DTN News - GERMAN DEFENSE NEWS: Iran Blocks Merkel's Plane Enroute To India....NSI News Source Info # 2022

DTN News - GERMAN DEFENSE NEWS: Iran Blocks Merkel's Plane Enroute To India....NSI News Source Info # 2022

(NSI News Source Info) BERLIN, Germany- May 31, 2011: Iran temporarily withdrew flyover rights for the plane carrying German chancellor Angela Merkel to India on Tuesday, forcing it to circle over Turkey for two hours before the rights were restored and she could land in New Delhi.

"An unusual start to the India trip," Merkel's spokesman Steffen Seibert wrote on his Twitter account. "Iran temporarily denied flyover rights for the Chancellor's plane. A late landing in Delhi."

A Reuters journalist travelling with Merkel reported that Iran had withdrawn the previously granted rights shortly before the plan reached Iranian territory.

Officials in the German delegation travelling with Merkel attributed it to "coordination problems." The plane, carrying a large group of industry representatives and reporters, was forced to circle over Turkey before Iran gave it permission to fly over the country.

A second German government plane that left Berlin earlier reached India without any problems.

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DTN News -STRATFOR DEFENSE NEWS: China Blocks U.N. Report On Missile Technology Transfers....NSI News Source Info # 1990

DTN News -STRATFOR DEFENSE NEWS: China Blocks U.N. Report On Missile Technology Transfers....NSI News Source Info # 1990

**ANALYSIS: This article is well analyzed by STRATFOR, China is now aiming to unseat the lone super-power U.S. and is in direct competition on stealth aircraft J-20 in comparison to F-22, very soon will test fly stealth helicopter, courtesy Pakistan and Osama bin Laden's Abbottabad mansion raided by SEALs. Enable for China to pursue it's objective, there are two factors - vast consumers market and vast forex (foreign exchange) reserves amounting to $3 trillion, which is one third of the world's forex. Sooner or later, without any doubt - China will make it's presence felt in every factor from military hardware, aviations, automobiles etcetera in the global arena as an economy super power, as of now - second in GDP (ppp), predicted by 2016 would replace U.S. to number one position; Roger Smith DTN News ~ Defense-Technology News

Source: DTN News - - This article compiled by Roger Smith from reliable sources Stratfor

(NSI News Source Info) TORONTO, Canada - May 24, 2011: China blocks U.N. report on Missile Technology Transfers.

Nathan Hughes: Predictable denials, from Iran to China, quickly ensued following the leak of the existence of a confidential U.N. report on ongoing cooperation between Iran and North Korean on ballistic missile development as well as Chinese facilitation of the exchange of materiel between the two countries.

Trilateral cooperation between not just North Korea and Iran, but Pakistan as well, in ballistic missile development has been long established and long known, as has Chinese facilitation. But it is this trilateral relationship that is the most overt, not in any official sense but in the simultaneous existence of near-identical medium-range ballistic missiles in each country’s arsenal, in each case, the longest-range operationally fielded missile in the countries. Alternately known as the Shahab-3 to Iran, the Nodong series to North Korea and the Ghauri to the Pakistanis, these missiles have their roots in Soviet SCUD technology, and Soviet SCUD technology is really a fairly rudimentary extension of Nazi V-2 technology from World War II.

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DTN News - Weapons Of Mass Destruction WMD NEWS: Eyeing Nuclear Sites, Iran Tests New Anti-Aircraft Missile....NSI News Source Info # 1830

DTN News - Weapons Of Mass Destruction WMD NEWS: Eyeing Nuclear Sites, Iran Tests New Anti-Aircraft Missile....NSI News Source Info # 1830

**Missile has higher "destruction power" and is meant to defend Tehran's nuclear plants, report says; official blames US, Israel for Stuxnet worm.

Source: DTN News - - This article compiled by Roger Smith from reliable sources The Jerusalem Post

(NSI News Source Info) TORONTO, Canada - April 16, 2011:

Iran on Saturday tested a new anti-aircraft missile system dubbed the Sayyad-2 and the country's defense officials said the system will be deployed throughout the country in the near future, Fars News Agency reported.

Tehran had previously introduced the Sayyad-1 surface-to-air missile which is capable of destroying targets with a low Radar Cross Section (RCS) at low and medium altitudes, and can also defuse electronic warfare attacks, according to Fars report.

The newest Sayyad-2 is an upgraded version of the system and has "higher precision, range and destruction power," said the report.

Iranian Lietenant Commander Colonel Abolfazi Farmahini said recent tests of the mid-range hawk anti-aircraft missiles, conducted near the Khondab nuclear facility, successfully hit their targets. He said the test was aimed at assessing the level of preparedness of the system in defending Iran's nuclear plants.

Farmahini said the Khatam ol-Anbia Air Defense Base tests the missiles regularly to strengthen the country's defense capabilities.

Also Saturday, Iranian military officials said the US and Israelare behind the Stuxnet computer worm that has harmed the country's nuclear program, AFP reported quoting IRNA.

"Investigations and studies show that the source of Stuxnet originates from America and the Zionist regime," Gholam Reza Jalali, the commander of the Iranian civil defense organization, said.

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DTN News - POSSIBILITY OF FUTURE CONFLICT NEWS: Iran To Punish Saudi Arabia Brutally....NSI News Source Info # 1754

DTN News - POSSIBILITY OF FUTURE CONFLICT NEWS: Iran To Punish Saudi Arabia Brutally....NSI News Source Info # 1754

Source: DTN News - - This article compiled by Roger Smith from reliable sources Sergei Balmasov Pravda.Ru

(NSI News Source Info) TEHRAN, Iran - March 29, 2011: To suppress the revolution in Bahrain, the local king called on local troops from the neighboring Saudi Arabia. The British media that has its sources in the Bahraini royal family talked about such a possibility earlier. In particular, this was reported by the authoritative publication The Guardian.

Such a request was received by Riyadh on March 14, and he responded immediately. As stated earlier by the representatives of the ruling Saudi dynasty, they are ready to assist "the ruler and the people of the friendly country of Bahrain." Fortunately, it is allowed by the existing agreements on mutual support between the two countries, members of the Council on Cooperation in the Persian Gulf.

Yet, it is difficult to say who is considered the "people" by Saudi authorities since the anti-government rallies are attended not only by the representatives of the Shiite majority (70 percent of the population of Bahrain), but rather numerous representatives of the Left (including the Communists) from among the Sunnis.

The rallies in Bahrain have been ongoing for over a month. The Shiite majority actively opposes the oppression by the ruling Sunni minority, which includes Crown Prince Salman bin Hamad Al-Khalifa, who is especially zealous in insisting on foreign intervention.

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