It’s difficult to decide which will go over the edge first, Lebanon or Gaza. Maybe both at the same time, hand in hand, and — if you believe Israel — with a gentle shove from Iran.
Bets are on Gaza to explode first. Although Hamas claimed that Monday’s suicide bomber in Dimona, the first in a [...]

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The Energy Department is subsidizing two Russian nuclear institutes that are building important parts of a reactor in Iran whose construction the United States spent years trying to stop, according to a House committee.
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U.S. aid for Russian scientists linked to Iran nukes
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The U.S. Navy has sent an Aegis missile defense ship to Israel.
The USS San Jacinto has arrived in the Israeli port of Haifa as part of U.S.-Israel naval cooperation. San Jacinto contains the Aegis missile defense system, designed to intercept medium- and intermediate-range ballistic missiles developed by Iran and North Korea.
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Security official: ‘It’s like a return to the Cold War’
Syria, aided by Russia and Iran, in recent months has been furiously acquiring rockets and missiles, including projectiles capable of hitting the entire state of Israel, according to Jordanian and Israeli security officials speaking to WND.
A Jordanian security official said one of the main reasons Damascus [...]

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In some areas, that has already translated into formidable military-industrial and potential strategic clout. China already makes its own intercontinental ballistic missiles and increasingly sophisticated space satellites. On Jan. 11, 2007, it startled the world by successful carrying out an anti-satellite test by exploding one of its own satellites to destroy another one. A significant [...]

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The Soviet military launched the first GLONASS satellites in the 1980s to counter the Pentagon’s GPS. In September 1993, GLONASS was officially declared operational with 12 satellites. In December 1995 with 24 satellites, GLONASS became fully operational for a short time, but as the satellites soon malfunctioned, the entire system swiftly decayed (www.strana.ru, December 26, [...]

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Militants Now Threaten Country’s Survival, U.S. Intelligence Official Says
Radical elements are now a threat to the survival of Pakistan, prompting Pakistani military leaders to recognize that more aggressive efforts are needed to get the elements under control, Director of National Intelligence Mike McConnell told a Senate committee Tuesday.
“In the last year, the number of terrorist [...]

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Senior diplomats say Islamic Republic recently began testing centrifuges based on the P-2 design, used more recently in the West and able to enrich uranium 2-3 times as fast as the P-1. Non-proliferation expert: A disturbing development
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“On balance, though, I believe this is a disturbing development. Iran appears to have made progress in secret [...]

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Russia and the European Union are neighbors geographically. But geopolitically they live in different centuries. A 21st-century European Union, with its noble ambition to transcend power politics and build an order based on laws and institutions, confronts a Russia that behaves like a traditional 19th-century power. Both are shaped by their histories. The supranational, legalistic [...]

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Russia said on Wednesday Iran’s test launch of a rocket raised suspicions about the real nature of Tehran’s atomic programme, in what could signal a hardening of its stance towards the Islamic Republic
Iran launched a rocket on Monday designed to carry its first locally-made research satellite next year, showing the country’s advances in ballistics at [...]

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