Developments in Iran and Pakistan
At the Global Affairs group blog:
Farideh Farhi discusses negotiations between Iran and the International Atomic Energy Agency over inspections of the latter's nuclear programs. She also tells us about the imminent release of Iranian-American intellectual Kian Tajbakhsh, from prison.
Barnett Rubin discusses the collapse of the legitimacy of the Pakistani government in the wake of the deportation of former prime minister Nawaz Sharif. He also examines what it means for the Afghanistan crisis.
Labels: Iran
posted by Juan Cole @ 9/12/2007 06:32:00 AM
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ElBaradi walks out of the EU meeting in protest over statements that are not true about Iran N program.
Niger Yellow cake in the works.
General Patreus was again beating the drum of war against Iran. Once again he accuses Iran of providing IED to Iraq.
These IED, explosively-formed projectiles, or shaped-charges are all devices commonly used in the oil industry. Iraq needs no help from Iran in this regard. But not a mention of this fact is being made by a media still asleep at the wheel even after being jolted into a momentary state of alertness following the revelation (surprise surprise) that there were no WMDs in Iraq.
I agree wholeheartedly with the MoveOn.org advertisement in the NYTimes. Petreus is doing a Colin Powell and betraying our country. The man deserves no respect.
Here's something the DefenseTech site is talking about right now for deployment in Iraq shortly:
It “…will look more and more like the Israeli border." - Perma-Observation Posts For Permanent Iraq Basing
The technical name is: 'aerostats' (static aerial surveillance devices)
..I would suppose the Pakistan/Iraq, Pakistan/Iran borders/Autonomous Tribal Areas are other likely site if the areas are (ever) secure enough to avoid the destruction of these stationary spy devices.
Needless to say, I don't think we'd be deploying these expensive toys to Iraq unless we were planning on staying for a looooong time.
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