Showing posts with label NATO. Show all posts
Showing posts with label NATO. Show all posts

Wednesday, January 19, 2011

Iran Launches Satellite

The launch of the Safir-2 Rocket, a satellite with research (what research type?) and telecommunication (among who?) is a strong matter of concern for Israel, EU and USA.

The launching technology is very similar to that used for ballistic missiles and then feasible to be switched up to other “peaceful” program.

Iranian Government gives high relevance to entry and installs a wide missiles range with different range capability.

They are also interested in taking lead of the Muslims world, by showing an organized and modernized regional power.

From this perspective, Iranian’s best competitors are Pakistan and Al-Qaeda.
Pakistan already owns its repository of Nuclear weapons.
Al-Qaeda is attempting to access to this technology by associated third parties.
If Pakistan fails in maintain internal order risk of a clash against India is feasible.

Then back again to Iran, we have a quite advance technology Country well determined in pursuing its own targets.

This is likely to be a military transition policy in which Government is trying consolidating its position across Middle East and acts a large role in supporting all anti-Israelis movements.

All this drive to an obvious number of military options and efforts in which combination of Israel and USA or NATO response should be based on realistic assessment.

There is a need to understand all possible worst cases with minimum general impact both in the public opinion and in the foreign relations in the Muslim Word, Russia and China.

The Iranian missile Shabab-3 derives by the North Korean No-Dong 1 re-elaborated. The exchange of technology between these states may be an additional point of concerns and possible military option being considered.

Suspect of connection with Russia and China in development the long range ballistic Shabab-3 version is feasible but not demonstrated.

From a certain perspective the raise of Iran as regional reference power may create high expectations from Muslims communities in Russia and China to the Uyghur population in the Xinijang Region together with an increase of terrorism, separatism and religious extremism.

Beyond these analysis we have then challenge of facing Iranian threat according to the information we have acquired and take a decision of striking.
We just need to decide when and where.
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Saturday, February 6, 2010

Russia Tells Ukraine Stop Black Sea Oil Drilling

Russia's foreign ministry demanded last week Ukraine to halt the oil exploration in parts of the Black Sea because of a territorial dispute, Russian news agencies reported.

The activities of Ukrainian energy companies "are of an illegal nature and must be halted," Itar-Tass news agency quoted the ministry as saying.

"The areas in question are the subject of a negotiations process between the Russian Federation and Ukraine on the demarcation of the continental shelf and exclusive economic zones in the Black Sea," it said.


The foreign ministry statement did not say if the Russian objections applied to U.S. firm Vanco Energy, which has been granted a contract by Ukraine to develop an area of just under 30,000 square km at the northern end of the Black Sea.

Vanco Energy has said it would spend as much as $3 billion on the project, starting with a $190 million investment in the first three years.

Moscow and Kiev are in dispute over territorial waters around the Kerch Strait, a waterway at the northern end of the Black Sea which separates Ukraine's Crimea Peninsula from the coast of southern Russia.

Political ties between Moscow and Kiev are strained because of Russian opposition to Ukraine's NATO membership bid and disputes over the price at which Russia sells gas to its ex-Soviet neighbor. – Reuters

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