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| Iran defiant after Israeli missile test |
| 2008-01-18 |
| Israel tested a missile on Thursday, prompting Iran to vow retaliation if the Jewish state carried out recent veiled threats to launch strikes, possibly atomic, against Tehran's nuclear facilities. Israel is widely assumed to have nuclear warheads and missiles able to hit Iran. It gave no details of the trial. A defense official said it was "not just flexing its muscles", three days after Prime Minister Ehud Olmert pledged to consider "all options" to prevent Iran building nuclear weapons. As oil prices rose almost 1 percent on the new Middle East tension, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, who says his country wants only atomic energy, said Israel would hold off: "The Zionist regime ... would not dare attack Iran," he said. "The Iranian response would make them regret it. They know this," he told Al Jazeera in remarks translated into Arabic. Israeli Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni urged the West to work harder to prevent "the appearance of a nuclear Iran", a message Olmert and his team rammed home to George W. Bush when the U.S. president visited Jerusalem a week ago on a regional tour aimed partly at rallying Arab states against Tehran. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #5 ION, CHINESE MIL FORUM > ASAHI.com - CHINA'S SUDDEN SHOW OF FORCE SENT SDF JETS [Japan] SCRAMBLING. Milyuhns and Tilyuhns of Chin PLAAF H-6 strategic bombers versus Japanese fighter jets in sorties + countersorties since Sept 2007 near disputed CHUNXIAO gas field [China] = SHIRAKABA gas field [Japan]. Aslo from CMF > WASH TIMES > BILL GERTZ - CHINA'S SUBMARINE ASAT WEAPON [JL-2 SLBM/DF-21 = 31's? on Type 094 JIN-class FBM Subs]. China PLAN's equivalent of 1960's GEORGE WASHINGTON/ETHAN ALLEN FBM classes.; + SINODAILY > CHINA WARNS USA OVER TAIWAN PRESIDENT'S STOPOVER. |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2008-01-18 21:56 |
| #4 Anyways, it's not intended for Iran. The successful test of a propulsion system for the dual-stage missile from the Palmahim base Thursday, Jan. 17, was a breakthrough. Western military experts report the new system can propel the missile to any point on earth – an intercontinental capability Lots of other folks around the World who think that Jewish lives are expendable. |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2008-01-18 17:50 |
| #3 You're easily amused. |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2008-01-18 17:39 |
| #2 As oil prices rose almost 1 percent on the new Middle East tension, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, who says his country wants only atomic energy, said Israel would hold off Am I the only one who finds it amusing that those who were all over "no blood for oil" and global warming are now the ones who are criticizing Bush because his gross mismanagement of diplomacy abroad has caused the price of oil to go up? |
| Posted by: Whomong Guelph4611 2008-01-18 16:38 |
| #1 ...Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, who says his country wants only atomic energy... Nice, glowing, mushroom-shaped clouds of atomic energy (first) demonstrated over Israel... I'm getting a real bad feeling, and hope Israel has the ability to buck up and take this POS out. Our (USA) gutless and mislead "leaders" probably will not. |
| Posted by: OyVey1 2008-01-18 13:48 |