Aug 1, 2012 No Comments ›› Pat Dollard
(AP) JERUSALEM (AP) -- Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Wednesday that U.S. statements of solidarity with Israel and its assurances that military strikes are still an option aren't working to convince Iran that the West is "serious about stopping them" from developing nuclear weapons. Standing with a visiting Leon Panetta, Netanyahu dismissed the U.S. ...
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Aug 1, 2012 No Comments ›› Pat Dollard
Excerpted from THE DAILY CALLER: Iran is preparing for a direct attack on Saudi Arabia should Syria’s Bashar Assad be in danger of falling to rebel forces that the Islamic regime believes are being supported by the Arab kingdom, according to a source within Iran’s Revolutionary Guards. Iran also blames the Saudis for unrest in ...
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Jul 30, 2012 No Comments ›› Pat Dollard
(MY WAY NEWS) TUNIS, Tunisia (AP) - U.S. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta acknowledged Monday that increasingly stiff international sanctions have yet to compel Iran to give up its nuclear ambitions. But he argued that more pressure eventually would lead Iran to "do what's right." Iran's disputed nuclear program, which Tehran contends is only for peaceful purposes, ...
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Jul 27, 2012 No Comments ›› Pat Dollard
Excerpted from RI: The biggest conventional bomb ever developed is ready to wreak destruction upon the enemies of the US. Air Force Secretary Michael Donley said its record-breaking bunker-buster has become operational after years of testing. “If it needed to go today, we would be ready to do that,” said Donley. “We continue to do testing ...
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Jul 25, 2012 No Comments ›› Pat Dollard
(CNSNews.com) – For the second time in less than a year, Iran’s top naval commander has said Iranian Navy vessels will soon be plying the Atlantic Ocean, having made great strides in recent years in expanding its presence beyond Iranian waters. Rear Admiral Habibollah Sayyari’s comments came on the same day Iran launched its first domestically-built ...
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Jul 23, 2012 No Comments ›› Pat Dollard
Excerpted from The Daily Caller: Iranian assets positioned in the United States have been activated and are actively working to acquire intelligence and equipment that might be useful in terror attacks, according to a former member of Iran’s Revolutionary Guards. The information comes after a bus carrying Israeli youths exploded Wednesday in a Black Sea resort ...
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Jul 21, 2012 No Comments ›› Toro520
Times of Israel: Israel has suffered ‘a response’ far greater than its ‘blows against Iran,’ says president Iran’s President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad gloated publicly on Thursday over the deaths of Israelis in a terror bombing in Bulgaria, and hinted that Iran was responsible for the attack. Speaking hours after Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu had publicly blamed the bombing ...
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Jul 3, 2012 No Comments ›› Pat Dollard
WASHINGTON — The United States has quietly moved significant military reinforcements into the Persian Gulf to deter the Iranian military from any possible attempt to shut the Strait of Hormuz and to increase the number of fighter jets capable of striking deep into Iran if the standoff over its nuclear program escalates. The deployments are part ...
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Jul 2, 2012 No Comments ›› Pat Dollard
Excerpted from The Daily Caller: A source who served in Iranian intelligence says the Iranian regime is preparing to down Western airliners in case of an attack on the Islamic Republic’s nuclear program. Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Iran’s supreme leader, has been preparing for war for some time as the Islamic regime closes in on developing nuclear ...
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Jun 19, 2012 No Comments ›› Pat Dollard
Excerpted from The Washington Post: The United States and Israel jointly developed a sophisticated computer virus nicknamed Flame that collected critical intelligence in preparation for cyber-sabotage attacks aimed at slowing Iran’s ability to develop a nuclear weapon, according to Western officials with knowledge of the effort. The massive piece of malware was designed to secretly ...
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Jun 19, 2012 No Comments ›› Pat Dollard
WASHINGTON (AP) - The United States is planning a significant military presence of 13,500 troops in Kuwait to give it the flexibility to respond to sudden conflicts in the region as Iraq adjusts to the withdrawal of American combat forces and the world nervously eyes Iran, according to a congressional report. The study by the Senate ...
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Jun 14, 2012 No Comments ›› Pat Dollard
DUBAI (Reuters) - Iran has arrested the killers of two of its nuclear scientists, state media reported on Thursday, as the Islamic state continues to hunt down those it says are responsible for attempting to sabotage its nuclear program. The suspects are accused of assassinating a physicist at Iran's Atomic Energy Organisation (AEOI) and a ...
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Jun 10, 2012 No Comments ›› Pat Dollard
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Republicans on Sunday renewed their attacks on the Obama administration over suspected leaks of classified security information, with one influential senator saying the Justice Department should appoint a special prosecutor to investigate. Among the government secrets leaked to the media in recent months were reports on U.S. cyber warfare against Iran, procedures for ...
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Jun 10, 2012 No Comments ›› Pat Dollard
Excerpted from Big Peace: Israeli officials who were placed at risk by the Obama administration's leaks about the Stuxnet virus are disputing American claims that the cyber-weapon was jointly developed by the U.S. and Israel. Rather, they say, Israeli intelligence first started developing cyberspace warfare against Iran, only convincing the U.S.--with some difficulty--to join ...
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Jun 9, 2012 1 Comment ›› Pat Dollard
Holder assigned Ronald Machen, the U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia, and Rod Rosenstein, the U.S. attorney for the District of Maryland, to direct separate probes that are already being conducted by the FBI. Excerpted from The Washington Post: Update. 9:30 a.m. It's official. The White House said Thursday morning that Machen is President Obama's ...
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Jun 1, 2012 No Comments ›› Pat Dollard
Excerpted from The Ticket: President Barack Obama ordered a secret wave of sophisticated computer attacks on Iranian nuclear enrichment facilities, according to the New York Times. Obama decided to accelerate the program, begun under the Bush administration and code-named "Olympic Games," even after the some of the code of computer worm used in the cyberattacks was ...
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May 31, 2012 No Comments ›› Pat Dollard
Excerpted from The Jerusalem Post: A US security institute has published satellite images which it said increased concerns that Iran was trying to "destroy evidence" of suspected past research relevant for developing a nuclear weapons capability, a charge Tehran dismisses. The Institute for Science and International Security (ISIS) posted them on its website hours ...
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May 27, 2012 No Comments ›› Pat Dollard
Excerpted from The National Journal: U.S. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta on Sunday indirectly confirmed recent remarks by the Ambassador to Israel that the U.S. is “ready from a military perspective’’ to stop Iran from making a nuclear weapon if international pressure fails. The U.S. and members of the United Nations Security Council recently met in Baghdad ...
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Apr 29, 2012 No Comments ›› Pat Dollard
Excerpted from The Daily Caller: The Islamic Republic of Iran said Tuesday that it has the ability to position a naval vessel within three miles of the East Coast of the United States. “The power of our naval forces is such that we have a presence in all the waters of the world and, if needed, ...
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Apr 26, 2012 No Comments ›› Pat Dollard
Excerpted from The Washington Times: Iran is recruiting a hacker army to target the U.S. power grid, water systems and other vital infrastructure for cyberattack in a future confrontation with the United States, security specialists will warn Congress Thursday. “Elements of the IRGC [Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps] have openly sought to pull hackers into the fold” ...
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Apr 22, 2012 No Comments ›› Pat Dollard
TEHRAN, Iran (AP) - Iran claimed Sunday that it had reverse-engineered an American spy drone captured by its armed forces last year and has begun building a copy. Gen. Amir Ali Hajizadeh, chief of the aerospace division of the powerful Revolutionary Guards, related what he said were details of the aircraft's operational history to prove ...
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