Apr 8, 2013 No Comments ›› Spit Stixx
Excerpted from The New York Times: The Navy is going to sea for the first time with a laser attack weapon that has been shown in tests to disable patrol boats and blind or destroy surveillance drones. A prototype shipboard laser will be deployed on a converted amphibious transport and docking ship in the ...
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Apr 7, 2013 No Comments ›› Jake Hammer
Excerpted from JP Steinitz calls on world powers to set deadline of weeks to persuade Tehran to halt nuclear enrichment.Strategic Affairs Minister Yuval Steinitz called on world powers on Sunday to set a deadline for military action of weeks to persuade Iran to halt its nuclear enrichment program after talks ended without progress at the ...
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Apr 5, 2013 No Comments ›› Jake Hammer
Excerpted from REUTERS Iran and six world powers weren’t able to seal a deal to curb the Islamic Republic’s disputed nuclear program on the first of two days of talks, which ended with the two sides still far apart. The optimistic tone officials struck at the close of a previous round of negotiations in Almaty, Kazakhstan, ...
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Apr 4, 2013 No Comments ›› Jake Hammer
Excerpted from YNET NEWS Members of irregular militias loyal to Assad regime say 15-day urban warfare course teaches 'best methods to prepare against surprise attacks'; fighter says Alawites taking course 'kept saying they want to kill the Sunnis and rape their women in revenge' The Syrian government is sending members of its irregular militias for guerrilla combat ...
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Apr 4, 2013 No Comments ›› Jake Hammer
Excerpted from FREE BEACON A fleet of Iranian warships returned home Thursday following a month long deployment in the Pacific Ocean. The naval operation shows a surprising amount of range for a navy that in recent months has crept further into international waters. An Iranian destroyer and helicopter carrier spent most of February in the Pacific Ocean, just ...
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Apr 1, 2013 No Comments ›› Jake Hammer
Excerpted from FREE BEACON: The president’s nominee for energy secretary advised a foundation created by an oil company that has flouted sanctions against Iran, a connection Republican aides in the Senate describe as troubling. Ernest Moniz was a paid adviser to a group founded by and working to advance the interests of Italian oil company Eni, according ...
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Mar 31, 2013 No Comments ›› Jake Hammer
Excerpted from WND: The “American empire” will fall this year, the head of Iran’s Basij forces claimed Sunday, a message that was approved by the Islamic regime’s supreme leader. “America should not think that with some diplomatic dialogue it can solve its dossier (problem) with the nation of Iran,” Brig. Gen. Mohammad Reza Naghdi said. “The path ...
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Mar 28, 2013 No Comments ›› Jake Hammer
Excerpted from THE HILL: A controversial United Nations arms treaty opposed by the National Rifle Association (NRA) was blocked Thursday by a rogue's gallery of North Korea, Iran and Syria. The Obama administration did not object to the treaty even as the other countries prevented it from moving forward. Because the treaty conference operates by consensus — a ...
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Mar 26, 2013 No Comments ›› Jake Hammer
Excerpted from FOX NEWS: NEW BRUNSWICK, N.J. – The man who wants to be the next president of Iran sits in a hotel lobby, steps from his office and thousands of miles away from the country he wants to lead, a distance surpassed only by the hurdles he needs to clear even to land on ...
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Mar 24, 2013 No Comments ›› Spit Stixx
Poll also finds 49% of Americans sympathize with Israel more than with the Palestinians, while only 12% said the reverse. Excerpted from The Jerusalem Post: The US public strongly favors considering military action against Iran to prevent it from obtaining a nuclear weapon, a poll found. The Pew Research Center poll conducted March 13-17 found that 64 ...
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Mar 22, 2013 No Comments ›› Jake Hammer
Excerpted from WND: Secretary of State John F. Kerry exchanged pleasantries with Iran, wishing “health and prosperity” even though it was revealed at virtually the same time that the rogue Islamic regime has a secret plant where scientists are working on nuclear weapons that could be aimed at the U.S. The United States, Kerry said in a ...
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Mar 22, 2013 No Comments ›› Jake Hammer
Excerpted from FOX NEWS: The American imprisoned in Iran, in a vivid letter to his wife, described how he was beaten to the point where parts of his face were "swollen three times what they should have been" and was denied medical treatment because he was seen as an "unclean" Christian. The letter was received by Saeed ...
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Mar 22, 2013 No Comments ›› Jake Hammer
Excerpted from FREE BEACON: Iran has illegally laundered billions of dollars through the Venezuelan financial sector and is currently stashing “hundreds of millions” of dollars in “virtually every Venezuelan bank today,” according to a former senior State Department official. “It’s a huge blind spot in those trying to implement sanctions” on Iran, Roger Noriega, a former United ...
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Mar 21, 2013 No Comments ›› Pat Dollard
Excerpted from Israel National News: As he threatened to "annihilate" the Israeli cities of Tel Aviv and Haifa if Iran comes under attack by the Jewish state, the Islamic Republic's supreme leader also signalled on Thursday openness to U.S. offers to hold direct talks on his country's disputed nuclear drive. Supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has ...
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Mar 21, 2013 No Comments ›› Jake Hammer
Excerpted from THE DAILY CALLER: Iran’s Holocaust-denying president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, was nearly shot by a U.S. Secret Service Agent in 2006, according to an excerpt of a forthcoming book published at TheAtlantic.com. In the “Deep State: Inside the Government Secrecy Industry,” Marc Ambinder and D.B. Grady report that the incident occurred while Ahmadinejad was in New York ...
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Mar 21, 2013 No Comments ›› Jake Hammer
Excerpted from JP: Iran's Supreme Leader says Islamic Republic would destroy Tel Aviv, Haifa if Israel launches a military attack against it. DUBAI - Iran's most powerful authority said the Islamic Republic would destroy the Israeli cities of Tel Aviv and Haifa if Israel launched a military attack against it. "At times the officials of the Zionist regime ...
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Mar 17, 2013 No Comments ›› Jake Hammer
Excerpted from AP: -- Iranian on Sunday launched its domestically built destroyer in the Caspian Sea, the nation's first heavy military presence in the oil-rich sea, state TV reported. President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad inaugurated the guided-missile destroyer Jamaran-2 in the port city of Anzali, about 250 kilometers (150 miles) northwest of Tehran. After final tests, the report said, ...
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Mar 17, 2013 No Comments ›› Jake Hammer
Excerpted from AFP: A top Iranian military commander on Saturday told US President Barack Obama that Tehran also had all of its "options on the table," echoing a warning to the Islamic republic by the American leader. "Mr Obama, do not make a mistake: we too have all our options on the table. Before you get ...
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Mar 15, 2013 No Comments ›› Jake Hammer
Excerpted from WASHINGTON TIMES: A Republican lawmaker expressed shock that State Department officials dodged a Friday hearing to discuss the ongoing saga of imprisoned American pastor Saeed Abedini. The failure of the State Department to make an appearance came just days after America’s leading representative to the U.N. Human Rights Council failed to raise the plight of ...
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Mar 15, 2013 No Comments ›› Jake Hammer
Excerpted from FOX NEWS: The wife of an American Christian pastor imprisoned in Iran, in emotional testimony Friday on Capitol Hill, told lawmakers she's "disappointed" with the State Department's lackluster involvement in the case -- as her lawyers accused the government of going completely "AWOL" in the face of prisoner Saeed Abedini's plight. In a sign of ...
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Mar 14, 2013 No Comments ›› Jake Hammer
Excerpted from AP: — Iran is about a year away from developing a nuclear weapon and the United States remains committed to doing everything in its power to prevent that from happening, President Barack Obama said in an exclusive interview aired Thursday on Israeli TV. Just days before he is to arrive in Israel for his ...
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Mar 14, 2013 No Comments ›› Jake Hammer
Excerpted from CNN: Iranian military aircraft targeted a U.S. Predator drone over the Persian Gulf this week, administration officials said. It was the latest in Iranian efforts to thwart the U.S. military's airborne intelligence collections efforts in the region. Three administration officials have separately confirmed details of the incident, although the Pentagon has not publicly acknowledged it. The ...
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Mar 14, 2013 No Comments ›› Jake Hammer
Excerpted from REUTERS: - Iran has significantly stepped up military support to Syrian President Bashar al-Assad in recent months, solidifying its position alongside Russia as the government's lifeline in an increasingly sectarian civil war, Western diplomats said. Iranian weapons continue to pour into Syria from Iraq but also increasingly along other routes, including via Turkey and ...
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Mar 13, 2013 No Comments ›› Jake Hammer
Excerpted from Al Arabiya: Iran and its Lebanese ally, Hezbollah, are fighting with forces loyal to President Bashar al-Assad in Syria, a soldier allegedly belonging to the Syrian Republican Guard said in a video posted online Monday. Ali Imad Takla, who – according to the amateur video – was captured by the rebel Free Syrian Army told ...
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Mar 11, 2013 No Comments ›› Jake Hammer
Excerpted from FT: High quality global journalism requires investment. Please share this article with others using the link below, do not cut & paste the article. See our Ts&Cs and Copyright Policy for more detail. Email ftsales.support@ft.com to buy additional rights. Asif Ali Zardari and Mahmoud Ahmadi-Nejad, presidents of Pakistan and Iran, on Monday formally launched ...
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