From Admiral Lyons -
LYONS: Regime change needs to be endgame for Iran
Missile proliferation justifies U.S. strikes
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From Admiral Lyons -
LYONS: Regime change needs to be endgame for Iran
Missile proliferation justifies U.S. strikes
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Meanwhile, over at the Blog...
http://smallwarsjournal.com/jrnl/art/irans-expanding-footprint-in-latin-america
http://www.usnews.com/news/blogs/dotmil/2012/03/07/southern-exposure-iran-terror-groups-setting-up-shop-in-south-america
http://insightsur.com/2012/02/02/iran-to-launch-spanish-language-tv/
Right before Nigeria.
ftp://ftp.eia.doe.gov/pub/oil_gas/petroleum/data_publications/company_level_imports/current/import.html
Acting alone, Venezuela would be stupid but in concert with others?
http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-505263_162-57369416/intel-chief-pressured-iran-might-strike-in-u.s/
http://english.farsnews.com/newstext.php?nn=9010170873
& for those who don't want to hit FARS
http://www.timesunion.com/news/article/Iranian-leader-meets-Fidel-Castro-2501059.php
plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose Yeah, I know : Daily Mail. Still.
Oh yeah, you might want to read this thread
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/45938366/ns/world_news-americas/#.TwxadW9rNNU
http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/01/08/us-venezuela-iran-idUSTRE8070Q120120108
On the surface, Rear Admiral Habibollah Sayyari's trash-talk reads like an ONION article. I'm not familiar enough with the man to know if he's an addled old man prone to running his mouth, but what...
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Link to rest of tale
Update
http://www.jpost.com/International/Article.aspx?id=220879
http://abcnews.go.com/International/electronic-warfare-north-korea-nears-completion-electromagnetic-pulse/story?id=13081667
http://apnews.myway.com/article/20110101/D9KFO2BG0.html
From 2008
http://www.marketwatch.com/Community/groups/us-politics/topics/us-intel-iran-plans-nuclear
Iran is only half the equation, and a weak half at that - more of an enabler.
Tehran can...
Gotta do training, storage and logistics somewhere. The missile(s) don't care where they're launched.
You're assuming you need a nuke to generate a city-crippling EMP burst. I've read...
Just to be the Devil's Advocate, why assume 1) a land launch and 2) a nuclear weapon? :confused:
http://defensetech.org/2009/02/04/iran-launch-could-mean-emp-weapon/
Assuming the source was US intelligence.
http://www.haaretz.com/news/diplomacy-defense/deputy-fm-iran-venezuela-ties-threaten-u-s-entire-world-1.330419
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In the month since this article appeared, I've seen the peanut gallery assertions that it's mere Cold War style propaganda. So yes, let's look back to 1962......
http://www.hudson-ny.org/1714/iran-missiles-in-venezuela
http://pajamasmedia.com/blog/iran-shipped-missiles-to-venezuela/
Note scale of Venezuelan oil imports to US here...
Found this while looking for something else -
http://www.unhcr.org/refworld/country,,,QUERYRESPONSE,PRY,4562d94e2,42df61642c,0.html
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20101202/wl_nm/us_wikileaks_venezuela
Mod's Note:This thread was called: The "Newest" New World Order - a Coalition of Antagonistic Lilliputians ™ ? until 30/12/2010 and re-named for clarity as Venezuela, Iran & others: a coalition?
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