Let the Red Times Roll | Foreign Policy

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Published in China, 60th Anniversary, beijing, Df, Flatbed Trucks, Foreign Observers, Foreign Policy, Liberation Army Soldiers, Military Hardware, Military Parade, Nuclear Missiles, Range Missiles, Rehearsal, Republic Of China, Showcase, skimming, Snafus, Taiwan, Targets, Yj

Beijing has spared no expense to ensure that the military parade and mass pageant planned for October 1 to celebrate the 60th anniversary of the People’s Republic of China are both spectacular and free from security snafus.
Goose-stepping out: China’s Oct. 1 military parade will showcase some of its most advanced military hardware, perhaps intended to [...]

Chinese oil demand fueling Iranian defiance

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Published in China, Iran, Oil, China, Chinese Oil, defiance, Economy, Energy Industry, Iran, Oil Demand, Oil Oil, sanctions, Tough Talk, Trump Card

Despite tough talk from Washington, China needs Iran’s oil too much to support sanctions that might actually bite.
But the kind of sanctions that would really hit Iran’s economy – sanctions against its energy industry – are thought to be off the table because China and other nations are too reliant on Iran’s oil.

Oil: Iran’s trump [...]

The Possibility of a Nuclear Iran Alarms Arabs – NYTimes.com

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Published in Iran, Middle East, Nuclear, Alarms, Arab Governments, Arabs, Diplomats, Former Government Officials, Iran Nuclear, Nuclear Program, Nytimes, Persian Gulf, Regional Analysts

As the West raises the pressure on Iran over its nuclear program, Arab governments, especially the small, oil-rich nations in the Persian Gulf, are growing increasingly anxious. But they are concerned not only with the prospect of a nuclear-armed Iran but also with the more immediate threat that Iran will destabilize the region if the [...]

Israel’s nuclear program plus video

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Published in Israel, Nuclear, Atomic Energy Agency, Enrico Fermi, Ground Aircraft, Hebrew Acronym, International Atomic Energy, International Atomic Energy Agency, Israel Defense Forces, Israeli Nuclear Technician, Korea International, Mohamed Elbaradei, Mordechai Vanunu, Non Proliferation Treaty, Nuclear Armed Countries, Nuclear Non Proliferation Treaty, Nuclear Warheads, Nuclear Weapons State, Petroleum Fields, Phosphate Deposits, Physics Graduate, Video Israel, Weapons Factory

Israel’s Dimona Nuclear Weapons Factory In 3D

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Israel is widely believed to be the sixth country in the world to develop nuclear weapons and to be one of four nuclear-armed countries not recognized as a Nuclear Weapons State by the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT), the others being India, Pakistan and North Korea. International Atomic [...]

We’ve Been Talking to Iran for 30 Years – WSJ.com

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Published in Iran, Geneva, Iranian Leaders, iranians, Misconception, National Defense University, Obama, Place Tomorrow, Robert Gates, Secretary Of Defense, Secretary Of Defense Robert Gates, Talks With Iran, Truth, Wsj

The Obama administration’s talks with Iran—set to take place tomorrow in Geneva—are accompanied by an almost universally accepted misconception: that previous American administrations refused to negotiate with Iranian leaders. The truth, as Secretary of Defense Robert Gates said last October at the National Defense University, is that “every administration since 1979 has reached out to [...]

IAEA: Iran broke law by not revealing nuclear facility – CNN.com

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Published in Iran, Atomic Energy Agency, Cnn, Cnn International, Credible Evidence, Evidence That Iran, Iaea Iran, International Atomic Energy, International Atomic Energy Agency, Iran Nuclear, Mohamed Elbaradei, Nuclear Facility, Nuclear Weapons Program, United Nation, Uranium Enrichment, Watchdog Agency

Iran broke international law by not disclosing sooner its recently revealed uranium enrichment site, the head of the United Nation’s nuclear watchdog agency said.
But the U.N. does not have credible evidence that Iran has an operational nuclear weapons program, Mohamed ElBaradei of the International Atomic Energy Agency said Tuesday.

IAEA: Iran broke law by not revealing [...]

Iran campuses rocked by student protests | GlobalPost

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Published in Iran, Academic Year, Allegations, Angry Demonstrations, Campuses, Iran, Opposition, Slogans, Student Protests, tehran, Torture And Rape, Torture Rape, Universities

Universities start the academic year with angry demonstrations against Ahmadinejad.
Hundreds of students shouting anti-government slogans took to the streets of Tehran and other cities Monday in another sign that Iran’s opposition is still active, despite arrests and allegations of state torture and rape.

Iran campuses rocked by student protests | GlobalPost

Five more Iranian nuclear enrichment plants spotted

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Published in Iran, Nuclear, Enrichment Plants, G20 Summit, Holy City, Iran, Mi6 Agents, Mountains, Nuclear Enrichment, Nuclear Plants, Nuke Plants, Qom, Revolutionary Guards, Uranium Enrichment Plant

Deep-cover MI6 agents who found the previously secret underground uranium enrichment plant near the Iranian holy city of Qom have discovered a staggering five more similar plants.
They, like the Qom facility, are buried deep inside the mountains of north Iran and are guarded by divisions of Revolutionary Guards.
The details have been sent this weekend to [...]

Iran Has No Right To Nuclear Technology – WSJ.com

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Published in Iran, Aggressors, Atom, Ayatollah Khomeini, International Tension, Iran Nuclear, Islamic Republic, Islamic Rule, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Messenger Of God, Mohammed, Muhammad, Nuclear Technology, Nuclearization, Preamble, President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Secular World, Struggle, There Is No God, There Is No God But God, Wsj

The treaty was signed by Iran in 1968 under the rule of Shah Mohammed Reza. It aims, as outlined in its preamble, at “further easing of international tension and the strengthening of trust between states.” Its purpose is thus to stabilize the international system. The Islamic Republic, though, wants to abolish this “Satanic” secular world [...]

Nuclear Weapons – More At Stake than Just ‘Reduction’ (Part One of Two)

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Published in Nuclear, arsenal, Ballistic Missiles, China, Cruise Missile, Family Security, Fleets, Nuclear Forces, Nuclear Weapons, Russia Russia, Security Matters, Stake, Submarine, submarines, Warhead, Warheads

Reports are that one-third of our 450 land-based missiles may be eliminated under some plans being considered. Given that our submarine and bomber bases number only four, and submarines at sea also number four, we are essentially making it dramatically easier for an enemy to strike at America’s nuclear forces in a crisis. Remember, today [...]