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Re: Iran Nuclear Standoff

#1101 Postby cycloneye » Wed Dec 02, 2009 11:54 am

Israel cant do a ".... thing" against us

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Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said there isn't a "damn thing" Israel can do to stop its nuclear program, Reuters reported.

"The Zionist regime (Israel) and its (western) backers cannot do a damn thing to stop Iran's nuclear work," Ahmadinejad said in a televised speech, according to Reuters.

Iran said Wednesday it will enrich uranium to a higher level on its own, the latest indication the country was rejecting a U.N.-backed proposal aimed at thwarting any effort by Tehran to make material for a nuclear weapon.

President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad made the comment after expressing frustration with the ongoing negotiations over the proposal that Iran exchange the bulk of its low-enriched uranium for more highly enriched fuel rods to be used in a medical research nuclear reactor.
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#1102 Postby Derek Ortt » Sun Dec 13, 2009 10:26 am

http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/asiapcf/1 ... index.html

why is it likely that the final destination was IRAN?
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#1103 Postby x-y-no » Sun Dec 13, 2009 10:45 am

Derek Ortt wrote:http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/asiapcf/12/13/thai.plane.nkorea/index.html

why is it likely that the final destination was IRAN?


It's unclear to me why Iran would be buying RPGs and shoulder-launched missiles from North Korea. They make their own, as well as having acquired a lot of genuine Russian stock over the years.

On the other hand, the "tubes that may be missile components" sounds like something they'd be looking to acquire, so who knows maybe this was bound for Iran.

My other theory of where this might have been bound is Pakistan - to ISI elements supporting the Taliban.
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#1104 Postby cycloneye » Wed Dec 16, 2009 5:50 am

Iran Tests-Fires Long Range Missile

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TEHRAN — Iran said Wednesday it has successfully tested what it called an upgraded version of its longest-range, solid-fuel missile.

State television broke the news in a one-sentence report that gave no details on the test of the Sajjil-2 missile, a high-speed, surface-to-surface missile with a range of about 1,200 miles.

That range places Israel, Iran's sworn enemy, well within reach and reaches as far away as southeastern Europe with greater precision than earlier models.
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#1105 Postby brunota2003 » Wed Dec 16, 2009 9:22 pm

How long before Iran has a test fire that "goes off course"?
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#1106 Postby vbhoutex » Wed Dec 16, 2009 11:29 pm

brunota2003 wrote:How long before Iran has a test fire that "goes off course"?
I still don't think we will get to find out that answer. If Israel doesn't do something soon I will be surprised.
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#1107 Postby srainhoutx » Thu Dec 17, 2009 12:40 am

U.S. to test missile shield vs. Iran-style strike

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States will test its core missile defenses for the first time in January against a simulated long-range Iranian attack, a top Pentagon official said on Monday, amid tensions with Tehran.

Speaking at the Reuters Aerospace and Defense Summit in Washington, Army Lieutenant General Patrick O'Reilly, the head of the Missile Defense Agency, said the roughly $150 million test was a departure from the more standard scenario of a North Korean attack.

It also would be more difficult testing the U.S. Ground-based Midcourse Defense (GMD) system against a missile that would be faster and more direct as it races toward the United States than a simulated strike from North Korea.

"Previously, we have been testing the GMD system against a North Korean-type scenario," O'Reilly said.

"This next test ... is more of a head-on shot like you would use defending against an Iranian shot into the United States. So that's the first time that we're now testing in a different scenario."

His comments came the same day that diplomats disclosed concerns among intelligence agencies that Iran tested a key atomic bomb component as recently as 2007. The finding, if proven true, would clash with Iran's assertion that its nuclear work is for civilian use.

The test would fire an interceptor missile from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California at a simulated incoming missile, launched from the Marshall Islands in the Pacific Ocean. An aide to O'Reilly estimated the cost at about $150 million.

Experts compare the simulation to a bullet hitting another bullet in space. O'Reilly said the goal was to destroy the target over the north central Pacific when the missiles had a combined closing speed of more than 17,000 miles per hour.

"Whenever we have a situation where we're taking on a missile more head on than from the side, that increases the challenges," O'Reilly said.

RUSSIA, JAPAN

U.S. President Barack Obama revamped the U.S. missile defense strategy for Europe in September to focus more on Iranian short- and medium-range missiles.

"The development of that (Iranian) long-range threat has been slower than what was originally estimated, and the pace of the medium-range missiles is dramatically higher," he said.

Obama's revamp may clear the way for collaboration with Russia, which had fiercely opposed a Bush-era plan to put ground-based interceptors in Poland and a related radar system in the Czech Republic.

O'Reilly said Washington and Moscow were in regular contact to exchange ideas on possible collaboration.

"We've proposed a large number of ideas, starting with sharing data from their sensors and our sensors, moving all the way to cooperative development, cooperative testing and so forth," he said.

"So they have expressed an interest, and shown it through subsequent technical working group meetings."

Turning to Japan, O'Reilly said that the new Japanese government had reaffirmed its commitment, in talks with him last month in Tokyo, to develop the next generation of SM-3 interceptors.

Boeing Co is the prime contractor for the GMD and Raytheon is the prime contractor for the SM-3.

"I just recently returned from a joint review with the Japanese. We are committed to that program and they have expressed that they remained committed," he said.

He said the new SM-3 missile would be about twice the weight and twice the range of the previous generation.

"And there are obviously opportunities for follow-on. But right now we agreed we are focused on the development to ensure that is successful first," he said


http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE5BE0B020091215
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#1108 Postby x-y-no » Thu Dec 17, 2009 10:22 am

Huh??

It also would be more difficult testing the U.S. Ground-based Midcourse Defense (GMD) system against a missile that would be faster and more direct as it races toward the United States than a simulated strike from North Korea.

"Previously, we have been testing the GMD system against a North Korean-type scenario," O'Reilly said.

"This next test ... is more of a head-on shot like you would use defending against an Iranian shot into the United States. So that's the first time that we're now testing in a different scenario."


What's this nonsense? Their longest range missile doesn't even remotely have the range to reach the United States.
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#1109 Postby Cryomaniac » Fri Dec 18, 2009 7:43 pm

Iran troops 'seize Iraq oil well'


Iranian troops have entered southern Iraqi territory and taken control of an oil well, reports say.

An Iraqi official played down the incident, saying the area was abandoned and right on a disputed border section.

Iranian soldiers crossed the border and raised an Iranian flag over the Fakkah oil field, a US military spokesman told the AFP news agency.

But an Iranian oil company spokesman denied the accusation, saying no troops had taken control of any oil well.

"The company denies Iranian soldiers taking control of any oil well inside Iraqi territory," the National Iranian Oil Company spokesman was quoted as saying by Iranian media.

Confirmation

Iraq's Deputy Interior Minister confirmed the Iranians stayed in Iraq and were in control of the well.

Earlier it was reported that they had withdrawn back across the border.

Deputy Interior Minister Ahmed Ali al-Khafaji initially told the Reuters news agency the reports of the Iranian incursion were not true.

But Mr Khafaji later confirmed the incursion had taken place, and said 11 Iranians had dug-in at the oil well and had not left.

"At 3:30 this afternoon, 11 Iranian soldiers infiltrated the Iran-Iraq border and took control of the oil well. They raised the Iranian flag, and they are still there until this moment," he told the Reuters news agency.

He said there had been no military response from Iraqi forces..

"We are awaiting orders from our leader," he said.

The incursion is one of several that have occurred in the last few days, he said.

The well is about 500m from an Iranian border fort and about 1km from an Iraqi fort, US Colonel Peter Newell told AFP.


Interesting development.
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Re: Iran Nuclear Standoff

#1110 Postby cycloneye » Fri Dec 18, 2009 7:50 pm

Iran / Iraq war part 2?
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Re: Iran Nuclear Standoff

#1111 Postby cycloneye » Sun Dec 20, 2009 11:45 am

The standoff between Iran and Iraq is still unresolved although the Iranians came out of the oil well.

http://edition.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/meast ... index.html
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Re: Iran Nuclear Standoff

#1112 Postby cycloneye » Mon Dec 21, 2009 10:55 am

Clock is ticking for Iran

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2009/12/ ... ?tag=stack

Tic,toc,tic,toc It means when the ball drops at Times Square,the bombs will start to fall in Iran?
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#1113 Postby cycloneye » Tue Dec 22, 2009 6:52 am

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TEHRAN, Iran — Iran's president has dismissed a year-end deadline set by the Obama administration for Tehran to accept a U.N.-drafted deal to swap enriched uranium for nuclear fuel.

The deal aims to diminish Iran's stockpile of enriched uranium, easing the West's fears that the material could be used to produce a nuclear weapon. Iran, which denies it seeks to build a bomb, has balked at the deal's terms.

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad says that "if Iran wanted to make a bomb, we would be brave enough to tell you."

He says the West can give Iran "as many deadlines as they want, we don't care."
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#1114 Postby Derek Ortt » Wed Dec 23, 2009 3:44 pm

and we're not brave enough to stop them from doing what they want
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Re: Iran Nuclear Standoff

#1115 Postby cycloneye » Mon Dec 28, 2009 3:21 pm

Indirectly,the violence in Iran may have an effect on the nuclear standoff if something happens that the ruling people are throne out or killed.Lets follow all of this interesting development inside Iran.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldne ... ehran.html

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#1116 Postby cycloneye » Mon Dec 28, 2009 7:33 pm

Israel says Iran can build nuclear bomb by 2011

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JERUSALEM — Iran will possess the technology to build a nuclear bomb by early 2010 and be able to produce one the following year, Israeli media quoted Israel's defense minister as saying Monday.
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Re: Iran Nuclear Standoff

#1117 Postby cycloneye » Sat Jan 02, 2010 8:37 am

Ultimatum from Iran=Will make its own nuclear fuel

It will take a few years for them to make the bomb if they go with this.But will Israel and the U.S. have the patience to wait?

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,581750,00.html

TEHRAN, Iran — Iran warned on Saturday the West has until the end of the month to accept Tehran's counterproposal to a U.N.-drafted plan on a nuclear exchange, or the country will start producing nuclear fuel on its own.
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#1118 Postby Derek Ortt » Sat Jan 02, 2010 8:01 pm

of course we will have the patience, Luis

if we were serious about stopping this, NK and Iran would have been taken out 6 years ago
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#1119 Postby Cryomaniac » Sun Jan 03, 2010 8:12 am

Derek Ortt wrote:and we're not brave enough to stop them from doing what they want


Israel might be though.
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#1120 Postby Derek Ortt » Tue Jan 05, 2010 3:02 pm

Cryomaniac wrote:
Derek Ortt wrote:and we're not brave enough to stop them from doing what they want


Israel might be though.


they don't have our permission to do anything
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