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An attack on Iran remains a terrifying possibility, as a desperate flight forward by the Anglo-American coalition from an already hopeless situation in Iraq.
Posted by seumasach on February 21, 2012
M.K.Bhadrakumar
Asia Times
22nd February, 2012
A flotilla of Iranian warships crossed the Suez Canal and docked at the Syrian port of Tartus on Saturday.
Iran’s Defense Minister Ahmad Vahidi said the mission displays Iran’s “might” despite 30 years of relentless sanctions.
The flotilla comprised the 18th Fleet of the Iranian navy. The warships would hold exercises and will “train Syrian naval forces under an agreement signed between Tehran and Damascus one year ago”.
The influential cleric and deputy chairman of the Majlis’ (parliament’s” National Security and Foreign Policy Committee, Hossein Ebrahimi said:
“The presence of Iran and Russia’s flotillas along the Syrian coasts has a clear message against the United States’ possible adventurism. In case of any US strategic mistake in Syria, there is a possibility that Iran, Russia and a number of other countries will give a crushing response to the US.”
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Posted by seumasach on February 20, 2012
PressTV
20th February, 2012
A top US military official has described Iran as a rational actor in the international arena, stating that the Islamic Republic is not after producing nuclear weapons.
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Posted by seumasach on February 17, 2012
Pepe Escobar
Asia Times
17th February, 2012
What was the parade of European poodles thinking – that Tehran would just roll over and absorb the European Union’s oil embargo, scheduled to start on July 1?
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Posted by seumasach on February 17, 2012
One thoughtful Indian daily even wondered if the Israelis aren’t doing this to themselves in a supreme act of theatrics
Gradually but inexorably we are moving towards a new world, one in which the skulduggery of the Anglo-American-Israeli axis is butt of quiet humour.
M.K.Bhadrakumar
The Indian establishment’s nerves didn’t give way on Iran after two major assaults this week. There have been hardly any worthwhile takers in Delhi — except the famous Friends of Israel brigade in our media — for the smear campaign that Tehran’s agents are scurrying around the world pasting plastic bombs on Israeli diplomats. One thoughtful Indian daily even wondered if the Israelis aren’t doing this to themselves in a supreme act of theatrics, which intelligence agencies all over undertake in certain situations. (Which by no means can be ruled out, since as Home Minister P Chidambaram said, these are ’sophisticated’ devices.)
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Posted by seumasach on February 12, 2012
M.K.Bhadrakumar
9th February, 2012
India figured as Iran’s number one crude oil customer in January. That may be difficult to believe but it is indeed a statement of fact. Actually, India stepped up its imports of Iranian oil by 37.5 percent, which helped Iran offset a 50 percent cut in Chinese purchases resulting from a dispute in pricing. China now imports around 250000 barrels a day as against India’s 550000 barrels a day, according to a Wall Street Journal report.
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Posted by seumasach on February 9, 2012
It seems that in Europe, ad hoc policy such as France and England’s naval bandwagoning with the American armada in the Persian Gulf has replaced rational defense strategies that could entertain an Iranian-European security debate and even cooperation.
Exactly. Britain and France have effectively bounced Europe into another serious own-goal. Hopefully the defeat of Sarkozy in the coming elections will lead to Britain being finally frozen out of European security policy and the subsequent adoption of a saner and more constructive policy towards Iran.
Kaveh Afrasiabi
Asia Times
10th February, 2012
PALO ALTO – At last week’s Munich Security Conference, there was a conspicuous absence of any meaningful discussion of the “Iran crisis” threatening global peace and security.
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Posted by seumasach on February 4, 2012
PressTV
4th February, 2012
Sweden has insisted that there is no deviation in Iran’s peaceful nuclear program and denounced any use of military force against Tehran as “stupidity.”
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Posted by seumasach on January 31, 2012
M.K.Bhadrakumar
30th January, 2012
Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee has set at rest firmly and authoritatively all speculative reports that India might buckle under American pressure and fall in line passively with the spirit of the United States’ sanctions against Iran by quietly cutting back its oil imports from Iran. That FM made the categorical statement while on a visit to the US is of added significance.
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Posted by seumasach on January 30, 2012
Russia’s Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov has reiterated that the European Union’s decision to impose an embargo on Iran’s oil sector will be “counterproductive.”
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Posted by seumasach on January 29, 2012
PressTV
29th January, 2012
The coalition of left parties in Greece has denounced the European Union’s decision to ban oil imports from Iran as being in line with the US and Israeli warmongering policies in the Middle East.
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