Nuclear Race

Peres makes rare hint at possible strike on Iran

President Shimon Peres had some unusually aggressive words for Iran Sunday, seemingly threatening military action if US President Barack Obama’s overtures to the Islamic republic fail to bear fruit.
“Ahmadinejad recruits forces against us, but there are also forces against him,” Peres said. “What happened in Egypt created a fierce opposition and we must unify all […]


Breaking News: North Korea ‘Launches Long-Range Rocket’

North Korea has launched a long-range missile, says the Japanese government.

Satellite image of missile launch pad

“A rocket appears to have been launched from North Korea,” the prime minister’s office said in a statement.
International pressure has mounted in recent days to halt the launch, which was due to take place at Musudan-ri on the north-east coast.
North […]


Change and Hope: Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad Meets With Obama’s Cousin in Kenya

[Hat to Gateway Pundict] Barack Obama’s cousin Kenyan Prime Minister Raila Odinga met with Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in Kenya today.

In this photo released by the Kenyan Prime Minister’s Press Service, Kenyan Prime Minister Raila Odinga, left, is seen with Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, right, during their meeting at the Laico Regency hotel, Nairobi, Kenya, […]


May God help us all: Iran says no slowdown in its nuclear work

[Via Reuters] - Iran has not slowed down its nuclear work and plans to install 50,000 centrifuges used to enrich uranium over the next five years, a senior Iranian nuclear official said on Wednesday.
“Currently we have 6,000 running centrifuges in Natanz and we will increase our activities to install more by the end of next […]


Wake up American: Kuwaiti Professor Fantasizes Of A Biological Attack On The White House

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Iran says US must accept nuclear programme

A senior adviser to Iran’s president says dialogue with the US will succeed only if the Obama administration accepts Tehran’s right to have a nuclear programme.
Mojtaba Samareh-Hashemi, right-hand man to Mahmoud Ahmadi-Nejad, the fundamentalist president, said, in an interview with the Financial Times, Tehran was studying its options, just as the new US administration was […]


Jimmy Carter the second:President Obama seeks Russia deal to slash nuclear weapons

President Obama will convene the most ambitious arms reductions talks with Russia for a generation, aiming to slash each country’s stockpile of nuclear weapons by 80 per cent.
The radical treaty would reduce the number of nuclear warheads to 1,000 each, The Times has learnt. Key to the initiative is a review of the Bush […]