DEBKAfile’s military and Moscow sources now report exclusively: In early October 2010, Russian intelligence learned that Iran was about to begin test launches of missiles for carrying nuclear warheads. They reported this to Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin.
He then took three steps: He conveyed the information to US President Barack Obama and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and bound them to secrecy. With their pledges in hand, he used backdoor intelligence channels to persuade Tehran to refrain from bragging about its dramatic progress and keep the tests of the nuclear-capable missiles quiet in order to avert a world outcry against the violation of all their international commitments. The Iranians bought the deal.
Conspiracy of silence over four Iranian nuclear-capable missile tests
Good job covering the escalating Syria Nato conflict Matt, Ive been digging hard lately and your links have been helpful.
Its becoming quite clear that the last few years of wondering what side Turkey stands on in regards to Israel and the west is over, Turkey by its deeds have demonstrably reaffirmed its loyalty and complaisance in war planning, and reaffirmed its place in NATO.
Examples are Turkeys Nato leadership in Mediterranean sea, Turkish armor and military personnel presence on Syria border regions, diplomatic rhetoric from Turkish brass, and transferring NATO ground forces currently stationed in Germany and Spain to the Izmir Air Station, wich can be seen only as the genesis of future military ground operation against Syria.
My hope is that Russia will against all logic capitulate and withdraw its reservation for a NATO air and ground assault on Syrian territory, because from all Ive gathered this war is not stoppable and has been in the works for years.
I pray too (figuratively) that NATO will stop there in its quest for world supremacy, as horrendous as this coming war will be,(adding to the half a dozen or so other unfairly vilified and genocidal bombarded so called humanitarian operations against once sovereign and peace loving nations), but I fear as many do, that the NATO war planners are the very same fascist elites that perpetuate a never ending war of conquest on every level, with nothing less then the total eradication of resistance to there global economic dictatorship as there goal, including the assimilation or destruction of Russia China and the so called axis of evil countries.
As we are all well aware there are competing empires if you will, but to put our faith in NATO, wich is now diametrically apposed to its own founding doctrine (mutual defense pact)and instead is waging wars of conquest, is glaringly ignorant.
Open your eyes and see the rage and hatred these deeds of war put on our individual NATO states. Do these wars of massmurder and genocide bring us security?
Absolutely not, and the reality is they arent even intended to, they are merely the wars of genocide and conquest that they appear to be, and each new sin brings NATO countries ever closer to a world war ww2 style in wich we are this time on the wrong side of history.
I am sickened and appalled by the trajectory of NATO, the hypocrisy of the UN NATO the IMF the world bank, and the EU, and all these world bodies have by there own works exposed themselves as worthless and irrelevant in reality.
Even in the darkness of nazi germany we did not see this level of depravity and untenable lies, and genocidal massmurder of civilizations, and by continuing this course against unquestionable ulterior motives, NATO countries as a whole resign themselves to moral depravity and ultimate hatred and eternal opposition by non NATO countries.
This outcome in my opinion equals inevitable global thermonuclear war of unimaginable scale and by so pursuing this course of world hegemony and seemingly endless wars against rebellious nation states, the NATO alliance is dooming its defense pact signatories surface dwelling citizenry to certain death by NATO verse Russia China ext nuclear war.
The supposed geniuses in the think tanks that truly believe there world quest of unilateral governance is morally justified and necessary are fundamentally ignorant and do not have the moral basis to weigh the cost of human life, let alone understand the possibilities that exist for humanity without there control.
They believe that the massmurder of the vast majority of humanity is in humanities best interest, and they care not for the sufferring and death of the oppressed, they in fact actively seek out new ways to force depopulate the planet, and engage peaceful sovereign states in genocidal bombings.
How is it that we allow these Malthusian warmongering genocidal psychopaths to be stewards to the fragile peace that mutually assured destruction affords us in this particularity precarious idiom of wmds and war and forced conflict.
I for one am at my wits end to why anyone would think peaceful protest could ever stop the hell that is being unleashed on humanity, and implore you all to delve into this subject in greater depth.