US-Iran Escalation:Iran Arrests 30 US Spies,builds Venezuela missile base,US Sends 3rd Carrier Group

[stockholmer]

http://www.zerohedge.com/article/us-iran-escalation-iran-arrests-30-us-spies-it-builds-venezuelan-missile-base-america-sends-

"A week ago Die Welt reported http://www.welt.de/politik/ausland/article13366204/Iranische-Raketenbasis-in-Venezuela-in-Planungsphase.html that, in what may soon be a repeat of the Cuban missile crisis, US arch-enemy Iran, following a secret agreement signed on October 19, 2010 of strategic cooperation, Venezuela has allowed Iran to commence construction of a missile base on Venezuelan soil. The base, which will be located on the northernmost peninsula de Paraguana, 120 kilometers from the Colombian border, has recently been visited by a group of leading engineers from the Iranian Revolutionary Guard-owned construction company Khatam al-Anbia, is unofficially designed "to help develop an infrastructure to protect against air attack. Also planned is the construction of a command and control station, residential areas, watchtowers, and bunkers, in which warheads, missile fuel and other items can be stored.

In cooperation with its Venezuelan partners, Iran also intends to build missile silos at a depth of about 61 ft." The project appears to be funded by Iran: "Information gathered by Die Welt also suggests that on their visit to Venezuela, members of the Iranian delegation carried cash in their luggage for the project’s initial funding. Western security circles suspect that this involved tens of millions of dollars siphoned off from Iran’s burgeoning oil profits." But most importantly is the discovery that while presumably defensive, Venezuela has told Iran, that it will be granted use of the base when completed: "According to the secret agreement between the two countries, Venezuela pledged to Iran that it will be able to strike its enemies from the joint missile base.

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And a move that is sure to tip the scales to an outright confrontation even more, is the just announced by Al Arabiya http://www.alarabiya.net/articles/2011/05/21/149953.html arrest of 30 suspected US spies: a move which will certainly lead to executions, and the complete collapse of any diplomatic ties between the two countries. Iran has arrested 30 people it said were spying for the United States.

“Due to the massive intelligence and counter-intelligence work by Iranian agents, a complex espionage and sabotage network linked to America’s spy organization was uncovered and dismantled,” an intelligence ministry statement read out Saturday on the television said. “Elite agents of the intelligence ministry in their confrontation with the CIA (Central Intelligence Agency) elements were able to arrest 30 America-linked spies through numerous intelligence and counter-intelligence operations,” it added. According to Iran’s semi-official Fars news agency, the suspects had passed information to US officials at embassies and consulates in third countries, including Malaysia, Turkey and the United Arab Emirates..."


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[dipsydoodle]

1. Bit like the US missle shield in Europe really.

No real difference. If one's ok so's the other.

[stockholmer]

2. I tend to agree, but good luck selling that logic versus the multivariate war machine in empiric USA

The Monroe Doctrine of December 2, 1823, and all that cascaded moving forward the next 187 and 1/2 yrs means big trouble ahead for Messrs. Chavez and Ahmedinejad, not to mention the US people, who will pay the bill and suffer under the inevitable further imposition of the security state that will surely flow forth.

[dipsydoodle]

3. tip the scales ?

If they were not US spies then its not the concern of the US. What's the issue ?