Iran dispatches warship to shadow Gulf exercises
Sunday 19 May 2013 Iran has dispatched one of its newest warships to shadow the world’s biggest mine-hunting exercise that has been taking place over the last few days in the Gulf. A 50cal gunner aboard a US Navy Riverine Patrol Boat during joint naval exercises in the Persian Gulf north of Bahrain Photo: HEALTHCLIFF O’MALLEY [...]
Expert: Iran’s military has trumped its religious apparatus
Expert: Iran’s military has trumped its religious apparatus BY: Adam Kredo April 23, 2013 5:47 pm Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei “has become a hostage” of an elite branch of Iran’s army that has quietly consolidated its economic and political power, a top analyst said Tuesday. The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) appears to have supplanted [...]
North Korea moves two more missile launchers
By Jane Chung 21 April 2013 Reuters North Korea has moved two short-range missile launchers to its east coast, apparently indicating it is pushing ahead with preparations for a test launch, a South Korean news agency reported on Sunday. South Korea and its allies have been expecting some sort of North Korean missile launch during [...]
The North Korean Nuclear Crisis: Lessons for the Iranian Case?
The threats themselves are basically toothless By Emily B. Landau April 21, 2013 North Korea is well known for its repeated provocations of South Korea and the United States in the context of efforts over the past decade to negotiate a deal in the Six-Party framework that would result in North Korean nuclear disarmament. North [...]
Iran warns of World War III
General: Country’s army has finger on the trigger 14 April 2013 Reza Kahlili Iran ratcheted up its vitriol against Israel and the United States over the weekend, warning that an attack on the Islamic regime’s nuclear facilities could lead to global war. The rhetoric eerily matched that currently coming out of North Korea against [...]
Israeli Official: Time to Set Ultimatum for Iran
April 07, 2013 VOA News A senior Israeli official has called on world powers to threaten Iran with military action if it refuses to curb sensitive nuclear work within a “few weeks, (or) a month.” Speaking to Israel’s Army Radio on Sunday, Strategic Affairs and Intelligence Minister Yuval Steinitz said it is time for Iran [...]
Iran nuclear: Ashton says positions ‘still far apart’
6 April 2013 BBC News Talks between world powers and Iran on its nuclear programme have ended without agreement, with the EU saying their positions “remain far apart”. Over two days of talks in Almaty, Iran was asked to give up work on its most sensitive nuclear activities in return for an easing of sanctions. [...]
Iran lines up behind North Korea, warns the US of “great losses”
DEBKAfile Special Report April 5, 2013 Tehran’s intercession in the Korean crisis on the side of its ally in Pyongyang was predictable, even though the US prefer s to ignore the close interrelations between the two allies. And so, on Friday, April 5, Deputy Chief of Staff of Iran’s Armed Forces Brig. Gen. Masoud Jazayeri [...]
BBC News – Iran nuclear talks ‘yield little progress’
5 April 2013 BBC News Iran has failed to deliver a “clear and concrete response” to a proposal aimed at ending deadlock over its nuclear programme, a Western diplomat has said. Tehran said it had offered “specific plans” at the opening of the talks with world powers in Kazakhstan. But the diplomat there said they [...]
Iran said advancing ‘at murderous pace,’ could have bomb by July
Disgruntled security official claims Obama ‘threw sand in Israel’s eyes’ during visit last week, which seemed to convince Jerusalem to hold back on military action By Times of Israel staff March 29, 2013, Iran could have the capability to build a nuclear bomb by July, unnamed security sources said in a report published Friday. The [...]
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