http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2008/07/20080703-7.html
For Immediate Release
Office of the Press Secretary
July 3, 2008
“Fact Sheet: Senate Must Act Quickly on Bipartisan Foreign Intelligence Legislation to Ensure That Our Intelligence Professionals Can Better Protect America From Terrorists”
http://www.truthusa.com/IRAN.html
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http://www.memri.org/bin/articles.cgi?Page=countries&Area=iran&ID=IA45108
Inquiry and Analysis Series - No. 451
July 3, 2008 No. 451
“Iran in Preparations, Deployment to Withstand Possible Attack by West”
By: Y. Mansharof AND A. Savyon
Introduction
ARTICLE SNIPPET: “Despite confident pronouncements by Iranian leaders that the West will not dare to attack Iran’s nuclear facilities, [1] the Iranian regime has, on orders from Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei, been preparing for this eventuality by means of a comprehensive emergency plan called “Passive Defense.” [2] Examination of the plan reveals that the regime’s main fear is of an attack on Iran’s vital infrastructures, which would ultimately lead to its downfall. Therefore, alongside a defense doctrine based on preemptive attack, long-range ballistic missiles, and asymmetric guerilla warfare, [3] it has formulated a doctrine of “passive defense,” based mainly on cooperation between regional Passive Defense Councils and the regime’s popular militia, the Basij.
In fact, analysis of the plan reveals that the Basij plays a central role in it.”
In visits I paid to North Yemen prior to unification, I was amazed at how much hostility and resentment government officials and ordinary citizens expressed toward the United States. Yemenis were especially incensed about American support for Israel, and more importantly, for Saudi Arabia – Yemen's neighbor with which it was frequently at odds over the course of the 20th century.
Yemen seeks to roll up Shi'ite network
Yemen has launched a crackdown on Shi'ite insurgents aligned with Iran. The Interior Ministry has directed security forces to track and arrest hundreds of suspected Shi'ite insurgents in major cities in Yemen. So far, scores of Shi'ites, including eight suspected insurgency leaders, have been detained.
Dengue fever claims 3 lives in western Yemen
According to a report released by the infectious diseases supervision bureau of the health ministry late last month, 115 cases of dengue fever had been diagnosed in five provinces since the beginning of this year and three of them had died.