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The Rome-Tehran Axis – WSJ.com

Posted by Matt in January 14th, 2010 | no comment 
Published in Europe, Iran, , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , ,

Italian companies—with Rome’s backing—have equipped Iran’s military and contributed to the regime’s satellite and possibly nuclear programs.
When it comes to appeasing the Islamic Republic, no other Western nation has stooped lower than Italy. Amid the international outrage over the Iranian regime’s brutalization of its own people, Italian Foreign Minister Franco Frattini warned Europe “must not [...]

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The Future Nuclear Powers You Should Be Worried About | Foreign Policy

Posted by Matt in October 29th, 2009 | no comment 
Published in Nuclear, , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , ,

Which countries should you be worried about? Here they are: Burma, Bangladesh, Kazakhstan, Venezuela and United Arab Emirates (Dubai).
Iran’s and North Korea’s nuclear programs — not to mention the risk of loose nukes in Russia or Pakistan — are worrying enough. But a number of other countries are looking to join the nuclear club, with [...]

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Obama Is Pushing Israel Toward War – WSJ.com

Posted by Matt in September 14th, 2009 | no comment 
Published in Conflict, Israel, , , , , , , , , , , , ,

Events are fast pushing Israel toward a pre-emptive military strike on Iran’s nuclear facilities, probably by next spring. That strike could well fail. Or it could succeed at the price of oil at $300 a barrel, a Middle East war, and American servicemen caught in between. So why is the Obama administration doing everything it [...]

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Iran Has Started a Mideast Arms Race

Posted by Matt in June 11th, 2009 | no comment 
Published in Iran, Nuclear, , , , , , , , , ,

States throughout the region are looking to establish nuclear programs.
The Middle East may be on the verge of a nuclear arms race triggered by the inability of the West to stop Iran’s quest for a bomb. Since Tehran’s nuclear ambitions hit the headlines five years ago, 25 countries — 10 of them in the greater [...]

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Israel: Slim chance of war now

Posted by Matt in May 12th, 2009 | 1 comment 
Published in 2009Q2, Israel, War, , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , ,

Israeli general Yadlin see little chance of war in the next year. Meanwhile, Jordan sees a war in the 12 to 18 months if the peace process between Israel and the Palestinians does not make progress. And it probably won’t make progress.
Iran will continue enriching uranium to around 3% concentration which is lowly enriched uranium [...]

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Iran’s Nuclear Program

Posted by Matt in July 18th, 2008 | no comment 
Published in Iran, Nuclear, , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , ,

Iran’s leaders have worked to pursue nuclear energy technology since the 1950s, spurred by the launch of U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower’s Atoms for Peace program. It made steady progress, with Western help, through the early 1970s. But concern over Iranian intentions followed by the upheaval of the Islamic Revolution in 1979 effectively ended outside [...]

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Europe faces Russian nuclear missile threat

Posted by Matt in July 12th, 2008 | 3 comments 
Published in Europe, , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , ,

How would we like it if Russia placed interceptor missiles in Cuba or Venezuela? That question is disingenuous. Both Russia and China have been quietly helping Iran with its missile and nuclear programs. And now they’re mad that we actually want to protect ourself from a rogue state that they’ve been helping for years. That’s [...]

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Nuclear-armed Iran changes world

Posted by Matt in July 4th, 2008 | no comment 
Published in Iran, Nuclear, , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , ,

The consequences of a nuclear-armed Iran are obvious. Its leaders are theologically motivated and believe Israel should be wiped off the map. It is the chief global sponsor of terrorism through groups such as Hezbollah and Hamas. Middle East experts believe a nuclear-armed Iran would soon be followed by Egypt, Saudi Arabia and Turkey, and [...]

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Analysis: Middle East nuclear renaissance?

Posted by Matt in June 24th, 2008 | no comment 
Published in Middle East, Nuclear, , , , , , , , , , , , ,

A comprehensive and well detailed report by the International Institute for Strategic Studies, released last week, sheds a pile of information on the state of nuclear proliferation in one of the world’s most volatile regions — the Middle East.
Indeed, as John Chipman, director general and chief executive of IISS, points out in a publication entitled [...]

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Nuclear Epidemic

Posted by Matt in May 20th, 2008 | no comment 
Published in Iran, Middle East, Nuclear, , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , ,

WMD: The Mideast has long been “explosive,” but more than a dozen countries there have now been emboldened to go nuclear. Further delays in stopping Iran’s nuke program could turn it into an atomic Wild West.

So the belief that there will indeed be a nuclear-armed Iran in the not-so-distant future is setting its neighbors on [...]

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