Iran tensions

May 2024 Forums General discussion Iran tensions

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  • #224144
    alanjjohnstone
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    The Iranian Oil Workers Strike – Update

    http://libcom.org/blog/struggle-iranian-oil-workers-goes-09112021

    #224460
    alanjjohnstone
    Keymaster

    Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin, America’s top defense official, vowed to prevent Iran from obtaining a nuclear weapon and to counter its “dangerous use” of suicide drones in the wider Mideast.

    At an event put on by the International Institute for Strategic Studies, he stated, “… if Iran isn’t willing to engage seriously, then we will look at all of the options necessary to keep the United States secure…Our potential punch includes what our friends can contribute and what we have prepositioned and what we can rapidly flow in.”

    https://apnews.com/article/middle-east-iran-united-states-dubai-united-arab-emirates-1ea5a6cf532ebd8984dab7fabb47f401

    #224970
    alanjjohnstone
    Keymaster

    Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett urged world powers to take a hard line against Iran in negotiations aimed at reviving an international nuclear deal.

    “Iran must begin to pay a price for its violations.”

    https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/12/5/israels-bennett-urges-stron-line-against-iran-at-nuclear-talks

    Israeli spy chief David Barnea headed to Washington late on Saturday for a previously unannounced trip and Defence Minister Benny Gantz will leave on Wednesday for meetings with his US counterpart Lloyd Austin and Secretary of State Antony Blinken. Foreign Minister Yair Lapid was in London and Paris last week to discuss the talks with Israel’s European allies.

    #224971
    Anonymous
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    I imagine that Israel only has firecrackers. It is well known that Israel is the only country in the Middle East that possess atomic bombs

    #224972
    alanjjohnstone
    Keymaster

    I read a while back that the US had supplied Israel with non-nuclear earthquake bombs purposefully designed to destroy installations deep underground.

    #224973
    Anonymous
    Inactive

    Those are mini nukes, the same ones used in Iraq to destroy underground bunkers

    #225063
    Anonymous
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    Nearing ‘end of the road’ to save Iran nuclear deal -France

    UNITED NATIONS, Dec 14 (Reuters) – The door to resuscitating the 2015 Iran nuclear deal is open for now but “we are rapidly reaching the end of the road” to revive a pact that is being gutted by Iran’s nuclear advances, France’s ambassador to the United Nations said on Tuesday.

    #225165
    alanjjohnstone
    Keymaster

    Iran has held an air defence drill in the vicinity of its southwestern Bushehr nuclear power plant amid ongoing tensions

    https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/12/20/iran-holds-air-defence-drill-over-bushehr-nuclear-plant

    #226080
    alanjjohnstone
    Keymaster

    Israel is taking part in a huge US-led naval exercise in the Middle East, for the first time joining Saudi Arabia and Oman.

    https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2022/2/2/israel-participates-in-huge-us-mideast-naval-exercise

    #230111
    alanjjohnstone
    Keymaster

    Israel provided pretext for attack?

    https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-61645243

    #230112
    Anonymous
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    Israel is the only nation in the Middle East that possess atomic bombs. I can have them, but you can not have them. Fidel Castro said that the USA wants others countries to possess Machetes while they have the monopoly of modern weapons, the same things can be applicable to Israel

    #231140
    alanjjohnstone
    Keymaster

    I can’t help but think of the convenience of the timing of this story as the nuclear talks reach a crtical stage

    https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2022/7/7/uk-warship-seized-advanced-iranian-missiles-bound-for-yemen

    Isn’t it strange it was the British embassy in UAE, one of the Saudi Arabia’s coalition partners that briefed the media, not London

    As for SAMs being found, aren’t these defensive weapons?

    #231238
    alanjjohnstone
    Keymaster

    Another motive for attacking Iran

    Iran is planning to supply Russia with hundreds of weapons-capable drones for use in Ukraine, according to a top US official.

    https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/jul/12/iran-drones-russia-uav-combat-ukraine

    #231380
    Anonymous
    Inactive

    And another motive to stop the nuclear agreement with Iran and the imposition of more sanctions which have killed thousand of irianian. The lesser evil is Donald trump part 2

    #231384
    alanjjohnstone
    Keymaster

    Commentator Chris Hedges speculates

    “The United States, Israel and Saudi Arabia are plotting a war with Iran. The 2015 Iranian nuclear arms accord, or Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), which Donald Trump sabotaged, does not look like it will be revived. U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM) is reviewing options to attack if Teheran looks poised to obtain a nuclear weapon and Israel, which opposes U.S.-Iran nuclear negotiations, carries out military strikes.”

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