Monday, March 06, 2006

Iranian IED's

A shipment of bombs has been intercepted by American soldiers on the Iraq-Iran border. The bombs were factory made and had engravings all from the same factory. IED's are the main killer of American troops in Iraq and have proven to become more lethal over the last months. It has been said before that Iran was supplying bombs to insurgents over the border and this will come surely as a hard hit against Iran.
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Russia wont give up

Once again, Russia threw in a last minute proposal to allow Iran to create small amounts of nuclear fuel. Condoleezza Rice quickly announced that America cannot accept that proposal. The game plan now is to get a resolution passed within a week, the Russian proposal will only stall that process. The proposal would stop activity at Natanz but allow for some small scale research to be done never the less.
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Now Turkey?

It now seems Turkey finds a need to posses nuclear power. By 2012, Turkey plans on building 5 nuclear plants. The first at Sinop, by the Black Sea. It has decided to become nuclear to keep with the times. Growing weary over Iran's nuclear ambitions, it doesn't want to be left alone. With a practically equal economy and population Iran and Turkey can be seen as equals and Turkey wants to keep it that way. "Iran with nuclear production will be the dominant power," said Ozdem Sanberk, a former ambassador to Washington who heads the Turkish Economic and Social Studies research group in Istanbul. "There will be an asymmetrical relationship."
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Iran's Gonna be a Killing Field

Gholamali Rashid, deputy head of the armed forces, said the US did not understand how to operate in the Gulf region. "Iran’s armed forces, through their experience of war ...will turn this land into a killing field for any aggressor," the official IRNA news agency quoted him as saying. — Reuters
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Project 111

According to an intelligence report given to Reuters by a non-U.S. diplomat, a covert Iranian program run by people closely linked to Iran's military includes plans to arm its Shahab-3 missiles, which experts believe have a maximum range of around 2,000 km (1,240 miles), with nuclear warheads. The report, which could not be independently confirmed, surfaced as the United States and its allies seek to highlight the potential security dangers of a nuclear-armed Iran. The report said it was code-named Project 111 and that the "aim is arming Shahab-3 missiles with nuclear warheads".
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And also Sorry for the late update, the last update was taken straight word for word from Reuters, and googlfinallyly listed me on there search engine.

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