Feb 25, 2013 No Comments ›› Jake Hammer
Excerpted from TIMES OF ISRAEL: Hassan Shateri, the Iranian general whose killing was reported last week, was actually slain last month in an alleged IAF airstrike that was said to have targeted a weapons convoy heading from Syria to the Lebanese group Hezbollah, Britain’s Sunday Times reported. Iran was quick last week to blame “mercenaries and ...
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Feb 23, 2013 No Comments ›› Toro520
Alternate Headline: Iran Discovers Fiberglass Via The Associated Press: TEHRAN, Iran — Iran's powerful Revolutionary Guard said Saturday that it had captured a foreign unmanned aircraft during a military exercise in southern Iran. Gen. Hamid Sarkheili, a spokesman for the military exercise, said the Guard's electronic warfare unit spotted signals indicating that foreign drones were trying to enter ...
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Feb 23, 2013 No Comments ›› Infidel
Tick tock... Excerpted from The Jerusalem Post: Iran announced Saturday that it had designated 16 new sites for nuclear power plants and made a significant discovery of new uranium deposits, days before the Islamic Republic was scheduled to partake in talks with Western powers in Kazakhstan over its controversial nuclear program. “Following months of efforts, 16 new ...
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Feb 22, 2013 No Comments ›› Pat Dollard
Is Chuck Hagel a volunteer spy for Iran? Excerpted from The Daily Caller: Documents obtained by The Daily Caller show that staffers for then-Sen. Chuck Hagel met repeatedly with a controversial pro-Iran lobby group, and some met with the organization’s president. Iranian state-run media have referred to the National Iranian-American Council (NIAC) since at least 2006 as ...
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Feb 21, 2013 No Comments ›› littlebytes
Excerpted Yahoo News: [caption id="" align="alignright" width="310"] Republican Chuck Hagel testifies before the Senate Armed Services Committee on Jan. 31, 2103. (J. Scott Applew[/caption] The White House on Thursday afternoon flatly rejected a request made earlier in the day by 15 Republican senators to withdraw Chuck Hagel's nomination as defense secretary. "This waste of time is not just ...
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Feb 21, 2013 No Comments ›› spratico
WorldNetDaily-WND has learned of the existence of a secret ballistic missile base in Iran’s Semnan Province to which the Islamic regime has moved missiles armed with microbial warheads. The Badr base, a center for air defense which has about 50 underground missile silos housing Iran’s Shahab 3 ballistic missiles, serves as Iran’s second-largest missile-launching site, and ...
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Feb 19, 2013 No Comments ›› Chuck Biscuits
Excerpted from BuzzFeed: Filmmaker Michael Moore didn't really tell an Iranian magazine that he's planning a trip to Iran, he told BuzzFeed on Monday. "Someone is playing a prank," Moore said via email. "Are you serious? Really?" Moore said when asked whether he gave the quotes in question to that outlet. "I did tell them that ...
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Feb 15, 2013 No Comments ›› Pat Dollard
Excerpted from Al Monitor: A recent Gallup poll shows that 63% of Iranians think their government should continue its efforts to develop nuclear capabilities — even though more than eight out of 10 say their personal livelihoods have been hurt by the West’s sanctions. At the same time, 47% of the poll’s respondents primarily blame ...
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Feb 14, 2013 No Comments ›› Infidel
It's clear why Valerie Jarret, and therefor Obama, wants this guy as Secretary of Defense, and it's because it is in Iran and the Muslim world's interestes, not America's. Excerpted from The Washington Examiner: President Obama’s Defense Decretary nominee, Chuck Hagel, called for the United States to open a consulate in Iran, even though the U.S. ...
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Feb 14, 2013 No Comments ›› spratico
Excerpted from Rantburg: Update at 1150 CT: According to Haaretz and with a tip of the hat to Ace, Shateri was a commander in the Quds Force -- those are the friendly guys who have been killing American soliders in Iraq and Afghanistan. I'm hoping Shateri had a sucking head wound and died of sepsis... Keep ...
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Feb 12, 2013 No Comments ›› Chuck Biscuits
Excerpted from The Weekly Standard: An unnamed "senior American official" suggests that North Korea is not just testing nukes for itself, but also for (and possibly with) the Iranians. The New York Times reports: No country is more interested in the results of the North’s nuclear program, or the Western reaction, than ...
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Feb 11, 2013 No Comments ›› Spit Stixx
Excerpted from The Telegraph: Claudia Roth has been an ardent critic of Iran, especially over its treatment of women, while religious custom dictates that Ali Reza Sheik Attar, the Iranian ambassador, should not shake hands with a woman. But this failed to prevent the two from slapping palms as Ms Roth passed a grinning and ...
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Feb 11, 2013 No Comments ›› Infidel
Excerpted from Israel National News: Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Sunday said the United States must change its attitude if it wants to hold direct nuclear talks with Iran, as he hit out at Washington for imposing sanctions on Tehran, AFP reports. His comments, in a speech marking the 34th anniversary of the Islamic revolution that ...
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Feb 11, 2013 No Comments ›› Infidel
Excerpted from The Jerusalem Post: Iran is preparing to preserve its influence in Syria in the event that its ally President Bashar Assad should be removed from power by building a network of militias in the country along with Hezbollah, The Washington Post reported on Sunday, citing US and Middle East officials. According to the officials, ...
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Feb 11, 2013 No Comments ›› Pat Dollard
Excerpted from Washington Free Beacon: Defense secretary nominee Chuck Hagel once argued the United States “shouldn’t even be thinking about options of bombing Iran,” despite his insistence that “all options” must be on the table during his January confirmation hearing. The comments, made by Hagel at a 2008 appearance and first reported by the Weekly Standard ...
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Feb 10, 2013 No Comments ›› Infidel
Excerpted from Al Arabiya: Hundreds of thousands of people marched on Sunday in Tehran and other cities chanting “Death to America” as Iran marked the 34th anniversary of the Islamic revolution that ousted the U.S.-backed shah. In the capital, crowds waving Iranian flags and portraits of revolutionary leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini walked toward the landmark ...
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Feb 8, 2013 No Comments ›› Infidel
Background: Iran Unveils First Domestically Built Fighter Jet – With Video Excerpted from The New York Post: From the loony regime that just figured how to shoot a monkey into space: Iran now claims it has its own homemade, radar-beating stealth fighter jet. But aviation and defense experts say the tiny one-seater looks like a toy and ...
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Feb 7, 2013 No Comments ›› Pat Dollard
Excerpted from The Telegraph: Iranian state television has broadcast footage allegedly extracted from an American CIA drone captured in 2011. The video aired late on Wednesday shows an aerial view of an airport and a city, said to be Kandahar, Afghanistan. Iran has long claimed it managed to reverse-engineer the RQ-170 Sentinel and that ...
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Feb 7, 2013 No Comments ›› Pat Dollard
Excerpted from Haaretz: Iran's supreme leader Thursday strongly rejected proposals for direct talks with the United States, effectively quashing suggestions for a breakthrough one-on-one dialogue on the nuclear standoff and potentially other issues. The statement posted on Ayatollah Ali Khamenei's website echoes previous remarks opposing bilateral talks with Washington in parallel with stop-and-start nuclear negotiations ...
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Feb 6, 2013 No Comments ›› Spit Stixx
Related - WATCH: Inhofe Humiliates Hagel By Confronting Him With Iran’s Endorsement Of His Nomination Related - 'CONTAINMENT', OMINOUS: Hagel Makes Statement Raising Question If Obama Privately Told Him He Was Going To Allow Iran To Have Nukes Excerpted from The Weekly Standard: BuzzFeed reports that Chuck Hagel is refusing to detail foreign funders and disclose other ...
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Feb 4, 2013 No Comments ›› Chuck Biscuits
GOP Rep. Amash is a Paulbot who, like Ron Paul, loves Iran and wants it to have nuclear weapons, and hates Israel. So he jumped McCain's ass for offending his hero Ahmadinejad. Excerpted from The Ticket: Oh, dear. Republican Sen. John McCain on Monday called Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad a "monkey." The blunt-speaking Arizona lawmaker leveled ...
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Jan 31, 2013 No Comments ›› Pat Dollard
Hagel: ‘I Support the President’s Strong Position on Containment’ Why would he say that Obama had a policy of containing Iran, which is the policy of allowing them to have nukes under the belief that you can contain them from using it, unless his buddy Obama had told him in private that that's what his ultimate ...
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Jan 31, 2013 No Comments ›› Pat Dollard
The Jerusalem Post - Syria's ambassador to Lebanon said on Thursday that Damascus had the option of a "surprise decision" to respond to what it said was an Israeli air strike on a research center on the outskirts of the Syrian capital on Wednesday. Syria could take "a surprise decision to respond to the aggression of ...
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