Irancove @ June 29, 2008 # No Comment Yet
Farideh Farhi has a very interesting post at ICGA on comments made by General Mohammad Ali Jafari, the commander of the Islamic Revolution’s Guard Corps (IRGC) in an interview with Jam e Jam. As Farhi points out, the interview reveals how Tehran views the possibility and aftermath of a US/Israeli attack:
The wire services have generally […]
Irancove @ June 29, 2008 # No Comment Yet
Source: The New Yorker
by Seymour M. Hersh
Operations outside the knowledge and control of commanders have eroded “the coherence of military strategy,” one general says.
Late last year, Congress agreed to a request from President Bush to fund a major escalation of covert operations against Iran, according to current and former military, intelligence, and congressional sources. These […]
Irancove @ June 29, 2008 # No Comment Yet
As Rep. Gary Ackerman’s Iran war legislation makes it’s way around Congress, the OPEC president warns of $170 barrel of oil by the end of summer:
ALGERIA. OPEC President Chakib Khelil predicted that the price of oil will climb to US$170 a barrel before the end of the year, citing the dollar’s decline and political conflicts.
In […]
Irancove @ June 29, 2008 # No Comment Yet
According to announcements by a senior Iraqi police officer:
The bases, equipped with missile launch pads, have been set up over the past four months on the Iraq-Iran border; Iraqi al-Noor newspaper quoted the official as saying.
He added that one of the bases has been located 30 km (20 miles) from the first border town with […]
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Sarah van Gelder of Yes! Magazine:
Until recently, the power struggle within the Bush administration over whether to attack Iran seemed to be going badly for the hawks. Their disastrous record in Iraq coupled with flimsy arguments for attacking Iran meant they were gaining little support. But now it appears congressional Democrats may be riding to […]
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Introduced less than a month ago, Resolution 362, also known as the Iran War Resolution, could be passed by the House as early as next week.
The bill is the chief legislative priority of AIPAC. On its Web site, […]