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NCRI - Yesterday afternoon (Tuesday, November 13) a series of explosions rocked Parchin Military Site (where missiles, including Cruise missiles, are manufactured) in southern Tehran. As a result, several military personnel of the site were injured.
The explosions reportedly started in missile industries section of the Site. When shrapnel of the explosions hit another sections, eight other warehouses located next to each other were engulfed in flames.
The fire, which began at 2:00 p.m. and was put out at 8:00 p.m., was so extensive that fire fighters from seven fire stations rushed to the scene. Four of the injured were Mostafa Nourizadeh, Alireza Verdi-lou, Nasser Rezai, and Morteza Motahari.
The clerical regime is trying very hard to prevent the news of the incident to leak and claimed that it was a normal fire. To this effect, in a memorandum to its staff and other relevant organs, it was stipulated that since the area is of military nature, no information should leak. The regime has also established a crisis headquarters to deal with the situation.
Parchin, located 30 kilometers south of Tehran... _________________ Quis custodiet ipsos custodes.
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NCRI - Yesterday afternoon (Tuesday, November 13) a series of explosions rocked Parchin Military Site (where missiles, including Cruise missiles, are manufactured) in southern Tehran. As a result, several military personnel of the site were injured.
The explosions reportedly started in missile industries section of the Site. When shrapnel of the explosions hit another sections, eight other warehouses located next to each other were engulfed in flames.
The fire, which began at 2:00 p.m. and was put out at 8:00 p.m., was so extensive that fire fighters from seven fire stations rushed to the scene. Four of the injured were Mostafa Nourizadeh, Alireza Verdi-lou, Nasser Rezai, and Morteza Motahari.
The clerical regime is trying very hard to prevent the news of the incident to leak and claimed that it was a normal fire. To this effect, in a memorandum to its staff and other relevant organs, it was stipulated that since the area is of military nature, no information should leak. The regime has also established a crisis headquarters to deal with the situation.
Parchin, located 30 kilometers south of Tehran...
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Posted: Sat Nov 24, 2007 1:53 am Post subject: Re: Iran- Latest News
US Navy steps up fuel deliveries to Gulf forces
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The US military has stepped up chartering of tankers and requests for extra fuel in the US Central Command area, which includes the Gulf, shipping and oil industry sources say. A Gulf oil industry source said the charters suggested there would be high naval activity, possibly including a demonstration to Iran that the US Navy will protect the Strait of Hormuz oil shipping route during tensions over Tehran’s nuclear programme. The US Navy’s Military Sealift Command (MSC) has tendered for four tankers in November to move at least one million barrels of jet and ship fuel between Gulf ports, from Asia to the Gulf and to the Diego Garcia base, tenders seen by Reuters show. It usually tenders for one or two tankers a month to supply Gulf operations, which include missions in Iraq.
Iran, which denies Western charges that its nuclear power programme aims to produce arms, has threatened to disrupt oil flows through the Strait if attacked. According to US figures, oil flowing through the Strait, at the entrance to the Gulf along Iran’s coastline, accounts for roughly 40 percent of all globally traded oil supplies. Only last week the navy conducted an exercise to counter potential mine-laying by an unnamed foe in Gulf waters. At the same time the Enterprise aircraft carrier strike group concluded a three-day exercise in anti-submarine warfare skills. The source in the Gulf, with 50 years of experience in the oil industry, said the charters were indicative of extra US military requirements for fuels. “Bahrain, for example, has confirmed that there are additional volumes being requested by the US Defense Energy Support Center, including JP5,” the Gulf source said, speaking on condition of anonymity. One of the largest commercial tanker hires is on a time-charter basis, the length of time a ship is sought, stipulating a period of 90 days to carry a range of fuels between locations in the Gulf and the Gulf of Oman.
Fuel movements have provided advance clues of US intentions. MSC, the defense department’s transport arm, supplies US forces with its own large fleet of ships, but significantly increases the use of merchant shipping to carry armour and fuels prior to a major exercise and during a war.
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Posted: Mon Jan 14, 2008 8:44 am Post subject: Re: Iran- Latest News
Israel won't accept Nuclear Weapons in Iran. Notice how the terms nuclear weapons really mean will not allow Iran to develop nuclear capability.
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Israel won't accept nuke weapons in Iran By LAURIE COPANS, Associated Press Writer
37 minutes ago
JERUSALEM - Prime Minister Ehud Olmert told a powerful parliamentary panel on Monday that Israel rejects "no options" to block Iran from obtaining nuclear weapons, a meeting participant said.
The statement was the Israeli leader's clearest indication yet that he is willing to use military force against Iran.
"Israel clearly will not reconcile itself to a nuclear Iran," the meeting participant quoted Olmert as telling the Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee. "All options that prevent Iran from gaining nuclear capabilities are legitimate within the context of how to grapple with this matter."
The meeting participant spoke on condition of anonymity because the session was closed.
Olmert addressed the panel days after discussing Iran's nuclear ambitions in talks with President Bush in Jerusalem.
During that visit, Israeli officials disputed the recently released conclusions of a U.S. National Intelligence Estimate that concluded Iran halted its nuclear weapons program in 2003.
In Jerusalem, Bush declared that Iran remained "a threat to world peace," but reasserted his commitment to trying to resolve the standoff over Iran's nuclear program diplomatically.
Israel, which sent warplanes in 1981 to demolish an unfinished nuclear reactor in Iraq, advocates a diplomatic solution to the Iranian standoff as well. But in his comments to the parliamentary committee, Olmert said: "It's clear that Israel won't reconcile itself to a nuclear Iran. We reject no options a priori."
Israel considers Iran to be its most dangerous enemy and rejects Tehran's insistence that has only a peaceful nuclear program designed to produce energy for civilian uses. Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has called for the dissolution of the Jewish state. Iran possesses long-range missiles that are capable of striking Israel and can be fitted with nuclear warheads.
Meir Javedanfar, an Israel-based Iran analyst, said Olmert refused to rule out a military option "in order to increase the urgency to find a diplomatic solution."
"I think this is Prime Minister Ehud Olmert's way of making sure that the international community stays alert on the Iranian nuclear issues," Javedanfar said. "The concern in Israel is that after the NIE report, the world is just going to sit and watch Iran continue with its nuclear weapons program."
Two sets of U.N. sanctions have failed to push Iran to abandon its enrichment of uranium, a process that could also be used to develop fissile material for a warhead.
Although Israel successfully knocked out Iraq's nuclear program with a single airstrike 26 years ago, any attack on Iran's nuclear program would be more complicated because its facilities are scattered, with some hidden underground.
Such an attack would also almost certainly unleash an Iranian reprisal against Israel, U.S. forces in the Persian Gulf or both.
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Posted: Mon Jan 14, 2008 8:50 am Post subject: Re: Iran- Latest News
On other blogs, there is a news article claiming that as Bush left Israel, he promised the Israelis he would help them take out Iran. No other news service was reporting this, so, I left it to just b.s. However, in light of the above sources now quoting Israel intimating the same thing, maybe there's something to it.
Here is the previous article about Bush posted here by Katinkate.
katkinkate wrote:
It's funny. I was just reading this while waiting for this thread to load.
"Sunday, January 13, 2008
Israel's Netanyahu Claims President Bush Promised Unilateral Nuclear Bomb Attack Against Iran
We'll nuke Iran - Bush promises Israel
Thu, 01/10/2008 - 16:08 - Wire Services
US President George W. Bush promised Israel's opposition leader Binyamin Netanyahu that the United States will join the Jewish state in a nuclear strike against Iran, Israel Radio reported today." http://mparent7777-2.blogspot.com/2008/01/israels-netanyahu-claims-president-bush.html (Sorry for the URL. The weblink button doesn't want to work for me today.)
It's from a newsfeed called "Crimes and Corruption of the New World Order News" Scary stuff.
Posted: Mon Jan 14, 2008 4:59 pm Post subject: Re: Iran- Latest News
This whole Bush trip to the ME has me confused. My end conclusion is that just as it has me confused, the whole purpose is probably designed to confuse the world powers as well.
I used to believe that, based on PNAC doctrine and the initiation of that doctrine with the war in Iraq, that it was only a question of time before Bush attacked Iran. That opinion gradually changed from strong possibility to less than 50% probability, dropping most recently to virtually zero. It changed after the November 06 elections when the Republicans were thrown out of office and Rummy left also. It continued to change with Cheney's crony Scooter Libby being convicted and thrown out of his position, further changed when Wolfowitz was thrown out of the world bank, and then, when the new IEA on Iran came out completing contradicting the Neocon view, in my mind, the issue of an attack on Iran was over, until now.
I always believed that the Neocons were crazy, but believed that somehow the crazies were being forced out of office and thus sanity would prevail regarding Iran. However, it only takes one crazy to start a war, and unfortunately we still have a nut in office that may be just crazy enough to do it. With Bush still out there giving speeches in the ME saying Iran is a threat and we can't wait to long, I'm a little worried again. Not as much as I used to be, but I will not feel good about things until we have a new president sitting in the White House.
Here's why I'm a little concerned again - Bush gives another speech talking about the Iranian threat which has to be stopped.
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RIYADH (AFP) - US President George W. Bush began a visit to close ally Saudi Arabia on Monday to rally support from the regional economic and political powerhouse for his campaign to isolate archfoe Iran.
. . .
Bush, on a tour of the region also aimed at fostering Middle East peace, warned in a keynote speech on Sunday in Abu Dhabi of what he called the threat to the world posed by Iran.
"The United States is strengthening our longstanding security commitments with our friends in the Gulf -- and rallying friends around the world to confront this danger before it is too late," he said.
Bush, who flew into Riyadh from Dubai and was embraced by King Abdullah at the airport, also charged that the Islamic republic was "today the world's leading state sponsor of terror".
The US leader landed just hours after French President Nicolas Sarkozy -- who has offered to share civilian nuclear technlogy with Muslim countries -- wrapped up a visit to Saudi Arabia, the world's biggest oil producer.
. . .
But diplomats said the US and Saudi leaders face "difficult talks" both on Iran and the Middle East conflict.
While Sunni-ruled Saudi Arabia has voiced concern over the rise of Shiite Iran, it is opposed to another war after the 2003 US-led invasion of Iraq that has strengthened the Islamic regime in Tehran.
Tensions between Washington and Tehran -- already high over Iran's controversial nuclear programme -- escalated shortly before Bush headed to the region over a confrontation in the strategic Strait of Hormuz between Iranian speedboats and US warships.
Israel also ratcheted up the rhetoric against Tehran over its nuclear drive on Monday, with Prime Minister Ehud Olmert warning: "We are not ruling out any option."
Iran lashed out at Bush's speech, saying regional ties would hold strong and the remarks smacked of desperation.
"The declarations of Bush show the desperation and sense of failure in the last months of his presidency," said foreign ministry spokesman Mohammad Ali Hosseini.
Saudi Arabia itself has called for restraint, with Foreign Minister Foreign Minister Prince Saud al-Faisal saying: "We are keen that harmony and peace should prevail among states of the region."
Iran and the international community have been at loggerheads for several years over its nuclear drive, which Washington suspects is a cover for ambitions to build atomic weapons -- a charge Tehran denies.
The continuing high oil price was also likely to be on the agenda of Bush's talks with the king having already featured in his talks with other Gulf oil producers.
"There has been discussions of oil and energy along with other issues that have come up in these talks," Bush counsellor Ed Gillespie told reporters.
"They talked about the nature of the market and the vast demand that's on the world market today for oil."
On the lucrative but sensitive arms front, the Bush administration unveiled its planned 20-billion-dollar deal with the Gulf last July. The notification kicks off a 30-day period during which Congress can raise objections.
The deal, which includes satellite-guided weaponry and high-tech munitions, has alarmed Israel and some US Congressmen, especially as Saudi Arabia refuses to recognise the Jewish state.
The administration, which has also announced a 30-billion-dollar military aid pact with Israel, argues the deal with the Saudis is needed to counter the perceived threat from Iran.
A senior US official said Bush will court Riyadh's diplomatic influence and financial muscle which "could make an enormous difference in places like the Palestinian territories, Lebanon, Iraq, Afghanistan and other locations."
Bush and Abdullah are also expected to discuss efforts to combat terrorism, with the US administration believing its ally -- the homeland of Al-Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden -- still has "more to do".
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Posted: Mon Jan 14, 2008 9:53 pm Post subject: Re: Iran- Latest News
seahorse2 the only problem is that almost all the potential future presidents have more or less the same view as the current one esspecially McCain, they don't talk that much about when they're asked they usually side with Bush
the good news is that Lieberman is not running if he did and won the war with Iran would happen a week after his oath
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Posted: Tue Jan 15, 2008 3:17 pm Post subject: Re: Iran- Latest News
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thus sanity would prevail regarding Iran.
...except the US military (especially the Navy) has been building up more and more in the region, so even though the political noise has died down somewhat, the probability was high for an escalation of brinkmanship. The recent encounter should be no surprise to any of us. The Bush visit and ongoing rhetoric can only exacerbate the situation.
Posted: Sun Jan 20, 2008 7:36 pm Post subject: Re: Iran- Latest News
Why?
HydroCarbonMan wrote:
Sooner or later, Iran will need to change their government. By force or within.....There is no other way.
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This is interesting, bc in previous articles posted, Israeli officials were quoted as saying they would not allow Iran to get "eyes in the sky" which could be used to detect an Israeli first strike against Iran.
Posted: Tue Feb 05, 2008 7:12 pm Post subject: Re: Iran- Latest News
It's odd. I just assumed that the neocons in both Israel and the U.S couldn't go after Iran, as much as they'd like to. Figured it was a non issue. But it looks like Israel may be thinking of actually taking it on, in which case, the US would join in? I think they're crazy enough to join in a blitz to take out vital infrastructure. I dunno. Seems like they're setting up.
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Posted: Wed Feb 06, 2008 4:49 pm Post subject: Re: Iran- Latest News
How long do those cables take to repair?
Might give us a timeline to consider what could be done before the repairs are put into effect.
Personally I find the liklihood of that much "coincidental" damage to be low, so it is either attempt to delay the oil burse or to damage communications while something sneaky is done.
Posted: Thu Feb 07, 2008 12:55 pm Post subject: Re: Iran- Latest News
Iran has developed advanced centrifuges.
This ought to go over well.
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By GEORGE JAHN, Associated Press Writer 53 minutes ago
VIENNA, Austria - Iran has developed its own version of an advanced centrifuge that churns out fissile material much faster than other machines and has started testing them, diplomats and experts said Thursday.
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Few of the IR-2 centrifuges were operating and testing appeared to be in an early phase.
The machines were rotating without processing any of the uranium gas that can either be used to generate electricity or provide the fissile core of nuclear warheads, depending on the level of enrichment, according to diplomats who spoke on condition of anonymity because their information was confidential.
More significant, said those with knowledge of the issue, was the fact that Tehran has appeared to combine know-how and equipment bought on the nuclear black market with domestic ingenuity to overcome daunting technical difficulties and create advanced machines that reflect a high level of nuclear development.
Iran is under two sets of U.N. Security Council sanctions for refusing to scrap its uranium enrichment program, which it started developing during nearly two decades of covert nuclear activity built on illicit purchases and revealed only five years ago.
The council demands to freeze enrichment were prompted by concerns that it could be used to make nuclear weapons because of eroding confidence prompted by the secret nature of Iran's activities, including experiments that could be linked to the manufacture of such arms.
But Tehran insists it wants to enrich only to create fuel for a future generation of reactors and insists it will expand the program instead of freezing it.
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