(ZeroHedge) – With the market still hopeful of some deus ex resolution to the Fiscal Cliff will take place in the last few trading sessions of the year (one where the market itself will not have to be the catalyst for such a resolution, because once the selling starts in earnest, who knows if and when it stops, hence the loading up on prodigious amounts of puts), here is Iran out of left field, adding yet another known unknown to the inequality, announcing that it will begin six days of naval drills in the Straits of Hormuz on Friday. Read the rest of this entry »
(WeeklyStandard) – According to Iran, the terrorist group Hamas is very thankful for all the help provided to attack Israel. Read the rest of this entry »
(RealNews) – Hamid Dabashi: Qatar and Saudi Arabia want to control the region, pushing Hamas towards a Muslim Brotherhood led Egypt Read the rest of this entry »
(BusinessInsider) – Israel’s eight-day Gaza offensive was a dry run for any future armed confrontation with Iran, U.S. and Israeli officials told The New York Times.
“In Operation Pillar of Defense, Israel was not confronting Gaza, but Iran,” Israeli ambassador to the U.S. States and military historian Michael B. Oren told the Times. Read the rest of this entry »
See Also: (Reuters) – Syria mortar bomb lands in Israeli village – Read More Here
(MailOnline) – Incident occurred on November 1st when two Iranian jets fired on a U.S. drone off the coast of Kuwait while it was in international waters Read the rest of this entry »
(ZeroHedge) – Israel has just shot down an unidentified drone over its airspace and speculation is Iran will be identified as the owner and the flight labeled a provocation. Read the rest of this entry »
(RussiaToday) – Google is warning thousands of Gmail customers this week that state-sponsored attackers may be trying to compromise their computers, an admonition that comes as authorities in Iran claim that their systems are coincidently being targeted as well. Read the rest of this entry »
(PressTV) – Iran, a country with a population of 70 million, enjoys various ethnicities and religions. In this episode of Iran, Pedram Khodadadi will tell you about Iranian Jews and their life in this cradle of civilization. Read the rest of this entry »
(KurtNimmo) – The economic war waged against the people of Iran by the United States and the European Union is beginning to show results. Read the rest of this entry »
(WashingtonsBlog) – It is openly being suggested that Israel blow up something and falsely blame it on Iran to justify launching a pre-emptive war in self-defense. Read the rest of this entry »
(HigginsBlog) – Matt Larson discusses the evidence outlined in latest news headlines making the case that Iran has nuclear weapons. Read the rest of this entry »
(YNetNews) – US President Barack Obama described the Israeli pressure to draw a “red line” for Iran as “noise” he is trying to block out. Read the rest of this entry »
(RussiaToday) – The US Senate passed a resolution 90-1 to prevent Iran from acquiring nuclear weapons with Rand Paul arguing it was a de-facto declaration of war. Read the rest of this entry »
(Guardian) – Tehran said to be set to block access to Google and Gmail in reaction to anti-Islam film that triggered protests across the world Read the rest of this entry »
(ZeroHedge) – It seems you can’t turn your back on the Middle East for more than a few minutes without something going bump in the desert. Sure enough, a few shorts hours after we reported that the leader of Iran’s Revolutionary Guards is certain war with Israel is coming, here comes Iran again with the stunning admission that none other than German industrial conglomerate, and occasional maker of nuclear power plants, Siemens was reponsible for “implanting tiny explosives inside equipment the Islamic Republic purchased for its disputed nuclear program. Read the rest of this entry »
(KurtNimmo) – Amir Ali Hajizadeh, a brigadier general heading up the aerospace division of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps. (IRGC), has told Iran’s Arabic language Al-Alam television that his country will strike preemptively if it detects preparations by Israel for an attack. Read the rest of this entry »
Continuity of Agenda: Neo-Cons and Obama administration sponsor global terror against Iran
(LandDestroyer) – As the US government confirms that terrorists involved in the Benghazi, Libya US consulate attack were indeed the very militants funded, armed, and provided air support in last year’s bid to overthrow the government of Libya, yet another disturbing announcement has been made. Read the rest of this entry »
(KurtNimmo) – In a follow-up to a story posted on the neocon website FreeBeacon.com edited by Washington Post scribe Bill Gertz, NBC reports that national security officials believe Iran is responsible for cyber attacks on the commercial websites of JPMorgan Chase and Bank of America. Read the rest of this entry »
(AFP) – Explosive blasts destroyed power lines to Iran’s underground nuclear facility at Fordo last month, the head of Iran’s atomic agency said at a meeting of UN atomic agency member states Monday. Read the rest of this entry »
(YNetNews) – Former US Ambassador to Israel Martin Indyk predicts that the United States will go to war with Iran as early as 2013. “I’m afraid that 2013 is going to be a year in which we’re going to have a military confrontation with Iran,” he said in an interview on CBS’ “Face the Nation.” Read the rest of this entry »
(Infowars) – Following a story published in The Telegraph reporting an armada of U.S. and British ships amassing in the Persian Gulf, a top commander in Iran’s Revolutionary Guard warned Sunday that “nothing will remain” of Israel if his country is attacked. Read the rest of this entry »
(MelissaMelton) – The Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS) National Terror Alert Response Center released a new terrorism threat warning entitled, “Egyptian-Iranian intelligence meeting prompts fears of a new Middle East terror axis.” Read the rest of this entry »
(YNet) – An Israeli attack on Iran’s nuclear installations would cause an “apocalypse,” Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan told CNN’s Christiane Amanpour.
During the interview in Istanbul, Erdogan said there was a “very null probability” that Israel will launch a go-it-alone strike in Iran, which he claimed could cause an apocalypse in the entire region.
“But I’m sure that I don’t want to see anything like that happening in the region because in this day and age, that region needs peace and prosperity and stability,” the Turkish leader told Amanpour.
CNN published excerpts from the interview on Wednesday. Full story here.
See Also: (Haaretz) – Former CIA chief tells Haaretz: Decision on Iran strike can wait – Read More Here
(Haaretz) – There is a growing American assessment that Israel will not attack Iranian nuclear facilities before the U.S. presidential elections on November 6. Read the rest of this entry »
(TimesofIsrael) – Iran will hold a massive air defense drill in October incorporating aerial and ground forces, Iranian air defense commander Brigadier General Farzad Esmaili announced on Saturday. Read the rest of this entry »
(Reuters) – Iran would take action if the United States were to carry out an act of “stupidity” and attack Syria, an Iranian military official was quoted as saying on Saturday, but the comments later disappeared from the state-linked agency website. Read the rest of this entry »
(AJC) – On the Tuesday, August 28 edition of the Alex Jones Show, Alex covers facets of the police state that appear daily, including the latest manifestation in Austin, Texas, where students are being tracked with GPS technology, and Blackhawk helicopters engaging in military exercises in the skies over Minneapolis, Minnesota. He also talks about events ongoing in Syria and Iran. Read the rest of this entry »
(OilPrice) – Saudi Arabia has gone on the offensive against Iran to protect its interests. Their involvement in Syria is the first battle in what is going to be a long bloody conflict that will know no frontiers or limits. Read the rest of this entry »
(Rense) - Gerald Celente – My Greatest Fear is a War with Iran because it’ll be the beginning of World War III , I say this over and over again our lives will never be the same we will be destroyed for generations. Read the rest of this entry »
(Silverstein) – Former Labor party minister, Uzi Baram, wrote a column in Yisrael HaYom today that urges Israel’s leadership to tell the people clearly what lies in store when they execute an expected attack on Iran. What is most striking about the article is this:
Recently, I’ve come to believe that the leaders of the State have decided to act [attack Iran].
(TexasStraightTalk) – Last week the House passed yet another bill placing sanctions on Iran and Syria, bringing us closer to another war in the Middle East. We are told that ever harsher sanctions finally will force the targeted nations to bend to our will. Yet the ineffectiveness of previous sanctions teaches us nothing; in truth sanctions lead to war more than they prevent war. Read the rest of this entry »
(StormCloudsGathering) – We are on a road that leads straight to the World War 3, but in order to see that and to fully understand what is at stake you have to look at the big picture and connect the dots. This video examines the history of the dollar, its relation to oil, and the real motives behind the wars of the past two decades. Read the rest of this entry »
(YNetNews) – While US Defense Secretary Leon Panetta attempted to convince top Israeli politicians and security officials not to launch a strike on Iran’s nuclear facilities during his visit to Israel last week, his predecessor Donald Rumsfeld, seems more prepared for a possible attack. Read the rest of this entry »
(HigginsBlog) – Iran sentences 4 of 39 criminal bankers to death as America’s economy continues to be devastated by official US policy not to prosecute Wall Street fraud. Read the rest of this entry »
(PressTV) – 30 Mossad hired terrorists behind bombings and assassinations of nuclear scientists and 2 Israeli terrorist training networks have been taken down by Iranian intelligence. Read the rest of this entry »
(HigginsBlog) – Analyst Jamal Abdi says the Bulgaria terrorist attack on Israeli tourists Israel accuses Iran of masterminding is a legitimate pretext for war against Iran. Read the rest of this entry »
(ArutzSheva) – Iran and Hizbullah appear to be behind the blast in Bulgaria Wednesday, which took place on the 18th anniversary of the AMIA attack in Argentina that killed 85.
Voice of Israel Radio’s military correspondent said that Hizbullah and Iran are indeed the main suspects, but did not make the connection to the meaningful date. The AMIA terror attack was also perpetrated by Iran and Hizbullah. Read the rest of this entry »
See Also: (Telegraph) – Russian ship with helicopters for Syrian regime sets sail again – Read More Here
(Reuters) – Iran could prevent even “a single drop of oil” passing through the Strait of Hormuz if its security is threatened, a naval chief said on Saturday, as tensions simmer over Tehran’s nuclear program.
Tehran will increase its military presence in international waters, said Ali Fadavi, naval commander in Iran’s elite Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC). Read the rest of this entry »
(LATimes) – The Navy is rushing dozens of unmanned underwater craft to the Persian Gulf to help detect and destroy mines in a major military buildup aimed at preventing Iran from closing the strategic Strait of Hormuz in the event of a crisis, U.S. officials said. Read the rest of this entry »
(KurtNimmo) – Dominique de Kevelioc de Bailleul of Beacon Equity Research predicts that the coming conflict with Syria will be the trigger event that takes down the U.S. dollar. A military response to Syria and Iran would likely draw in Russia and China, he warns, and the result would be a conflagration the world has not witnessed since the Second World War. Read the rest of this entry »
(DebkaFile) – In the wake of failed diplomacy, US President Barack Obama is in the process of “reconsidering” his decision to hold off on military action against Iran.
Defense Secretary Leon Panetta was in Riyadh to sound out Saudi rulers on a combined US-GCC operation. Read the rest of this entry »
(Youtube) – As part of its preparations, Beijing is reported to have asked Egyptian authorities to permit the passage through the Suez Canal in late June of 12 naval ships heading for the Syrian port of Tartus, where Moscow maintains a naval and marine base. DEBKAfile reported earlier this week that Russian naval vessels with marines on board were heading for Tartus. The Iranian media did not itemize their contribution to the joint exercise. Read the rest of this entry »
(WashPost) – The United States and Israel jointly developed a sophisticated computer virus nicknamed Flame that collected intelligence in preparation for cyber-sabotage aimed at slowing Iran’s ability to develop a nuclear weapon, according to Western officials with knowledge of the effort. Read the rest of this entry »
(KurtNimmo) – Media outlets in Iran are reporting that Iran plans to participate in a war game with Russia, China and Syria in the near future and preparations will be carried out in the next few days. Read the rest of this entry »
(PressTV) – June 8th, 2012 – In Beijing, the Shanghai Cooperation Organization, issued a declaration opposing military intervention, forced regime change and unilateral sanctions against the Middle East. Read the rest of this entry »
(HigginsBlog) – Iran’s intelligence ministry has announced the capture of main elements behind the assassination of the country’s nuclear scientists. Read the rest of this entry »
(KurtNimmo) – If research conducted by Kaspersky Labs is correct, the Flame virus is related to a previous malware virus developed by Israel and the United States. Read the rest of this entry »
(PressTV) – The head of Iran’s cyber police says the perpetrators behind the recent cyber attack on the Iranian Oil Ministry have been traced to the US. Read the rest of this entry »
(AFP) – The US Senate approved new sanctions against Iran aimed at convincing the Islamic Republic to suspend its uranium enrichment, which western powers say is a cover for developing nuclear weapons.
The measure was approved unanimously ahead of talks Wednesday in Baghdad between Iran and representatives of the world’s main powers. Read the rest of this entry »