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[Windsor]

[h=2]Barak: May There be More Explosions in Iran[/h]Defense Minister Ehud Barak addresses the mysterious explosion at a military base in Iran. "I don't know about it, but may there be more."
By Elad Benari First Publish: 11/14/2011, 7:13 AM

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Defense Minister Ehud Barak addressed for the first time on Sunday evening the mysterious explosion that took place on Saturday at a military base in Iran.
In an interview with Army Radio, Barak would not speculate about the cause and nature of the explosion and when asked about the extent of the damage caused by the explosion he replied, “I do not know, but may there be more such explosions.”
The mysterious blast, which occurred at a missile base southwest of Tehran, killed 17 people including a senior Iranian Revolutionary Guards missile expert.
On Sunday, blogger Richard Silverstein stated categorically that the Mossad and the MEK, a group of Iranian exiles, collaborated to carry out the explosions.
“My source has never been wrong so far in the reports he’s offered,” Silverstein wrote.
In the interview, Barak also addressed Saturday’s decision of the Arab League to suspend Syria and its institutions, and said that he feared Syrian President Bashar Assad will make even more brutal moves in response to the move.
“Assad has passed the point of no return,” the Defense Minister said. “Many more will be killed but he will eventually fall.”
Barak once again criticized the bill on High Court appointments, which would require nominees for the High Court to face questioning by the Knesset’s Law, Constitution and Justice Committee, which could rule against a particular nominee. Earlier on Sunday, Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu bowed to pressures from the Attorney General, mainstream media and some of his own Likud party Knesset Members and postponed a vote on the bill.
“There is an unreasonable collection of legislation that would limit the independence of the High Court,” Barak told Army Radio, adding that all members of his Independence party plan to vote against the bill.
“We have to discuss the issue both within the government as well as hold a public debate – we must stop this initiative,” Barak explained. “We will use every means available to us to stop this devastating trend.”
He said many Knesset members support his position, including some Likud ministers such as Dan Meridor, Benny Begin, Gideon Sa’ar and Michael Eitan.
“I have yet to find out the prime minister’s position on this bill, but I’m glad many of his senior party members oppose this dangerous proposal,” Barak said.

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[Windsor]

Report: Iran blames Israel for deadly blast

When the explosion was reported Iran earlier said it was an accident to downplay the fact that the Mossad had a hand in it.

Report: Iran blames Israel for deadly blast. Senior Iranian source says deadly explosion at military base outside Tehran that killed 17 people 'part of covert war against Iran, led by Israel'
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For the first time since Saturday's deadly blast in a military base outside Tehran that killed 17 people, Iranian sources say that Israel was behind the explosion, which also claimed the life of a senior Revolutionary Guards officer.
According to a report in the Guardian, a source with close links to the Iranian regime said Israel's Mossad was involved in the blast outside Tehran, which rattled windows in Iran's capital Saturday.
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• Senior officer killed in Iran blast
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• Did explosion hit Iranian missile base?

The source, who spoke to the Guardian on condition of anonymity and was identified as a former director of a state-run organization, was quoted as saying: "I believe that Saturday's explosion was part of the covert war against Iran, led by Israel."

The ex official said the mysterious explosion was similar to a blast in October 2010 at a Revolutionary Guards missile base located near the city of Khorramabad, the source said.

"I have information that both these incidents were the work of sabotage by agents of Israel, aimed at halting Iran's missile program," the former official was quoted as saying.

[h=3]'More bullets to come'[/h] Earlier Monday, a Western intelligence source told Time Magazine that he estimates the Mossad was behind Saturday's explosion.

"Don't believe the Iranians that it was an accident," the official said, referring to official accounts of the incident.

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According to the Time report, the same anonymous source said that more sabotage is being planned to impede Iran's ability to develop and deliver a nuclear weapon.

"There are more bullets in the magazine," he said.

Saturday's blast killed at least 17 people and wounded 16 others, some of them gravely. Earlier reports put the number of fatalities at 27, but a Revolutionary Guards spokesman said the numbers were inflated as result of a "fax error."

A senior officer in Iran's weapons industry was killed in the explosions, officials in the country said. The officer, identified as Hassan Tehrani Moqaddam, held a rank parallel to brigadier general in Iran's elite Revolutionary Guards, the Fars news agency said.

http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4148322,00.html

 

[mollusk]

Re: Report: Iran blames Israel for deadly blast

I guessed it already started.the whole Arab league should annihilate this fucking Israel .but it wont happen because it had been proven that useless Arab can't see eye to eye.

 

[TheFootballer]

Re: Report: Iran blames Israel for deadly blast

Mossad never cease to amaze me.. And Im supposed to believe a bunch of sucidal hide-a-bomb in the turban nutcases managed to bring down tower 7.

 

[Windsor]

Blast Mossad/MKO Operation

by MUHAMMAD SAHIMI in Los Angeles13 Nov 2011 09:15

Iran Standard Time (IRST), GMT+3:30
1:30 p.m., 22 Aban/November 13

The AP is quoting a statement from the Revolutionary Guards stating that General Hassan Moghaddam, the Guard commander killed in the explosion, was "a key figure in Iran's missile program":

The Guard praised Moghaddam, saying the military force will not forget his "effective role in the development of the country's defense ... and his efforts in launching and organizing the Guard's artillery and missile units," the semiofficial Fars news agency quoted the statement as saying Sunday. Iranian officials did not explain why Moghaddam was at the site at the time of the explosion.
Saeed Qasemi, a Guard commander, said Iran owes its missile program to Moghaddam.

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9:15 a.m., 22 Aban/November 13

Richard Silverstein, who writes an influential blog on Israel and has credible sources there, reports on a significant claim that the explosion yesterday afternoon at an Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) depot was the result of a joint operation by Israel's Mossad and the Mojahedin-e Khalgh Organization (MKO, also referred to as the MEK). According to Silverstein:

An Israeli source with extensive senior political and military experience provides an exclusive report that it was the work of the Mossad in collaboration with the MEK. It is widely known within intelligence circles that the Israeli intelligence agency uses the MEK for varied acts of espionage and terror ranging from fraudulent Iranian memos alleging work on nuclear trigger devices to assassinations of nuclear scientists and bombings of sensitive military installations. A similar act of sabotage happened a little more than a year ago [on October 11, 2010] at another IRG[C] missile base [Imam Ali base in Lorestan province] which killed nearly 20 [the actual toll was 18 dead and 14 injured].

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Meanwhile, Alireza Jafarzadeh, a spokesman for the National Council of Resistance of Iran, the MKO's political arm, claimed that the explosion occurred at a Revolutionary Guard missile base, rather than a munitions depot, as officially reported. Jafarzadeh did not attribute the explosion to the MKO, nor did he specify what he thought caused the explosion.

Rooz, the online daily, reported that Hamed Ebrahimi said that the explosion occurred at a Revolutionary Guard missile storage facility where Shahab missiles are stored. According to Ebrahimi, who reportedly once served at the base, it has very tight security and, therefore, the possibility that the explosion was the result of a sabotage operation is very low.
The Revolutionary Guards have confirmed that a corps commander during the Iran-Iraq War in the 1980s was killed in the explosion. He was Brigadier General Hassan Tehrani Moghaddam, who had been heading the Guards' Organization of Self-Sufficiency Jihad. Moghaddam also worked at Imam Hossein University, which is controlled by the Guards.
The number of casualties has been a matter of dispute. Originally, it was announced that 27 people had been killed and 23 injured. But Lieutenant General Ramazan Sharif, head of the Guards' public relations department, declared the accurate figures were 17 and 16, respectively. At the same time, Iran Emrooz, an opposition website, put the number at "hundreds killed and injured." Citing "human rights and democracy activists in Iran," the website quoted unnamed sources as saying that the number of casualties is anywhere between 170 and 300.

The families of political prisoners incarcerated in Rajaei Shahr Prison near the town of Karaj, west of Tehran, have expressed concern over the safety of their loved ones, as the prison is not too far from the explosion site.


Read more: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/front...-depot-blast-mossadmko-act.html#ixzz1dmmtgzDY

 

[TheFootballer]

Re: Blast Mossad/MKO Operation

"An Israeli source with extensive senior political and military experience provides an exclusive report that it was the work of the Mossad in collaboration with the MEK."

 

[singveld]

Re: Blast Mossad/MKO Operation

i dun understand why a country with 150 nukes are afraid of another country with 1 or 2 nukes.

 

[TheFootballer]

Re: Blast Mossad/MKO Operation

i dun understand why a country with 150 nukes are afraid of another country with 1 or 2 nukes.

IMO. US have their motives. Isreal have their own motives. US have spent alot on Afghan and Iraq to supply oil and gas to India via Pakistan. Iran is trying to build their own pipes to supply India and Pakistan. There is alot of money involved.
Isreal right wing still trying to get over holocaust paranoia.

 

[TheFootballer]

East-West split threatens nuclear unity on Iran
By GEORGE JAHN, Associated Press – 1 hour ago
VIENNA (AP) — The U.S. and its Western allies face an unpalatable choice over Iran at a key U.N. atomic agency meeting Thursday.

They can defy Russia and China with a demand that the Islamic Republic start answering questions on its alleged secret nuclear arms program or face renewed referral to the U.N. Security Council. Or they can settle for a milder rebuke of Tehran that leaves the big powers formally speaking with one voice but leaves the world's hands tied in investigating the suspicions about Iran.

Both ways, the United States, Britain, France and Germany stand to lose as they head into the opening session of the International Atomic Energy Agency's 35-nation board meeting.

If they push for a tough resolution that sets a time frame for Iran to cooperate with the IAEA's probe, then Russia and China are likely to vote against it. That may doom further attempts to speak with one Security Council voice at any future negotiations with Iran over its nuclear defiance — and increase Sino-Russian resistance against new U.N. Security Council sanctions on Tehran.

Going too far the other way keeps the facade of unity, by allowing Moscow and Beijing to endorse a weakly worded resolution with no deadline for Iran's cooperation and no warnings of penalties if it doesn't. But it once again stalls attempts to probe the allegations and signals Iran that it can thumb its nose at the world community.

The big power split along East-West lines is not new — but is becoming more of a problem for Washington and its allies as Tehran advances in enriching uranium, which can be used for making weapons as well as fueling reactors.

Tehran denies hiding a weapons program and insists its enrichment activities are meant only as an energy source. But as Iran gets closer to bomb-making ability, Israel may opt to strike militarily rather than take the chance that its arch foe will possess nuclear weapons.

Israeli government officials have increased warnings that such strike is being contemplated, and the U.S. also has refused to take that option off the table.Israeli officials have suggested they could accept crippling Iran sanctions as an alternative to force. But despite four rounds of economic sanctions, the United Nations is being held back from tougher measures by Russia and China, both of them veto-wielding Security Council members and bound to Iran by strategic and economic interests. They've offered no sign of a change in posture since President Barack Obama's meetings Saturday with Russian President Dmitry Medvedev and Chinese President Hu Jintao.

The West had hoped that an unprecedented detailing of Iran' alleged secret weapons work contained in a restricted Nov. 8 IAEA report could sway Moscow and Beijing. For the first time, the agency said Iran was suspected of clandestine work that is "specific to nuclear weapons."

But Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov was quoted as saying Monday that the IAEA report "contains nothing new" and provides no further evidence that Tehran is developing nuclear weapons. He also repeated Russia's opposition to any new U.N. sanctions. Beijing has been less unequivocally opposed to tough measures but tends to follow Moscow' s lead.

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad says IAEA fears are "absurd" accusations fabricated by Washington. On Wednesday, Iranian Foreign Minister Ali Akbar Salehi said his country was drawing up an in-depth technical response to show the IAEA report is wrong.

The lack of progress on Iran also has created domestic fallout for Obama, with Republican presidential hopefuls seizing on it as proof that the U.S. president is weak on foreign policy.

Western officials sounded a tough line ahead of the IAEA meeting.

U.S. State Department spokesman Mark Toner said Washington is "looking for strong action" from the board, as part of "ways to increase the pressure on Iran, be they multilateral or unilateral."

French Foreign Minister Alain Juppe said that the board "must adopt a very firm resolution demanding Iran to finally, in the briefest time possible, make known its activities, past and present, regarding a military program, allowing IAEA inspectors to work without restriction."

Diplomats speaking on background in Vienna, however, depict a Western stance that is less clear.

One senior Western diplomat suggested the West was ready to risk further strains with Russia and China, telling The Associated Press that a strong resolution with priorities outlined by Juppe was preferable to a weak text that Russia and China can live with.

Others, however, emphasized maintaining six-power unity — even at the risk of watering down any text.

The diplomats spoke on condition of anonymity due to the sensitive nature of the talks.

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Associated Press writers Matthew Lee in Washington, Ali Akhbar Dareini in Tehran, Cassandra Winograd in London, Angela Charlton and Elaine Ganley in Paris and Christopher Bodeen in Beijing contributed.