The Iranian nuclear program was launched in the 1950s with the help of the United States. After the Islamic Revolution in 1979, the government temporarily disbanded the program, and then revived it with less Western assistance than during the pre-revolution era. Iran’s current effort includes several research sites, a uranium mine, a nuclear reactor, and [...]

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Document seen by Guardian details web of front companies and middlemen.
It concludes that Syria and Pakistan have also been buying technology and chemicals needed to develop rocket programmes and to enrich uranium. It outlines the role played by Russia in the escalating Middle East arms build-up, and examines the part that dozens of Chinese front [...]

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THE US is replacing one of its aircraft carriers in the Gulf, where the Fifth Fleet is keeping an eye on Iran, but the Pentagon said no decision had been made to increase forces in the region.
Pentagon spokesman Bryan Whitman said the USS Enterprise was expected to arrive within weeks in the Gulf, where the [...]

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President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva on Tuesday relaunched the country’s nuclear program, promising to complete a nuclear submarine and a third atomic power plant both mothballed 20 years ago.
“Brazil could rank among those few nations in the world with a command of uranium enrichment technology, and I think we will be more highly valued [...]

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Senior U.S. intelligence officials tell ABC News new intelligence suggests a small al Qaeda cell is on its way to the United States, or may already be here.
The White House has convened an urgent multi-agency meeting for Thursday afternoon to deal with the new threat.
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WASHINGTON, July 10 (UPI) — It is not only a mutual interest in insulting the United States that ties Venezuela and Iran together, it is a need for cooperation between their petroleum industries.
In a world in which Iran cannot do business with the United States and Venezuela does not want to, the two countries [...]

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July 16, 2007 issue - The last week of June was probably the Bush administration’s worst period ever in terms of Latin America policy. Its nemeses in the hemisphere—Venezuela’s Hugo Chávez, Cuba’s Fidel Castro, Nicaragua’s Daniel Ortega, Bolivia’s Evo Morales, Ecuador’s Rafael Correa and perhaps soon Guatemala’s Alvaro Colón and even Argentina’s Néstor Kirchner—form an [...]

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Crossfire war - Azerbaijan - Center of US-Russia Military CooperationNewsBlaze, CA - Jul 10, 2007It is what Markedonov calls the “Gabala Initiative” and that it indicates the “US-Russia have many more common interests than they do reasons for conflict. …

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Sources from the Israel Defense Forces said Tuesday they believe that Iran could have full nuclear capabilities by 2009. However, the sources said, Iran is more likely to have operational nuclear weapons only in 2010 or 2011.
IDF sources have also said they estimate that Iran will reach a technological threshold that will enable them to [...]

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China, Australia to boost bilateral military exchanges and co-opCCTV, China - Jul 10, 2007Nelson said Australia would like to know more about China’s military. He acknowledged its modernization and improvements in transparency. …Walker’s World: The China pattern United Press International, Asia all 2 news articles

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Nicolas Sarkozy will visit France’s nuclear forces on 13 July: the naval aviation component based at Landivisiau followed by a visit to the Vigilant, the strategic nuclear submarine, at the Ile Longue [Long Island] base near Brest. The importance of deterrence was the object of a broad consensus in the last election campaign. The Iranian [...]

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Americans who believe that China’s expanding economic strength and its rise to superpower status is no threat to the U.S. should consider the disturbing trend in Chinese military spending.
The Chinese regime has been busy investing the windfalls of its new economic prosperity into a major military buildup. According to this year’s Annual Report to [...]

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Azerbaijan military site ‘no substitute’ for CEWirtualna Polska, Poland - Jul 10, 2007The US will not consider Russia’s proposal of an Azerbaijan military base as an alternative site to host elements of its anti-missile shield, …Araz Azimov: The US and Russia take into consideration official … Azeri Press AgencyFIRST ROUND OF AZERI-US SECURITY TALKS OVER [...]

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RIO DE JANEIRO, July 9 — The Pan American Games do not start until Friday, but the United States delegation has already found itself in a controversy after a phrase that Brazilians considered prejudiced and demeaning appeared on a message board at the American media center here.
“Welcome to the Congo!” were the offending words written [...]

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Google reveals China’s military secrets
Inquirer, UK - Jul 10, 2007
By Nick Farrell: Tuesday 10 July 2007, 08:33 GOOGLE EARTH has shown pictures of what military experts say is China’s new nuclear ballistic missile submarine.

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Fiji military leader appointed to ChinaThe Age, Australia - Jul 9, 2007Fiji’s military government has appointed a leading military figure and coup supporter as its defence attache to China. Military spokesman Major Neumi Leweni …appointment to China is a military related one: says Lewni Fiji Broadcasting Corporation LtdFiji military spokesman designated for diplomatic posting Radio [...]

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Trading at $7 a pound in 2001, “yellowcake,” as it is called, hit $120 a pound in May. By the end of June it raked in as much as $138 a pound on the spot market.
The surging price has lured more than two dozen companies with mining expertise to the high-desert uranium fields here in [...]

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WASHINGTON, July 9 (UPI) — Well-informed sources in Washington fear a confrontation between Syria and Israel may happen this summer. The sources say that Syrian intelligence is abuzz with activity reports of an imminent Israeli attack across the Golan Heights, while others believe it is Syria that is gearing up for war.
Dennis Ross, a former [...]

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Culled from a wide variety of sources, ranging from the London Daily Telegraph, to the Suddeutsche Zeitung Online, to France’s Le Monde and Liberation, Ahmadinejad spells out the target and the strategy:
– This regime (Israel) will one day disappear.
– The Zionist regime is a rotten tree that will be blown away by one storm.
– [...]

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Former Canadian justice minister Irwin Cotler: Threat to Diaspora community is without precedent since 1938
The Jewish people are facing a “gathering storm” in the form of threats posed by a genocidal Iran, Hizbullah, al-Qaeda, Hamas, and local terror cells which target Diaspora Jews, former Canadian Justice Minister and Jewish activist Irwin Cotler told a conference [...]

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Russia will build a new base of nuclear submarines in the Kamchatka region (Russia’s Far East), Interfax reports quoting Admiral Vladimir Masorin, the Commander-in-Chief of the Russian Navy. It will be the most modern naval base in Russia, the agency quotes the official as saying.
The base, where latest models of nuclear-powered submarines (Borei class) will [...]

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