Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has said that there is no stopping his country’s work to produce nuclear fuel, comparing it to a train with no brakes, as as the United Nations Security council meets this week to discuss further sanctions.
One of his deputy foreign ministers is also reported as warning that the country is ready [...]

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Warsaw, Poland February 25, 2007. Russia’s objection to Poland putting missiles on Polish soil as part of the US missile shield shows either a military or character weakness. The Russians more likely fear not being feared by Poland more than they fear what a paltry 10 missle’s could do to the overall [...]

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(Angus Reid Global Monitor) - Fewer adults in the United States believe Iran is a threat to their country, according to a poll by Gallup released by USA Today. 26 per cent of respondents consider the Islamic nation as the greatest U.S. enemy, down five points in a year.
Iraq is second on the list with [...]

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75% of Palestinians do not think that [in principle] Israel has the right to exist, 70% support One State
In the period 12-15 February, 2007, Near East Consulting (NEC) conducted a phone survey of over 1200 randomly selected Palestinians in the West Bank, the Gaza Strip, and Jerusalem of which 806 were successfully completed. It is [...]

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“This is the first year in the history of the state in which exports exceed imports by billions of dollars,” he said.
The Economist magazine, which ranks economies on the basis of five-year average GDPs, recently placed Israel among the five fastest-growing emerging markets in the world.
In the past 20 years, Israel rose 12 places from [...]

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“The only way to do this is to fly through US-controlled air space. If we don’t sort these issues out now we could have a situation where American and Israeli war planes start shooting at each other,” he added.
Meanwhile, on Sunday the Kuwaiti daily al-Siyassah reported that the Gulf states of Oman and the UAE [...]

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U.S. defense experts are concerned that America is falling behind Russia and China in a new missile arms race.
While U.S. weapons development stalled almost completely during the 1990s - both Russia and China have continued to field a new generation of missiles for which the west has no equal nor defense.
The Western press in recent [...]

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Iran has successfully fired its first rocket into space, Iranian state television has announced.
It gave few details about the rocket or its range, but said that it had carried cargo intended for research.
Iran already has a civilian satellite programme but has relied on Russia to put its satellites into orbit.
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