Sabre-rattling over Iran

[SajeevJino]

Any Irani members on forum?

only Haters here ..No Members no Friendly

 

[average american]

only Haters here ..No Members no Friendly

I am not emotionally involved, thats just the way its going to be.

Islamic countries like Pakistan and Iran have a threefold system of goverment—a religious-political-cultural ideology of goverment that does not work well if at all in the 21st century and is going to work less well in the future. Any country that uses Islam as a religious poltical and culture ideology is not only going to suffer the consquences of a failed system economically and poltically but be a pariah to the rest of the world and suffer the consquences.

"Today we are the poorest, the most illiterate, the most backward, the most unhealthy, the most un-enlightened, the most deprived, and the weakest of all the human race," he told the delegates.
President Musharraf""
(So its not just my opinon)

The civilized world now regards Pakistan, Iran with the same amusement and disgust as they once did cannibals and head hunters in other
primitive cultures.

I am not sure where India stands.

 

[W.G.Ewald]

The civilized world now regards Pakistan, Iran with the same amusement and disgust as they once did cannibals and head hunters in other
primitive cultures.

I am not sure where India stands.

Just to be clear, where India stands in the regard of the civilized world, or where India stands in its regard of Pakistan?

I think your statement is hyperbole. And by the way, the missionaries love cannibals and head-hunters.

 

[Shirman]

Any Irani members on forum?

Look bro there r 2 types of Iranian/ Persian mentality People currently available in 2days era nd on the net

1). They HATE the current state of their homeland n Islamic regime ie :- Persian mentality these Iranis r ultra-modern n frowned when called Iranian loved to be called persian....

2). The another one who will die for their country n r deeply Shia-islamic in their Belief.......Will Post all kinds of Propaganda to make their country proud.........

 

[SajeevJino]

The country Who lead by Religion and Hating other Religions instead of Peoples Republic ...we will not allow to acquire WMD's

In my stand Iran,N. Korea Must stops Their Nuclear Programs They both have same intention and they are both threaten of Peace


and I hope One day Israeli and Indian Forces Should Seize all of the Nuclear warhead from Pakistan and Make Pakistan as a Nuclear free country

 

[SajeevJino]

Iran leader rejects US offer of talks 'at gunpoint'​

Iran's all-powerful supreme leader on Thursday rejected a US offer to negotiate one-on-one on Tehran's nuclear ambitions, ruling out such contacts so long as Washington keeps up its threats against the Islamic republic.


"I am not a diplomat but a revolutionary and I speak frankly," Ayatollah Ali Khamenei told air force commanders in remarks published on his website. "You (Americans) are pointing the gun at Iran and say either negotiate or we will shoot."

"Some rejoice at the offer of negotiations ... (but) negotiations will not solve anything," he said, adding that those in Iran who prefer to risk "American domination" by negotiating with Washington would be dealt with.

Khamenei has the final say on all key issues in the Islamic republic, including Iran's sensitive nuclear activities and foreign policy.

His stance appeared to contradict that of Foreign Minister Ali Akbar Salehi who said on Monday that he detected signs the United States was rethinking its approach towards Tehran.

Khamenei said: "Iran will not accept to negotiate with he who threatens us with pressure," in reference to a list sanctions adopted by Washington to coerce Iran into curbing its nuclear programme.

"The offer of talks is meaningful when the other side shows goodwill," he said.

The remarks come at a time when Tehran and six world powers are preparing to resume stalled talks over Iran's nuclear programme in the Kazakh city of Almaty on February 26.

Iran and the P5+1 group of the United States, China, Russia, Britain, France and Germany held three rounds of talks last year, the last of which ended in stalemate in June in Moscow.

Calls to roll back its atomic work were rebuffed by Tehran, which demanded world powers scale back sanctions which have caused pain for its struggling economy.

"Does imposing, in your own words, crippling sanctions show goodwill or hostility?" Khamenei said on Thursday, responding to a new offer of bilateral talks proposed by US Vice President Joe Biden last week.

Biden said at the Munich Security Conference that Washington was open to direct talks with Iran to resolve the nuclear issue provided "the Iranian leadership, supreme leader, is serious."

"We have made it clear at the outset that... we would be prepared to meet bilaterally with the Iranian leadership," Biden said.

"That offer stands, but it must be real and tangible, and there has to be an agenda that they're prepared to speak to. We are not just prepared to do it for the exercise," Biden said.

Khamenei's remarks came a day after the US tightened sanctions on Iran to further choke off its oil income.

The two foes are locked in a tense showdown over an array of issues, including Tehran's nuclear ambitions which the West and Israel suspect are aimed at military objectives, despite Iran's repeated denials.

Washington broke off relations with Iran in 1980 in the aftermath of the storming of the US embassy in Tehran that led to 52 American diplomats being taken hostage by Islamist students.

Since then, the US has been vilified by the Islamic republic as the "Great Satan."

Iran is also being pressured by the UN's atomic watchdog agency to allow broader access to its nuclear facilities in a bid to resolve outstanding issues over the Islamic republic's past atomic activities.

A team from the agency is expected in Tehran on February 13.

Iran leader rejects US offer of talks 'at gunpoint'

 

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IAEA says Iran nuclear talks fail again​

The chief UN atomic inspector said Thursday that talks with Iran had failed again to reach a deal on enhanced inspections of Tehran's nuclear programme, two weeks before a major meeting with world powers.


"We had discussions on the structured approach document but could not finalise the document," Herman Nackaerts of the International Atomic Energy Agency told reporters at Vienna airport after returning from Tehran.

"Our commitment to continued dialogue is unwavering. We will work hard now to resolve the remaining differences but time is needed to reflect on the way forward," he said.

"We haven't agreed yet on a date for the next meeting."

He declined to comment on whether the two sides had made any progress towards a deal, but Iran's envoy to the IAEA, Ali Asghar Soltanieh, on Wednesday was characteristically more upbeat.

"Some differences were resolved and agreement on some issues in the modality was reached," Soltanieh was quoted by the Iranian news agency ISNA as saying.

The meeting was the latest in a string of attempts by the IAEA to press Iran to grant access to sites, scientists and documents that the agency believes may have been part of a covert nuclear weapons drive.

Iran says that the IAEA's allegations are based on flawed Western and Israeli intelligence -- which it has not been allowed to see -- and says it has never sought to develop the bomb.

This latest failure comes less than two weeks before talks between Iran and six world powers -- the United States, China, Russia, Britain, France and Germany -- in Almaty, Kazakhstan on February 26.

These talks follow three rounds in 2012, the last in Moscow in June, at which the six, known as the P5+1, pressed Iran to scale back key areas of its nuclear programme.

Iran however walked away because the P5+1 stopped short of offering Tehran relief from UN Security Council and unilateral Western sanctions that last year began to cause major economic problems for the Persian Gulf country.

In particular the six want Iran to suspend the enrichment of uranium to purities of 20 percent, which for the international community is the most worrisome part of Iran's activities.

Iran's mastery of the technology to enrich to these levels takes it significantly closer to being able to purify the material further to 90 percent, the level for a nuclear weapon -- should Iran decide to do so.

Iran says that it is enriching to 20 percent in order to make fuel for a reactor producing nuclear medicines. It is also enriching to five percent for power generation, even though it has only one operating plant for this.

The six powers also want Tehran to shut the Fordo enrichment facility -- dug into a mountain near the holy city of Qom, making it difficult to destroy -- and to ship abroad its existing stockpile of 20-percent uranium.

Mark Fitzpatrick at the International Institute for Strategic Studies said Iran's attempt to use IAEA cooperation as a "bargaining chip" with the P5+1 is "one of the many reasons why talks in Almaty are unlikely to make any progress".

"Iran could have bought some goodwill by reaching the long-delayed agreement with the IAEA," the former US State Department official told AFP. "Instead there will be a heightened atmosphere of distrust and suspicion."

The IAEA's latest quarterly report on Iran next week is expected to show that Iran has continued to increase its capacity to enrich, and to grow its stockpile of enriched uranium. Close attention will be paid to whether it has installed newer-generation machinery.

In November, Washington warned that if there was no progress between Iran and the IAEA, it would push for the 35-nation IAEA board at its next meeting from March 4-8 to take the rare step of referring Iran to the UN Security Council.

The UN Security Council has already passed six resolutions calling on Iran to suspend all enrichment activities.


IAEA says Iran nuclear talks fail again

 

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Iran sought nuclear parts in China: report​

Iran tried to smuggle thousands of specialized magnets through China for its centrifuges, in an effort to speed its path to reaching nuclear weapons capability, according to a new US report.

The report, by a renowned American nuclear scientist, said the operation highlighted the importance of China as a transit point for Iran's nuclear program, and called for sanctions against any Chinese firms involved.

The Institute for Science and International Security (ISIS) report said an Iranian front company used a Chinese commercial website to try to acquire 100,000 ring-shaped magnets, which it is banned from importing under United Nations sanctions, in late 2011.

Two magnets were needed for each of 50,000 first-generation centrifuges used to enrich uranium at Iran's nuclear plants, in a process that Western powers say is designed to build nuclear weapons, a charge Tehran denies.

The ISIS report by US scientist David Albright suggested that the operation meant that Iran was trying to "greatly expand" its number of first-generation centrifuges even as it builds more advanced machines.

"China needs to do more to show that it is a responsible member of the global economy," the report said.

"In particular, it should crack down on the efforts of Iranian smuggling networks."

The ISIS said it could not establish whether Iran found a Chinese supplier willing to provide the ring magnets.

The Washington Post, which first reported the ISIS report, quoted a European diplomat with access to intelligence as saying Iran was positioning itself to make swift progress on its nuclear program.

"Each step forward makes the situation potentially more dangerous," the unnamed diplomat was quoted as saying.

The White House would not comment explicitly on the ISIS report but said that it was aware of Iran's "aggressive" efforts to avert UN sanctions.

"The unprecedented international sanctions put in place against Iran are not only designed to crystallize the choice for the Iranian regime regarding its nuclear program, but also to deter and disrupt Iranian procurement of components to support its nuclear program," White House spokesman Josh Earnest said.

The report will raise new concerns about the extent of progress in Iran's nuclear program, despite international sanctions, which will be at the top of the agenda when President Barack Obama visits Israel next month.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Monday that Iran was now closer to crossing the "red line" after which it would be able to build a nuclear weapon but had not yet reached that stage.

It will also raise the stakes for the latest round of talks between world powers and Tehran, due to take place in two weeks.


Iran sought nuclear parts in China: report - FRANCE 24

 

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Iran will 'never' shut down its Fordo nuclear facility – senior legislator​

Tehran will never shut down its Fordo uranium enrichment plant, Iran's senior parliament member has said in the wake of world powers' reported plan to offer lighter gold sanctions in exchange for closing Fordo."Our national duty is to defend our nuclear and vital centers against an enemy threat," head of Iranian parliament's national security and foreign policy committee chief Alaeddin Boroujerdi told Iran Students' News Agency (ISNA) Sunday.

World powers are honing in on Iran's nuclear program, and on Friday it was reported that they plan to offer easing on gold sanctions against Iran in exchange for the closure of Fordo. If the plant is not closed, Britain, China, Germany, France, Russia, and the US (the P5+1) will uphold gold sanctions against Iran, Reuters reported on Friday citing unnamed officials.

"This suggestion is meant to help the Zionist regime,"Boroujerdi said in regards to the trade-off, adding that "Fordo will never be shut down."

Iran secretly started construction of the underground plant in 2006.

In November, Iran's nuclear chief, Fereydoun Abbasi-Davani announced Tehran was set to sharply boost the number of centrifuges they used to produce nuclear fuel.

The US and its nuclear equipped allies want to shut down Fordo to curb Iran's suspected nuclear weapons program. Tehran is refining uranium at concentrations of 20% and it insists that its program is entirely peaceful.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has hinted at military force against Iran for the past year if the Islamic state fails to curb its nuclear ambitions, raising worldwide anxiety of an Israeli-Iranian stand-off.

The P5+1 and Iran are expected to meet February 26 in Almaty, Kazakhstan for further nuclear proliferation talks.

Iran will 'never' shut down its Fordo nuclear facility – senior legislator — RT

Then why the hell of Peace talks by P5+1 Just a Tea Party for Political Leaders :why: :why: :why:

 

[SajeevJino]

99% of Americans Consider Iranian Nukes a Threat​

North Korean nuclear program also widely preceived as 'critical' danger, poll finds; Republicans fear Islamism more than do Democrats

A huge majority of Americans view Iran's nuclear program as a "critical threat," alongside the North Korean nuclear program and "international terrorism," according to a poll released Monday.

The Gallup poll found that 99 percent of Americans believe the Islamic Republic's nuclear program is a threat "to the vital interests of the United States in the next 10 years," with 83% saying it was a "critical threat" and another 16% saying it was an "important, [but] not critical" one. Just 1% declined to say it was at least an important threat.

The poll was conducted February 7-10 among 1,015 respondents aged 18 and older. It has a margin of error of 4%.

The poll asked respondents to comment on nine possible threats. Iranian nuclear weapons generated the most concern, though only by the slimmest of margins.

North Korean nuclear weapons garnered nearly identical levels of concern, with 83% calling them a "critical threat" and 14% an "important" one, though these answers came before last week's nuclear test by the communist regime.

"International terrorism" rounded out the three leading threats perceived by the American public, with 81% and 17% calling it a "critical" and "important" threat, respectively. The remaining threats included Islamic fundamentalism (53%-28%), China's economic and military power (52%-39%), the military power of Russia (29%-53%) and the conflict between India and Pakistan (25%-55%).

The widest gap by party affiliation related to the perception of the threat from Islamic fundamentalism, with 70% of Republicans saying it was a critical threat, compared to 46% of Democrats.

The Israeli-Palestinian conflict has continued to decline as a perceived threat, with 44% of those polled saying it was a "critical threat" to US interests, a drop from 58% in a 2004 poll. Forty-four percent said the conflict was an "important" threat, and 9% said it was not important.

Islamic fundamentalism and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict both ranked lower as threats among the young compared with older Americans. Among Americans under 34 years old, just 35% said Islamic fundamentalism was a critical threat, compared with 64% among those 55 and older. When it came to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, 32% of the young saw it as a critical threat, compared to 54% of those over 55.

According to Gallup, "this year's poll marked the first time Gallup asked about North Korean and Iranian nuclear weapons specifically. In 2010 Gallup asked about the two countries' 'military power,' and found 61% rating each as a critical threat to the United States, second only to international terrorism. In 2004, the 'spread of weapons of mass destruction to unfriendly powers' ranked second only to terrorism. Thus, Americans have previously seen North Korea and Iran, and nuclear weapons in general, as serious threats to the US."

The findings on American perception of Iran correspond to other polling in recent years. A Gallup poll conducted in early February 2012 asked Americans whom they considered to be the United States' "greatest enemy today." The question was open-ended. Nearly one-third, or 32%, named Iran — more than any other country.

"The high level of concern Americans give to North Korea, as well as to Iran and to international terrorism, suggest these are areas on which the public would like the Obama administration and its new foreign policy team to focus its efforts," Gallup noted.

99% of Americans consider Iranian nukes a threat | The Times of Israel

 

[SajeevJino]

Iran closer than ever to build nuclear bomb - Israel​

Iran is "closer than ever" to the ability to build a nuclear bomb, Israel said on Thursday, as a new UN report said Tehran has begun installing next-generation equipment at one of its main nuclear plants.

The International Atomic Energy Agency's report said Iran started installing new and advanced centrifuges at Natanz, which would enable it to speed up the enrichment of uranium.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's office said the report was "severe," and "proves Iran is continuing to rapidly advance to the red line that the prime minister drew at his speech in the United Nations."

"Iran is closer than ever today to obtaining enriched material for a nuclear bomb," the statement read.

Israel, along with the United States and much of the West, believes Iran is seeking a nuclear weapon, something Tehran strongly denies.

Israel, the Middle East's sole, albeit undeclared, nuclear power, believes Iran must be prevented from reaching military nuclear capabilities at any cost and refuses to rule out military intervention to that end.

U.S. considers possible Iranian nuclear step as 'another provocation'

The United States said on Thursday that Iran's installation of advanced centrifuges at its main uranium enrichment plant would be "yet another provocative step."

"The installation of new advanced centrifuges would be a further escalation and a continuing violation of Iran's (U.N.) obligations," U.S. State Department spokeswoman Victoria Nuland said when asked about a report by the U.N. nuclear watchdog saying that Iran has done so.

"It would mark yet another provocative step."

Iran installing new nuclear equipment - IAEA

Iran has begun installing next-generation equipment at one of its main nuclear plants, a new UN atomic agency report said Thursday, five days before talks with world powers.

"On 6 February 2013, the Agency observed that Iran had started the installation of IR-2m centrifuges" at the Natanz plant, the International Atomic Energy Agency report said.

"This is the first time that centrifuges more advanced than the IR-1 have been installed" at the plant, it said.

Iran closer than ever to build nuclear bomb - Israel: Voice of Russia

 

[SajeevJino]

World powers plan 'serious offer' to Iran​

Six world powers plan to make a "serious offer" to Iran during talks on resolving disputes about its nuclear energy program, a Western diplomat said

The offer, to be made in Kazakhstan Tuesday, is expected to have what the five permanent members of the U.N. Security Council and Germany -- known as the P5-plus-1 -- consider "significant new elements," the diplomat told reporters in London on condition of anonymity.

"We will take an offer with us which we believe to be a substantial and serious offer," the diplomat said, offering no details.

CNN cited Western officials as saying the delegates plan to offer eased sanctions currently preventing trade with Iran in gold and other precious metals, if Iran shuts down its underground Fordo uranium-enrichment plant south of Tehran, near the holy city of Qom.

The delegates would also say Iran must get rid of its stockpile of uranium enriched to 20 percent purity, the officials said.

Twenty-percent enrichment puts Iran a few technical steps away from weapons-grade uranium.

Iran has been stockpiling enriched uranium for years in defiance of Security Council resolutions demanding a halt to the activity.

Iran already rejected the new P5-plus-1 proposal, CNN said.

But officials told the network they believed Iran's crumbling economy, due to Western sanctions, may cause the regime to consider making a deal.

The network described the new offer as a slightly revised version of a package P5-plus-1 delegates presented to Iran during talks in Moscow, Baghdad and Istanbul, Turkey, last year.

During those talks Britain, China, France, Russia, the United States and Germany proposed offering fuel for a medical reactor and eased sanctions so Tehran could buy spare parts for its civil aircraft, if the regime suspended its uranium enrichment and shipped its stockpiles out of the country.

"We couldn't come back with the same proposal," one official told the network.

"But the idea is to test the waters and see where the Iranians are and if they are serious," the official said. "We hope to get some insight into their thinking and see what they prioritize in their asks and offers."

Iran insists it is legally entitled to enrich uranium for peaceful purposes and denies it wants to become a nuclear weapons state.

By contrast, the International Atomic Energy Agency says it can no longer verify Iran's nuclear program is strictly peaceful.

Washington and European allies have imposed increasingly onerous sanctions on the country in response to the enrichment program.

Israel has warned it may carry out military strikes to stop Iran from gaining nuclear-weapons capacity. Washington says it won't rule out using force but prefers diplomacy.


Diplomat: P5-plus-1 plans 'serious offer' on Iran's nuclear program - UPI.com

 

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Iran, world powers agree to expert talks on Tehran's nuclear program​

Diplomats emerged Wednesday from an unusually secretive round of talks on Iran's controversial nuclear program with a joint announcement to hold a follow-up meeting within weeks.


In a joint statement, the European Union's foreign policy chief, Catherine Ashton, and the chief Iranian negotiator, Saeed Jalili, announced that technical experts would meet in Istanbul on March 18.

Political directors would later reconvene in this snowbound Kazakhstani city on April 5.

Citing the delicacy of the negotiations, representatives of the so-called P5+1 -- the six-nation diplomatic bloc consisting of the U.S., France, Britain, Germany, China and Russia -- did not reveal details of a new proposal submitted to the Iranians at Almaty.

The chief negotiator from Iran, however, said the six nations had been forced to make concessions to Tehran since the last talks in Moscow in May.

"Despite the behavior that they have shown over the last eight months, it was them who actually tried to get closer to our viewpoints, and we see that as a positive step," said Jalili, speaking to journalists at a news conference in a hotel ballroom.

"If Dr. Jalili has said it is positive, then I'm pleased," said Ashton, when she addressed journalists separately in the same room moments later. "But we have to look at the results."

She said that the P5+1 countries remained "absolutely unified in seeking a diplomatic resolution to international concerns regarding Iran's nuclear program."

The decade-long dispute revolves around accusations that Iran is secretly pursuing a nuclear weapons program, which Tehran consistently denies.

Iran is, however, facing sanctions from the United Nations Security Council for violating a U.N. resolution forbidding it from enriching uranium.

In its latest quarterly report on Iran, inspectors from the International Atomic Energy Agency concluded they were "unable to provide credible assurance about the absence of undeclared nuclear material and activities in Iran, and therefore to conclude that all nuclear material in Iran is in peaceful activities."

Tehran maintains that as a signatory of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, it has the right to enrich uranium for peaceful energy needs.

In the eight months since diplomats last gathered, the IAEA has reported that Iran had expanded its uranium enrichment activities. Iran also added centrifuges to at least one of its nuclear installations.

During the same period, the United States and Europe piled on additional sanctions against Iran, including a measure that restricts the trade of gold and other precious metals.

The combined American, European and U.N. embargoes have done considerable damage to the Iranian economy. Oil exports have plummeted, as has the value of the Iranian rial. Iranians have watched in alarm as their savings dwindled and the acquisition of foreign pharmaceuticals and other medical supplies became increasingly difficult.

Leading up to the Almaty talks, Tehran repeatedly demanded that P5+1 countries lift their economic blockade of Iran.

On the eve of the talks, a senior U.S. official, speaking on condition of anonymity, said the new P5+1 proposal included some "sanctions relief."

But Western diplomats offered few details about the proposed sanctions relief.

"The sanctions easing offered at this stage do not deal with those sanctions having the greatest impact ... oil and financial," the U.S. official said Wednesday.

The P5+1 countries have repeatedly said ending the sanctions would be possible only if Iran took "concrete confidence-building steps."

According to the senior U.S. official, Washington's greatest concerns are about Iran's continued enrichment of uranium to a level of 20%, which is a step closer to the 90% uranium enrichment needed for a nuclear bomb.

Also, the U.S. government says it's worried about the Fordo enrichment facility, which is buried deep beneath a mountain near the Iranian holy city of Qom.

On Wednesday, the U.S. official said the current P5+1 proposal calls for Iran to "suspend enrichment at Fordo and constrain the ability to rapidly resume enrichment there."

In his statements to the media, Jalili said the six-nation diplomatic bloc had not requested the closure of Fordo in Almaty.

"There is no justification for its closure, and they did not ask so," Jalili said, speaking through an interpreter.

Western diplomats were careful to characterize this week's talks as "useful."

And at least one longtime observer of Iran and its nuclear program said the latest meeting appeared to have produced some positive results.

"What is new in these Almaty talks are the positive reactions from Iran to the P5+1 proposal and what appear to be substantial adjustments of the P5+1 proposal itself," said Scott Peterson, author of a recently published book on Iran titled "Let the Swords Encircle Me."

Peterson said the apparent changes in the proposal "allow Iran -- at least at this stage -- to continue with its nuclear program, but in a more restricted way."


Iran, world powers agree to expert talks on Tehran's nuclear program - CNN.com

 

[SajeevJino]

Leaders who all are enjoyed Party in Kazakhstan.. but others who Think there will be a real Change ..In my view they talking again talking and Iran speed up the warhead project again and again

 

[rock127]

Iran seems to be buying time so that it can make nukes... after Iran make nukes it would say "No talking more please... we got NUKES "

 

[SajeevJino]

Obama to threaten Iran with military strike in June, Israeli media reports says RT ​

According to a report on Israel's Channel 10 News that has since been picked up by the Times of Israel, Pres. Obama will use an upcoming meeting overseas to discuss a military strike on Iran. Pres. Obama is scheduled to visit Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu next month, and during the get-together the two leaders will reportedly work out the details for a possible assault.

Pres. Obama will tell Netanyahu that a "window of opportunity" for a military strike on Iran will open in June, Channel 10 claims.

Israel has long-urged the White House to use its military prowess to intervene in Iran's rumored nuclear weapon procurement plan, demands which have by-and-large been rejected by the Obama administration. According to the latest reports, though, the United States might finally be willing to use its might to make a stand against Iran's race for a nuke.

"I have conversations with Prime Minister Netanyahu all the time. And I understand and share Prime Minister Netanyahu's insistence that Iran should not obtain a nuclear weapon, because it would threaten us, it would threaten Israel, and it would threaten the world and kick off a nuclear arms race," Pres. Obama said during an interview on the television program 60 Minutes last year, but not before adding that he'll continue to block "noise" from Netanyahu's camp. "Now I feel an obligation, not pressure but obligation, to make sure that we're in close consultation with the Israelis — on these issues. Because it affects them deeply. They're one of our closest allies in the region. And we've got an Iranian regime that has said horrible things that directly threaten Israel's existence," he said.

But five months after those remarks, Iran is still inclined to become a nuclear power. Only days earlier, The Jerusalem Post reported that Netanyahu said the details of a confidential report by the International Atomic Energy Agency suggested that that Iran had begun installing advanced centrifuges at its main uranium enrichment facility, sparking "very grave" concerns that Israel could be hit with a nuke.

World powers and Iran's representatives sit at a table during talks on Iran's nuclear programme in the Kazakh city of Almaty on February 26, 2013.

Right now, five members of the United Nations Security Council and Germany are holding talks with Iranian officials in Kazakhstan, with the goal of reaching a diplomatic answer to the nuclear crisis. However, domestic tensions within Iranian political elite do not make the prospect of a solution any more viable for now. Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's second and final term in office is set to wrap up this June, and political fights within the country's top contenders for the position has prompted possible presidents to take harsh stance on the issue and resist outside pressure.

"President Ahmadinejad's second term in office expires in half a year. The law prohibits him from running for the third term. What is happening could be an intensifying power struggle," Andrei Baklitsky of the Russian Center for Policy Studies tells the Moscow Times of the latest "5+1 talks" in Kazakhstan. "At first [Iranian Foreign Minister Ali Akbar] Salehi signals the possibility of direct talks with the United States and then the supreme leader rejects it. But as Salehi is Ahmadinejad's man, the controversy should be viewed through the prism of an internal political standoff rather than as Tehran's official policy."

John Kerry, the US secretary of state, told reporters in Berlin, "My hope is Iran will make its choice to move down the path to a diplomatic solution."

When Netanyahu critiqued the United States' reluctance to act first last year, a meeting between the prime minister and Pres. Obama was subsequently cancelled by the White House. Just next month, though, the commander-in-chief will travel to the West Bank and Jordan for the first time during his second term in office. National Security Council spokesman Tommy Vietor has said of the trip that it will mark an "opportunity to reaffirm the deep and enduring bonds between the United States and Israel and to discuss the way forward on a broad range of issues of mutual concern, including Iran and Syria."


Obama to threaten Iran with military strike in June, Israeli media reports — RT USA

Is chuck Hagel allows that

 

[nrupatunga]

Iran says building 3,000 advanced centrifuges

 

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Netanyahu: Iran closer to nuclear 'red line'​

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Monday that diplomacy has so far failed to deter Iran from pursuing its nuclear program, warning it was getting closer to crossing a crucial "red line."

"Iran is getting closer to that red line, and it is putting itself in that position to cross it," Netanyahu told the largest American pro-Israel lobby via satellite, referring to the point at which Israel believes Iran would be able to build a nuclear weapon.


Netanyahu: Iran closer to nuclear 'red line' - FRANCE 24

 

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Kerry: 'Finite' time for Iran nuclear talks to bear fruit

Israel, Iran's arch-enemy and convinced Tehran is secretly trying to develop nuclear weapons, has grown impatient with the protracted talks and has threatened preemptive war against Tehran.
Kerry's sentiment was largely echoed by Saudi Foreign Minister Prince Saud al-Faisal, who said that the negotiations cannot be endless.

Kerry, in the final stages of a nine-nation, 11-day trip that will also take him to Abu Dhabi and Doha, also had lunch with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas to discuss the possibility of reviving peace talks with Israel.

Gurus, Also look at the recent happenings
I) Kerry (US) announces aid to syrian rebels. Britain, france may provide arms to rebels.
ii) Kerry agrees 250$ million aid to egypt. Also IMF may agree to 4.8 Billion $ package to egypt.

So all things are being put into place, war drums are being sounded, is uncle sam ready to flex arms again???

West asia is undergoing a huge churning as we speak. Hopefully india takes necessary steps to handle any scenario which may emerge.

 

[nrupatunga]

Obama not bluffing over Iran military threat: Joe Biden