When basiji “students” stormed the British Embassy in Tehran yesterday one first recalls events in November 1979 when students took 55 American diplomates and Embassy employees hostage for an incredible 444 days. Those days cemented the decade-long hostilities between the two countries. Those with Britain are not new. It is amazing that events both in 1953 [...]
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Over Again?
Posted in Iran, UK, tagged 1953, assassination, atomic bomb, basiji, British Embassy, hostage crisis, IAEA, nuclear program, nuclear scientists, Operation Ajax, revolution, students, Vyacheslav Danilenko on November 30, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Begging to Be Attacked
Posted in Iran, Israel, Russia, UK, USA, tagged Bushehr nuclear plant, cyber attack, cyber war, Esther, Frank Rieger, myrtus, Natanz fuel enrichment plant, Ralph Langner, stuxnet on September 26, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
See update below. A computer virus (or worm) hits the front pages: Stuxnet. The piece of “hypersophisticated malware” has apparently targeted the Iranian nuclear program; and might have been successful already. The sharp drop in the number of fed, spinning centrifuges at Natanz since June 2009 may in fact be a result of sabotage (as has [...]
Terrorist Organizations
Posted in double standard, Iran, Pakistan, Terrorism, UK, USA, tagged Abdul Malek Rigi, G.B. Bush, Jundullah, Pasdaran, Sistan-Baluchestan on October 19, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Yesterday’s suicide attack in Sistan-Baluchestan with so far 42 casualties has been conducted most probably by Abdul Malek Rigi’s Jundullah, or Soldiers of Allah, a Sunni terrorist organization related to Al Qaeda which had been founded in 2003 and which is operating in Iran’s southeastern province. Rigi himself is supposed to be located in Pakistan, [...]
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