‘Iran’

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9:26 pm Aug 11, 2010
“Iran warns ‘we have dug mass graves for your soldiers’ in response to US attack threat”
Bahrain • Iran • United States

“Iran has dug mass graves in which to bury US troops in case of any American attack on the country, a commander of the elite Revolutionary Guard said.  He added that a military strike would spark an ‘extensive war’ in the region.  The announcement appears to be a show of bravado after the chairman of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff, Admiral Mike Mullen, said last week that the US military had a contingency plan to attack Iran – although he admitted a military strike was probably a bad idea.  The US and some of its allies accuse Iran of using its civilian nuclear development as a cover to build nuclear weapons. Iran has denied the charges, saying its nuclear development is geared merely toward generating electricity, not weapons.  The deputy commander of the Revolutionary Guard, General Hossein Kan’ani Moghadam, said graves for any attacking US troops had been dug in Iran’s south-western Khuzestan province, where Iran buried Iraqi soldiers killed during the ruinous 1980-88 war between the Islamic republic and Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein’s regime.  The mass graves that used to be for burying Saddam’s soldiers have now been prepared again for US soldiers, and this is the reason for digging this big number of graves, Moghadam said, according to the semi-official Fars news agency.  Moghadam, however, said American troops would likely not be able to set foot on Iranian soil, repeating warnings that Iran would retaliate against U.S. bases in the Gulf if there was an attack on Iran.  Contingency plan: Admiral Mike Mullen last week reiterated that military intervention may be needed to halt Iran’s nuclear intentions.  The US Navy’s 5th Fleet headquarters is based just across the Gulf from Iran in Bahrain”

5:33 pm Aug 4, 2010
“Israel fears Turks could pass its secrets to Iran”
Brazil • Iran • Israel • Turkey • United Nations

“Israel’s Defence Minister Ehud Barak has voiced concern that once-stalwart ally Turkey could share Israeli intelligence secrets with Iran, revealing a deep distrust as Ankara’s regional interests shift.   The leaked comments by Barak cast doubt on how much Israel is willing or able to reconcile with Turks outraged at its navy’s killing of nine of their compatriots aboard an aid ship that tried to run the Gaza Strip blockade on May 31.   Until relations soured, Turkey had been the Muslim power closest to the Jewish state, a friendship largely based on military cooperation and intelligence sharing.   In a closed-door briefing to activists aligned with his centre-left Labour Party at a kibbutz near Jerusalem on July 25, Barak still called Turkey a ‘friend and major strategic ally’.   But he described Hakan Fidan, the new head of its National Intelligence Organisation, as a ‘friend of Iran’.   ‘There are quite a few secrets of ours (entrusted to Turkey) and the thought that they could become open to the Iranians over the next several months, let’s say, is quite disturbing’, he said in a segment of the speech broadcast by Army Radio. Barak was speaking in the context of past Israeli-Turkish intelligence cooperation, an audience member told Reuters.  An Israeli defence official said the event was private and that the aired recording of Barak had not been authorised.   Appointed in May, Fidan was previously a foreign policy adviser to Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan, whose AK Party has roots in political Islam and has often censured Israel.   Political sources in Ankara said that Fidan, a former envoy to theUN nuclear watchdog, was also involved in a Turkish- and Brazilian-brokered compromise proposal — received coolly in the West — to curb Iran’s controversial uranium enrichment”

5:05 pm Aug 4, 2010
“Key political risks to watch in Iran”
Iran • Israel • United States

“President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has derided a new wave of sanctions against Iran as ineffective, but, as the measures bite, he has said the Islamic Republic is willing to return to talks about its nuclear program.   Iran has always said its nuclear activities are peaceful, but that has not assuaged fears that its real motivation is seeking an atomic bomb, something the United States, and its ally Israel, say they could not tolerate.   So the risk of military action against Iran — something which would have major repercussions on the global oil trade — remains, despite renewed efforts to seek a diplomatic solution.   At home, Ahmadinejad has largely re-asserted political control, with a crackdown on the opposition which challenged his 2009 re-election in the streets.  But economic problems might stir further unrest.  As well as the new sanctions, Ahmadinejad’s policy to phase-out subsidies on staples such as fuel and food — starting in September — is also likely to have a big economic impact.  Both might already be having at least a psychological effect on Iranians who complain of rising inflation, despite official figures to the contrary, and growing queues at filling stations, possibly due to fears that sanctions will cause gasoline shortages”

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