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Israel Considers Pre-Emptive Attack On Iran
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is trying to rally support in his cabinet for an attack on Iran, according to government sources.
The country's defence minister Ehud Barak and the foreign minister Avigdor Lieberman are said to be among those backing a pre-emptive strike to neutralise Iran's nuclear ambitions.
But a narrow majority of ministers currently oppose the move, which could trigger a wave of regional retaliation.
The debate over possible Israeli military action has reached fever pitch in recent days with newspaper leader columns discussing the benefits and dangers of hitting Iran......
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I don't understand why US/NATO want to re-start the Cold War, didn't they have enough?Leave a comment:
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It would not let me start a new thread so im posting this in the most relevant thread i could find.
Iran, Russia, China mulling joint missile shield
25 September 2011 16:53
TEHRAN - Unofficial sources have announced that Iran, Russia, and
China are currently holding talks on a proposal to establish a joint
missile defense shield as a counterweight to a NATO defense shield,
according to a recent report.
The report, which was published in the Iranian daily newspaper Kayhan
on Sunday, said that the sources cited two reasons why serious
consultations have been held on the initiative.
First, all three states have come to the conclusion that U.S.
officials' assertion that their concern over the alleged missile and
nuclear capabilities of Iran and North Korea is the reason for the
decision to establish a NATO missile defense shield is just a pretext
and the true objective of the shield is to threaten Russia and China.
In addition, now that the proposal to establish an early warning radar
system in southeast Turkey, which is one component of the NATO missile
defense shield, appears to be a done deal, the U.S. is now planning to
establish other components of the new system in South Korea and
Taiwan, which clearly shows that Washington is using the alleged
threat from Iran and North Korea as a pretext to target China and
Russia.
An informed expert believes China, which has not taken any action on
the issue so far, is beginning to comprehend the level of danger posed
by the new system.
Russia's analysis of the situation is similar to Iran's view, which
was expressed during Russian Security Council Secretary Nikolai
Patrushev's recent visit to Tehran.
Therefore, it seems the three countries have realized that the time
has come to seriously start discussions on the plan.
Some sources say Dmitry Rogozin, the Russian envoy to NATO, who is
scheduled to travel to Iran before the end of September, will probably
hold operational discussions on the plan with Iranian officials.
According to RIA Novosti, Rogozin is going to discuss `strategic
issues' in Tehran.
Military experts are of the opinion that since Iran, Russia, and China
have made great progress in designing anti-aircraft defense systems,
the construction of such a missile shield system will not be a
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I suspect half or more of the people arrested are not spies at all, lets not forget the last US journalist.Originally posted by Mos View Post
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We're not an American client state yet
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^^ Malaysia? I would think the embassy of Azerbaijan, Georgia, Iraq, maybe even our country's would be involved...Leave a comment:
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Iran claims to break up CIA spy network
Network of "spies" controlled through US embassies in the United Arab Emirates, Turkey and Malaysia, ministry says.
Iran has arrested 30 people it says were engaged in a "complex espionage and sabotage network" run by the United States, state media reported.
The network of alleged spies was controlled by the Central Intelligence Agency through US embassies in the United Arab Emirates, Turkey and Malaysia, according to an intelligence ministry statement posted on the Mehr news agency's website on Saturday.
"Due to the massive intelligence and counterintelligence work by Iranian intelligence agents, a complex espionage and sabotage network linked to America's spy organisation was uncovered and dismantled," the statement said.
"Elite agents of the intelligence ministry in their confrontation with the CIA elements were able to arrest 30 America-linked spies through numerous intelligence and counterintelligence operations."
The statement also said Iran had identified 42 US intelligence officers in the three named countries.
"They engage in collection of information regarding Iran's nuclear, aerospace defence and bio-technology fields," among other areas, the ministry said.
The spy network worked under the cover of labour recruitment agencies, the statement posted on Mehr's website said.
"The elites, educated and naive people were recruited to get visas, residency permits, education abroad and employment," it said.
Spying in Iran can carry the death penalty. Washington has had no diplomatic presence in Iran since the 1979 revolution which deposed the US-backed shah and was followed by the lengthy occupation of the US embassy.
Diplomatic cables published by the WikiLeaks website showed the US operated information-gathering desks on Iran in neighbouring countries where diplomats would seek to glean intelligence from travelling Iranians.
The announcement of the arrests comes two days after Barack Obama, the US president, made a speech on the Middle East, reiterating Washington's view that Tehran sponsors terrorism and is seeking nuclear weapons, charges Iran denies.
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Former Mossad chief: Israel air strike on Iran 'stupidest thing I have ever heard'
In first public appearance since leaving post as Mossad chief, Meir Dagan warns of regional war if Iran is attacked; says fall of Assad regime would benefit Israel.
By Yossi Melman Tags: Iran Iran nuclear
Former Mossad chief Meir Dagan referred to the possibility a future Israeli Air Force attack on Iranian nuclear facilities as "the stupidest thing I have ever heard" during a conference held at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem on Friday.
Dagan's presentation during a senior faculty conference was his first public appearance since leaving his former role as chief of the Mossad at the end of September 2010.
Dagan said that Iran has a clandestine nuclear infrastructure which functions alongside its legitimate, civil infrastructure. It is the legitimate infrastructure, he said, that is under international supervision by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA). Any strike on this legitimate infrastructure would be "patently illegal under international law," according to Dagan.
Dagan emphasized that attacking Iran would be different than Israel's successful air strike on Iraq's nuclear reactor in 1981. Iran has scattered its nuclear facilities in different places around the country, he said, which would make it difficult for Israel to launch an effective attack.
Meir Dagan
According to Dagan, there is proof that Iran has the capability to divert its nuclear activities from place to place in order to take them out of the watchful eye of international supervision and intelligence agencies. No one in Iran would have any problems in building a centrifuge system in a school basement if they wished to, he said.
The IAF's abilities are not in doubt, Dagan emphasized, but the doubts relate to the possibilities of completing the mission and reaching all targets.
When asked about what would happen in the aftermath of an Israeli attack Dagan said that: "It will be followed by a war with Iran. It is the kind of thing where we know how it starts, but not how it will end."
The Iranians have the capability to fire rockets at Israel for a period of months, and Hizbollah could fire tens of thousands of grad rockets and hundreds of long-range missiles, he said.
At the same time, Tehran can activate Hamas, and there is also a danger that Syria will join the war, Dagan added.
The former Mossad chief expressed disagreement with the opinions of pundits regarding the uprisings across the Middle East since the beginning of 2011 saying that "there is no tsunami of change in the Middle East." He added that events "historical schisms within Arab society."
What sparked the Egyptian people to mass protest on the street was not an "internet revolution," especially considering the fact that most Egyptians do not have computers. In Eygpt, there was no revolution, but regime change, according to Dagan, and he is convinced that there is no chance that the Muslim Brotherhood will gain power because of fears that their taking power will damage the Egyptian economy, particularly income from tourism and U.S. aid.
It will be better for Israel if Syrian President Bashar Assad is removed from power because this will stop help to Hizbollah, and weaken Iranian influence, Dagan said in regards to the situation in Syria. It will also strengthen the Sunni camp in Syria and in the Arab world in general, and these things will be good for Israel strategically, he added.
Dagan believes that Assad will fight to the end. "He has no alternative. It's victory or death," Dagan stated.
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