Wednesday, May 23, 2012

WORLD WATCH DAILY: Wednesday May 23, 2012 Sivan 2, 5772

 
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Iran is fooling the West in its apparent readiness to reach a deal 
on its nuclear program, Defense Minister Ehud Barak warned on Tuesday.

"The Iranians appear to be trying to reach a technical deal that will create an appearance as if there is progress in the talks to remove some of the pressure ahead of the talks in Baghdad and to postpone an escalation in sanctions," Barak said during a meeting at the Defense Ministry.

 

Iran 'committed to Israel's annihilation,' says top general

 

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Iran's top general Hassan Firouzabadi (left) 
poses with President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. 
[Archive] | Photo credit: FARS

 

According to the Iranian Fars news agency, while addressing a defense gathering in Tehran on Sunday, Chief of Staff of the Iranian Armed Forces Maj. Gen. Hassan Firouzabadi stressed that the Iranian nation remains committed to the "full annihilation of the Zionist regime of Israel to the end."

According to Fars, Firouzabadi "reiterated the Iranian nation and supreme leader's emphasis on the necessity of support for the oppressed Palestinian nation and its causes," and noted, "The Iranian nation is standing for its cause that is the full annihilation of Israel."

The top military official reminded those present that Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei considers "defending Palestine a full religious duty and believes that any kind of governance and rule by anyone other than the Palestinians as an instance of usurpation," Fars reported.

 

Europe's banks on the brink

 

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Former European Central Bank Chairman Jean-Claude Trichet

 

The eurozone crisis was in full swing when Jean-Claude Trichet took the podium in Berlin last October 6 for his final press conference as president of the European Central Bank. Having helped create one of the longest periods of price stability in the history of central banking, Trichet was closing out his eight-year reign under siege.

Soaring oil prices had made a mockery of the bank's superlative record on inflation, while the worst recession on the continent since World War II had morphed into a full-scale sovereign debt crisis. Now the central bank faced the collapse of dozens of banks that had found themselves locked out of funding markets - a development that would draw the ECB into uncharted territory.

 

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Specific examples of major U.S. presence building in and around the Persian Gulf ... Review of the ever-increasing war potential in the Middle East ... Mofaz has had close military relations with Netanyahu and Barak over 36 years ... Iran attack decision appears near, Israel quiet ... World leader: Iran leader has long planned war with Israel and the U.S. ... Saudi nightmares and great fear over the United States and Iran ... Black Christians in an 'adulterous' relationship with Obama, says prominent Black Evangelical Pastor and Leader ...

 

 

 

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