Persicus Maximus

The recent US diplomatic anti Iran movements like the stories of planned attacks on Saudi diplomats in the US and raising of long solved nuclear issues once again... next to many many other other irrational and angry moves have their roots in the US being positively outsmarted by a combination of Iraqi and Iranian long term diplomatic moves that finally safeguarded a complete US withdrawal of Iraq. We found an article that exactly emphasized on this issue. The article by Gareth Porter is as follows.. "Defense Secretary Leon Panetta’s suggestion that the end of the U.S. troop presence in Iraq is part of a U.S. military success story ignores the fact that the George W. Bush administration and the U.S. military had planned to maintain a semi-permanent military presence in Iraq. The real story behind the U.S. withdrawal is how a clever strategy of deception and diplomacy adopted by Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki in cooperation with Iran outmaneuvered Bush and the U.S. military leadersh...

We would like to reflect a publication and quote their discoveries. There were already speculations on the airlifting of almost 20,000 multinational mercenaries who fought in Lybia into or along the Syrian border regions via Turkey and Iraqi Kurdistan. Nevertheless, here is another account; "According to first-hand accounts and reports provided to Boiling Frogs Post by several sources in Jordan, during the last few hours foreign military groups, estimated at hundreds of individuals, began to spread near the villages of the north-Jordan city of “Al-Mafraq”, which is adjacent to the Jordanian and Syrian border. According to one Jordanian military officer who asked to remain anonymous, hundreds of soldiers who speak languages ​other than Arabic were seen during the past two days in those areas moving back and forth in military vehicles between the King Hussein Air Base of al-Mafraq (10 km from the Syrian border), and the vicinity of Jordanian villages adjacent to the Syrian border, s...

A Glacier is a large persistent body of ice that forms where the accumulation of snow exceeds its melting phase over many years, often centuries. Its level and speed of melting in recent years have been alarming to say the least. Underneath is a truely schocking clip of "Montt Jorge" in Chile, where we can see a Glacier melt in a period of 12 months. Watch and make your own thoughts...

An interesting article from Stephen Trimble catches one’s eyes; it states or rather suggests Iran’s usage of a Russian Jamming system with regards to its downing of a US Unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV). It immediately jumps into one’s eyes, that it could all have been a counter measure making sure Iranian and Russian engineers get access to electronic technologies they are supposed to. One is no specialist on such issues but it seems Iran must act very carefully on the information it extracts or uses from this downed RQ-170. The technology could well be a tracker if implemented guiding the observer to the sources of defense....one never knows. Whatever the case we publish his article for your information. "Could this be the smoking electron in the alleged unmanned air vehicle (UAV) incident over Iran? The original reports that Iran "shot down" a Lockheed Martin RQ-170 Sentinel appear to be misleading. Iranian news agency reports credited the army's electronic warfare ...

Robert Fisk ,has published a number of books and has reported on the United States's war in Afghanistan and the same country's 2003 invasion of Iraq. Fisk holds more British and International Journalism awards than any other foreign correspondent. He has written an article on Iran in "The Independent", I would like to publish again. "It's a weird irony that Iranians know the history of Anglo-Persian relations better than the Brits. When the newly installed Ministry of Islamic Guidance asked Harvey Morris, Reuters' man in post-revolutionary Iran, for a history of his news agency, he asked his London office to send him a biography of Baron von Reuter – and was appalled to discover the founder of the world's greatest news agency had built Persia's railways at an immense profit. "How can I show this to the ministry?" he shouted. "It turns out that the Baron was worse than the fucking Shah!" Of which, of course, the ministry was wel...

Arshin Adib-Moghaddam wrote an interesting article in the Guardian, I would like to publish it here... "The strength of the Islamic republic's economy and government are so understated in analysis that errors of policy could follow...... There are two central narratives that presume the Iranian state is likely to collapse under the pressure of sanctions and/or threats of war. In my opinion, both are flawed. The first maintains that Iran is running out of money and that its economy is teetering on the brink. This has been repeatedly presented as an argument in support of sanctions or as an example of the incompetence of the Iranian state. But that narrative does not correspond to the facts. The World Bank set the economic growth of Iran at 3.0% in 2010, and the IMF says nominal GDP grew from $330.5bn in 2009 to $360bn in 2010. The IMF recently wrapped up a visit to Iran and commended the government for early successes with the subsidy reform programme and the advances in the f...

Iraq all over again? Much of the corporate media coverage of a new UN report on Iran strongly asserts that Iran is close to building nuclear weapons. But the International Atomic Energy Agency report does not actually arrive at that conclusion, and many critics contend that the speculations that are in the report are misguided. A USA Today piece (11/9/11) was headlined "UN Agency Issues Red Alert Over Iran's Secret Nuke Program"--with the "red alert" hype coming from a source in the piece, Rep. Ed Royce (R.-Calif.). On CBS Evening News, Scott Pelley reported (11/7/11), "The U.N.'s nuclear agency is expected to report later this week that Iran is on the threshold of being able to build a nuclear bomb." On ABC World News , anchor Diane Sawyer announced (11/8/11): And now, a long-dreaded headline about Iran and nuclear weapons. After a decade of debating whether Iran would build one, a UN report says tonight they will, and it has begun. ABC correspo...

Jana Hensel wrote for the Guardian the following article: “We still don't know a lot about the three rightwing radicals from Thuringia: Beate Z, Uwe M and Uwe B. I try to see it like this: if I had come from the countryside and not from the town, had not only my father but my mother too crashed and burned after reunification, had the tough kids in my school tied up their combat boots with white laces instead of red laces, had their older brothers and sisters beaten up foreigners at bus stops instead of occupying houses in Leipzig-Connewitz and opening galleries – maybe I too would have been on that slippery slope that in most cases starts off harmlessly enough, but can end in disaster all the same. And now 10 people have been killed. I cannot shake the feeling that little more than a very thin line in my CV separates me from the three violent neo-Nazis. They're about my age. And life in eastern Germany in the mid-90s was rough, cynical and nonstop – as if the lethargy, futili...

The report of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) published by a Washington think tank Tuesday repeated the sensational claim previously reported by news media all over the world that a former Soviet nuclear weapons scientist had helped Iran construct a detonation system that could be used for a nuclear weapon. But it turns out that the foreign expert, who is not named in the IAEA report [.pdf] but was identified in news reports as Vyacheslav Danilenko , is not a nuclear weapons scientist but one of the top specialists in the world in the production of nanodiamonds by explosives. In fact, Danilenko, a Ukrainian, has worked solely on nanodiamonds from the beginning of his research career and is considered one of the pioneers in the development of nanodiamond technology, as published scientific papers confirm. It now appears that the IAEA and David Albright, the director of the International Institute for Science and Security in Washington, who was the source of the news report...

I would like to express my concerns over the Iran Threat Reduction Act of 2011 and my opposition to it being brought to the Floor for a vote. Let us be clear on one critical matter: the sanctions against Iran mandated by this legislation are definite steps toward a US attack on Iran. They will also, if actually applied, severely disrupt global trade and undermine the US economy, thereby harming our national security. I am surprised and disturbed that the committee viewed this aggressive legislation to be so bipartisan and uncontroversial that a recorded vote was not even called. Some may argue that we are pursuing sanctions so as to avoid war with Iran, but recent history teaches us otherwise. For how many years were sanctions placed on Iraq while we were told they were necessary to avoid war? Thousands of innocent Iraqis suffered and died under US sanctions and still the US invaded, further destroying the country. Are we safer after spending a trillion dollars or more to destroy Iraq ...

Whether the NATO countries -- who had only a few years ago welcomed Col. Muammar al-Qaddafi back into the international fold in exchange for his renouncing his chemical and nuclear weapons programs and allowing U.S. and British experts to come and help dismantle them -- played any role in what certainly appeared in first reports from the scene to have been the summary execution of the Libyan dictator will probably never be known. What the video evidence does prove is that the Libyan revolutionary forces did not find him already dead or killed by a NATO airstrike; nor does the initial claim that he was killed in "crossfire" between insurgent forces and diehard regime loyalists stand up to even the most minimal scrutiny. NATO does acknowledge that its planes bombarded the convoy in which Qaddafi was fleeing the city of Sirte shortly before it was intercepted on the ground by the insurgents, but it has denied it even knew he was there. If that is true, and the French, British, a...

Not even Rumsfeld and Cheney in their heydays could come up with such nonsense about Iran as Obamas election strategists came up with. Whatever the case, Iranians in diaspora specially those living and working in the USA should become very vigilant should they receive an offer too good to be true, the answer should be no thank you officer even if it comes from their business partners they‘ve known for years. These business partners could have been shepherded into it without knowledge as people are when pushed around in a black operation. All Iranians living abroad, even the few dozen that rejoice and applause this idiotic nonsense, should be fearful of this precedent, they could well be the next on the list. Iran is being set up and this set up did not even have to be an elegant one (as in this case). Everybody in Europe, and without exception(to add to the flavor), knows this to be a scam from A to Z... but as always some have to believe, or at least claim to, due to party policies or...

63 years ago most Jews rejoiced over the birth of Israel. Some thought it would become the place where a new vision of socialism with justice and equality would arise. Clearly, not all Jews believed that – or in those values. Six plus decades later, the idea that Palestinians also deserve their own nation with UN recognized boundaries has caused a panic reaction from the Israeli government and its supporters throughout the world – including the President of the United States as he opposed the idea at the UN last month. Why the panic? Look at comparative maps of Palestinian territory as outlined by the UN in 1948, with what’s left of that land today. The maps show Israel has stolen most of it — to build settlements for Jews only. Jews like me and my friends throughout the western world do not want to migrate to the Promised Land (Zion now equals much of Palestinian territory). We don’t want to live amidst Israeli settlers, many of them self-righteous and very superior (chosen by God?) ...

A Glenn Kessler finally took it upon himself not to pretend formal disgust at claimed rhetorics attributed to Iranian officials any more, allegations that divert all possible attention from the very essence of a blunt and comprehensive real time definition of the Middle east problem. At least of an Iranian perspective. Here he decided to thoroughly check the facts of the allegations ... “Israel, a small country of less than eight million people, looks out at a world where leaders of much larger nations threaten to wipe it off of the map.” — President Obama, speech to the U.N. General Assembly, September 21, 2011 “It was only perhaps three weeks ago that the president of Iran once again said that Israel should be eradicated off the face of the Earth. As you recall, it was about in 2005 when he [Mahmoud Ahmadinejad] said before that Israel -- he would use a nuclear weapon to wipe Israel off the face of the Earth.” — Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.), September 19, 2011 “Outrageous state...

Justin Raimondo has always been one of my favorite and objective reporters, and here I would like to redistribute one of his articles on the recent targeted killing of a US citizen. "The assassination of Anwar al-Awlaki sets the kind of precedent that Americans will come to regret, but for now they cheer, like Romans hailing a death in the arena. Richard Miniter, writing in the Obamaite – and aptly named – Daily Beast, avers that not only was the killing legal, it was also “wise.” He writes: “President Obama’s targeted killing of Anwar al-Awlaki, who was born in New Mexico and died in Yemen fighting for al Qaeda, is a victory for America and for common sense.” As if our all-wise and all-powerful President personally stalked and killed his prey, mano a mano. Obama is “like Lincoln,” says Miniter, who ordered the deaths of his fellow Americans in a vicious civil war – but a more accurate analogy is, perhaps, the Roman emperor Commodus, who personally fought in gladiatorial contests,...

First aired on BBC2 sometimes in 1992, It reveals the secret state sponsored terror networks operating in Europe. This is about an extreme right wing secret organization operated by the CIA,MI6 through NATO. It killed hundreds of Europeans and blamed many deaths on left wing groups such as Baader Meinhof, Red Brigades or other famous left wing groups. They were known as stay behinds and were given efficient military equipments for sabotage operations against the Soviets in invaded countrieson, however they were used and implemented in western Europe on different levels Instead . This operation was named “Gladio” and its killing sprees in Belgium and Italy were carried out for causing fear amongst national political classes to follow suit on known US policies…. “Deception is a state of mind an the mind of the State” (James J. Angleton) Watch and make up your own minds !

A Brian Brady wrote in "The independent", Tony Blair's shadowy links with Muammar Gaddafi were thrust into the spotlight again last night after it emerged that he met the former Libyan dictator twice for secret talks in the run-up to the release of the man convicted of the Lockerbie bombing. A collection of documents found in Tripoli have revealed that Mr Blair was flown to Libya twice on one of Colonel Gaddafi's private jets after he left office in the UK, according to a report in The Sunday Telegraph. In the letters and emails, Mr Blair's private office repeatedly refers to Gaddafi as "The Leader". The meetings, in 2008 and 2009, came at a time when Libya was threatening to cut all business links with the UK if Abdelbaset al-Megrahi stayed in a British jail. The correspondence, between Mr Blair's office, the British ambassador in Tripoli and the Libyan ambassador in London, raise possible conflicts of interest regarding his roles as Middle East pe...

The Obama administration has endorsed a plan that would keep 3,000-4,000 American troops in Iraq past the December deadline to withdraw, although the full remaining presence there will be much larger. Just how large isn’t yet certain, but the numerous agencies and jobs planned for the future of Iraq could mean many thousands more armed men that will not be classified as “troops.” After months of jostling the Iraqi government into allowing a large US military force to remain after the full withdrawal date specified under the 2008 Status of Forces Agreement, the Obama administration publicly voiced support for this plan without having received the permission of the Iraqi Prime Minister or Parliament. Some elements of the Obama administration and the Pentagon pushed for tens of thousands more troops to remain. The few thousand troops would reportedly be left to provide training and support to Iraqi Security Forces as well as “filling in gaps” in Iraqi defense capabilities. An additional f...