World War III NEWS, Friday, May 5th, 2006 AD....Iran military plays down threat to strike Israel


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Date: 04 May 2006 10:24:53 PM
Object: World War III NEWS, Friday, May 5th, 2006 AD....Iran military plays down threat to strike Israel
www.reuters.com/
Iran military plays down threats to strike Israel
Thu May 4, 2006 6:46 AM ET
TEHRAN (Reuters) - The Iranian military played down threats by a top
Revolutionary Guards commander that Israel would be the Islamic state's
first target if attacked by U.S. forces over its nuclear plans, a
newspaper said on Thursday.
The United States, which accuses Iran of seeking nuclear weapons, says
it wants the standoff solved diplomatically but has refused to rule out
military action. Iran says it is pursuing only nuclear power
generation.
Revolutionary Guards Rear Admiral Mohammad-Ebrahim Dehqani, said on
Tuesday that Israel would be Iran's first target in response to any
"evil" act by the United States.
But Alireza Afshar, deputy chief of the military staff, dismissed the
remarks.
"What he said was his personal view and has no validity as far as the
Iranian military officials are concerned," the Kayhan newspaper quoted
Afshar as saying.
The 120,000-strong Revolutionary Guards corps, formed shortly after the
1979 Islamic revolution and inspired by then supreme leader Ayatollah
Ruhollah Khomeini, is independent of the regular army. It answers
directly to Khomeini's successor, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.
The Islamic Republic has refused to recognize Israel and Iranian
President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has called for the Jewish state to be
"wiped off the map."
Dehqani also told the student news agency ISNA that large-scale naval
wargames, held in the Gulf last month, "carried the warning to those
countries that threaten Iran, including America and the Zionist
regime".
Experts said the wargames, in which Iran said it had tested new
missiles and torpedoes, were a thinly veiled threat that it could
disrupt vital Gulf oil shipping lanes if attacked.
The United States, Britain and France have circulated a U.N. Security
Council resolution demanding that Iran curb its nuclear ambitions and
said they will push for targeted sanctions if it does not.
But Russia, which has veto power in the council, made clear on
Wednesday it would not support any sanctions or the new resolution
without modifications. The Western draft did not impose punitive
measures.
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Title: Re: World War III NEWS, Friday, May 5th, 2006 AD....Iran military plays down threat to strike Israel 04 May 2006 10:27:28 PM
www.reuters.com/
Israel must take Iranian threats seriously: Olmert
Thu May 4, 2006 8:25 AM ET
By Dan Williams
JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israel needs to take seriously Iranian threats to
wipe out the Jewish state and can defend itself against a country the
West suspects of seeking nuclear weapons, Acting Prime Minister Ehud
Olmert said on Thursday.
Olmert's strongly worded remarks to parliament before the ratification
of his new coalition government came as Western powers sought action by
the United Nations to curb Iranian uranium enrichment and other key
nuclear processes.
"We must not ignore what the president of Iran says -- he means
everything he says," Olmert told the Knesset, referring to repeated
calls by Mahmoud Ahmadinejad for Israel's elimination.
"The State of Israel, which the evil leaders in Tehran have turned into
a target for annihilation, is not helpless and it has the ability to
defend itself against any threat," he said.
Iran, the world's fourth-biggest oil exporter, says it seeks nuclear
energy, not bombs. Iranian officials have argued that Ahmadinejad's
comments on Israel did not constitute a threat.
The United States, Britain and France this week drafted a U.N. Security
Council resolution demanding Iran curb its nuclear ambitions and
threatening sanctions if it does not. Fellow council members Russia and
China have balked at sanctions.
Believed to have the Middle East's only atomic arsenal, Israel backs
the diplomacy but, like its U.S. ally, has refused to rule out military
action as a last resort.
In 1981, Israeli warplanes bombed a reactor at Osiraq in Iraq, driving
Saddam Hussein's quest for nuclear weapons underground until it was
uncovered by U.N. inspectors.
Israel says Iran could be months away from building a nuclear bomb,
though Western intelligence agencies put it at several years.
"Only a determined and uncompromising international stance in the face
of Iran will be capable of stopping this threat and safeguarding the
entire world," Olmert said.
His remarks were quickly endorsed in the Knesset by opposition leader
Benjamin Netanyahu, who has called for an Osiraq-style preemptive
strike on Iran.
Tehran has said its armed forces would retaliate for any attack. An
Iranian Revolutionary Guards commander said this week that Israel would
be the first target, a comment later played down by the deputy chief of
military staff. Foreign analysts believe Iran could also hit U.S.
interests in the Gulf.
(Additional reporting by Jeffrey Heller and Megan Goldin in Jerusalem)
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Title: Re: World War III NEWS, Saturday, May 6th, 2006 AD....Russia, China dig in against West on Iran 05 May 2006 09:25:17 PM
www.reuters.com/
Russia, China dig in against West on Iran
Fri May 5, 2006 8:12 PM ET
By Evelyn Leopold
UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - Russia and China on Friday opposed key
provisions in a U.N. draft resolution that orders Iran to curb its
nuclear ambitions, making an agreement unlikely before ministers come
to New York next week.
Both nations object to the use of Chapter 7 of the U.N. Charter, used
in dozens of Security Council resolutions for peacekeeping missions and
other legally-binding actions.
Although Chapter 7 allows for sanctions and even war, a separate
resolution is required to specify either step.
Moscow and Beijing, which have veto power, fear too much pressure on
Iran would be self-defeating or precipitate an oil crisis. Both worry
the United States would use a Chapter 7 resolution to justify military
action.
"I think we have serious difficulty with Chapter 7 and the threat to
international peace and security. These are the basic ones," China's
U.N. ambassador, Wang Guangya, told reporters.
He was referring to a paragraph in the resolution's preamble that
indicates Iran's nuclear program was a "threat to international peace
and security."
Wang said both provisions should be struck, even though Chapter 7 is
basic to France and Britain, which drafted the resolution, and the
United States, which backs it.
Russian U.N. Ambassador Vitaly Churkin said the main purpose of the
resolution should be to back the International Atomic Energy Agency,
the U.N. nuclear watchdog.
"It's clear this resolution is not about sanctions because they are not
in the resolution," he said. "It is clear that this resolution is not
providing legal ground for the use of force. Everybody agrees on that."
Churkin said the use of Chapter 7 "might in fact detract from the
strength of this resolution because (it) might be detracting from our
goal of supporting the IAEA in its activities in working with Iran."
WAITING TO HEAR FROM CHINA, RUSSIA
The resolution, introduced on Wednesday, would compel Iran to suspend
its nuclear enrichment activities. It does not call for any other
action if Iran does not comply, but the United States has made clear
that sanctions would be the next step.
The draft also says the Security Council "expresses its intention to
consider further measures as may be necessary to ensure compliance," a
veiled threat of sanctions without imposing them.
Negotiations now concern formulas that would make the resolution
legally binding but exclude any hint of the use of force, diplomats
said.
"The issue whether there is another way that is acceptable is something
that we have asked the Russians and the Chinese to provide. We are
waiting to hear how one might do that," U.S. Ambassador John Bolton
told reporters.
Bolton had wanted an agreement before foreign ministers from Germany
and the five permanent Security Council members -- the United States,
Britain, France, Russia and China -- meet on Iran late on Monday. This
now seems highly unlikely, council members said.
Still, all 15 council nations will discuss the resolution on Saturday
at Britain's U.N. mission.
The Security Council in late March issued a nonbinding statement asking
Iran to abandon uranium enrichment, a process than can lead to a
nuclear weapon or produce fuel to generate electricity.
The council asked for a report within 30 days from the IAEA, whose
director, Mohammed ElBaradei, said on April 28 that Iran had not
complied.
Iran maintains its activities are legal and peaceful. It recently
accelerated its pace of uranium enrichment but remains far below levels
needed to make an atomic bomb.
Iranian officials note that the IAEA has not found a weapons program
after three years of scrutiny.
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Title: World War III NEWS, Wednesday, May 10 th, 2006 AD...Top General Sees Role of Russian Army to Prevent New World War 09 May 2006 10:41:44 PM
Top General Sees Role of Russian Army to Prevent World War 3
http://www.mosnews.com/news/2006/05/09/BaluyevskyArmy.shtml
Top General Sees Role of Russian Army to Prevent New World War
Created: 09.05.2006 15:50 MSK (GMT +3), Updated: 15:51 MSK, 15 hours 27
minutes ago
MosNews
The major role of the Russian Army now is to prevent a new world war,
the chief of the General Staff said on Tuesday.
=E2=80=9CIt is my personal opinion that the main goal of the Russian army is
to prevent a war similar to the one that our ancestors lived through,
because, God forbid, if we allow this war to happen, it will be much
worse than the previous one,=E2=80=9D Army General Yuri Baluyevsky quoted by
RIA-Novosti news agency said after a military parade on Moscow=E2=80=99s Red
Square commemorating Victory Day.
Baluyevsky said that the stability in the world should be primarily
achieved by preventive political, diplomatic and economic measures, but
any country had the right to show its military capability to defend its
national interests.
Speaking about Russia=E2=80=99s position on the international arena, the
general said the country should not copy the example of Europe or Asia.
=E2=80=9CRussia should follow its own path, it has always been, is and will
be Russia, because not a single country that is considered a political
trendsetter, has the same history as our country does,=E2=80=9D Baluyevsky
said.=20
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