WILL ISRAEL ATTACK IRAN’S NUCLEAR FACILITIES BEFORE THE END OF PRESIDENT BUSH ADMINISTRATION?
AMBASSADOR JOHN BOTON PREDICTS YES

       IRANIAN PRESIDENT MAHMOUD AHMADINEJAD predicted the destruction of the "satanic powers" and repeated his belief that Israel will soon disappear. "I must announce that the Israel regime, with a 60-year record of genocide, invasion and betrayal is about to die and will soon be erased from the geographical scene," Ahmadinejad said. It appears that Israel is taking Ahmadinejad’s prediction seriously. During the first week of June, Israel carried out a major military exercise that American officials said appeared to be a rehearsal for a potential bombing attack on Iran's nuclear facilities.

      More than 100 Israeli F-16 and F-15 fighters participated in the maneuvers, which were carried out over the eastern Mediterranean and over Greece. The exercise also included Israeli helicopters that could be used to rescue downed pilots. The helicopters and refueling tankers flew more than 900 miles, which is about the same distance between Israel and Iran's uranium enrichment plant at Natanz. A spokesman for the Israeli military said that the country's air force "regularly trains for various missions in order to confront and meet the challenges posed by the threats facing Israel." It seems that Israel wants to send a clear message to Iran that it is prepared to act militarily if diplomatic efforts to stop them from producing bomb-grade uranium continued to falter.

      As a result of Israel’s military actions, Iran is beefing up its air defenses in recent weeks, including increasing air patrols.  Iran is clearly nervous about the Israeli maneuvers and has its air defense on guard. Iran is also taking steps to better defend its nuclear facilities. Two sets of advance Russian-made radar systems were recently delivered to Iran. The radar will enhance Iran's ability to detect planes flying at low altitude. An expert on national intelligence said in February that Iran was close to acquiring Russian-produced SA-20 surface-to-air missiles. American military officials said that the deployment of such systems would hamper Israel's attack planning, putting pressure on Israel to act before the Russian missiles are fielded. John Bolton, the former American ambassador to the United Nations, has predicted that Israel could attack Iran after the November presidential election but before George W Bush's successor is sworn in. The Arab world would be "pleased" by Israeli strikes against Iranian nuclear facilities, the ambassador said yesterday in an interview with The Daily Telegraph. "It [the reaction] will be positive privately. I think there'll be public denunciations but no action," he emphasized.
 





 
                      
     
                           
     
                       
     
                     

 		  

 

 

(The same story)
PUBLISHED BY  CAMCO THREE YEARS AGO
 

IRAN SAYS IT WILL CLOSE THE PERSIAN GULF IF ATTACKED
THE US NAVY SAYS, OH! NO, YOU WON’T
     Vice- Admiral Kevin J. Cosgriff, former commander of the US navy's Fifth Fleet, warned early this year that the United States will not allow Iran to shut the Strait of Hormuz, the Gulf sea lane through which much of the world's oil is supplied. "They will not close it... They will not be allowed to close it," Cosgriff told a press conference in Bahrain, where the fleet is based. His remarks followed comments by the chief of Iran's elite Revolutionary Guards, General Mohammad Ali Jafari, who issued a warning on any attack against Iran’s nuclear facilities. "It is natural that when a country is attacked it uses all of its military capabilities against the enemy, and definitely our control of the Persian Gulf and the Strait of Hormuz would be one of our actions," Jafari said. Yesterday, the Chief of Staff of Iran's Armed Forces, Major General Hassan Firouzabadi , repeated that the Islamic Republic will not allow anyone to pass through the waterway if its regional interests are in jeopardy," he added. Previously, Cosgriff had emphasized that the international community would work together to protect navigation in the Strait of Hormuz, adding that any action by Iran "will not be an action against the United States but against the international community". The new commander of the 5th Fleet is Vice-Admiral William Gortney who replaced Vice-Admiral Cosgiff on July 5th.

    Iran's naval strategists believe the U.S. will attempt to land ground forces to the East Bandar Abbas. Iran’s plans call for extensive use of ground-launched tactical missiles, coastal artillery, as swell as strategic missiles already aimed at Saudi Arabia and Israel tipped with chemical, biological and possibly nuclear warheads. The Iranians also plan to lay huge minefields across the Persian Gulf inside the Strait of Hormuz, effectively trapping ships that manage to cross the Strait and destroying them with their coastal artillery and China-made land-based "Silkworm" missile batteries. The Hormuz Strait between Iran and Oman is a vital conduit for energy supplies, with as much as 40 percent of the world's crude passing through the waterway. Twenty-five million barrels of oil pass through the strait every day - the equivalent of about $3 billion dollars, roughly 20 percent of the world's daily oil production. "Certainly if there is fighting, the scope will be extended to oil, meaning its price will increase dramatically … We think that this will deter our enemies from taking action against Iran," Jafari said.

     Today, Iran has sophisticated EM-53 bottom-tethered mines, which it purchased from China in the 1990s. The EM-53s represent a serious threat to major U.S. surface vessels, since their rocket-propelled charges are capable of hitting the hull of their targets at speed in excess of 70 miles per hour. Some analysts believe the mines can knock out an aircraft carrier. The Joint Chiefs of Staff has been warned about Iran's growing naval buildup in the Persian Gulf for over a decade. In a draft presidential finding submitted to President Clinton in late February 1995, it is concluded that Iran has the capability to close the Strait of Hormuz. A former head of Israel's Mossad foreign intelligence agency, Shabtai Shavit, said recently that the Jewish state had one year to destroy Iran's nuclear program or face the risk of coming under nuclear attack.

     On July 9, 2008, Iran test-fired nine long- and medium-range missiles during war games that officials said aimed to show the country can retaliate against any U.S. and Israeli attack. Gen. Hossein Salami, the air force commander of Iran's elite Revolutionary Guards, said the exercise would "demonstrate our resolve and might against enemies who in recent weeks have threatened Iran with harsh language." And on the 10th, he added: "We want to tell the world that those threatening us with military exercises and psychological warfare that our finger is always on the trigger and we have hundreds and even thousands of missiles ready to be fired against predetermined targets." At least three of the missiles fired were a new version of the Shahab-3 missile, which have a range of 1,250 miles (2,000 kilometers). The Shahab-3 can easily reach Israel, Saudi Arabia, Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Turkey. 
 

 






  
 
                       
     
                           





 		    
                       
     
                     

 		  




 

 


51 years of dictatorship of the Castro brothers...
Enough is Enough!
 


 


     VERY IMPORTANT:  It seems that Cuban dictator Raul Castro is afraid of the outstanding informative work being performed by Martha Beatriz Roque’s Community Communicators Network.  Since October 9, Cuba’s state security forces have  besieged  the home of opposition leader Vladimir Roca Antunez,  where  the Community Communicators' courses take place.  Any one who tries to come close to the house is stopped by the repressive agents and threatened with jail.
 

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ARMY TROOPS and  police OFFICERS attack peaceful demonstrators in  caracas
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IS SPY VLADIMIR PUTIN REALLY IN PHOTO WITH RONALD REAGAN?
   
   
  WASHINGTON, D.C.--Was Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin captured posing as a tourist, while serving as a KGB spy, in a photograph with former President Ronald Reagan? The photo in question, taken years ago by the official chief White House photographer for Reagan, is causing an international stir -- all the more so because the photographer himself says it's Putin in the picture.

     In the picture, President Ronald Reagan greets a Russian boy while in Red Square with Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev (far right) in Moscow in 1988. Pete Souza, the current chief White House photographer, took the photo when he held the same position under Reagan. Souza said the man with the camera is Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin posing as a tourist during his days as a Soviet spy.

     In a January interview with National Public Radio (NPR), Souza said he was struck at how the tourists in the photograph were asking questions of Reagan on serious subjects like human rights. "And I remember saying to the Secret Service agent, 'I can't believe these tourists in the Soviet Union are asking these pointed questions,'" Souza told NPR. "And the Secret Service agent said to me, 'Oh these are all KGB families.'"  "It's been pointed out to me and verified that that was Putin," Souza said.