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News media reported last week that Iran had flatly refused the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) access to its Parchin military test facility, based on a statement to reporters by IAEA Deputy Director General, Herman Nackaerts, that “We could not get access”.
Now, however, explicit statements on the issue by the Iranian Ambassador to the IAEA [...]
Tags: AFP, Haaretz, IAEA, iran, Iran nuclear, Iran threat, Los Angeles Times, Mohamed ElBaradei, Nackaerts, parchin, Reuters, Russia Today, Soltanieh, the Hindu
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With the annual policy convention of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) coming up in just a few days, many observers are expecting this to be the time when Israel pushes its hardest on the United States to take a more aggressive stance in its ongoing confrontation with Iran over the latter’s nuclear program.
With [...]
Tags: AIPAC, AIPAC Conference, Barack Obama, Benjamin Netanyahu, iran, Iran nuclear, Iran threat, Iran War, israel, Lindsey Graham, McCain, Mitt Romney, Newt Gingrich, Rick Santorum
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Blown Away
Tuesday, February 28th, 2012
How the U.S. Fanned the Flames in Afghanistan
By Tom Engelhardt and Nick Turse
Posted by Tom Dispatch
Is it all over but the (anti-American) shouting — and the killing? Are the exits finally coming into view?
Sometimes, in a moment, the fog lifts, the clouds shift, and you can finally see the landscape ahead with startling clarity. In Afghanistan, [...]
Tags: Afghanistan, bagram, Dempsey, Karzai, Koran burning, NATO, Obama, Occupation
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The government of the Islamic Republic of Iran formally acknowledges and confirms the claim that the Zionist Usurper Regime That Occupies Jerusalem (ZURTOJ, otherwise known as Israel) has utterly destroyed the Iranian nuclear weapons program.
The Stuxnet and Duqu computer viruses, the magnetic bombs that martyred three Iranian nuclear scientists, carried out in cooperation with the terrorists of the Mojahedin-e Khalq, the explosions at Iranian military bases, and the latest revelations that Zionist commandos, aided by Kurdish fighters, have destroyed Iran’s nuclear facilities and its infrastructure. We can no longer hide the fact that Iran does not have a viable nuclear weapons program.
ZURTOJ has eradicated the Islamic Republic of Iran’s nuclear capability and nothing remains of it. Zionist spies have corrupted or deleted every computer file in the Islamic Republic, shredding and burning every sheet of paper with even a shred of dual-use knowledge that might be used in the pursuit of weapons of mass destruction. The Mossad’s super-sensitive mind control software have infiltrated even the brains of our researchers, from graduate students to our technical experts at the highest level, eradicating any recollection of the principles of nuclear fission and fusion.
Tags: AIPAC, iran, Iran nuclear, Iran sanctions, Iranian nuclear program, israel, Marsha B. Cohen, Mojehedeen-e Khalq, Mossad, Netanahu, Salehi, STRATFOR, Stuxnet, Wikileaks
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Hawks on Iran
Saturday, February 25th, 2012
Lobe Log publishes “Hawks on Iran” every Friday. Our posts highlight militaristic commentary, confrontational policy recommendations and alternative viewpoints about Iran from a variety of sources including news articles, think tanks and pundits.
*This week’s must-reads/watch:
Peter Crail & Daryl Kimball: February 2012 IAEA Report on Iran: An Initial Review
U.S. does not believe Iran is trying to build [...]
Tags: Dempsey, Fox News, hawks, Hawks on Iran, iran, Iran threat, israel, Jennifer Rubin, JPost, Michael Ledeen, regime change, Steve Forbes, Tucker Carlson, War, Washington Post, WSJ
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A friend of mine, who prefers to go unnamed, made an interesting observation about a rather convoluted effort by the managing director of the Washington Institute for Near East Policy, Michael Singh, challenging Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Martin Dempsey’s assertion in recent Congressional testimony that the Iranian regime is a “rational [...]
Tags: Barak, Bipartisan policy committee, Cartwright, Dempsey, Fallon, iran, Iran rational, iraq, israel, Mad mullah theory, Michael Singh, Osiraq reactor, WINEP
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In addition to Mitchell’s excellent post below, I would strongly recommend Robert Wright’s post entitled “AIPAC and the Push Toward War” on his Atlantic blog today. In that post, he refers to a letter sent by Lieberman, Graham and ten other senators to the White House last week that lays out what I believe is [...]
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This post originally appeared at Souciant.
Martin Dempsey is not a popular man in the halls of the Israeli Prime Minister’s office these days. The Chairman of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff incurred the wrath of Benjamin Netanyahu by pointing out the obvious: an Israeli attack on Iran would have dire consequences.
Dempsey said “I don’t [...]
Tags: AIPAC, Amir Eshel, Barack Obama, Benjamin Netanyahu, Ehud Barak, Haaretz, IAEA, iran, Iran War, israel, John Mearsheimer, martin dempsey, Stephen Walt, Tom Donilon, Yohanan Locker
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Recent comments about Iran by the top-ranking military officer in the US have been criticized by Israel and some Washington-based voices. On Sunday, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Martin Dempsey told CNN’s Fareed Zakaria that he’s been ”confronting” the question of whether Iran is rational since taking over Central Command in 2008. “We are of the opinion [...]
Tags: Barak, CNN, Dempsey, detterence, Gatilov, Haaretz, Hague, iran, Iran nuclear, Iran rational, Iran threat, israel, Israel strike on Iran, McCain, Michael Levi, Morning Joe, MSNBC, Netanyahu, Richard N. Haass, sanctions, Wall Street Journal, War, Zakaria
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Update: Both clips have been added to this post after the jump.
According to a Bloomberg Businessweek report, the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Gen. Martin Dempsey, made the following statements about Iran during an interview with CNN’s Fareed Zakaria:
- “It’s not prudent at this point to decide to attack Iran,” Dempsey said in an interview with CNN’s [...]
Tags: CNN, cnn gps, Cold War, Dempsey, fareed zakaria, iran, Iran Israel war, Iran nuclear, Iran rational, Iran threat, israel, Soviet Union
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