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IRAN:
Iran is boasting of its new uranium enrichment facility at Fordow, buried deep inside a mountain and thought by Iran to be immune to air attack! (CNN) Ahmadi Roshan an Iranian professor and nuclear scientist was killed by a bomb attached to his car in Teheran on Jan 11 (Fars-Iran) A report claims Iran is boasting of an underground one kiloton nuclear bomb test in 2012 (Emet) Iran has warned Gulf States against making up any shortfall in oil supplies due to US & EU sanctions (AFP) A report on Jan 18 says that Iranian speed-boats have been harassing US naval vessels in the Strait of Hormuz (AFP) A report on Jan 19 claims many Iranian scientists are asking to leave the nuclear program and return to university research (D Alert) Israel now claims that Iran has all the ingredients for an atomic bomb and could produce one as soon as it wants to (Maariv) Iran is playing for time by offering fresh negotiations on their nuclear program whilst at the same time completing its fortification of its nuke sites to make it harder for Israel to destroy them (Ynet) Iran’s Quds force Suleimani has boasted to General Petraeus, of his power in Iraq, Lebanon, Gaza and Afhanistan (Meid) Iran has been described in a miliary mag. as an inexhaustible source and supply of ‘threats’ (Strategy) A report on Jan 27 says Iran is preparing to stop all oil trade with Europe BEFORE the EU bans imports in 6 moths! (Fin’l Times UK) Iran’s threat of catastrophic retaliation for any military attack is being discounted by Israel largely as bluff (N.York Times) Some commentators are writing that a nuclear armed Iran would assert dominance in the Persian Gulf area and use terror with impunity (D Alert) In an amazing display of premeditated sarcasm, Iran has asked the International Atomic Energy Agency for ‘permission’ to enrich uranium to 90 % (D Alert) In a bid to dodge sanctions, Iran Shipping Lines has renamed 90 of its 123 ships (J Post) In a speech to Iran’s youth, on Jan 29, Pres Ahmadinejad claimed Israel was ‘installed’ to gain control of oil in the Middle East (J Post) The devastating explosion in December at a missile Base near Teheran was probably caused when an experimental large long range missile suffered a work accident (J Post) A report shows a 127 % increase in Iran’s Defence budget (D Alert) On Feb 3 Iran claimed to have launched a micro-satellite weighing 110s pounds (Wash Post) Iran’s latest rhetoric says they will support any nation or people fighting against the Zionist ‘tumor; which WILL be cut off!!! (Wash Post) Iran’s website explains why it is accep table to kill Jews and wipe out Israel…IT WOULD ONLY TAKE 1O MINUTES they boast!! (D Alert)
USA:
AS USA warned Iran against closing the Strait of Hormuz, the International Energy Agency spoke of releas- ing 14 million barrels of oil per day if needed (Reuters) A US citizen has been charged with plotting Islamic attacks in USA. He boasts, ‘Muslim blood is more valuable than that of non Muslims’. (AP) USA is to sell Israel more than 2500 items of Hummers, trucks and other equipment used in Iraq (Ynet) Visiting Israel on Jan 9, Dem. Sen Inouye said “If you attack Israel, you attack the USA…..thank God we have Israel” (J Post) The new White House Chief of Staff, Jack Lew, is known to be very pro-Israel.(Ynet) A report on Jan 9 says US Sec of State Burns has met with the head of the Egyptian M. Brotherhood’s Freedom and Justice Party!!! (Reuters) A recent report claims Israel is recruiting Iranian refugees for intell work in Iran!! (Meid) A report on Jan 12 confirms USA has 15,000 troops in Kuwait and 2 aircraft carriers and their strike groups, ‘in the region’(L A Times) US has used a ‘secret channel’ to warn Iran against closing the Strait of Hormuz. (N.York Times) USA has imposed sanction on 3 large companies in China, Singapore and the UAE for conducting business with Iran’s energy sector (US State Dept) A report on Jan 20 says Israel is quietly exporting products to Islamic countries, successfully avoiding harmful publicity (Haretz) On Jan 25 USA extended loan guarantees to Israel, worth $3.8 BILLION!! (Haretz) On Jan 24 Pres Obama said the USA commitment to Israel’s security is “iron-clad” (White House) USA is sending their old USS Ponce to the Middle East to be used as a ‘mother ship’ for Navy Seals (Wash Post) USA suspects their 30,000 pound bunker buster bomb, the Predator, would not destroy Iran’s underground nuclear facilities, so they are going to build a bigger one!! (Wall St Journal) On Sept 5 Pres Obama indicated USA will act with Israel to ‘solve ‘the Iran ‘problem’ (D Alert)
ISRAEL:
Israel is increasing its protection of the offshore drilling rigs in east Medit: (Ha’aretz) A report on Jan 9 says Israel will sell ‘an Asian nation’ $1.1 (Bill) in weapons systems over the next 4 years! (Reuters) Mr Netanyahu told a ‘Birthright Group’ of the nation of Israel in which Arabs have full rights, where people can speak freely and criticise the PM and where a woman is the Chief Justice. None of those rights exist in Islamic nations round about !! (P.M Office) On Jan 15 Israel rejected US and Iran’s accusations of complicity in the assassination of an Iranian scientist (D Alert) Israel and USA have called off their largest ever joint missile defence exercise until mid year! (Haaretz) PM Netanyahu has accused Iran of using the Sinai as a staging post for attacks on Israel (AFP) A report on Jan 18 claims Israel is preparing from an attack on Gaza in the next few months as a result of Hamas assembling large amounts of weaponry (J Post) Israel has announced it has a 9 metres long unmanned naval weapons station vessel, that reaches 57mph. (IDF) Ongoing negotiations with the Pals in Amman are said to be to bolster the picture of PA Chairman Abbas, and help Jordan’s Abullah ease street protests (D Alert) A report on Jan 29 says that approx 722,000 Jews live beyond the green line, inc the West Bank and the Golan (D Alert) Israel’s Chief of Staff Gantz says that Hizbullah has taken advantage of the chaos in Syria, to acquire stocks of sophisticated military equipment (Meid) PM Netanyahu is quoted as saying to a ‘righteous gentile’ that he, the PM’s “Sabbath joy is to study the Bible”. (Meid) A Jan 27 report says Israel is to conduct its first full scale parachute exercise in 15 years, praps as a prelude to striking Hizbullah (UP) Israel’s Pres Peres recently blasted Turkey for sending $900 (Mill) to Hamas so they can more efficiently try to kill Israelis! (D Alert) On Jan 30 Mr Netanyahu emphasised that Israel MUST remain in the Jordan Vallet to ensure Israel’s security. (J Post) Israel’s Mossad chief, Pardo, made a secret visit to Washington last week in Jan to discuss Iran’s nuclear program (AFPT) The IDF has arrested a Pal who was released in Oct under the Shalit deal, as a ‘security threat’ (Haretz) On Jan 31 Mr Netanyahu won the Likud Party ‘primary’ . He claimed that LIKUD had done all the wonders for Israel!! (Meid) Figures released on Feb 2 show that Israel is among the world’s most highly educated countries, ahead of USA, UK and Japan but behind Canada, which is a pro Israel country (J Post) IDF chief Gantz points out that Israel is the only country in the world against whom another country is building tools to destroy it (Haretz) On Feb 2 Israel’s V. Prem. strengthened rumours of a pending Israeli strike against Iran by making several ominous statements (Haretz) Israeli facilities world-wide are being strengthened against possible Iranian terror attacks.(ABC) A new offshore gas well, Tanin1, contains an estim. 1.3 trillion c/f of Gas!(AP) Israel has recently confiscated large sums of money Hamas has tried to smuggle into the West Bank (Haretz) Israel will receive a 6 th Dolphin class sub, with Germany paying part of the cost (Meid)
TURKEY:
An Asian paper describes Turkey’s economy, stock market and currency as a BUBBLE and it is BURSTING !! (Asia Times H.Kong) Turkey has dropped all legal proceedings against Israel over the Marmara ship incident, probly as result of US pressure! (Emet) Turkey, which has been importing oil from Turkey is now planning to change to a Saudi supplier (Reuters) Turkey recently intercepted 4 Syria bound Iranian trucks carrying material for making missiles and chemical weapons (Ynet) Turkey and Hamas are getting friendlier, with Turkey absolving Hamas for responsibility for attacks on Israeli civilians.(AP)
EGYPT:
Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood is making no secret of its future intentions, vowing to “pursue its final goal of establishing a rightly guided Caliphate for the education of the world” (D Alert) The Moslem Brotherhood in Egypt is splintering into 3 main groups (D Alert) The M B website in Egypt now contains anti-semitic/Israel motifs and holocaust denial (Memri) There has been an amazing revelation of the Egyptian army’s vast empire of factories, tourists resorts and real estate developments, all free of tax. The Moslem B will have a field day in this area!! (J Post) The MB now says, in power, they will not interfere in the Egypt/Israel Industrial Zones (Wash Post) A former US Treasury official speaking of the economic crisis in Egypt says Egypt will have to devalue its currency probly in 3 months (D Alert) On Jan 25 Egypt’s Moslem Brotherhood again reiterated it would never hold talks with Isreal (J Post) On Jan 26 terrorists tried to attack a gas pipeline installation in North Sinai but found armed forces lying wait! A Feb 5 attack was successful (D Alert)
BRITAIN:
Britain’s Dep PM Clegg described Israel’s settlement building as ‘deliberate vandalism’, but he shows his ignorance & that he is a buffoon. There have been no new ‘settlements’ since 1993 (D Alert)
RUSSIA:
A Russian aircraft carrier and support ships have docked in the Syrian port of Tartus early Jan (AFP) On Jan 12 a Russian ship laden with arms, docked at the Syrian port of Tartus (D Alert) On Jan 27 Russia made it quite clear than any UN resolution to ‘oust’ Pres Assad of Syria would be opposed by Russia (Haretz)
HIZBULLAH:
Hizbullah is reported to have called of a terror attack in Thailand when one of its operators was arrested and led the police to a warehouse containing the ingredients for bombs (AP) A report says that Hizbullah now has long range (100 Klms) rockets and new Russian surface to air missiles (J Post) A report on Jan 23 says Hizbullah members have been guarding Pres Assad (D A) On Feb 7 Hizbullah leader Nasrallah openly admitted his organisation is totally funded by Iran. (Meid)
SYRIA:
A Syrian Colonel defected from the Army In Dec with 50 of his troops(Al Jazeera) IDF Intell Chief Kochavi claimed Jan 11 Iran and Hizbullah are increasing their efforts to try to ensure Syria’s Assad regime survives. (Haretz) A report on Jan 18 shows the collapse of the Syrian economy, little electricity or petrol available and prices skyrocketing (Guardian, UK) A Syrian General was killed recently when his troops refused to fire on unarmed civilians (AGI) On Jan 28 the Arab monitoring mission to Syria ended because of violence. More than 8,000 Islamic people had died so far (Reuters) The Free Syrian Army is now challenging the Assad regime in at least 6 of the 14 ‘governorates’, using comparable weapons! (D Alert) On Jan 31 the Free Syrian Army warned Hizbullah they will settle ‘the score’ with its leader Nasrallah as soon as Assad is deposed!! (Ynet) A report on Feb 2 claims half of Syria is no longer under the control of Pres Assad’s forces (Haretz) On Feb 3, 220 people were killed by Pres Assad’s forces in Homs! All Islamics killed by Islamics (Wash Post) Commentator M Peretz says that Sunnis in power in Syria would be no less cruel((D Alert)) Syria Opposition forces fear they may soon be facing chemical weapons (Haretz)
TERRORISM:
3 Pals carrying 11 pipe bombs, a knfe, bullets and a pistol were arrested near Jenin on Jan 8 (J Post) A US commentator claims the Sinai has become a huge arms depot with up to thousands of terrorists forging terrorist infrastructures (D Alert) A ‘work accident’ killed one Pal in the house of terrorist commander in Gaza on Jan 14 (Reuters) On Jan 18 a terrorist was killed trying to plant a bomb at a border fence (Ynet) A Syrian funded Islamic Jihad terror cell of 10 men planning attacks within Israel, has been arrested near Jenin (Haretz) A Pal wielding an axe was arrested at a checkpoint on Jan 22 whilst trying to attack Israelis (J Post) Azerbaijan has arrested 2 terrorists paid by Iran to assassinate an Israeli ambassador and attack a Jewish school. (Meid) Pal TV is celebrating the murder of 2 Israelis and their 3 children , one only 3 months old, by 2 Pals calling the murderous swine ‘heroes’ (Haretz) (Note: Islamics delight in killing defenceless people) A work accident at a missile site near Teheran in Dec was probly a long range missile development blowing up by mysterious causes (Haretz) On Feb 1 Pal terrorists launched 8 rockets into Northern Israel (Meid) A recent photo on Facebook showing an Israeli soldier pointing an AK-47 at a Pal child, is obviously a fake as Israelis don’t use AK-47’s (Haretz)
SAUDI ARABIA:
Saudi Arabia is pumping just under 10 million gallons of oil daily and may not be able to meet any shortfall elsewhere. (Reuters) On Jan 31, 35 Ethiopian ‘Christians’ were arrested in Saudi Arabia for ‘illicit mingling’ of men and women (Meid)
PA HAMAS:
On Feb 6 Fatah and Hamas claimed to have reconciled and Mr Abbas will be the interim PM of a ‘unity gov’ Mr Netanyahu says the PA must choose between an alliance with Hamas, or peace with Israel ( J P) On Feb 8 Hamas Gaza leaders challenged the new reconciliation deal saying the dual presidential/PM role for Mr Abbas would be illegal ( Reuters)
WORLD NEWS:
In the latest setback to international efforts to isolate Israel, Bulgaria has signed accords for close cooperation with Israel in a wide area of issues (Meid) A report says that China has signed a series of agreements with Saudi Arabia, which probly inc oil supply ((Meid) Islamic militants in Nigeria have killed at least 156 people in co-ordinated attacks on Gov. sites. Its obvious that wherever Islam raises its head, people die!! (CNN) Whilst about 20 % of Germans hate Jews, anti-semitism is worse in other European countries (Haretz) A recent article asks why a disbelieving world stands idly by whilst Iran plans a total genocide of Jewish people (D Alert) On Jan 30 Canada’s For. Min Baird reiterated that Canada is proud to call Israel a friend, regardless of whether it is popular, convenient or expedient, also saying that Israel is a beacon of light in its region! (Meid)
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