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Pentagon backs massive missile sale to Turkey
Washington: The Pentagon has told US lawmakers it is ready to sell Turkey a 7.8-billion-dollar Patriot missile system, a move designed to bolster its only NATO ally which borders Iran. The sale would include 13 “fire units,” 72 PAC-3 interceptor missiles and a host of related hardware, the Pentagon’s Defense Security Cooperation Agency has notified [...]
Pentagon plans speeding up ‘bunker buster’ bomb
Washington: The US military said on Monday it wants to speed up production plans for an enormous “bunker buster” bomb, amid international concern over underground nuclear sites in Iran and North Korea. The Pentagon has asked Congress for extra money to ensure the massive ordinance penetrator (MOP) would be ready by July 2010, spokesman Bryan [...]
Israel attempts to stop S-300 air defense supplies to Iran
MOSCOW: Israel has intensified its efforts to prevent deliveries of Russian S-300 air defense systems to Iran under a 2007 contract, an Israeli newspaper said on Monday. According to the Haaretz daily, “Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu called his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin and asked him to prevent the arms deal from going through.” Israeli Defense [...]
Iran arrests UK embassy staff for role in riots
TEHRAN: Iran has arrested eight local British embassy staff, triggering London’s fury and further exacerbating tensions with the West over the post-election turmoil in the Islamic republic. The latest backlash against what Iranian leaders have branded as foreign “meddling” came as opposition leaders continued to defy the regime, rejecting a panel set up to hold [...]
Top US commander warns of Iran influence in Lat Am
Miami: Iran’s growing influence in Latin America is a “potential risk” to the region, the newly-appointed head of the US Southern Command, General Douglas Fraser has warned. Fraser, who on Thursday takes charge of US military operations in 31 countries across Latin America and the Caribbean, expressed “real concern” about the Islamic Republic’s links with [...]
Iran opposition to hold new protests, mourn victims
TEHRAN: Iran’s opposition was set to hold marches and a day of mourning for slain protesters as they keep up pressure on the authorities over the disputed presidential election in the country’s biggest crisis since the 1979 revolution. In defiance of an official ban, defeated presidential candidate Mir Hossein Mousavi called upon his supporters to [...]
Iran denies wants nuclear weapon as insurance
VIENNA: Iran denied Wednesday that it was seeking a nuclear weapon as an “insurance policy”, as suggested by the head of the International Atomic Energy Agency, Mohamed ElBaradei. “If you quoted him right, he is absolutely wrong,” Iran’s envoy to the IAEA Ali Asghar Soltanieh told reporters when asked to respond to comments made by [...]
Israeli Air Force Conducts War Games
JERUSALEM: The Israeli Air Force concluded a major, four-day exercise to prepare for the possibility of all out war. Military sources said the exercise simulated war on several fronts, including with Iran. In a terse statement, Defense Minister Ehud Barak said it was a good and important exercise which shows that Israel can depend on [...]
Iran sends six warships to international waters: report
Tehran: Iran has sent six warships into international waters including the Gulf of Aden, a local newspaper reported on Tuesday, just days after it test-fired a new missile that can reach some parts of Europe. “We have dispatched six warships to international waters and the Gulf of Aden,” naval commander Habibollah Sayari was quoted as [...]
