Consequences Of Attacking Iran And Why Tehran Is Not Worried

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Finally, someone from Israel points out the obvious!
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Israeli official says Iran not to bomb Israel

May 05, 2011 | 17:46

Israeli Defense Minister said Iran will never drop a nuclear bomb on Israel.

In an interview with Israeli Haaretz newspaper Ehud Barak said Iran is unlikely to drop a nuclear weapon on Israel or any other neighboring state.

“We are still the most powerful nation in the Middle East,” Barak said.

Commenting on a wave of revolutions in the Arab world, Defense Minister said he believes it is “the beginning of the end of the dictatorships in the Arab world, including the Iranian [dictatorship].”

http://news.am/eng/news/58282.html

[Lucin]

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Or arguably Saudi Arabia (= America's puppet ally: Ever hear the US complain that Saudi women can't even drive a car? Nope.)

Oh but they can 'breathe'... Saudi khandan (hand in hand with their Israeli brothers) is by far the most corrupt in the world, in my opinion.

[londontsi]

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http://www.naval-technology.com/news/news111519.html

Russia to Supply Yakhont Missiles to Syria


Russia is still pursuing its plans to supply Syria with Yakhont supersonic cruise missiles,
Russian Defence Minister Anatoly Serdyukov has confirmed.

"The contract on supplies is in progress," Serdyukov told journalists in Vladivostok, in Russia's far east.

Russia had previously confirmed that it would honour a 2007 contract on the delivery of several Bastion
anti-ship missile systems armed with SS-N-26 Yakhont supersonic cruise missiles to Syria.

The Yakhont missile, with a range of 300km, has the capacity to carry a 200kg warhead and
can cruise several metres above the water surface, making it difficult to detect and intercept, according to RIA Novosti.


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http://en.rian.ru/russia/20110226/162769545.html

Russia confirms plans to supply Syria with Yakhont missiles (Update 1)

[Persopolis]

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Israeli and Western proxy terrorists up to no good yet again. Two Iranian nuclear scientists faced two separate assassinations today with 1 killed and the second one wounded.
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May be.
What makes you so suspicious of the British.

Why couldn’t it be Israelis or US ....

Iran caught the guy that did it; seized a cache of Israeli gear and put it all on display. (Look up "Red Windows" on youtube and you will see the confession.) By the way, they bombed a simple University Prof. having nothing to do with the nuclear program.

Interview starts at about 4 minutes:

[Persopolis]

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And let us not forget that Bin Laden and his jihadists were made in USA.

Or arguably Saudi Arabia (= America's puppet ally: Ever hear the US complain that Saudi women can't even drive a car? Nope.)

[Persopolis]

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Wow! What a game changing development...

It's a signal - "Hello, we're here - we're not afraid, we have support of militias and populations within spitting distance of Israel."

The US tried to destabilize Iran, and ended up with a pro-Israel Mubarek removed from Egypt; Pro-Iran uprisings in Bahrain and The Republic of Azerbaijan; Uprisings in Yemen; and a South America that's largely pro-Iran.

The US has already lost Southern Iraq to Iran (the US soldiers live under heavy protection in the green zone, while Iran controls the streets). And they're still trying to figure out which groups they're supposed to be bombing in Afghanistan. Have they found Bin Laden yet? Only Walt Disney could have scripted a more colorful and imaginary foreign policy for the US - now they're trying to figure out how to live with the cartoon they've drawn.

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Iran to Build Permanent Naval Base in Syria

Wow! What a game changing development...

[KanadaHye]

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Iran to Build Permanent Naval Base in Syria

Just two days after two Iranian warships reached the Syrian port of Latakia via the Suez Canal, Friday, Feb. 25, an Iranian-Syrian naval cooperation accord was signed providing for Iran to build its first Mediterranean naval base at the Syrian port, debkafile's military and Iranian sources reveal.
The base will include a large Iranian Revolutionary Guards weapons depot stocked with hardware chosen by the IRGC subject to prior notification to Damascus. Latakia harbor will be deepened, widened and provided with new "coastal installations" to accommodate the large warships and submarines destined to use these facilities.

Iran has much to celebrate, debkafile's military sources report. It has acquired its first military foothold on a Mediterranean shore and its first permanent military presence on Syrian soil. Tehran will be setting in place the logistical infrastructure for accommodating incoming Iranian troops to fight in a potential Middle East war.

According to our sources, the "cadets" the Kharg cruiser, one of the two Iranian warships allowed to transit the Suez Canal, was said to be carrying were in fact the first construction crews for building the new port facilities.
Two more events were carefully synchronized to take place in the same week.

On Feb. 24, as the Iranian warships headed from the Suez Canal to Syria, Hamas fired long-range made-in-Iran Grade missiles from the Gaza Strip into Israel, one hitting the main Negev city of Beersheba for the first time since Israel's Gaza campaign two years ago - as debkafile reported on that day. Tehran was using its Palestinian surrogate to flaunt its success in getting its first warships through the Suez Canal in the face of Israeli protests. The Iranians were also parading their offensive agenda in deploying warships on the Mediterranean just 287 kilometers north of Israel's northernmost coastal town of Nahariya.
The second occurrence was a contract announced by Russian Defense Minister Anatoly Serdyukov for the sale of advanced Russian shore-to-sea cruise missiles to Syria. The Yakhont missile system has a range of 300 kilometers and skims the waves low enough to be undetected by radar. debkafile's military sources take this sale as representing Moscow's nod in favor of the new Iranian base at Latakia, 72 kilometers from the permanent naval base Russia is building at the Syrian port of Tartous.

The Russians are willing to contribute towards the Iranian port's defenses and looking forward to cooperation between the Russian, Iranian and Syrian fleets in the eastern Mediterranean opposite the US Sixth Fleet's regular beat.

This unfolding proximity presents the United States with a serious strategic challenge and Israel with a new peril, which was nonetheless dismissed out of hand by Israel's defense minister Ehud Barak. In a radio interview Monday, Feb. 28, he brushed aside the Iranian warships' passage through the Suez as "an outing for cadets" which did not require an Israeli response. He added, "For now, there is no operational threat to Israel."

According to Barak, the Suez Canal is open to all of the world's warships and the two Iranian vessels' transit could not have been prevented. He omitted to explain how Egypt did prevent it for 30 years and why it was permitted now. The defense minister went on to speak of "fresh signs that President Bashar Assad is willing to resume peace talks with Israel."

Both Barak's assessments were knocked down by Damascus on the same day.

Syrian Defense Minister Lt. Gen. Ali Mohammad Habib soon put him right on the "cadets' outing." At a ceremony in honor of the Iranian Navy Commander Admiral Habibollah Sayyari, Habib said: "Iranian warships' presence in the Mediterranean Sea for the first time after 32 years is a great move that is going to cripple Israel."

http://www.virtualjerusalem.com/news.php?Itemid=2799

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'Israel, US destabilizing ME region'


Iranian Parliament (Majlis) Speaker Ali Larijani has condemned efforts by the United States
and Israel to destabilize countries in the Middle East region.


“While stability is necessary in relations between countries … the US and the Zionist regime [of Israel] prevent this (stability),” Larijani said in a meeting with Qatari Speaker of the Advisory Council Mohammed bin Mubarak al-Khulaifi in Doha on Wednesday.

Larijani added that efforts by the US and Israel to cause a rift between Shia and Sunni Muslims are aimed at causing a split in the Muslim world.

“We oppose the attitude of the US and the Zionist regime. This is why we helped Hezbollah during the 33-day War and similarly we supported Hamas and Gaza,” IRIB quoted Larijani as saying.

“The Iranian nation always supports regional countries and strives for the region's stability,” he added.

Referring to Qatari Emir Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani's trip to Tehran in December 2010, Larijani said this visit resulted in the improvement of relations between the two countries.

During his visit, Al Thani held talks with senior Iranian officials, including Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei and President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, on bilateral relations and the latest regional developments.

Al-Khulaifi, for his part, described stability as the most important factor for the progress and development of all countries.

The Qatari lawmaker also congratulated Larijani and the Iranian nation on the 32th anniversary of the victory of the 1979 Islamic Revolution.

http://www.presstv.ir/detail/164406.html

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I wasn't aware that the Russian mafia controlled any gas pipelines in Europe. :P

Thats because you don't read the Guardian.

MOSCOW — A branch of the Russian security services specifically demanded that the Guardian's Moscow correspondent be barred from entering the country, a report said.

Luke Harding was expelled from Russia after reporting claims in US diplomatic cables released by WikiLeaks that the country had become a "mafia state", the paper announced.

"Harding was not allowed to enter Russian territory on the demand of one of the Russian (security) structures," a security source told the state-run RIA Novosti agency, saying his name was on a list of undesirable persons.

The source did not specify further but the comment indicated the demand may have come from the Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR) or the Federal Security Service (FSB).

The source did not explain why Harding was deemed undesirable.

The Russian foreign ministry has yet to give an explanation for the expulsion, which the Guardian said is believed to be the first removal of a British staff journalist from the country since the end of the Cold War.