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Posted on Nov 21, 2009
peopledaily.com.cn

Iran’s military will conduct massive war games in response to escalating pressure from Western governments.

Iran has announced it will conduct a weeklong round of air defense war games centered on the country’s nuclear sites as Western powers, especially the U.S., turn up the heat over Tehran’s nuclear program.

The Wall Street Journal:

State media quoted a senior air-defense commander saying the exercise, scheduled to start Sunday, was targeted specifically at training against potential missile and aircraft threats against the country’s nuclear facilities. Brig. Gen. Ahmad Miqani told state-run press on Saturday the exercise would be conducted with both the Iranian armed forces and the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps over five days across a wide swath of northern, southern and western Iran.

The exercise comes as the West significantly increases pressure on Tehran following Iran’s refusal so far to accept a nuclear-energy deal hammered out between Iranian negotiators and counterparts from the U.S., France, Russia and the International Atomic Energy Agency last month. The deal called for Iran to ship out the bulk of its low-enriched uranium, to be further enriched in Russia and returned to Iran for use in a medical research reactor.

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By richard, November 23, 2009 at 1:28 pm Link to this comment
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Israel should also be inspected for nuclear weapons!

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By walldizo, November 23, 2009 at 5:40 am Link to this comment
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Aside from the joint US-Israel military maneuvers,Israel carried several military excercises which all went unnoticed by the Wester media.So what’s wrong with Iran’s getting ready to fend off an almost realistic military attack by both Israel and the US?.The sad conclusion is that we are having a Pesident who promised a lot but have will to deliver

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By gerard, November 22, 2009 at 3:41 pm Link to this comment

Buried in the Wall Street Journal article:  “The Iranian military exercise follows on the heels of a large-scale air-defense exercise by Israel, conducted with U.S. troops, last month.”
  Tit for tat. Threat and counter-threat. Using the same old tired gambit, who can reasonably expect true negotiation or conciliation or de-escalation?
  This is Foreign Policy for Dummies.

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By the tshirt doctor, November 22, 2009 at 9:06 am Link to this comment

don’t forget that israel has not allowed nuclear inspection teams to even inspect their sites.  and israel’s gotten permission to do that, or not do that, from every president that’s been elected. 

you can thank AIPAC for all our current problems.

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By montanawildhack, November 22, 2009 at 7:23 am Link to this comment

Paolo is spot on of course….

I say, “You Go Iran!”...  They have the right to defend themselves against Zionist/American aggression…..  It sickens me that the MSM NEVER mentions that Israel is a nuclear power….  The answer to this problem is simple:DEMAND that Israel give up its nukes!!!  Then and ONLY then can we demand anything of Iran….  God help us if we allow the Zionists to get us into yet another war…. As the greatest comedian in the world, Bill Hicks said, “A war is when TWO armies are fighting….”  Right now we are fighting 2 countries that are defending themselves with what amounts to spitballs…. Iran, my friends, will be another story….  Israel, and NOT Islamic Freedom Fighters, is the only threat to world peace….

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By Paolo, November 22, 2009 at 6:49 am Link to this comment

No one has ever—repeat, EVER—produced a shred of evidence that Iran has a nuclear weapons program. Iran has long allowed intrusive inspections of its nuclear facilities by the IAEA. Those inspections have produced no indication of any diversion of nuclear materials whatsoever.

Iran’s leadership has consistently condemned the use of nuclear weapons as being inconsistent with Islam.

I ask: what else can Iran do to satisfy the American Empire, even as it rampages all around her in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Pakistan? Answer: nothing. They creeps in Washington—both Democrats and Republicans—want more war, and nothing is going to stop them.

Ron Paul’s policy of non-interventionism makes perfect sense, which is why it won’t be implemented in today’s tweedle-dee, tweedle-dum Washington.

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By ardee, November 22, 2009 at 4:06 am Link to this comment

The arrogance of the Wests’ deciding which nations shall or shall not enrich uranium, for whatever purpose should be further discussed.

If the USA wants to truly halt nuclear proliferation one good way would be to destroy its own catalog of such weaponry.

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