The Russian Army is now accusing the United States and several NATO countries of establishing military presence in Georgia under the guise of humanitarian aid. He said that ships from the United States as well as Spain and Germany are occupying the region while pretending to distribute aid to Georgia. The premise for his accusations comes from the large grouping of NATO ships that have been passing through the region for naval exercises. “Under the cover of needing to deliver humanitarian goods, NATO countries continue to boost their naval grouping,” The Russian General commented. Before continuing on, do you believe » Read More

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According to the Iran bank Chief of Bank Mellat, the US financial sanctions are not proving to be effective. The bank Chief stated that there was a perceived problem because of the US sanction. However he continued and said, “in practice there was no halt to our operations.”
The Iranian bank commented that they are still doing business with a number of international banks including but not limited to Asian, African, and European banks.
With this information, I can’t help but ask the question – just how effective are US financial sanctions on Iran? There is the distinct possibility that the bank » Read More

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How necessary is renewable energy for the United States? Oil is good right? It has always worked, who’s to say we should change anything up now? Well given the current situation in the Middle East, it could be in the best interest of America if we began exploring alternative energy mediums. If we continue to purchase oil from unstable foreign governments, we will continue to support their economy. However if we could cut ourselves off from oil from foreign nations, we would have more money being pumped through the united states and less money being given to unstable governments.
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Iran is continuing to engage in discussions with the UN atomic watchdog. When asked about the meetings, Iran stated that they believed them to be a positive venture. Mohammad Saeedi continued saying that he plans to hold further negotiations. Iran’s representative at the IAEA (Atomic Energy Agency) stated that negotiations “on technical cooperation between Iran and the IAEA will continue.”
Inspectors from the IAEA have been consistently dropping by Iranian nuclear facilities to make sure that these facilities are not veering towards nuclear aspirations. The chief argument of Iran for their nuclear program is that nuclear energy is necessary to help » Read More

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Iran has just received their fourth set of UN sanctions for not halting the production of uranium enrichment. Instead of showing any signs of winding down, Iranian officials have now asked six Iranian companies to find suitable places for new nuclear power plants to be built. For some reason I keep thinking that these sanctions will slow Iran down, but on the contrary they are simply trying to increase production.
Why do you think Iran continues to disregard UN orders? Surely they must realize that there will be greater and greater repercussions for each day that they continue to disregard UN » Read More

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On Friday Russia stated that they strongly opposed the United States plans for a new missile shield in Europe because they believe the missiles are pointed at Russia. They continued in their rage saying that the missile shields would not be exempt from Russian military action. In my mind, this seems to be the first serious comments of hostility that the United States has seen from Russia in years.
The President of Russia, Dmitry Medvedev commented that the United States was developing the system specifically with the Russians in mind.
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A Russian Government Official was quoted on Tuesday saying that Russia’s military exports would be in excess of 8.5 billion dollars for 2008. With their increased arms exporting, Russia is now the number two in arms exporting behind the United States. What does this mean for the United States? Honestly I believe that it means we need to keep an eye out for exports to nations who lean towards nefarious activities. One of the primary nations that Russia exports their weapons to is Iran. As a global superpower that is currently engaged in disagreements with Iran, is it a problem » Read More

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In a surprise turn of events, the US National Intelligence came out and admitted that they believe that Tehran had not been trying to develop nuclear weapons since 2003 based on their current knowledge. They also stated that they believed that Iran had not resumed this project.
In January of 2008 the UN decided that they did not know enough about the current nuclear situation in Iran so they gave Iran a four-week deadline to shed light on the entire nuclear situation. The UN inspections team later reported that they had gained valuable information about the nuclear program but that no » Read More

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In January of 2007 Iran responded spitefully to the UN sanctions by declaring that they have blocked entry into the country for any IAEA inspectors. Later that year the IAEA confirms that Iran has been growing their nuclear operation. In March the UN institutes new sanctions combined with incentives in an effort to end the conflict with Iran. This effort was quite similar to what leaders have been doing in recent weeks with regard to the nuclear conflict with Iran.
When looking at the history of the nuclear conflict with Iran, it is evident that utilizing force to ensure that Iran » Read More

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In August of 2005 Iran received a new president by the name of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. Under his leadership, Iran continues its Uranium enrichment practices while the UN backs off for the time being. A month later the IAEA finds out that Iran has yet again fallen into violation.
By 2006 Iran began to break the barriers which the IAEA had placed at their Natanz nuclear research facility. Once the preventitive barriers were broken Iran continued its Uranium Enrichment there. Once the global community found out about this, sanctions were officially threatened towards Iran unless they discontinued their work with nuclear materials.
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