US Aircraft Carrier USS Abraham Lincoln Enters Strait of Hormuz

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File photo by United States Navy

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* SMH.com.au brings us the following report and it starts off like this… The United States, Britain and France delivered a pointed message to Iran, sending six warships led by an aircraft carrier [USS Abraham Lincoln] through the sensitive waters of the Strait of Hormuz… The deployment challenged Iranian threats to close the waterway and coincided with an escalation in the West's confrontation with Iran over the country's nuclear ambitions…

Read this report in full at link below…

Warships from three nations call Iran's bluff in the Gulf
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* AJC.com has this report up on their website mid Monday afternoon that goes in part like this… …Iranian officials have turned to one of their most powerful cards: The narrow Strait of Hormuz at the mouth of the Gulf and the route for a fifth of the world's oil. Iran has rattled world markets with repeated warnings it could block the hook-shaped waterway, which could spark a conflict in the Gulf… Military experts have questioned whether Iran has the naval capabilities to attempt a blockade. But the U.S. and allies have already said they would take swift action against any Iranian moves to choke off the 30-mile wide strait - where the American aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln, along with British and French warships, entered the Gulf on Sunday without incident…

Read this report at link below…

Iran revives Gulf threats after EU sanctions

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* Albawaba.com had this report posted on their website Sunday afternoon and it goes in part like this… …Israel told US Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Martin E. Dempsey during his recent visit this weekend that Israel will not ask for the permission of the US to attack Iran and will only give America a 12 hour warning before the attack…

Read the full report at link below…

Report: Israel to give US 12 hour warning before attack on Iran

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Iran: On Ground Updates - August 23, 2010

Iran: On Ground Updates
Monday, August 23, 2010
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* PressTV.ir has the following report early Monday and it starts off like this... Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has taunted the Israeli regime as "too weak to attack Iran," promising a crushing response against any aggression... "Israel is too weak to stage a military strike against Iran, but if it attacks, it will receive a devastating response, which will make it regret its aggression," said President Ahmadinejad in a televised interview with Al-Jazeera TV Network on Sunday...
Read the rest at link below...
'Israel too weak to attack Iran'
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* The Australian has the following report posted up on their website today... IRAN has unveiled a high-speed drone with a range of more than 1000km, described by President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad as a "messenger of death"... A day after Israel denounced as "unacceptable" the supply of Russian uranium rods for Iran's Bushehr nuclear reactor, Mr. Ahmadinejad personally presented a pilotless, jet-powered bomber Iran says can air-launch guided missiles or deliver two 100kg bombs... The weapon's purported range would not reach Israel from Iran, but would vastly increase the threat posed to Israeli targets if supplied to Iranian-backed terrorist groups in Lebanon or Syria... Mr. Ahmadinejad seldom wastes a chance to combine showmanship and barely coherent rhetoric and yesterday was no exception. "This jet, before it heralds death for enemies, is a messenger of salvation and dignity for humanity," he told an invited audience...
Read the full report at link below...
Iranian drone bomber guards nuke sites
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AubreyJ.........

Iran: On Ground Updates - August 01, 2010

Iran: On Ground Updates
"The military options have been on the table and remain on the table," says Admiral Mike Mullen, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
Sunday, August 01, 2010
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* SKY.com brings us the following report today and it goes in part like this... Admiral Mike Mullen, the chairman of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff, said a plan does exist - although he thought a strike was probably a bad idea... Such an attack would only be launched to prevent Iran from developing a nuclear weapon, he added... The American officer has often warned that a military strike would have serious and unpredictable consequences across the Middle East... However, he also said the risk of the country acquiring a nuclear weapon was unacceptable...
Read the full report at link below...
Iran Attack Strategy 'Is Ready If Needed'
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NBC Meet the Press - Mullen: U.S. Has Iran Strike Plan


About this News Video: Admiral Mike Mullen discusses the ripple effects of a military strike on the Islamic republic with David Gregory on “Meet the Press.
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Click HERE for Meet the Press transcript, August 1, 2010
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AubreyJ.........

Iran: On Ground Updates - February 18, 2010

Iran: On Ground Updates
New IAEA Report says Iran Pursuing Secret Research Projects that could help in Development of Nuclear Warheads
Thursday, February 18, 2010
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DOE file photo
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* The New York Times brings us the follow report this afternoon, (and I must say one that is of NO surprise to me,) and their troubling report starts off like this... The United Nation’s nuclear inspectors declared for the first time on Thursday that extensive information they have collected raised concerns about “past or current undisclosed activities” by Iran’s military to develop a nuclear weapon. The unusually strongly worded conclusion seems certain to accelerate Iran’s confrontation with much of the rest of the world... Their comments were contained in a report to the board of the International Atomic Energy Agency, the first accounting under the agency’s new head, Yukiya Amano...
Read the full report at link below...
I.A.E.A. Suspects Iranian Nuclear Weapons Activity
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* The Washington Post reports this troubling news out of the IAEA this way... Iran appears to have recently pursued secret research projects that could help it develop nuclear warheads, the United Nations' nuclear watchdog said Thursday, casting fresh doubt on Iranian claims that its nuclear intentions are peaceful... The International Atomic Energy Agency also confirmed that Iran has increased the enrichment level of some of its uranium, bringing the Islamic republic a step closer to being able to make weapons-grade nuclear fuel... In a strongly worded report, the IAEA challenged Iran to explain purchases of sensitive technology as well as secret tests of high-precision detonators and missile reentry systems -- experiments closely associated with atomic warheads. Although much of the research took place nearly a decade ago, the report said some tests "seem to have continued beyond 2004."...
Read this report in full at link below...
IAEA says secret Iranian research could be aimed at nuclear weapons

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Now... wasn’t it just a few years back when a (Faulty) Intelligence Report came out saying Iran had pretty much halted ALL its programs into building Nuclear Weapons back in, I believe it said, 2003? And with this report we all raised cane at the time saying NO DANG WAY...

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I, like so many others, do SO remember how this faulty Intelligence Report tied President Bush’s hands at the time and kept him from getting more support from the world community to deal with all of this Iranian mess too.
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So... there is really no surprise today, from this new IAEA report, that Iran is actually pursuing these Secret Nuclear Weapon Research Projects.
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But look... there is some good news out of this report today and that good news is that we finally have a new man in charge at the IAEA who will call it as it is... and not cover up for any country.
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Where have you been Mr. Yukiya Amano!!!?
And Welcome........
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AubreyJ.........

Iran: On Ground Updates - February 08, 2010

Iran: On Ground Updates
Iran Informs UN Nuclear Agency It Needs Uranium Enriched To 20 Percent For Medical Research Reactor
Monday, February 08, 2010
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* VOANews.com brings us the following troubling new and their report starts off like this... Iran says it has informed the U.N. nuclear agency it plans to further enrich its uranium in defiance of international demands that it stop. Iran's processing program would likely need reconfiguring first, prompting speculation the announcement may have more to do with nuclear negotiations with the West than imminent enrichment... Iran's envoy to the International Atomic Energy Agency says he gave the U.N. watchdog notice of Tehran's plans Monday, in an apparent formal rejection of a U.N. plan to have the uranium enriched abroad...
Read the rest at link below...
Iran Orders Boost in Uranium Enrichment
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* LATimes.com has a good report today and it starts off like this... Reporting from Beirut — Iranian officials trumpeted new nuclear and military ambitions Monday in the face of domestic political discord and stepped-up international talk of tightening economic sanctions against the Islamic Republic... Ali Akbar Salehi, head of Iran's Atomic Energy Organization, announced that Tehran had informed the United Nations' nuclear watchdog that it intended to launch construction of 10 new nuclear-fuel plants in the Persian calendar year starting March 2010 and begin producing 20%-enriched uranium to provide fuel for a Tehran medical reactor...
Read this report in full at link below...
Iran says it will build 10 nuclear plants, beef up military
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* Telegraph.co.uk reports the news out of Iran today this way... World leaders finally ran out of patience when President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad ordered a massive expansion in processing... The US and France led calls for fresh action by the international community and labeled Tehran's latest move "blackmail"...
Read the rest at link below...
Iran faces new sanctions within weeks over uranium programme
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* JPOST.com has this report... Only option left is Security Council sanctions, French officials say... The US and the EU are united in the conviction that more sanctions are needed against Iran, French Defense Minister Herve Morin said Monday after talks with US Defense Secretary Robert Gates, various news agencies reported...
Read the full report at link below...
'US, EU united on Iran nuclear issue'

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"Serious concern" over Iran's nuclear programme


About this News Video: The Foreign Office says it has "serious concerns" over the escalation of Iran's nuclear programme.
This video posted on YouTube by itnnews
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* VOANews.com reports it this way... Plain and sweet...
Gates Hopes Iran Sanctions Will Avoid Military Action
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* Google News has this AFP report and it starts off like this... Supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said on Monday that Iran is set to deliver a "punch" that will stun world powers during this week's 31st anniversary of the Islamic revolution... "The Iranian nation, with its unity and God's grace, will punch the arrogance (Western powers) on the 22nd of Bahman (February 11) in a way that will leave them stunned," Khamenei, who is also Iran's commander-in-chief, told a gathering of air force personnel...
Read the full report at link below...
Iran anniversary 'punch' will stun West: Khamenei
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There is going to be only one of two things fixing to go down over the next so many months. Iran is going to HAVE Nuclear Weapons... or... Israel is going to light Iran up... Then Nuclear Weapons Iran will have not.
I’d bet on the latter myself!
AubreyJ.........

Iran: On Ground Updates - December 29, 2009

Iran: On Ground Updates
A government that can only stay in power by shooting its own people in the streets and blocking their communication with the outside world is in serious trouble...
Tuesday, December 29, 2009
. Iran Map by DoD-CENTCOM
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* The bloody events of recent days in Iran have demonstrated the repressive nature of the regime and the deep discontent surfacing in a country denied democratic freedoms. A government that can only stay in power by shooting its own people in the streets and blocking their communication with the outside world is in serious trouble...
Read William Hague’s full article at the Telegraph.co.uk website at link below...
There is still time to foil Iran's bomb plot
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* Our friends at the Debka.com website had the following good read posted up on their website on the 28th... Iranian sources reveal that Mir Hossein Mousavi's nephew, Ali Habib, was not shot dead during a Tehran demonstration Sunday, Dec. 27, as reported, but waylaid and gunned down as he left his home. Fresh riots followed the disappearance of the body from the hospital Monday. The episode became even more ominous when Iran's security services Chief Gen. Radan accused Mousavi of the murder to incite further violence. The opposition fears that the murder of Mousavi's nephew augurs physical liquidations of its leaders... The current upsurge of violence across Iran is the most dangerous yet because for the first time demonstrators are turning round to attack security forces, the Revolutionary Guardsmen and Basijj paramilitaries...
Read the full report at link below...
Iran reels toward popular counter-revolution
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Well... The above point a view by William Hague at the Telegraph.co.uk website pretty much sums the events up over the last so many days in Iran! Sadly... sanctions are a year or two too late and I believe only military action by Israel will bring this mess to a halt... and for at least 3 to 5 years.
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Only then will we AGAIN... have the breathing room to give the Iranian people a chance to make a Regime Change within their government... One that the west and the rest of the world can live with.
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Bottom line is there is a time when blood must be shed... Look at what is going on in the streets of Iran over the last so many days... The people of Iran have made their minds up and the time for CHANGE is NOW!
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Light ‘em up, Israel!!!
History’s calling...
AubreyJ.........

Iran: On Ground Updates - December 28, 2009

Iran: On Ground Updates
Just One Day After Deadly Anti-Government Protests, Iranian Security Forces Arrest Scores Of Opposition Figures
Monday, December 28, 2009.
* IslamOnline.net brings us the following report this early Monday afternoon and it starts off like this... A day after deadly anti-government protests, Iranian security forces arrested scores of opposition figures, Monday, December 28, sparking international outcry... “(Ebrahim Yazdi) was arrested at home and taken to an unknown place early Monday morning by security agents," opposition Rahesabz website said, referring to an opposition politician... Several aides to former president Mohamed Khatami and opposition leader Mir Hossein Mousavi were also reportedly arrested... "Mousavi advisors Alireza Beheshti, (Ghorban) Behzadian-Nejad and (Mohammad) Bagherian were also arrested in the morning," Parlemannews website said... Security agents also raided the office of a women's magazine, Irandokht, run by opposition leader Mehdi Karroubi's wife, and confiscated computers, according to Advarnews website... Award-winning rights campaigner and journalist Emadeddin Baghi was also arrested... "Security agents treated Baghi's family and daughters very offensively as they arrested him."... The crackdown came a day after deadly clashes between opposition supporters and security forces left eight people dead... More than 60 people had also been injured in Tehran...
Read the full report at link below...
Iran Cracks Down On Opposition, West Critical 
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Protesters killed in Iran clashes - 28 Dec 09
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Iran: On Ground Updates - December 23, 2009

Iran: On Ground Updates
As the White House Warns Iran to Meet Nuclear Deadline -- Iran’s President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad Says “Who are they to set us a deadline?”... “We set them a deadline...”
Wednesday, December 23, 2009
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IRANA file photo

* VOANews.com had the following report posted up on their website Tuesday evening and it starts off like this... U.S. officials say time is running out for Iran to accept a deal designed to ease concern about its nuclear ambitions, and there are strong signs Tehran may let the end-of-year deadline slip by. The White House is warning of real consequences if Iran refuses to comply... Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has, in effect, dismissed the year-end deadline. He says the United States is in no position to set deadlines. In remarks Tuesday in the southern city of Shiraz, he said American officials must "change their attitude."...
Read the full report at link below...
White House Warns Iran to Meet Nuclear Deal Deadline
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* Reuters.com had this report Tuesday evening... If Iran misses the deadline for agreeing to ship most of its low-enriched uranium (LEU) abroad in exchange for fuel for a Tehran research reactor, Washington has made clear it intends to pursue harsher sanctions against Iran in the United Nations... "Who are they to set us a deadline?" Ahmadinejad said in a televised speech in the southern city of Shiraz... "We set them a deadline that if they do not correct their attitude and behavior and literature we will demand from them the Iranian nation's historic rights," the hardline president told the crowd, without elaborating...
Read this report in full at link below...
Iran's Ahmadinejad dismisses West's year-end deadline
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* TehranTimes.com has this report up on their website this Wednesday evening and it starts off like this... Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Wednesday described the Islamic Republic of Iran as the most important country in the Middle East, the most sensitive and crucial region in the world... “Today all politicians and all people who want to have a say in the world need the Iranian nation,” Ahmadinejad said, addressing a gathering of Iranian officials in the southern province of Fars...
Read the rest of Ahmadinejad’s crap at link below...
Ahmadinejad: Iran is most important country in Mideast
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* Reuters.com brings us the following report... The U.S. President had been a disappointment to the world, Ahmadinejad said in an interview with Britain's Channel 4 News, [a full transcript can be found at the link posted on its website... along with the entire video of the interview.]... He once again dismissed a year-end deadline on a U.N.-drafted fuel deal, saying it was "meaningless." The deal requires Iran to ship most of its low-enriched uranium (LEU) abroad in exchange for fuel for a Tehran research reactor... The United States has made it clear it intends to pursue harsher sanctions against Iran in the United Nations if Iran fails to meet the deadline...
Read the rest of this report at link below...
Iran's Ahmadinejad mocks Obama, "TV series" nuke talks

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Iran: On Ground Updates - September 27, 2009

Iran Test-fires Short-range Missiles

About News Video: Iran said it successfully test-fired short-range missiles during military drills Sunday by the elite Revolutionary Guard, a show of force days after the U.S. warned Tehran over a newly revealed underground nuclear facility.
This video posted on YouTube by AssociatedPress
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POST UPDATE:
Monday, September 28, 2009
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* FOXNews.com brings us the following report and it starts off like this... Iran said it successfully completed two days of missile tests that including launching its longest-range missiles on Monday, weapons capable of carrying a warhead and striking Israel, U.S. military bases in the Middle East, and parts of Europe... State television said the powerful Revolutionary Guard, which controls Iran's missile program, successfully tested upgraded versions of the medium-range Shahab-3 and Sajjil missiles with can fly up to 1,200 miles. It was the third and final round of missile tests in two days of drills by the Guard...
Read the rest at link below...
Iran Says It Test-Fires Longest-Range Missiles

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