US Defense Secretary Leon Panetta says American bunker-busters may not penetrate Iran's deepest bunkers if they are protected by Iranian-made “smart concrete." As tension escalates between the US and Iran, American officials are increasingly concerned that the use of “smart concrete” may render Iranian nuclear sites impervious to US bunker-buster bombs. An article published by Aggravate... 

Iranian Navy vessel fires a Mehrab missile during the "Velayat-90" naval war games in the Strait of Hormuz in southern Iran on January 1, 2012. Commander of Iran’s naval forces Rear Admiral Habibollah Sayyari says the Islamic Republic possesses the know-how for manufacturing aircraft carriers. “Considering the existing capabilities of the young experts in the Naval Forces and the... 

Iran: Capable of increasing military presence in Atlantic ocean Iranian Army Commander, Major General Ataollah Salehi, said Monday that Iran’s Navy has the ability to extend its presence to the Atlantic Ocean. “Today the Iranian Navy has the ability to expand its presence to the Atlantic Ocean beyond the Gulf of Aden, the Mediterranean Sea, the Suez Canal, north of the Indian Ocean and... 

China's Ambassador to the European Union Wu Hailong China’s ambassador to the European Union says any potential military confrontation with Iran over its nuclear energy program will be a “disaster” for the global economy. “I couldn’t think of any worse proposals to resolve the Iranian issue than resolving it by force,” Wu Hailong said in a Friday briefing with foreign... 

British Prime Minister David Cameron has joined the US and Israeli regime in their Iranophobia tirade in the build-up to a possible invasion of Iran. Cameron told the lower house of the British parliament that Iran is developing nuclear missiles capable of hitting London, British media reported. The accusations had echoes of the run-up to the US-led invasion of Iraq in 2003, when then prime minister... 

The US has proposed that Israel withhold from waging an assault on Iran till the next presidential term in America in exchange for most advanced weaponry, reports the Israeli Maariv newspaper. However,the White House denies the claim. The proposal was supposedly made during the visit of Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu to Washington, the newspaper says, citing unnamed diplomats and intelligence sources. It... 

Iran says it will allow the UN nuclear watchdog to inspect the facility where the West suspects work is under way to develop nuclear warheads. Meanwhile, the world’s major powers have agreed to a new round of six-party talks with Iran. ­”Given that Parchin is a military site, access to this facility is a time-consuming process and it can’t be visited repeatedly,” said Iran’s... 

Lebanese President Michel Suleiman Israel what was that about MAPS? For years, the paranoid Israelis have been screaming bloody murder that the President of Iran, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, said that “Israel should be wiped from the map.” Of course, the man said no such thing, it was a deliberate mis-translation meant to serve their purposes: to demonize Ahmadinejad and Iran and to justify an... 

Russia’s Prime Minister Vladimir Putin Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin has warned of the dire consequences of a military conflict with the Islamic Republic, saying Moscow will do its utmost to avert a war on Iran. “We will do everything possible to prevent a military conflict either in Iran or around it,” Putin told the chief editors of several leading international newspapers in his Novo-Ogaryovo... 

US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton US Envoy Tells Pakistan to Buy Gas Somewhere Else US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton have threatened to impose sanctions on the Pakistani government following reports that they intend to construct a natural gas pipeline to neighboring Iran, which would be used to import gas into energy poor Pakistan. Pakistan has been struggling with energy shortages for years,... 

Russian electronic station on Jabal Al Harrah The Russians have upgraded their Jabal Al Harrah electronic and surveillance station south of Damascus opposite Israel’s Sea of Galilee, adding resources especially tailored to give Tehran early warning of an oncoming US or Israeli attack, debkafile’s US military sources report. Before it was boosted by extra advanced technology and manpower, the station... 

New British Royal Navy destroyer HMS Daring, the first of the Royal Navy's new Type 45 destroyers. The United Kingdom has reportedly drawn up plans to send hundreds of troops and an extra nuclear submarine to the Persian Gulf amid escalating war threats against the Islamic Republic. “MoD planners went into overdrive at the start of the year. Conflict is seen as inevitable as long as the regime... 

Iranian military complex, Parchin, which was said to be possibly involved in nuclear weapons research Iran’s alleged nuclear ambition may be high in the headlines. The US intelligence community, whose job is to assess the threat, is skeptical about it. Same as it has been for five years. The latest report accusing Iran of trying to make a nuclear weapon came Friday from the UN’s nuclear watchdog... 

US to aid India Help With Replacing Iran Oil Supply “Anyone but Iran,” is what the United States is telling India, as America attempts to persuade the country to go elsewhere for its oil needs. There are currently no sanctions that would restrict India from continuing to do business with Iran, but any disruption in their relationship could cause the Iranian economy to be impacted significantly.... 

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and US President Barack Obama are to meet in Washington on March 5 to discuss Iran’s nuclear program. Despite the recent US and Israeli hype created around Iran’s nuclear program, a report by American intelligence agencies indicates that Tehran is not seeking to build nuclear weapons. The most recent report on Iran’s nuclear program “represents the...