Posts Tagged ‘Nuclear weapons’
Friday, July 17th, 2009

Brian Doyle CNI Staff Writer brian@cnionline.org Debate over how to respond to Iran’s nuclear program was intensified by a German magazine’s recent report in which unnamed German intelligence officials alleged Iran is only six months from a nuclear bomb. While some on the right in both the US and Israel will seize this shrinking time [...]
Tags: containment, deterrence, GCC, Gulf States, Iran, Israel, Middle East, nuclear proliferation, Nuclear weapons, Persian Gulf, Turkey, United States
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Wednesday, July 8th, 2009

By Brian Doyle CNI Staff Writer brian@cnionline.org As Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Admiral Mullen stated recently, a strike on Iran would destabilize the whole Middle East. After Vice President Biden’s remarks this weekend that the US would not stand in the way of an Israeli strike, Iranian leaders made clear that they [...]
Tags: air strike, al-Qaeda, Arab World, Barack Obama, Iran, Iraq, Israel, Joe Biden, nuclear proliferation, Nuclear weapons
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Tuesday, June 9th, 2009

Israeli Whispering Campaign on Iran It seems an Israeli whispering campaign is afoot to lay the foundation for preemptive military action against Iran. A recentSenate Foreign Relations Committee report on Iran’s nuclear program contains comments from unidentified (though undoubtedly Israeli) foreign officials questing the US intelligence community’s work on Iran’s nuclear program. They contend US [...]
Tags: air strike, Intelligence, Iran, Israel, Israel Lobby, Nuclear weapons
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