Sunday, September 27, 2009
Brazil Warming to Iran and Nuclear Ambitions
Brazil's vice president, José Alencar, who serves as acting president while President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva is abroad, told Brazilian reporters that's he in favor that Brazil build its own atomic bomb. Nuclear weapons are an important deterrent against possible future aggression by foreign powers, he explained.
"A nuclear weapon used as dissuasive instrument is of great significance for a country that has 15,000 kilometers (9,300 miles) of borders in the west and has a territorial sea and, now, there's this pre-salt sea with an area of 4 million square kilometers (1.4 million square miles)," Alencar said.
All the recent oil findings by Brazil should be reason for caution, he said.
"This stirs international greed. Now everything is all right, but we don't know what tomorrow will bring. It costs a lot, but readiness is costly."
Alencar pointed to Pakistan, which is part of several international organisms not because is a big country, but because it has nuclear weapons.
For Alencar, India and Pakistan, although living in conflict, don't go to war against each other and prefer to sit down and negotiate because both possess nuclear weapons.
"We, Brazilian, sometimes are too laid-back," ALencar said. "We master the nuclear energy technology, but nobody here has the drive to advance in this field. We have to go forward in this matter".
Ahmadinejad to Visit Brazil
In a possibly related development, Lula said Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad will visit Brasilia in November. Lula plans to travel to Tehran in May, Brazilian media reported Thursday.
"I have nothing to do with what other presidents think. I do not know whether they like him (Ahmadinejad) or not. I am meeting with him because he is the president of a great nation and we talk as heads of state. This is not a friends' club," Lula told the daily O Globo.
Lula said that Ahmadinejad had assured him that Iran's nuclear programme only sought peaceful goals.
"I do not take rumours into account ... so far there is nothing that can serve to reject the conclusion that Iran wants (nuclear) technology for peaceful ends."
Lula added that he advised Ahmadinejad to allow international supervision.
The two presidents met Wednesday on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly in New York.
China Confidential reported on Sept. 5 that Brazil was following Iran's line on nuclear matters. Alencar's remarks, which the government says do not reflect official Brazilian policy, should not be brushed off as insignificant.China, Neighbors Cooperating Against ETIM
Reuters reports: China and its Asian neighbours have agreed to tighten border controls and increase protection over Chinese operations that could be targets of "East Turkistan" militants, China's Ministry of Public Security said.
China blames militants in the East Turkistan Islamic Movement (ETIM) for attacks in the far western frontier region of Xinjiang, where the local Uighurs, a Muslim people with cultural ties to central Asia, often chafe under Chinese rule.
Deadly riots by Uighurs in Xinjiang's capital Urumqi on July 5 killed 197 people, most of them majority Han Chinese. Han crowds launched revenge attacks two days later.
Continue here.China Investigating US Chicken Imports
Iran to Test Missile Capable of Hitting Israel
Iranian media say the Islamic Republic has tested short-range missiles and plans to test a long-range weapon--the surface-to-surface Shahab 3--believed to be capable of reaching Israel. Iran says the missile, which has been tested several times in the past, has a range of about 2,000 km.
State television says the elite Revolutionary Guard also tested a multiple missile launcher Sunday at the start of their regular war games.
The Shahab 3 test is scheduled for Monday.
The military exercises are happening as tension is rising between Iran and Western nations over Tehran's controversial nuclear program.
Second Uranium Plant
Iran revealed this past week that it is building a second uranium enrichment plant, despite the United Nations' demands that it stop processing material used in nuclear bombs.
A senior U.S. official says the Obama administration plans to tell Iran this week that it must open up the facility, turn over documents and provide access to key players in Tehran's nuclear program.
Iran's nuclear chief, Ali Akbar Salehi, has told Iranian state television inspectors will be allowed to visit the site near the Shi'ite holy city of Qom.
Iranian officials will discuss their nuclear program in Geneva Thursday with diplomats from the U.S., Britain, France, Germany, Russia and China.Germans Vote Under Threat of Islamonazi Attacks
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Saturday, September 26, 2009
US, Russia Resigned to 'Living With' Nuclear Iran
Israeli analysts believe the United States and Russia are resigned to "living with but never accepting" a nuclear Iran--the twisted Brzezinski formula.
The Islamist nation, which has vowed to destroy Israel, is no more than a year away from being able to manufacture nuclear warheads for its advanced, long-range missiles, the analysts add.
Sunday 27 September 2009
The move, alleging unfair trade practices, follows Washington's imposition of import tariffs on Chinese-made tires. Click here for the story.
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