Iranian Missiles in South America? -Robert M. Morgenthau
Ahmadinejad and Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez [pictured above] have created a cozy financial, political and military partnership rooted in a shared anti-American animus.
Over the past three years a number of Iranian-owned and controlled factories have sprung up in remote and undeveloped parts of Venezuela - ideal locations for the illicit production of weapons.
Two of the world's most dangerous regimes will be acting together in our backyard on the development of nuclear and missile technology.
The writer, the Manhattan district attorney, adapted this from a presentation at the Brookings Institution in Washington.
(Wall Street Journal)
Venezuela to Export Gasoline to Iran -Ali Akbar Dareini
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez [above right] sealed an agreement to export 20,000 barrels per day of gasoline to Iran, state TV reported.
(AP)
[Note: Iran, while living in a pool of oil, can not yet refine it's own raw product, making it temporarily dependent on imported gasoline...and making it temporarily vulnerable to international sanctions.]
Iran's Revolution? -Simon Tisdall
What happened to the Iranian revolution of 2009? The hardliners won.
Ahmadinejad's reviving confidence is evident in his mockery of Western countries keen to revive talks about Iran's nuclear program. Is Iran taking Western concerns seriously? No, it is not.
Two choices remain. One is to admit the Israelis may be right in arguing that military action is the only sure way to hinder or stop Iran's nuclear advances. The other is to do nothing - and hope that Iran's repeated assurances that it does not seek the atom bomb are true.
(Guardian-UK)
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Ahmadinejad and Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez [pictured above] have created a cozy financial, political and military partnership rooted in a shared anti-American animus.
Over the past three years a number of Iranian-owned and controlled factories have sprung up in remote and undeveloped parts of Venezuela - ideal locations for the illicit production of weapons.
Two of the world's most dangerous regimes will be acting together in our backyard on the development of nuclear and missile technology.
The writer, the Manhattan district attorney, adapted this from a presentation at the Brookings Institution in Washington.
(Wall Street Journal)
Venezuela to Export Gasoline to Iran -Ali Akbar Dareini
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez [above right] sealed an agreement to export 20,000 barrels per day of gasoline to Iran, state TV reported.
(AP)
[Note: Iran, while living in a pool of oil, can not yet refine it's own raw product, making it temporarily dependent on imported gasoline...and making it temporarily vulnerable to international sanctions.]
Iran's Revolution? -Simon Tisdall
What happened to the Iranian revolution of 2009? The hardliners won.
Ahmadinejad's reviving confidence is evident in his mockery of Western countries keen to revive talks about Iran's nuclear program. Is Iran taking Western concerns seriously? No, it is not.
Two choices remain. One is to admit the Israelis may be right in arguing that military action is the only sure way to hinder or stop Iran's nuclear advances. The other is to do nothing - and hope that Iran's repeated assurances that it does not seek the atom bomb are true.
(Guardian-UK)
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