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Escalation of recent iran activites.
    #8581103 - 06/30/08 05:44 PM (15 years, 8 months ago)

Recent stories have allowed me to believe their could possibly be a conflict with Iran. Look at the recent aggressions between Iran and Israel and the US.


U.S. Is Said to Expand Covert Operations in Iran
Plan Allows Up to $400 Million for Activities Aimed at Destabilizing Government


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The Bush administration told Congress last year of a secret plan to dramatically expand covert operations inside Iran as part of a long-running effort to destabilize the country's ruling regime, according to a report published yesterday.

The plan allowed up to $400 million in covert spending for activities ranging from spying on Iran's nuclear program to supporting rebel groups opposed to the country's ruling clerics, veteran investigative journalist Seymour Hersh reported in the New Yorker magazine.

While the administration has been waging a low-grade covert campaign against Iran for at least three years -- consisting mainly of cross-border raids targeting groups tied to attacks against U.S. forces in Iraq -- the new policy represents a significant expansion, the report contends. The prospect of a broader covert presence inside Iran also has raised concerns among some congressional and military officials about a possible escalation leading to a broader military conflict, it states.



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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/06/29/AR2008062901881.html?hpid=topnews

And to further wrack up tensions Iran sentenced a "Mossad" spy to be executed.

http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5gwbeN3rX1hmkh61NY82ubUzGz98g
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TEHRAN (AFP) — Iran has sentenced to death an Iranian telecoms salesman found guilty of spying for Israel, official media reported on Monday, in a rare move amid spiralling tensions between the archfoes.

"Ali Ashtari, 45, was convicted of being spy for Israel and was sentenced to death by the revolutionary court," the official IRNA news agency reported.

Ashtari was accused of involvement in a plot run by the Israeli secret services to intercept the communications of Iranian officials working in the military and its contested nuclear programme.

He still has time to appeal the verdict with a higher court.

"This is an initial verdict and should receive final approval. The defendant can appeal," the Fars news agency quoted an unnamed intelligence official as saying.

"He fell into the trap of the foreign intelligence services. They took advantage of his situation. They asked him to cooperate and he cooperated," the Mehr news agency quoted an intelligence source as saying.

The verdict comes amid an intensifying war of words between Iran and its regional arch enemy Israel, which has never ruled out military action to halt Iran's nuclear drive which the West fears could be used to make the bomb.




Israel Also accused Syria of planning to supply Iran with spent Nuclear fuel for warheads.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/jun/25/syria.iran

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Israel believes that Syria was planning to supply Iran with spent nuclear fuel for reprocessing into weapons-grade plutonium from the site it bombed last September, and which is currently being inspected by the UN's nuclear watchdog.

The claim from an adviser to Israel's national security council, came yesterday as speculation mounts about a possible Israeli attack on Iran. The Israeli government officially backs UN sanctions to force Tehran to halt its uranium enrichment but has little faith they will succeed.

Details about the alleged Syrian reactor and the Israeli raid remain shrouded in secrecy. Syria denies it has or had a covert nuclear weapons programme and insists the Israelis hit an ordinary military structure being built at al-Kibar, in the country's north-eastern desert.

The US claimed in April that Syria had almost completed the plant with the help of North Korea, which evaded the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) checks and tested a nuclear device in 2006. Officials in Damascus accused the US of fabricating evidence in collusion with Israel, which unlike Syria and Iran is not a signatory to the nuclear non-proliferation treaty and is the Middle East's only nuclear power. Washington did not mention any link to Iran's nuclear ambitions.



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Re: Escalation of recent iran activites. [Re: The_Red_Crayon]
    #8581366 - 06/30/08 06:44 PM (15 years, 8 months ago)

If the Bushite nazis have their way they will most certainly invade Iran before the next election, which needless to say would be catastrophic. It would make Iraq look like a bloodless coup


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Re: Escalation of recent iran activites. [Re: The_Red_Crayon]
    #8581416 - 06/30/08 06:53 PM (15 years, 8 months ago)

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The_Red_Crayon said:
U.S. Is Said to Expand Covert Operations in Iran
Plan Allows Up to $400 Million for Activities Aimed at Destabilizing Government







my government wouldnt do that

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Re: Escalation of recent iran activites. [Re: The_Red_Crayon]
    #8581520 - 06/30/08 07:22 PM (15 years, 8 months ago)

You got less than a half a year. :wink:

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Re: Escalation of recent iran activites. [Re: The_Red_Crayon]
    #8583018 - 07/01/08 05:09 AM (15 years, 8 months ago)

> Recent stories have allowed me to believe their could possibly be a conflict with Iran.

Led you, not allowed you.  The Bush admin is using the media to pressure Iran.


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Re: Escalation of recent iran activites. [Re: Seuss]
    #8583410 - 07/01/08 09:22 AM (15 years, 8 months ago)

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> Recent stories have allowed me to believe their could possibly be a conflict with Iran.

Led you, not allowed you.  The Bush admin is using the media to pressure Iran.




sorry for the syntax, I try to keep it as objective as possible but sometimes I have shitty grammar heh...

You guys dont mind if I use this thread to post any other news stories related to Iran.



Iran to dig 320,000 graves for "foreign enemies"

http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=080629185519.5hi45ii3&show_article=1

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Iran is to dig 320,000 graves in border districts to allow for the burial of enemy soldiers in the event of any attack on its territory, a top commander said on Sunday.
"In implementation of the Geneva Conventions... the necessary measures are being taken to provide for the burial of enemy soldiers," the Mehr news agency quoted General Mir-Faisal Bagherzadeh as saying.

"We have plans to dig 15,000 to 20,000 graves in each of the border provinces or a total of 320,000," the general said, some of them mass graves if necessary.

Bagherzadeh said Iran was keen to "reduce the suffering of the families of the fallen in any attack against our country... and prevent any repetition of the long and bitter experience of the Vietnam War."

His comments came as the United States continued to refuse to rule out an eventual resort to force against Iran over its contested nuclear programme, which the West fears is cover for a drive to build an atomic weapon.

They also came as Israeli officials spoke of their determination to prevent Iran developing a nuclear capability at all costs.

A former head of Israel's Mossad foreign intelligence agency said in comments published on Sunday that the Jewish state had one year to destroy Iran's nuclear programme or face the risk of coming under nuclear attack.

Shabtai Shavit told a London weekly that the "worst-case scenario" was that Tehran would have a nuclear weapon within "somewhere around a year".

"The time that is left to be ready is getting shorter all the time," he told the Sunday Telegraph.

Israel is the only, if undeclared, nuclear armed power in the Middle East.






American Agents might of made an attempt on Ahmadinejads life.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/997946.html

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American agents made an attempt on Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's life during his visit to the UN food summit in Rome last month, Iran's IRNA news agency has reported.

Former Iranian ambassador to Rome said that Ahmadinejad's bodyguards had foiled the American "X-ray plot," whereby the Iranian leader was to be exposed to excessive radiation.

The bodyguards found that the metal detectors installed at the ambassador's residence gave off radiation measuring three times the normal level, the former ambassador said. The three-day summit at the UN Food and Agriculture headquarters in Rome was meant to tackle acute emergencies caused by soaring food prices across the globe, and how to help small farmers in poor countries produce enough food.

Addressing delegates from over 50 countries, Ahmadinejad attacked Western policies as responsible for the growing famine across the world.

Meanwhile on Tuesday, Iran rejected comparison of its nuclear program with that of North Korea.

"The Iranian nuclear program has a peaceful nature and any comparison in this regard is simply wrong," Foreign Ministry spokesman Mohammad-Ali Hosseini said.







Pentagon: Israel can possibly attack Iran this year.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/997920.html

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Senior defense officials in Washington believe that Israel may attack Iran's nuclear facilities before the end of the year, ABC News reported on Tuesday.

A top Pentagon official was quoted in the report as saying there is an "increasing likelihood" that Israel will carry out an attack, leaving Washington concerned that Iran would strike both the United States and Israel in retaliation.

According to the official, two "red lines" would prompt an Israeli strike. The first trigger would be once enough highly enriched uranium is produced at Iran's Natanz nuclear facility to create a nuclear bomb, which U.S. and Israeli assessments predict to occur will the end of this year or next.

The red line is not when they get to that point, but before they get to that point," the official was quoted as saying. "We are in the window of vulnerability."

The second trigger, according to the official, would be linked to Iran's acquisition of the SA-20 air defense system it is purchasing from Russia.

The official said Israel may be likely to attack Iran before the system is put into place and Tehran's deterrence bolstered.


Washington is also concerned that Israel may carry out an attack before the next U.S. president is sworn in, according to the report.

The Israel Air Force carried out a mass drill over the Mediterranean last month, reported in the New York Times as a rehearsal for a possible attack on Iran.

A senior American defense official called the exercise "not a rehearsal, but basic, fundamental training" required for operation against Iran, ABC reported.

"The Israeli air force has already conducted the basic exercise necessary to tell their senior leadership, 'We have the fundamentals down.' Might they need some more training and rehearsals? Yes. But have they done the fundamentals? I think that is what we saw," the official told ABC News.



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Re: Escalation of recent iran activites. [Re: The_Red_Crayon]
    #8583734 - 07/01/08 11:26 AM (15 years, 8 months ago)

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A top Pentagon official was quoted in the report as saying there is an "increasing likelihood" that Israel will carry out an attack, leaving Washington concerned that Iran would strike both the United States and Israel in retaliation.





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Iran is to dig 320,000 graves in border districts to allow for the burial of enemy soldiers in the event of any attack on its territory, a top commander said on Sunday.




I think this video is relevant again.  The question is, can Israel completely and successfully deal with Iran without giving them a chance to attack the U.S. as well?

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&autoplay=1]www.youtube.com/v/8XQan1qo8T4&autoplay=1[/url]


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Re: Escalation of recent iran activites. [Re: The_Red_Crayon]
    #8583894 - 07/01/08 12:24 PM (15 years, 8 months ago)

Wow, the reporting is just about a year behind the actual increase in operations.

Should be interesting to see what happens now that the word is actually out.


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Re: Escalation of recent iran activites. [Re: Crasher]
    #8588609 - 07/02/08 05:51 PM (15 years, 8 months ago)

Iran increases its rhetoric



Iran warns about attack, refers to nuclear 'solution'

http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5itkGKSQz6-GIUMZEl9DGWzQ4OA5Q

MADRID (AFP) — Iran warned Wednesday of a fierce response and radically higher oil prices if the country were attacked, but also signaled possible progress in its five-year nuclear standoff with the West.

"Iran, if there were any kind of activity of any sort, is not going to be quiet and would react fiercely," Iranian Oil Minister Gholam Hossein Nozari said here when asked what Tehran would do in the event of an attack.

He added that oil prices, which have been driven to record levels partly because of fear about the loss of Iran's 4.0-million-barrel-a-day output, would rise radically if Israel or the United States launched a military strike.

His comments on the sidelines of an oil conference here came as Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki raised hopes of arriving at a negotiated "multi-faceted solution" to the nuclear stalemate.

"We see the possibility of arriving at a multi-faceted solution," Mottaki told a press conference at the United Nations, commenting on a revised package of economic and energy incentives.

He earlier told US media that "a new process" was underway after six world powers presented Iran with a package of measures to end the deadlock last month, according to Iran's state-run IRNA news agency.

The White House expressed scepticism but Mottaki's statement was more positively received in Brussels, where EU foreign policy chief Javier Solana described it as "interesting."

Six world powers last month came up with a solution for ending the crisis, offering technological incentives in exchange for Tehran suspending uranium enrichment, which the West fears could be used to make an atomic bomb.

Iran has unveiled its own package, which is a more all-embracing effort to solve global problems and suggests the setting up of a consortium in Iran for enriching uranium.

Referring to the package presented by Solana, Mottaki said examination of it would soon enter "the final stage."

Meanwhile, there has been a surge in recent speculation that Israel might be planning a military strike against Iran's nuclear sites after it emerged that Israeli fighter planes had carried out practice runs.

But recent reports in Western media have also suggested that Tehran is ready to adopt a softer line and may be prepared to offer concessions.

The foreign policy advisor to Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said on Tuesday it would be in Iran's interest to accept the proposed package and warned against provocative remarks that could destabilise the situation.

No Iranian official has suggested in the past months that Tehran is ready to give any ground on the key question of enrichment, however, which Iran must suspend in order to enter the talks offered by the world powers.

President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad repeatedly has vowed that Iran will never halt enrichment operations and Khamenei himself has said many times over the past years that Tehran will not back down.

Iran insists its atomic drive is entirely peaceful and it needs nuclear energy for a growing population whose fossil fuels will eventually run out.

US President George W. Bush again stressed on Wednesday that military action was possible despite his preference for diplomacy.

"I have always said that all options are on the table but the first option for the United States is to solve this problem diplomatically," Bush told reporters in the White House Rose Garden.


Top US military chiefs warned meanwhile that opening up a third front against Iran in addition to Iraq and Afghanistan would be "extremely stressful."

The United States and its regional ally Israel have never ruled out military strikes to end what they see as Tehran's defiance, but analysts expressed concern that Iran would cease crude exports and could block key Gulf oil shipping routes if attacked.

Benchmark oil prices traded at about 141 dollars per barrel in London and New York on Wednesday after striking a record above 143 dollars last week.

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Re: Escalation of recent iran activites. [Re: The_Red_Crayon]
    #8588847 - 07/02/08 07:00 PM (15 years, 8 months ago)

Political destabilization of Iran by America has been going on for much of the past half century.


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