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Iran is just a heartbeat away from the A-bomb

Posted by Matt in September 19th, 2008 | no comment 
Published in Iran, Nuclear, , , , , , , , , , , , , ,

Last Friday the Daily Telegraph reported Teheran has surreptitiously removed a sufficient amount of uranium from its nuclear production facility in Isfahan to produce six nuclear bombs. Given Iran’s already acknowledged uranium enrichment capabilities, the Telegraph’s report indicates that the Islamic Republic is now in the late stages of assembling nuclear bombs.
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Israel slated to buy US smart bombs

Posted by Matt in September 14th, 2008 | no comment 
Published in Israel, , , , , , , , , , , ,

The GPS-guided GBU-39 is said to be one of the most accurate bombs in the world. The 113 kg. bomb has the same penetration capabilities as a normal 900 kg. bomb, although it has only 22.7 kg. of explosives. At just 1.75 meters long, its small size increases the number of bombs an aircraft can [...]

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Using Bombs to Stave Off War

Posted by Matt in July 18th, 2008 | 1 comment 
Published in Iran, Israel, War, , , , , , , , , , , , ,

ISRAEL will almost surely attack Iran’s nuclear sites in the next four to seven months — and the leaders in Washington and even Tehran should hope that the attack will be successful enough to cause at least a significant delay in the Iranian production schedule, if not complete destruction, of that country’s nuclear program. Because [...]

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‘Israel Will Not Stand By While Iran Builds the Bomb’

Posted by Matt in July 1st, 2008 | no comment 
Published in Iran, Israel, Nuclear, , , , , , , , , , ,

Isaac Ben-Israel, a former Israeli Air Force general and now member of the ruling Kadima party, spoke with SPIEGEL about the limits of sanctions in dealing with Iran’s nuclear program. He says Israel is prepared to mount a military strike against the mullah regime if diplomacy fails. more…

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Israel has a year to stop Iran bomb, warns ex-spy

Posted by Matt in June 28th, 2008 | no comment 
Published in Iran, Israel, Nuclear, , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , ,

A former head of Mossad has warned that Israel has 12 months in which to destroy Iran’s nuclear programme or risk coming under nuclear attack itself. He also hinted that Israel might have to act sooner if Barack Obama wins the US presidential election.
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Iran ready to strike at Israel’s nuclear heart
Times Online, UK - [...]

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ANALYSIS: More `near-nuclear’ states may loom

Posted by Matt in June 28th, 2008 | no comment 
Published in Nuclear, , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , ,

Those are the 40-plus countries with the scientists, engineers and infrastructure for building bombs — and in at least one other case, that of South Africa, a history of having done so.
About a dozen are nuclear “rollback” states, ranging from Sweden and Switzerland, which seriously researched the weapon option in the 1950s and 1960s and [...]

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Iran’s ‘Nightmare Scenarios’ Are Mulled in Washington

Posted by Matt in June 24th, 2008 | no comment 
Published in Iran, Israel, , , , , , , , , , , , , , ,

American Intelligence Analysts Work Overtime as Israel Sends Signals
An attack on the U.S. 5th Fleet, exploding Saudi oil refineries, and a Hezbollah operation against a soft target in the Americas, Asia, or Europe. These are scenarios America’s intelligence analysts are now poring over as Israel signals its preparedness to deal with Iran’s race for the [...]

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Nuclear ring reportedly had advanced weapon design

Posted by Matt in June 15th, 2008 | no comment 
Published in Nuclear, Proliferation, , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , ,

An international smuggling ring may have secretly shared blueprints for an advanced nuclear weapon with Iran, North Korea and other rogue countries, The Washington Post reported Sunday.
The now-defunct ring led by Pakistani scientist Abdul Qadeer Khan is previously known to have sold bomb-related parts to Libya, Iran and North Korea. A draft report by former [...]

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Interview with IAEA Boss Mohamed ElBaradei

Posted by Matt in June 12th, 2008 | no comment 
Published in Israel, Nuclear, Syria, , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , ,

‘If We Fail, Humanity’s Survival Will Be on the Line’
IAEA Director General Mohamed ElBaradei talks to SPIEGEL about Israel’s propensity for unilateral action against countries like Syria, the US’s tendency to keep the IAEA in the dark and the threat of nuclear terrorism. more…

Photo Gallery: The Growing Nuclear Threat
Alarming Test Results: Iran Could Have Enough [...]

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Iran is a threat that can’t be overlooked

Posted by Matt in June 9th, 2008 | 5 comments 
Published in Iran, , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , ,

Eventually, the Arab/Muslim world concluded that Westernizing was too burdensome and probably impossible. Since joining the West wasn’t in the cards, licking it seemed another option. A new generation began to eye fundamental Islam as a route to Arab/Islamic renaissance. Enter the Ayatollah Khomeini, followed by Osama bin Laden.
Today, Pakistan has the bomb, and the [...]

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Analysis: An undetectable route to Iran

Posted by Matt in June 5th, 2008 | no comment 
Published in Iran, Israel, , , , , , , , , , , , , , , ,

Imagine this: Ten fighter jets take off from a base in northern Israel, fly over Jordan, Iraq and into Iran to bomb air-defense missile systems, radar stations and nuclear facilities. They then leave Iranian airspace safely without sustaining any enemy fire.
Sounds implausible? If the IAF has its way, the possibility will become realistic in the [...]

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Inspectors Discover Iran’s Nuclear Weapon Instruction Book

Posted by Matt in June 2nd, 2008 | no comment 
Published in Iran, Nuclear, , , , , , , , , , , , , , , ,

UN inspectors were shocked by the recent discovery of an Iranian document describing the process for making the potential core of a nuclear weapon.
Tehran called the allegations of pursuing bomb-making “baseless” and claimed that the intelligence was fabricated. However, the 15-page document appears to be the recipe for the process of machining uranium metal into [...]

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Bombing Iran: The Clamor Persists

Posted by Matt in May 23rd, 2008 | no comment 
Published in Iran, , , , , , , , , , , , , ,

Nor is it only the Israelis who are concerned. Egyptian and Saudi leaders also expressed their worries about Iran’s nuclear ambitions when Bush met with them on the trip, several White House aides say. “People in the region really want to see it solved peacefully,” says a senior White House official, “but they’re also concerned [...]

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Pakistan-India: Ten years of the Bomb

Posted by Matt in May 16th, 2008 | no comment 
Published in India, Nuclear, Pakistan, , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , ,

Their political leaders and military planners seem impervious to the fact that a war between Pakistan and India in which each used only five of their nuclear weapons on the other’s cities could kill several million people and injure many more. The effects of a nuclear war could be much worse if India and Pakistan [...]

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Bolton: Bomb Iran

Posted by Matt in May 7th, 2008 | no comment 
Published in Iran, , , , ,

John Bolton gets it right as usual. This is not a preemptive attack on Iran, but in response to their meddling in affairs in Iraq and Afghanistan.
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