These cells are woven with skill similar to the weaving of a Farsi carpet; they are often quintets of four members plus a commander and no one of them is aware of another's tasks and missions "
Unnamed former undercover agent
The former spy denied that Iran's intelligence cells in the Arab states are sleeper and said they regularly work amassing information on Gulf states' military capabilities, infrastructure and key economic institutions.
"These cells are woven with skill similar to the weaving of a Farsi carpet; they are often quintets of four members plus a commander and no one of them is aware of another's tasks and missions," he said, adding that Iran spends "extensive amounts of money" on its foreign intelligence.
The spy, from the Arab --majority city of Ahwaz, told Alarabiya.net that he started his job as an undercover agent for Iran's elite Revolutionary Guards two years before the Iran-Iraq war ended in 1988.
"I was deceived in the beginning by slogans that the Islamic Republic of Iran was defending Islam," he said explaining his reasons for joining intelligence.
While in service his main job was to monitor and provide information on the Iranian opposition leaders in the Arab Gulf states, he said.
The former undercover agent is from the Arab-majority city of Ahvaz, the capital of the southwestern Iranian province of Khuzestan, which is the home of the Canada-based Ahwaz Arab Renaissance Party (AARP) advocating resistance to the Iranian government.
He said he decided to give up spying when he "realized how authorities discriminated against Ahwazi soldiers fighting for Iran in the war against Iraq," adding that "wounded Arab Ahwazi soldiers were often given treatment on the ground, whereas those Iranians of Farsi origin were treated on hospital beds."
When he submitted resignation to Iranian intelligence authorities it was turned down many times and was kept under surveillance for five years before was finally discharged and allowed to reside in a foreign a country, he told Alarabiya.net.
Continued on Page 47
Posted by: Fred ||
10/06/2009 00:00 ||
Comments ||
Link ||
[11137 views]
Top|| File under:
#1
40,000 Iranian spies in the Arab Gulf states, 3,000 of them in Kuwait alone
#3
There is a huge arab community in Iran, close to the Strait of Hormuz. And most Iraqi arabs are pro-Iran Shiites. Both recruitment and infiltration would be easy.
Posted by: Ulineper Scourge of the Veal Cutlets9295 ||
10/06/2009 7:53 Comments ||
Top||
#4
to subvert and dominate it, and to keep tabs on US forces there, the oil industry, etc. I guess.
#7
Pfft. These are Arabs. I'm willing to bet 80% of these "spies" are people who are just waiting for somebody else to "recruit" them. It's free money, you just tell the handler what he wants to hear, you get some cash, and if things ever go to shit, hey, you can get in good with the current authorities by ratting the handler out.
They're tribals. They'll lie to and cheat anyone who isn't part of the clan. And that's the moral, ethical ones - the other guys'll rat out their own kin.
Posted by: Mitch H. ||
10/06/2009 19:24 Comments ||
Top||
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
