Only a few days ahead of the American presidential election, Iranian parliamentary speaker 'Ali Larijani and Supreme Leader Ayatollah 'Ali Khamanai have launched harsh verbal attacks against the United States.
Referring to the US army's attacks in Pakistan and Syria, Larijani said they would not be answered with diplomatic protests. "The US method and conduct, expressed by this aggression, will only be stopped by a clear-cut and unexpected response, whose grounds were set by the martyr Hussein Fahmida," Larijani said during a parliamentary session on Wednesday.
Senator McCain thanks you for your honesty ...
Fahmida was 13 when he detonated an explosive device he carried on him, destroying an Iraqi tank during the Iran-Iraq War in the 1980s.
"America should be aware not to put its huge body on top of the suicide boomers' explosive devices," Larijani said.
On the same day, Khamanai said the differences between Iran and the US were far beyond differences of opinion. "The Iranian people hate the US... [because of] the various plots the US government has hatched against Iran and the Iranian nation for the past five decades," Khamanai said.
The Supreme Leader added that any nation that would not honor Iran's identity and independence would have its "hands cut off."
Meanwhile, Iran and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) signed a Memorandum of Understanding on Wednesday to set up a joint UAE-Iran committee. The MoU was signed during UAE Foreign Minster Sheikh 'Abdullah Bin Zayyid Al Nahyan's visit to Teheran. "We shall push the relations toward a horizon that will serve the interests of the two peoples," Bin Zayyid told reporters after the signing ceremony.
The MoU may facilitate the setting up of a joint security organization between Iran and the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC), of which the UAE is a member. The GCC's secretary general, 'Abd A-Rahman Bin Hamad Al-'Atiyya, is currently holding a series of meetings with Iranian officials in Teheran.
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Its important for Radical Islam + pan-Islamist Nuclearization that the US stay put in Iraq + Afghanistan, no matter whom becoms POTUS in January 2009. THIS WILL ALLOW IRAN TO INEVITABLY GET ITS NUKES, AND ALSO ALLOW THE [Nuclear-ambitious]ISLAMIST MILITANTS, ETC. + JIHAD TO CONTINUE AGZ EURASIA, espec vee the COLD WAR NUCLEAR CLUB = RUSSIA, CHINA, + INDIA, AND ULTIMAT INDUCE THE DESTABILIZATION ANDOR BREAKUP OF SAME.
Again, in the near term, the MAP OF ASIA as we know it from the 20th Century, Cold War, + Post- Cold War/USSR, even as per 9-11, MAY BE DIFFERENT AFTER 2015-2020.
A weekend 5.0 Richter earthquake in Iran was actually a nuclear bomb test, says an Iranian nuclear scientist claiming to be working on the project.
The report is an Israel Insider exclusive.
This past Saturday night, southern Iran experienced what was reported as a significant earthquake - a seismic event measuring 5.0 on the Richter scale. Its epicenter was just north of the strategic Straits of Hormuz, which separates Iran from Abu Dhabi and Oman and which is the gateway to the Persian Gulf.
The report quotes an Iranian nuclear scientist who claims to be working in uranium enrichment for the project, and who said that the "quake" was acutally an undergound nuclear bomb test.
Israel Insider adds that the test/quake was actually the second in a series. Nine days ago, a 4.8 Richter scale event occurred, with its epicenter only five kilometers away from the weekend tremor.
The Israel Insider source reports that two nuclear rockets are currently ready - and are intended for use against Israel in the coming months.
If the report is correct, it would belie previous speculation that Iran would not begin nuclear testing until it had more nuclear-bomb production capability.
The geographical location of the test has several advantages. It is exposed to significant seismic activity, which could serve to mask nuclear tests; it is believed to be close to Iran's nuclear development facility; delivery and transport of material and personnel can be effected easily through the Hormuz Strait; and Iranian enemies would hesitate to bomb the area because that would threaten the flow of a substantial percentage of the world's oil.
Rooters reports Thursday morning that Iran has begun building a line of naval bases along its southern coast and up to the Straits of Hormuz.
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"If the report is correct, it would belie previous speculation that Iran would not begin nuclear testing until it had more nuclear-bomb production capability."
Flawed statement, because it relies on estimations of Iranian production capability. If they were indeed tests, then the assumption must be that the Iranians have long had production capability.
And that, in turn, means that they got uranium or plutonium from North Korea.
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"How long does it take to build a naval base?"
TW, we already have 11 of them, complete with air wings, that can be there in about 3 weeks or less.
Stationary ones take a bit longer, and don't turn into the wind.
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ION CHINESE MILITRYA FORUM > INDIA, MALAYSIA, AND THAILAND AT HIGHEST POLITICAL AND SOCIAL RISK IN ASIA, mainly due to INTERNAL UNREST AND INSTABILITIES. CHINA at lower - better threat ranking, but is also expected to have difficulties in 2009; + IHT > INDIA'S STRUGGLE TO FIND ETHNIC AND RELIGIOUS TOLERANCE. India slowly becoming more and more STRATIFIED = VIOLENTLY ANTI-DEMOCRATIC DESPITE ITS SEEMINGLY PLURALIST MULTI-ETHNIC/RELIGIOUS DEMOCRACY, as due to PAN-SECTAARIANIST MILITANTS' STRUGGLE FOR RIGHTS + IDENTITY.
TEHRAN - Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, ahead of the US elections and anniversary of the seizure of the American embassy in Tehran, said on Wednesday that hatred of Washington was deep-seated.
Turns out many of us Americans feel the same about you, pal. And I suspect that out in the countryside of your country, you don't speak for as many of your people as you think ...
This conflict goes far beyond having differences over a few political issues, Khamenei told students in a speech, quoted by state television ahead of the 29th anniversary of the 1979 hostage-taking at the embassy.
The supreme guide said his country's hatred towards the US government is deep-seated because of its plots against the Iranian people over the past 50 years. Iran holds the United States responsible for a 1953 coup that deposed the administration of its then prime minister Mohammad Mosaddeq and restored the shah.
Mosaddeq was in league with the Tudeh communists in Iran and would have handed the country over to the Russians. That we helped remove him is a mark in our favor.
Besides, they have not apologised yet and rather keep on their arrogant attitude, he said ahead of the November 3 anniversary of the embassy seizure that the Islamic republic marks with nationwide demonstrations.
Khamenei praised the great move of students... to take over the centre of espionage.
The two countries have had no diplomatic relations for close to three decades after Islamist students took US diplomats at the mission hostage for 444 days.
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OK. We hate each other. Now we have some common ground to build upon. Opportunity knocks.
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Might be time for a peace offering. Send them Jimmy Carter. Tell them they can do whatever they want to him.
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Four Hundred and Forty Four days, you sumbitches. We have not forgotten.
If anyone needs an intro to the story, read Mark Bowen's "Guests of the Ayatollah". WARNING: reading this book will both raise your blood pressure AND increase your contempt for Jimmy Carter. Really.
Freshly evaluated soil and air samples from a Syrian site bombed by Israel on suspicion it was a covert nuclear reactor provide enough evidence to push ahead with a United Nations probe, diplomats said Tuesday.
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I could have told them that from where I sit for a lot less fuss and money.
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Why is pencil neck yielding to pressure from IAEA to examine the site and thus embarrass him? Maybe there is something to the speculation that he might be preparing to flip. Would be nice. He and Gadafi could start a new club of "Bad Boys Gone Good". BBGG
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The IAEA is on the job, many, many months after it might have done some good. Par for course.
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You know that was really a crappy cleanup if even the IAEA could find suspicious samples.
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Only a few days ahead of the American presidential election, Iranian parliamentary speaker 'Ali Larijani and Supreme Leader Ayatollah 'Ali Khamanai have launched harsh verbal attacks against the United States. 
A weekend 5.0 Richter earthquake in Iran was actually a nuclear bomb test, says an Iranian nuclear scientist claiming to be working on the project.
