Commercial satellite imagery shows Iran is building a new tunnel facility inside a mountain near a key nuclear complex — a possible attempt to protect parts of its uranium enrichment program from aerial attack, nuclear analysts said on Monday.
Originally published on July 10, 2007.
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Signs of activity at Iran nuclear site
Construction south of the Natanz [...]

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MOSCOW, July 20 (UPI) — The head of the Russian armed forces said this week U.S. plans to put BMD weapons in Europe were part of an anti-Russian plot.
Four-star Army Gen. Yury Baluyevsky, the chief of staff of the Russian armed forces, told reporters in Moscow Monday that Kremlin planners did not believe U.S. [...]

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Japan’s turbulent history of war and natural catastrophe has already given the world a terrifying vocabulary of death: tsunami, kamikaze, Hiroshima.
But the country now stands on the brink of unleashing its most chilling phrase yet: genpatsu-shinsai – the combination of an earthquake and nuclear meltdown capable of destroying millions of lives and bringing a nation [...]

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1. Brazil resumes production of nuclear submarines.
2. Colombia wants a U.S. base.
Is the military buildup of Venezuelan petrotyrant Hugo Chavez starting to worry our neighbors to the south?
Chavez is setting up a string of bases in Bolivia that could project regional power. Peru, Paraguay and Chile, all of which border Bolivia, have expressed concerns.
There won’t [...]

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WASHINGTON, July 20 (UPI) — What do Japan and Iran have in common? Japan has nuclear power plants and Iran is on its way to acquiring nuclear technology. Japan is prone to powerful earthquakes, and so is Iran. This is where the similarities end.
If a similar earthquake was to hit one of Iran’s nuclear [...]

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Former US House speaker, who is considering running for presidency on Republican ticket, warns that if Iran acquires nukes, Israel and US would be under severe threat; ‘Firing one or more bombs at Israel could be a second Holocaust for the Jewish people,’ Gingrich says
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July 21 (Bloomberg) — North Korea wants light-water reactors in return for dismantling its nuclear weapons program, the North’s top nuclear negotiator told reporters in Beijing after three days of discussions.
“What we are discussing is the existing plan, shutting down disabling and ultimately dismantling the Yongbyon nuclear facility,” Kim told reporters today before he [...]

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On July 19, the Russian daily “Kommersant” noted the attention paid recently by the British media to an alleged plot against the life of self-exiled oligarch Boris Berezovsky and the approach of two Russian strategic bombers toward British airspace (see “RFE/RL Newsline,” July 18 and 19, 2007).
The paper wrote that “the scare stories about…Berezovsky and [...]

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In today’s world, decisions on energy are made not only on economic terms but, unfortunately, geopolitics also plays a major role. In this sense, Turkey’s agreement with Iran to transport some 30 billion cubic metres of Iranian and Turkmen natural gas westward to Europe, while it makes good business sense for Turkey, Iran and the [...]

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Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad pledged to help Syria conduct nuclear research during a visit to Damascus earlier this week, the London-based Arabic-language newspaper Asharq Al-Awsat reported on Saturday.
In exchange, Syria agreed not to engage in peace talks with Israel. On Friday, Prime Minister Ehud Olmert called on Syrian President Bashar Assad to begin direct peace [...]

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Pakistan:
Frances Townsend, Homeland Security adviser to U.S. President George W. Bush, said on Thursday that the United States would be willing to send troops into Pakistan to root out al Qaeda, noting specifically that “no option is off the table if that is what is required.” Just in case Islamabad — or al Qaeda — [...]

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With President Vladimir Putin last week signing a decree to impose a moratorium on Russia’s implementation of the Conventional Forces in Europe (CFE) treaty, as he promised in his State of the Nation Address in late April, and with Russia’s political class about to go on summer vacations, it would be appropriate to take stock [...]

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A recent picture in the front pages of national Indian newspapers showed some Indian and Chinese businessmen exchanging goods on the Indo-Chinese border outpost at Nathu La. The picture was taken on the occasion of the first anniversary of the opening of this route for trade between the two countries.
In the years before the re-opening, [...]

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New Delhi, July 19: Indian defence scientists have taken up a new cruise missile development programme. The missile named Nirbhay (The Fearless) is in the same class as the US’s Tomahawk and will have a range that is 300km longer than Pakistan’s Babur.
Nirbhay is India’s seventh missile development project after the Agni series, the Prithvi [...]

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