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Irish businessmen doing business with Iranians?

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For the longest time, Iran has been trying to get something going with their military technology. They want to have better equipment and perhaps, according to some sources, a nuclear warhead. For better or worse, they have often fallen short. However, now there is a possibility that they will be able to get their acts together with a secret weapon: the luck of the Irish.

According to the US Justice Department, an Irish trading company and three Irish businessmen have been charged with illegally dealing with Iranians and made business agreements with them concerning aircraft parts.

The three businessmen are affiliated with Mac Aviation Limited, a brokerage firm whose primary business is to sell aircraft parts to foreigners. Those who are involved are the father and son combo of Tom and Sean McGuinn and Sean Byrne. The Justice department said that they could be facing very serious time in prison if they are so convicted of such acts. The problem is that the people the three Irishmen are dealing with are those who are involved in Iran’s missile program. Each person was charged on 25 counts of conspiracy, violation of the US trade agreements , providing false statements and forfeiture allegations. If convicted, they could serve up to 20 years on different counts.

The men however have not been arrested as of yet and they are keeping mum on when the arrests would be proceeded.

"All I can say at this time is that we will be working with our international counterparts to seek their arrest and ultimately we hope to have them extradited to face prosecution in the United States," said Dean Boyd of the National Security Division of the US Department of Justice.

Russia Ready to Cancel Missile Deployment Plans If…

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Medvedev: Ready to cancel Kaliningrad missile plans if President-elect Obama scraps missile defense system in Central Europe.

Russian President Dmitry Medvedev said Thursday that his country could withdraw its missiles deployment near the border of Poland if United States President Barack Obama cancels the planned missile defense system in Central Europe.

According to Medvedev, Moscow had no choice but to react to the plans of the U.S to establish missile and radar systems near the Russian border.

In an interview by Le Figaro, a French newspaper, the Russian President was quoted saying: “But we are ready to abandon this decision to deploy the missiles in Kaliningrad if the new American administration, after analyzing the real usefulness of a system to respond to rogue states, decides to abandon its anti-missile system.”

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Kaliningrad (Above): location of the planned Russian missile deployment

 

Medvedev added that Russia is willing to reflect on a system of global security with the U.S., the European Union states, and the Russian Federation.

The United States has stated that its plan to establish a missile defense system in the Czech Republic and Poland is an important step to protect itself from ‘hostile countries’ nearby.

But Moscow considers this U.S. plan a threat to Russia’s security which is why it plans to send its own defense system near the area.

Medvedev is hopeful that with Obama in Washington, Russia and the United States will have a better relationship.

The Russian President had spoken with Obama by phone.

Israel calls for more sanctions vs. Iran

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Olmert: "We must confront Iran’s malevolent diligence and thwart it with greater force."

Prime Minister Ehud Olmert of Israel emphasized on Sunday that greater pressure should be done to prevent Iran from a successful nuclear programme.

In a speech in Jerusalem, Olmert said: “We must increase our measures to prevent Iran from achieving its devious goals…Iran cannot become nuclear…Israel cannot afford it.”

“We must unite our forces as part of the international community, led by the United States of America. We must confront Iran’s malevolent diligence and thwart it with greater force,” Olmert added.

Iran has stated that its nuclear programme is purely for generating energy. But Israel and the United States believe that Iran is only using the programme as a front to its nuclear weapon development. Possession of nuclear weapons by Iran is seen as a serious threat to the existence of Israel and a warning sign to the world.

United States President-elect Barack Obama’s previous statement that he wants a dialogue with Iran instead of or alongside sanctions has caused great concern among Israeli leaders.

Olmert stated that Iran has not stopped in its pursuit of nuclear weapons. The outgoing Prime Minister even accused Iran of funding Palestinian militants as well as Lebanese, Syrian, and Iraqi gunmen.

Olmert stressed that further sanctions against Iran must make the Islamic Republic’s nuclear programme more costly thereby leaving it no choice but to give up on nuclear weapons.

Olmert is now a caretaker Prime Minister after he resigned in September. A corruption investigation prompted him to relinquish his position but he will hold the same office until a new Israeli government is formed early next year.

Russia, Starts Cold War with 2 preemptive missile strike tests

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It was only a matter of time before we started seeing a response to the American expansionism into the middle east. Now we are going to see the Cold war begin again except now Russia and China and various others have much better bonds and communication formed by the fact that America has close to the population of a small country in troops, manouvering around the middle east. We have seen Iran developing Nuclear “POWER”, China already has some of the most sophisticated missiles developed and have been in discussions with Russia over nuclear power and weapons and various other topics.

We are going to see an increase in the bonds of the middle eastern countries who have not already been invaded by the States with Russia. Russia have no problem with this as they will buy these countries resources and stockpile them for when the winter of the new Cold war hits.

US moving more troops into Afghanistan – 200,000 surrounding Iran – Can anyone see a pattern?

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The US already with 26,000 troops in Afganistan are moving in roughly another 3,000 troops. This brings them close to 30,000 troops. This back in Roman times would have been considered an amazing force let alone in todays modern warfield. There are around 170,000 troops in Iraq. Whilst there is still violence, it’s not open warfare anymore simply occupation. What will these troops be doing in 2 years? Take a look at a map. It’s all very obvious. Israel, Palistine, Iraq, Afghanistan, Saudi Arabia, Egypt. Pick a surrounding counrty and America is there building bases. Did you ever play a strategy game, The American government sure are.

What would be the results of present chaos in Iraq?

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It is being seen that if there does not end up any reconciliation in Iraq and formation of a stable government does not happen, then there would be repercussions of this situations not just in that state but also all over the Middle East.

Iraq not becoming stable would boost sectarian violence in almost all states of Middle East. The present situation in Iraq should not be debated over whether the war is correct or wrong, the situation should be looked at in a broader perspective.

The neighboring countries should try and restore peace in Iraq if they wish for the same for their countries. Countries bordering with Iraq like Iran and Syria should especially involve themselves in this effort.

There are also feeling being echoed by some prominent American leaders that the Iraqis should be made to involve themselves in the day to day political affairs of their country. There have been several visit by prominent members of the military and American government to Iraq in recent times.

There has also been proof found in Iraq that the Iranians were supporting Taliban fighters, when there were weapons made in Iran were found by the US troops. Therefore, though amount of involvement of Iranians is not known in this war is not known, it is certain that Iran is helping Iraqi insurgents by providing them with weapons.

This situation has America worried since there are some 42 countries, all over the world trying to restore peace in Iraq by working at different levels. And this effort is being made redundant by Iran.

This is the reason why the USA has decided to watch Iraq closely, since it is aware of its nuclear program and the plans that it has for Iraq. Iran’s ambitions to dominate the Middle East are also not lesser known.

America is also considering taking help from Egypt for the purpose of exerting control of Iran and its policies. It is being felt that considering Egypt’s geographical, economic and demographical position, there cannot be any alternative other than involving it for bringing stability in Iraq.

Peace can be restored and the country would gain stability like the way it had earlier, however, the elements provoking the Iraqi people should be stopped and the Iraqis require to be educated that shunning violence would be the best bid to remove foreigners from their country and getting their country back to normalcy.

Once the lives of Iraqis returned to normalcy, it would not take much time for peace and stability return to the region. However, failure of US Troops to bring stability to the region would mean that the entire region would be in danger of being exposed to sectarian violence.

It is also required that the United States troops do not give on the efforts of encouraging peace process and to involve more and move Iraqis in day to day functioning of Iraq, this would lead in increase of confidence among Iraqis and the peace would return faster. Also what is required is that they should be educated about the shortcomings of violence.