Update below. Much has been said already about laughable accusations made by US Attorney General Eric Hoder the other day of Iran’s government being behind the alleged terror plot by previously convicted for some sort of petty fraud and already arrested Mansour Arbabsiar and Quds Brigade associate Gholam Shakuri in Iran. Robert Baer, CIA veteran, known by [...]
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Thinking Through the Thinkable
Posted in Academics, Iran, Israel, Terrorism, USA, tagged arms control, Jeffrey Lewis, New America Foundation, nuclear security, Thomas C. Schelling on April 17, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Nobel Laureate Thomas C. Schelling made an appearance and shared his views on soon expected nuclear Iran yesterday on the New America Foundation. Schelling, who is a Distinguished Professor of foreign affairs, national security, nuclear strategy and arms control at the School of Public Policy at the University of Maryland, was born in 1921. He had [...]
Bothersome
Posted in Afghanistan, Iran, Terrorism, USA, tagged Abdolmalek Rigi, Hamid Karzai, Jundullah, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Robert Gates on March 11, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Secretary of Defense Robert Gates has called Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s visit to Afghanistan’s President Hamid Karzai in Kabul as “certainly bothersome”. The two former politicians came up short, which is a pity. Gates, who had visited a military base in the Kabul province, had accused Iran of allegedly supporting the Taliban, albeit at a [...]
From Dubai
Posted in Iran, Terrorism, tagged Abdolmalik Rigi, G. W. Bush, Jundullah on February 25, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Abdolmalek Rigi, ring leader of Jundullah, Iran’s Sunni terrorist organization, which has been involved in several recent terror attacks in the country, is already confessing close connections with the CIA. His passenger plane from Dubai to Bishkek, Kyrgystan, with 113 passengers on board had been intercepted by two IRIAF F-4E Phantom II strike fighters and forced [...]