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WASHINGTON - Israel’s Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni said on Sunday that the world may have as little as “a few months” to avoid a nuclear Iran and called for sanctions.

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(09-18) 04:00 PDT Beijing — With Iran’s nuclear enrichment program at the center of high-stakes multinational negotiations, China is in the awkward position of passing judgment in the U.N. Security Council on the very technology it helped the Islamic republic accumulate.
For more than a decade, starting in 1984, China aided Iran with [...]

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MOSCOW AND BOSTON – At a Moscow conference in 2000 on stopping the global migration of nuclear-weapons know-how, a Russian security official revealed that Taliban envoys had tried to recruit a Russian nuclear expert.
That expert didn’t go to work for the Afghan regime. But three of his colleagues did leave their institute [...]

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SEOUL, Sept. 21 (Yonhap) — South Korea has developed a cruise missile capable of striking most of the strategic targets in North Korea, amid the drawn-out tension over the communist country’s nuclear and missile programs, a military source said Thursday.

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Spurred by the progress of weapons programs in North Korea and Iran, nuclear proliferation is once again at the top of the U.S. national security agenda. Practically all of the discussion about the issue has centered on how to prevent proliferation. Hawks have pushed for regime change or military strikes, whereas doves [...]

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The enemy-turned-ally tries to avoid militarization while beefing up homeland protection and assisting the U.S. abroad.
SHINZO ABE, who is virtually certain to be named Japanese prime minister next week, has said he will push to revise Japan’s constitution, including Article 9, by which the Japanese people renounce the right to make war. [...]

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There’s a strong economic incentive behind the U.N. Security Council and Germany’s opposition to American calls for sanctions on Iran over its nuclear program — billions of dollars in trade.

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Reports of new Russian defence doctrine worry Georgia
This week Russian media and certain politicians reported a new military doctrine was being drafted, which provisioned the use of force in neighbouring conflicts. The Russian Ministry of Defence have strenuously denied the information.
On September 19 Russian online publication Gazeta.ru reported that if the [...]

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Shanghai Cooperation Organization Reaches a Milestone
Five years into its existence the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO), led by Russia and China, is gaining importance as a counterbalance to America�s perceived dominance.
The five-year jubilee summit of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization in its founding city this June was somewhat overshadowed in Russia by the preparations [...]

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CAIRO, Sept. 19 — Gamal Mubarak, the son of Egypt’s president, proposed Tuesday that his country pursue nuclear energy, drawing strong applause from the nation’s political elite, while raising expectations that Mr. Mubarak is being positioned to replace his father as president.

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While Iran continues play a game of cat-and-mouse over its nuclear ambitions, its Arab neighbors have discussed the possibility of a joint atomic energy program.

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Egypt, which has played a key role in helping to smuggle advanced weaponry to Palestinian terrorist groups from Gaza that continue to conduct missile attacks into Israel, now plans to revive its nuclear energy project.
While there is concern in Israel over the prospect of an Egypt with nuclear capability, no one in [...]

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Moslems consider themselves in a perpetual state of war with their non-Moslem neighbors. If Islamic armies are unable to defeat what they consider the “infidels,” then a period of “truce” exists, which has several conditions. These include allowing the propagation of Islam, and if a non-Moslem nation forbids it or rejects mass [...]

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