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 Posted: Wed Nov 19, 2008 11:47 pm Post subject: Israeli General - 'All Options Are on the Table' |
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1) Israeli Air Force Major General: 'All Options Are on the Table'
2) Israeli Leaders Warn of Iran
3) Military action against Iran: The Iranian perspective
4) Address by President Peres to the British Parliament
http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/0,1518,druck-590805,00.html
excerpt from [b]'All Options Are on the Table'[/b]
by Christoph Schult, Spiegel Online, 17 November 2008
[quote]In order to stop Tehran from developing a nuclear bomb, the Israeli army is preparing itself for a possible military strike on Iran. "We are ready to do whatever is demanded of us," Israeli Air Force Major General Ido Nehushtan tells SPIEGEL in an exclusive interview.[/quote]
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[url]http://www.ujc.org/blog_post.aspx?id=721[/url]
[b]Israeli Leaders Warn of Iran[/b]
United Jewish Communities, 17 November 2008
[quote]For several years, including at the 2006 GA in Los Angeles, Israeli leaders have warned about the dangers of a nuclear Iran. The issue remains very much Topic A in Israel, and both Prime Minister Ehud Olmert and President Shimon Peres focused on it during their plenary speeches.
"Iran has not terminated its pursuit of nuclear weapons.Iran has not ceased its funding and training of terrorists in Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, the Palestinian Authority and around the world. Iran has not stopped its pursuit of regional hegemony and creating chaos in this tormented region," Olmert said.
We must unite our forces, as part of the international community, led by the United States of America; We must confront Iran's malevolent diligence and thwart it with greater force."
Peres, meanwhile, said Iran is a danger not only because of its nuclear development and long-range missiles, but for its "ambitions. Iran is the only country in the world with imperial ambitions," he said.[/quote]
[url]http://www.inss.org.il/upload/(FILE)1226473779.pdf[/url]
[b]Military action against Iran: The Iranian perspective[/b]
by Ephraim Kam, INSS, November 2008
[url]http://www.mfa.gov.il/MFA/Government/Speeches+by+Israeli+leaders/ 2008/Peres-address-to-British-parliament-19-Nov-208.htm[/url]
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[b]Address by the President of the State of Israel to the British Parliament, on the occasion of his visit to the U.K.[/b]
19 November 2008
[quote]Hezbollah is stubbornly belligerent. And the Iranian leadership is obsessed with its quest for regional religious domination. This quest is supported by long range missiles, enriched uranium and fanatic incitement – all fueled by the excessive price of oil. The Iranian leadership's grand design is to convert the Middle East from a region of nations into one religious bloc.
They attempt to impose their version on everyone. Whoever disagrees is deemed a heretic and is doomed to disappear.
The conflict in the Middle East serves as fertile ground for Ahmedinejad.
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There is a need for a joint effort to stop the Iranian threat. To answer fear with hope. The moderate Arab leaders feel that ending the conflict must come before the conflict may bring an end to the Middle East. The international community should prevent Iran from shattering the already fragile stability in the region.
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We are not at war with the Iranian people. It is the Iranian leadership that calls for war against us – non-Muslims and Muslims who refuse to adhere to their attempt to gain hegemony.
On one hand, we see how Iranian radicalism thrives on the division of the international community and the disproportionate cost of oil. It permits them to invest fortunes in weapons of mass destruction in spite of their feeble economy.
This Iranian policy is a grave danger to world security. The way to confront it now is an economic strategy that will value development and punish belligerency.[/quote]
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| Posted: Thu Nov 20, 2008 1:54 am Post subject: 'Don't be a launch pad for war', says Iranian General |
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http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=75861§ionid=351020101
excerpt from Don't be a launch pad for war
Press TV, 19 November 2008
| Quote: | A senior Iranian official has warned that any country that acts as a launch pad for a war against Iran will face retaliation.
Iran will take "retaliatory measures" against countries that allow the US to use their territory as a launch pad for a war against Iran, the Mehr News Agency quoted Brig. Gen Massoud Jazayeri as saying.
"The US bases in the Middle East are a threat to regional countries," he noted.
"But we have taken the necessary military measures so that the US will not be able to launch an attack on Iran from any of its bases in the Middle East," Jazayeri stated.
Pointing to the still unfinalized Status of Forces Agreement (SOFA) between Iraq and the US, he said, "We consider any presence of foreign troops in the region to be a threat."
He also called on Middle Eastern countries to unite in their efforts to establish security in the region so that foreign countries will have no excuse to continue their military presence in the region. |
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| Posted: Fri Nov 21, 2008 3:48 pm Post subject: Times: Prospect of Israeli strike in Iran more likely |
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http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/us_and_americas/article520 1621.ece
excerpts from 'Bush and Olmert to meet over Iran's nuclear ambitions'
by Tom Baldwin, Times, 21 November 2008
| Quote: | President Bush is to hold White House talks with the Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert on Monday after publication of a nuclear watchdog's report this week showing that Iran may have stockpiled enough enriched uranium to make a nuclear bomb.
The International Atomic Energy Agency believes that Iran has amassed 630kg of low enriched uranium, up from 480kg in late August.
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Intelligence sources have told The Times that the prospect of Israel taking preemptive military action to knock out Iran's nuclear facilities appears to have become significantly more likely in recent weeks. Such an operation would require at least tacit US cooperation because it would almost certainly involve Israeli warplanes flying through US-controlled airspace in Iraq. |
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* related link:
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/middle_east/article5200151 .ece
Military analysts: Iran 'has enough material for atomic bomb'
by Hannah Strange, Times, 20 November 2008 |
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| Posted: Fri Nov 21, 2008 7:20 pm Post subject: Israel sells arms to its own enemies |
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‘Israel sells arms to its own enemies’ – newspaper
November 20, 2008, 15:39
Israeli weapon trading companies had been holding negotiations and selling arms to a whole row of Arab countries defined as ‘enemies’ by Israeli law – such as Iraq, Libya and Yemen. Moreover, the move was coordinated and approved by the country’s Defence Ministry, Israel’s daily newspaper Haaretz says.
Connected to this is a decision by a Tel Aviv district court to close a criminal case launched in 2006 against Shlomi Michaels, whose Kurdistan Organisation for Downstream Operations (KODO) was suspected of selling arms to Kurdish militants in Iraq. Israeli Attorney General Menahem Mazuz approved the court’s decision to close the case against Michaels, Haaretz points out.
Michaels, a former member of Israel’s elite Yamam police unit, emigrated to the U.S. and established KODO there. He is known as one of the main partners of Kurdish authorities. The investigation started after information appeared that KODO was supplying Israeli-made defence equipment and providing military instruction services to Kurds in northern Iraq. Moreover, Danny Yatom, the former head of Mossad, Israel’s national security service, was a co-owner of KODO.
The investigation against him, though, was senseless, a police representative said, as Yatom broke off his relations with KODO in 2002 when he became a member of the Knesset, Israel's legislative body, which was before KODO started its negotiations with Iraq.
It was first suspected that KODO hadn’t the necessary permits from Israel’s Defence Ministry, but it turned out that then Defence Ministry Director-General Amos Yaron had given his verbal approval.........
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| Posted: Fri Nov 21, 2008 7:51 pm Post subject: typical albright nonsense |
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Progress toward a break-out nuclear weapons capability
A key benchmark of enrichment progress is when Iran accumulates enough low enriched uranium to have a capability to produce quickly enough weapon-grade uranium for a nuclear weapon. In this case, Iran would use the LEU as feed into its cascades, dramatically shortening the time to produce weapon-grade uranium. Other ISIS-generated reports have discussed this issue in more detail.1 Achieving this benchmark is bound to increase tensions between the United States and Iran, and Iran and Israel, over when it could build nuclear weapons...
http://www.isis-online.org/publications/iran/ISIS_analysis_Nov-IAEA-Re port.pdf
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| Posted: Sun Nov 23, 2008 11:20 am Post subject: Iranian Commander: Bush's Iran War Plan Delivered to Obama |
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http://english.farsnews.com/newstext.php?nn=8709020565
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Iranian Commander: Bush's Iran War Plan Delivered to Obama
Fars News Agency, 22 November 2008
| Quote: | Addressing a meeting to mark the start of the Week of Basij (mobilization of volunteer forces), lieutenant commander of the General Staff of Iran's Armed Forces Major General Gholam-Ali Rasheed said that US President George Bush has established the infrastructures required in the region for posing a threat to Iran.
"The United States' threats have now found a structural form. They have done the planning for reaching the necessary preparedness to wage a war (against Iran) through setting up military bases, holding (security) pacts, etc.," he said.
The General viewed "northwestern and southeastern Iran as well as the southwestern province of Khuzestan as vulnerable points" the US forces are likely to use if they want to invade Iran, and underlined that the aforementioned areas should become invulnerable within the next one year.
He further urged military officials to leave war rhetoric and expression of foreign policy views to politicians and "accelerate measures to boost Iran's deterrent power".
Considering that the country is now under threat, he said, we should consider measures to prevent entering the stage of actual war.
US forces attacked a Syrian village near the borders with Iraq on October 26, and the raid on Sukkariyah, which took place almost simultaneously with an air raid on a Pakistani village, has raised speculation about the likelihood of similar unilateral strikes by the US troops on other regional states, including the Islamic Republic.
Speculation that Israel could also bomb Iran mounted after a big Israeli air drill in June. In the first week of June, 100 Israeli F-16 and F-15 fighters reportedly took part in an exercise over the eastern Mediterranean and Greece, which was interpreted as a dress rehearsal for a possible attack on Iran's nuclear installations.
Israel and its close ally the United States accuse Iran of seeking a nuclear weapon, while they have never presented any corroborative document to substantiate their allegations. Both Washington and Tel Aviv possess advanced weapons of mass destruction, including nuclear warheads. |
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| Posted: Sun Nov 23, 2008 11:40 am Post subject: Iran would punish Israel partners in war |
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http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=76260§ionid=351020104
Iran would punish Israel partners in war
Press TV, 22 November 2008
A top Iranian commander says Iran will retaliate against any country that would aid and abet a potential strike against Iranian interests.
| Quote: | Brigadier General Seyyed Mohammad Hejazi, the Chairman of the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) Joint Chiefs of Staff, said Saturday that Iran has drawn up plans to take retaliatory measures against potential aggressors and their accomplices.
This comes as Israeli echelons have stepped up their efforts to portray Iran as an international threat, claiming that the country seeks nuclear weaponry.
Tehran, a signatory to the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) denies the Israeli claim, insisting that its enrichment program is solely directed at the civilian applications of the technology.
While maintaining that a nuclear Iran would pose an existential threat to Tel Aviv, Israeli officials argue that the use of military force is a legitimate option in halting Iran's nuclear progress.
Since the historic victory of Barack Obama in the US presidential election, Tehran has seen an explicit increase in Israeli threats against its nuclear program.
Commander of Israeli Air Force (IAF) General, Ido Nehushtan, has said in a recent interview that his forces are 'ready' to attack Iran's nuclear sites whenever Tel Aviv gives a green light.
A senior politician and former top Israeli military official, Lieutenant General Moshe Ya'alon, declared last week that an attack on Iran would be in line with efforts to overthrow the Tehran government.
Iran, in response, has warned that should any of its national interests come under attack by either the US or Israel, its armed forces would target Israel and American bases in the region.
In a show of power, the Iranian military has recently test-fired its medium- and long-range missiles -- such as the advanced Shahab-3 and the newly-tested Sejjil missile.
On Saturday, Brig. Gen. Hejazi said in spite of a ballistic response, Iran, in times of war, would become 'an even bigger quagmire' than Iraq and Afghanistan for the US.
For Washington to assist Tel Aviv in a war against Tehran, its forces would have to use territories of the two US-occupied countries or Bahrain -- where the US 5th Fleet is stationed.
"We have ensured that if any harm is inflicted on Iran, anyone who assists the aggressor will suffer hurtful retribution," warned Jazayeri.
The Iranian general also claimed that the IRGC naval forces are capable of destroying US warships in the Persian Gulf and Strait of Hormuz -- if the White House envisions a new military conflict in the oil-rich region. |
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| Posted: Sun Nov 23, 2008 7:12 pm Post subject: UK Foreign Minister Miliband: Iran threatens global order |
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http://www.fco.gov.uk/en/newsroom/latest-news/?view=Speech&id=9505008
excerpt from:
Foundations of Freedom: the Promise of the New Multilateralism
by UK Foreign Minister David Miliband, 21 November 2008
Foreign Secretary David Miliband delivered a speech on the importance of the spread of democratic values throughout the world entitled 'Foundations of Freedom: the Promise of the New Multilateralism'.
| Quote: | | In the next year, the most pressing threat to global order, one in which EU action is vital, comes from the actions of Iran. Its refusal to address the international community's concerns about its pursuit of nuclear enrichment threatens to spark a nuclear arms race throughout the Middle East. Others, such as Egypt, Saudi Arabia and Turkey might feel forced to recalculate whether nuclear weapons were essential to protect their interests. |
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what concerns me is that Bush is going to have to act quickly before his Whitehouse tenure ends. Its getting a bit to close to Obamas start to perhaps have another false flag.
You have to sit back with your head in your hands and weep that this world is governed by such morons.
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| Posted: Mon Nov 24, 2008 9:46 pm Post subject: UK Foreign Minister David Miliband's speech in Abu Dhabi |
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http://www.fco.gov.uk/en/newsroom/latest-news/?view=Speech&id=9633162
excerpt from 'Partnership in the Middle East, with the Middle East'
by UK Foreign Secretary, David Miliband, 24 November 2008
Foreign Secretary, David Miliband, delivered a speech in Abu Dhabi at the Emirates Centre for Strategic Studies and Research.
| Quote: | I remain convinced that the prospect of a nuclear-armed Iran poses the most immediate threat to the stability of this region.
When I talk to Arab leaders, journalists or academics, they invariably raise their concerns about Iranian influence and activities. Iraqis complain about Iranian support for the Special Groups who have been responsible for much violence against other Iraqis as well as against multi-national forces. Afghans voice concerns about the assistance Tehran provides to the Taleban. Then there is its political, financial and military support for Hezbollah, as well as Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad who are determined to frustrate efforts to achieve a comprehensive peace between Israel and Palestine. And the wholly unacceptable comments from Iran's President about Israel.
A nuclear armed Iran would be a decisive blow against those seeking to promote pragmatic and peaceful solutions to the regions problems. The consequent nuclear arms race would be very dangerous. The acquisition of a nuclear weapon would strengthen Tehran's regional position, injecting its attempts to stoke up division and promote instability with much greater confidence.
The pressure we are applying to Iran, the sanctions we have supported in both the EU and the UN, are not an attempt at regime change. And nor are they a precursor to military action. We are 100% committed to a diplomatic resolution of this dispute. |
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| Posted: Mon Nov 24, 2008 9:48 pm Post subject: Britain and France step up pressure on Iran |
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http://us.ft.com/ftgateway/superpage.ft?news_id=fto112320082030013878
excerpt from 'Britain and France step up pressure on Iran'
by James Blitz and Daniel Dombey, Financial Times, 24 November 2008
| Quote: | Britain and France are seeking to persuade financial and energy companies to stop doing business with Iran in what officials say is an attempt to increase pressure on Tehran's nuclear programme.
The move by London and Paris focuses on companies involved in three key sectors in the Iranian economy - banking and insurance, oil refining and liquefied natural gas - and is at the heart of a new international strategy to increase leverage on Tehran through informal means.
As the dispute deepens, with a United Nations report last week indicating that Tehran is building up a stockpile of enriched uranium, London and Paris are looking to use "moral suasion" to persuade companies not to sell much-needed equipment and services to the Islamic republic.
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cem
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| Posted: Wed Nov 26, 2008 2:40 am Post subject: Olmert wins US backing for Iran war |
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http://www.presstv.com/detail.aspx?id=76534§ionid=351020104
Olmert wins US backing for Iran war
Press TV, 25 November 2008
| Quote: | Ehud Olmert, the outgoing premier, said Tuesday that he had extensively discussed Iran and its nuclear program with "Vice President Dick Cheney, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and the (US) president".
"There is a basic, deep understanding about the Iranian threat and the need to act in order to remove the threat," Olmert told reporters. |
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| Posted: Thu Nov 27, 2008 12:33 pm Post subject: Iran summons British envoy over Miliband nuclear comments |
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http://www.iranvnc.com/txt/en/article/1/6186
Iran summons British envoy over Miliband nuclear comments
Iran Visual News Corps, 26 November 2008
| Quote: | Iran's Foreign Ministry today summoned Jeffrey Adams, Britain's ambassador in Tehran, to protest at what it called "aggressive and provocative" comments by UK Foreign Secretary David Miliband, who had warned on Monday that a nuclear-armed Iran might eventually lead to a regional "nuclear arms race".
Yesterday, the Iranian embassy in Abu Dhabi, the capital of the United Arab Emirates [UAE], also issued a statement criticizing Miliband's remarks and saying that Britain "had no authority to judge" Iran's "peaceful" nuclear program.
Speaking at the Emirates Center for Strategic Studies and Research [ECSSR] in Abu Dhabi on Monday, Miliband said: "A nuclear armed Iran would be a decisive blow against those seeking to promote pragmatic and peaceful solutions to the region's problems. The consequent nuclear arms race would be very dangerous," the Financial Times reported.
However, Miliband also stressed that Britain was committed to a diplomatic solution to the standoff over Iran's nuclear dossier.
"The pressure we are applying to Iran, the sanctions we have supported in both the EU and the UN, are not an attempt at regime change. And nor are they a precursor to military action. We are 100 percent committed to a diplomatic resolution of this dispute. We will work closely with the new US administration on this issue," the BBC quoted him as saying.
Iran's embassy in Abu Dhabi responded to these comments by linking Miliband's words to support for Israel and by saying that only a "handful of countries" are questioning the peaceful nature of Iran's nuclear program.
The Iranian statement then warned Britain against creating divisions in the region.
"A few countries have always tried to question the peaceful nature of Iran's nuclear program by bringing up ambiguities and baseless claims," argued the statement published today by the conservative Fars News Agency. "Britain, which is one of the main supporters of [Israel] - itself a nuclear armed country - has no authority to judge Iran's peaceful nuclear program."
The statement concluded by saying: "The English government should change its failed policy of creating divisions among regional countries through enmity and differences."
Yesterday, Iran's Foreign Ministry spokesperson responded to Miliband's comments, saying: "If Miliband himself conducts an opinion poll inside England, [he will find that] they themselves view Israel as a threat," Iran's semi-official ISNA news agency reported. |
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| Posted: Thu Nov 27, 2008 12:42 pm Post subject: Israel may attack Iran via Turkey |
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http://www.hurriyet.com.tr/english/domestic/10449233.asp?gid=244
'Israel may attack Iran via Turkey'
by Ümit Enginsoy, Hurriyet, 27 November 2008
| Quote: | If Israel were to attack Iran's alleged nuclear weapons facilities, its bomber aircraft would most likely fly through Turkish air space, a prominent neo-conservative U.S. columnist has said.
"The Israelis would not attack over Iraq. The way to go is through Turkey," Charles Krauthammer, a syndicated columnist who writes for the Washington Post and some other publications, said on the political panel "Inside Washington" on WJLA TV in Washington DC. The program was broadcast Sunday.
He was asked if Israeli aircraft would have to fly through Iraqi air space in the event of an air attack inside Iranian territory. Krauthammer claimed that when Israeli fighter-bomber jets attacked and destroyed a suspected nuclear installation in Syria on Sept. 6 last year, they used Turkish air space on the way.
"When Israel attacked the reactor in Syria, it went up the Mediterranean and through Turkish air space," he said.
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