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Iran has now defied the E.U.-3 by resuming uranium processing at Isfahan. During the months of negotiations, Iran has put in place somewhere between 2,000 and 4,000 advanced centrifuges. Just as soon as Iran gets enough uranium hexafluoride produced at Isfahan, Natanz will be re-opened to begin processing the uranium hexafluoride to weapons-grade uranium. What has the Bush administration done about it? As I predicted in "Atomic Iran," the E.U.-3 negotiations were bound to fail, simply because the mullahs were playing the Europeans for fools. They only stopped enriching uranium because they had technical problems at Isfahan and Natanz, so...

/begin my translation Cruise Missile Technology Leaked from Iran to N. Korea? Entire Japan Could be Within RangeFormer Ukrainian regime sold it (to Iran)Sankei Shimbun 2005/06/26 morning issue A speculation arose on June 25 that the technology of long-range cruise missile, Kh-55, sold to Iran by former Ukrainian regime under Kuchma, was transferred to N. Korea. Multiple sources from (Japanese) government and the ruling party admitted it. Kh-55 can mount nuclear warhead, and, if N. Korea deploys it, the entire Japan would be within range. (Japanese) government is stepping up to improve missile defense(MD) against N. Korean ballistic missiles, but it cannot...

More than a year ago two able political-military analysts, former general officers Paul Vallely and Tom McInerney, wrote about a “web of terror” that crossed the artificial boundaries of nation, movement, organization, ideology, or geographical area. This concept of a vast network of deadly connections was outlined in their excellent work, Endgame: The Blueprint for Victory in the War on Terror. It was a startling concept in large measure because the notion of such a deadly global network is contrary to America’s cultural, organizational, and political stereotypes. We Americans are accustomed to labeling and categorizing: we like to say “a...

At a US Senate Foreign Affaris Committee panel about Iran, the Democratic Senator for Connecticut Christopher Dodd has said that Iran's claim that their nuclear studies are for peaceful purposes only is "not convincing". Iran is producing long range missiles for the purpose of spreading its power in the Middle East and beyond the Senator added. According to Dodd, Iran's Shahab-4 missiles have the capacity to reach the Near East and Southeast Europe and this situation puts US bases in Turkey at great risk.

TEHRAN (Reuters) - Iran has the military might to deter attacks against it, its defense minister said in remarks published Tuesday, one day after President Bush said he would not rule out military action against Iran. Ali Shamkhani said the Islamic Republic, which has seen U.S. forces topple regimes in neighboring Afghanistan and Iraq (news - web sites) in the last three years, did not fear attack. "We are able to say that we have strength such that no country can attack us because they do not have precise information about our military capabilities due to our ability to implement...

Iran is ready to repeat a test of a new version of its Shahab-3 ballistic missile, a weapon Iran maintains it produced in response to Israeli efforts to improve its own missile power and test-fired successfully last month. Defense Minister Ali Shamkhani said his employees were ready to test the missile "in the presence of observers," the official Islamic Republic News Agency reported. He did not elaborate. In August, the Defense Ministry announced the new version of the Shahab-3 _ which already was capable of reaching Israel and U.S. forces in the Middle East _ had been successfully test-fired. Israeli...

<p>Arab states don't have the option of cutting off oil supplies to support the Palestinians in their conflict with Israel, because doing so would cut off oil revenue needed to fund any resistance, Saudi Arabian Foreign Minister Saud al-Faisal said Tuesday in an interview with the French newspaper Le Monde.</p>