"Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel said Iran’s nuclear program is a risk to the entire world and stopping it requires convincing the regime in Tehran that “all options’’ are on the table....
Remember what I said about Israeli's being guilty of their own accusations?
See: Netanyahu To The West–Destroy Iran Before Israel Destroys You
Who is the threat to the world?
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"Iran says it has a nonnegotiable right under the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty to enrich uranium for producing nuclear fuel....
Legally that is true; however, when was the last USrael cared about legality?
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"Nigeria links Iran to arms shipment
ABUJA, Nigeria – Nigerian intelligence officials and diplomats have concluded that the Iranian government was behind a secret shipment of weapons discovered last month in shipping containers, according to internal documents seen Thursday by The Associated Press.
Immediately after the arms seizure, Israeli officials accused Iran of trying to sneak the shipment into the Gaza Strip, but Nigeria's security service now believes the arms were imported by some local politicians to destabilize Nigeria if they lose in the coming general elections.
Remember the whole YELLOWCAKE from AFRICA LIE about IRAQ?
Why does this have that smell to it?
The cargo that was shipped from an Iranian port was listed as building materials but when the 13 containers were opened at Nigeria's main port in Lagos, inspectors found 107mm artillery rockets, rifle rounds and arms.
Contacted by phone, Iranian Ambassador Hussein Abdullahi declined to immediately discuss the allegations, telling AP he was meeting with Nigerian officials about the same issues. Previously, Abdullahi said there is no clear evidence linking his government to the weapons....
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Schlumming it in Iran:
"Oil firm says it will withdraw from Iran; But lucrative deals will delay its exit" by Farah Stockman, Globe Staff / November 12, 2010
WASHINGTON —The world’s largest oil-services company has quietly promised the US State Department that it will pull out of Iran when its current contracts are complete, a spokesman for Schlumberger Ltd. has confirmed, marking what could be a major victory in the US struggle to cut off Iran’s access to funds for its nuclear program....
Related: Oilfield services firms in $11b merger
But internal company documents obtained by The Boston Globe show that Schlumberger — which is under investigation for possible sanctions violations — has signed contracts worth hundreds of millions of dollars that it intends to complete before it exits. Those contracts will keep the company, believed to be the last Western oil-services firm in Iran, working in the oil-rich country until least 2013, a delay that has angered some US officials.
The company has kept the scope of its work in Iran — and its decision to leave eventually — under a veil of secrecy....
Still, Schlumberger’s private pledge to US officials marks perhaps the final chapter in a 15-year game of cat-and-mouse between the US government and Western companies that are helping to build Iran’s oil and gas industry....
Internal documents — given to the Globe by a worker who accuses Schlumberger of sidestepping the embargo on Iran — illustrate how the company adapted to ever-increasing sanctions, reaping lucrative contracts long after its competitors were forced out. The worker asked not to be named out of fear of retaliation.
Sanctions banning Americans from helping Iran’s oil sector have been in place since 1995. But Schlumberger was able to keep working in Iran because it is registered offshore. In 1996, US officials tried to force foreign companies out of Iran’s oil fields by threatening to fine them. But those threats sparked such outrage in Europe that US officials never carried them out.
In recent years, US officials have pressed other countries to implement their own sanctions....
Related: Israeli Oil Shipments Exempt From Iran Sanctions
Schlumberger was founded in 1919 by two French brothers who invented machines that could detect oil under the ground. The company has worked in Iran since the 1940s, when that nation's petroleum industry was dominated by British and American oil giants. After the 1979 Islamic revolution, Schlumberger and other oil-field service companies stayed on, helping Iran keep the oil flowing.
Amazing how OPERATION AJAX and the CIA OVERTHROW of Iraq's democratically-elected government is OMITTED from the historical recap, huh?
In the 1980s, Schlumberger had competition in Iran: Texas-based Halliburton, Baker Hughes, and Weatherford.
But after President Clinton banned US firms from working in Iran, they were eventually forced to withdraw.
Schlumberger was exempt from Clinton's order because it is registered in the Netherlands Antilles, even though its headquarters are in Texas and France. Its multinational identity made it easier to resist political pressure and continue helping Iranians tap their underground oil reerves.
After Clinton issued another order in 1995, this one banning US equipment from being sent to Iran, Schlumberger sent US goods to its Jebel Ali facility in Dubai. It then reexported them to Iran. Such shipments are considered legal, as long as Schlumberger's Iranian employees did not request that the goods be ordered on their behalf....
Related: Doing Business in Iran
As the United States and Europe stepped up the pressure on Iran, Schlumberger shifted some of its manufacturing to China, which has no embargo....
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Let's escalate things a bit:
"Staging Iran talks proves difficult" by Glenn Kessler, Washington Post / November 16, 2010
WASHINGTON — Iran is enriching uranium with a Pakistani version of a half-century-old Dutch design, and “the Iranians now have discovered that it’s a very poor machine,’’ a senior administration official said, speaking on the condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of the issue....
“They could install a lot more if they wanted to, but they’ve decided that this machine is a loser, so that’s why they stopped,’’ he said, adding that the Iranians appear to have had little success with a more advanced design.
Yet the rise of a Republican majority in the US House of Representatives could bring new political pressure to bear on the administration, forcing the White House to harden its stance on Iran....
Related: The Israel Lobby: Targeting Democrats for Election Day Defeat
In the past week, senior GOP figures have been pushing tougher steps. Ilena Ros-Lehtinen, the incoming chairwoman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, told Reuters that “if the country with whom we are negotiating with and playing diplomatic niceties with gets the feeling that they can string us along and have no actions take place, I think that’s to the detriment of the United States.’’ She warned against conveying a “sense of weakness and a lack of resolve.’’
I couldn't agree more: Has Israel Got a Real Estate Deal For You!
See who is stringing us along?
Although the Obama administration has publicly stressed its interest in negotiations, some administration officials and advisers say they think the president would use military force to set back Iran’s nuclear program if it appeared it were on the verge of having weapons capability....
Like I said, Iran is RUNNING OUT of TIME!!
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And it appears the Iranians know it:
"Iran says it tested new air defense missile system" by Ali Akbar Dareini, Associated Press / November 18, 2010
TEHRAN, Iran—Iran has successfully tested a newly developed air defense missile system during the country's biggest ever air defense drill, the country's military announced Thursday.
Iran's state television said the test was Tehran's response to Moscow's refusal to deliver the advanced Russian S-300 air defense system amid U.N. and international sanctions on the country....
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"Nuclear inspectors monitoring Iran found the country’s enrichment program temporarily shut down a week ago, the International Atomic Energy Agency reported yesterday....
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Also see: Let's Talk About Iran's Nukes
Iran's state television said the test was Tehran's response to Moscow's refusal to deliver the advanced Russian S-300 air defense system amid U.N. and international sanctions on the country....
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"Nuclear inspectors monitoring Iran found the country’s enrichment program temporarily shut down a week ago, the International Atomic Energy Agency reported yesterday....
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Also see: Let's Talk About Iran's Nukes
"Nuclear plant nears its launch date
TEHRAN — Technicians have finished loading fuel into Iran’s first nuclear power reactor and aim to start up the facility by late January, the country’s nuclear chief said yesterday. The start up of the Bushehr power plant, a project completed with Russian help but beset by years of delays, will deliver Iran the central stated goal of its atomic work — the generation of nuclear power. The United States and some of its allies, however, believe the Bushehr plant is part of a civil energy program that Iran is using as cover for a secret aim to develop a nuclear weapons capability. Iran denies the accusation. (AP)."
Translation: USsrael will attack between Christmas and Groundhog Day.
"Bomb kills Iranian nuclear scientist" by Ali Akbar Dareini, Associated Press / November 30, 2010
TEHRAN — President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad of Iran accused Israel and the West of being behind a pair of daring bomb attacks that killed one nuclear scientist and wounded another in Tehran yesterday.
He also acknowledged that a computer worm had affected centrifuges in Iran’s uranium enrichment program.
Ahmadinejad and other Iranian officials vowed the nuclear program would not be hampered by what they described as a campaign to sabotage it — whether by assassination or by computer virus....
Gee, WHO would want to DO THAT?
In the bomb attacks, assailants on motorcycles attached magnetized bombs to the cars of the two nuclear scientists as they drove to work....
Mossad's calling card!
“Undoubtedly, the hand of the Zionist regime and Western governments is involved in the assassination,’’ Ahmadinejad told a news conference....
Asked about Iran’s accusations, Israeli government spokesman Mark Regev said Israel does not comment on such matters.
US State Department spokesman P.J. Crowley said, “We decry acts of terrorism, wherever they occur. And beyond that, we do not have any information on what happened.’’
Tehran’s police chief, Hossein Sajednia, said no one had been arrested yesterday and no one had claimed responsibility....
Early in November, UN inspectors found Iran’s enrichment program temporarily shut down, according to a recent report. The length and cause of the shutdown were not known, but speculation fell on the Stuxnet worm, which is designed to destroy centrifuges by causing them to spin out of control.
The latest attacks came a day after the release of internal US State Department memos by the website WikiLeaks, including several that detail Arab fears over Iran’s nuclear program. In some memos, US diplomats say Arab leaders advocated a US-led attack on Iranian nuclear facilities....
Related: Wikileaking Our Way To War
The AmeriKan Media's Poison Pill
Maybe it is a good thing the Globe is cutting me off.
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Also see: Iran is Paranoid
Turns out they are not.
"Intelligence Minister Heidar Moslehi accused the Israeli Mossad spy agency, Britain’s MI6, and the CIA of being involved in the attacks....
Yup, all the USUAL SUSPECTS!
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Also see: Iran vows hard line on nuclear talks
"Nasrin Sotoudeh, 47, was arrested in September and accused of endangering national security. Sotoudeh’s court case, which is expected to take several weeks, was held behind closed doors....
I have only two words for the agenda-pushing AmeriKan media: Lynne Stewart
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So how will this all play out?
"The challenge looks unlikely to succeed....
Still....
But....
That is not news; that is propaganda.
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Also see: Families fear for US men held in Iran
Iran executes killer in love triangle
