The CFE treaty was negotiated between NATO and the Warsaw Pact nations of Eastern Europe as a means of enhancing arms control between the two sides. Passed in 1990, the treaty established equal quotas on the number of battle tanks, heavy artillery, and combat aircraft deployed west of the Urals, and has been a cornerstone [...]

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An Iranian nuclear official has said Iran possesses 280 tons of a sensitive material that can be used for uranium enrichment.
The statement that Iran has large amounts of stored UF6 was made Sunday in Tehran by the Iranian Atomic Energy Organization’s deputy chief for international affairs.
Addressing students at the Tehran Teacher Training University, [...]

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All of Hizbullah’s policies and activities are coordinated with the leadership of Iran, including the firing of rockets into Israeli population centers for which direct Iranian approval is required, said a senior Hizbullah official in a rare admission.
“Even when it comes to firing rockets on Israeli civilians, when they (Israel) bombed the civilians on [...]

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“We [Arabs] have become extinct,” said Syrian poet Adonis in a March 11 Dubai television interview transcribed by the Israeli media monitor MEMRI, [1] but ignored by the mainstream Western media. The prognosis by Adonis, the only Arabic writer on the Nobel Prize short list, for the Arab prospect has become more bleak over the [...]

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