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...