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July 16, 2012
Iran has confirmed that its plan to close the Strait of Hormuz has been finalized and is ready to be put into action as soon as confirmation is received from Supreme Leader Imam Sayyed Ali Khamenei, amidst reports that President Obama has...
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July 12, 2012
WASHINGTON — The Navy is rushing dozens of unmanned underwater craft to the Persian Gulf to help detect and destroy mines in a major military buildup aimed at preventing Iran from closing the strategic Strait of Hormuz in the event of a...
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June 20, 2012
The United States is planning to maintain significant military presence in the Middle East going forward, including 13,500 US troops in Kuwait, to help maintain hegemony over the region, according to a new congressional report released...
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April 28, 2012
The United States military has deployed several F-22 fighter jets to an allied base less than 200 miles (320 km) from Iran, Fox News reported Friday.
According to the report, the US Air Force strongly denied ordering the deployment in a...
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February 14, 2012
Chief of the General Staff of the Russian Armed Forces Nikolai Makarov says that a decision by the U.S. and Israel on whether or not to launch a military attack on Iran will be taken before the summer.
“Iran, of cause, is a sore spot. Some...
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January 30, 2012
So the Arab League has a new draft United Nations Security Council resolution to “solve” the Syrian saga. [ 1]
World public opinion may be fooled into believing this is an altruistic Arab solution to an Arab problem. Not...
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January 25, 2012
The Arab League member nations from the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) have announced today that they are withdrawing all monitors from Syria, shifting their focus to pressing the United Nations Security Council for intervention against...
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January 04, 2012
Faced with calls from Iran warning them to stop sending warships through the Persian Gulf, the Obama Administration today insisted that warships would indeed remain in the Persian Gulf, insisting that the call was a sign of weakness on Iran’...
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July 13, 2011
Former US secretary to the United Nations John Bolton once famously said: “The [UN] Secretariat building in New York has 38 stories. If it lost ten stories it wouldn’t make a bit of difference.” (H/T Milo)
But I’d say...
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June 09, 2011
ABU DHABI (AFP) - US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton arrived in the United Arab Emirates on Wednesday for talks with European and Arab partners on planning for a democratic Libya without Moamer Kadhafi, aides said.
The talks in the UAE capital...
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April 18, 2011
Saudi Arabia’s oil minister said on Sunday the kingdom had slashed output by 800,000 barrels per day in March due to oversupply, sending the strongest signal yet that OPEC will not act to quell soaring prices.
Consumers have urged the exporters...
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April 01, 2011
President of Bahrain’s Center for Human Rights Nabeel Rajab says the US media have been ordered not to cover news on the government’s brutal crackdown on Bahraini people.
Reports from the Center’s colleagues in the United...
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March 15, 2011
Bahraini opposition groups including the largest Shi'ite Muslim party Wefaq said on Monday that any intervention by Gulf Arab forces on the Gulf island is a declaration of war and occupation.
The comments came in response to reports that...
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