Tag: iran
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report: russia evacuates entire bushehr staff
iranian news outlet claims nuclear experts packed their bags friday, increasing speculation of imminent US, israeli attackfrom paul joseph watson: Iranian and Israeli news outlets are reporting that Russia has evacuated its entire staff of nuclear engineers and experts who were working at the Bushehr nuclear reactor, increasing speculation that the US is preparing an…
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iran says cia & US army are ‘terrorist organizations’
lawmakers in tehran take a diplomatic offensive against washingtonfrom msnbc/ap: Iran’s parliament on Saturday approved a nonbinding resolution to label the CIA and the U.S. Army “terrorist organizations.” The move is seen as a diplomatic tit-for-tat after the U.S. Senate voted in favor of a resolution urging the State Department to designate Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary…
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congress & senate kill persians & ammendments
hate bill passes – senate stabs first amendmentfrom ted pike: By a vote of 60 to 39 this morning, Sens. Kennedy and Smith’s hate crimes amendment was attached to the defense authorization act. After three days of virtual silence, several Republican senators spoke against the bill within the two hours of debate. Sen. Lindsey Graham…
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cheney mulled israeli strike on iran
from reuters: Vice President Dick Cheney had at one point considered asking Israel to launch limited missile strikes at an Iranian nuclear site to provoke a retaliation, Newsweek magazine reported on Sunday. The news comes amid reports that Israel launched an air strike against Syria this month over a suspected nuclear site. Citing two unidentified…
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ahmadinejad questions 9/11 & the holocaust
from ap: Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad questioned the official version of the Sept. 11 attacks and defended the right to cast doubt on the Holocaust in a tense appearance at Columbia University, whose president accused the hard-line leader of behaving like “a petty and cruel dictator.” Ahmadinejad smiled at first but appeared increasingly agitated, decrying…
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iran & israel face off over nuclear weapons
from spacewar: Iran called for UN inspectors to be dispatched to verify whether Israel has nuclear weapons, in a heated showdown with the Jewish state at a meeting of the UN atomic agency Friday. The face-off between the two nations came as Arab states condemned Israel for hiding an atomic arsenal, at a general conference…
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nyc rejects ahmadinejad request to visit ground zero
(or, as the neocons will say, ‘why visit it here when we can bring ground zero to you?’)from press tv: New York City authorities have rejected Iranian president’s request to visit the site of the September 11 attacks on security grounds. New York police deputy chief Paul Browne said that request to enter the fenced-in…
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was israeli raid a dry run for attack on iran?
from guardian: The head of Israel’s airforce, Major-General Eliezer Shkedi, was visiting a base in the coastal city of Herziliya last week. For the 50-year-old general, also the head of Israel’s Iran Command, which would fight a war with Tehran if ordered, it was a morale-boosting affair, a meet-and-greet with pilots and navigators who had…
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US develops 14-ton super bomb
bigger than russian vacuum bombfrom ria novosti: The U.S. has a 14-ton super bomb more destructive than the vacuum bomb just tested by Russia, a U.S. general said Wednesday. The statement was made by retired Lt. General McInerney, chairman of the Iran Policy Committee, and former Assistant Vice Chief of Staff of the Air Force.…
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russia says US attack on iran would be ‘catastrophic’
from afp: Any US military intervention in Iran would be a “political error” that would have “catastrophic” consequences, Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Alexander Losyukov said in an interview published Tuesday. “Generally speaking, bombings of Iran would be a bad move that would end with catastrophic consequences,” he told the daily Vremya Novosti. Losyukov expressed the…
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selling a war with iran
cheney orders media to sell attack on iranfrom paul joseph watson: Dick Cheney has ordered top Neo-Con media outlets, including Fox News and the Wall Street Journal, to unleash a PR blitz to sell a war with Iran from today, according to Barnett Rubin, the highly respected Afghanistan expert at New York University. The New…
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former cia officer: US to attack iran within 6 months
from raw story: Fox News asked former CIA field officer Bob Baer on Tuesday whether the US is “gearing up for a military strike on Iran.” Baer has written a column for Time indicating that Washington officials expect an attack within the next six months. “I’ve taken an informal poll inside the government,” Baer told…
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Cheney Determined To Strike In US
Today marks he sixth anniversary of that fabled August 6th PDB, ‘Bin Laden Determined To Strike In US’. So in honor of this occasion, here is an important warning…
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iran asks japan to pay yen for oil
from bloomberg: Iran asked Japanese refiners to switch to the yen to pay for all crude oil purchases, after Iran’s central bank said it is reducing holdings of the U.S. dollar. Iran wants yen-based transactions “for any/all of your forthcoming Iranian crude oil liftings,” according to a letter sent to Japanese refiners that was signed…
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armageddon time!
rapture ready: the unauthorized christians united for israel tour from raw story: After attending the College Republican convention, Nation journalist Max Blumenthal took his camera to the Christians United for Israel’s annual Washington-Israel Summit in D.C. Founded by right-wing mega-church pastor John Hagee, the group has “added the grassroots muscle of the Christian right to…