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Yaalon: Iran’s nuclear arms drive delayed … Iran: Mossad killed Iranian official
The Iranian-Israeli clandestine war is heating up. Just a day after Iran publicly hanged alleged Israeli spy Ali Akbar Siadat, hinting that at least one more Iranian national was due to be executed for working for the Mossad, Iranian Deputy Foreign Minister for Middle East and Russia Affairs Mohammad Rauf Sheibani announced Wednesday, December 29 that Tehran would ask international organizations to investigate “the murder by the Israeli Mossad'” of the former Iranian deputy defense minister Alireza Asgari in Israel’s Ayalon Prison. Asgari went missing form his Istanbul hotel shortly after arriving there from Damascus on December 9, 2006 and has not been seen since. Until now, Iranian sources claimed he was in American hands. Western intelligence had reported in fact that he was the source of the information about secret Iranian nuclear installations, including the underground enrichment plant near Qom. Now, for the first time, Tehran has come up with the tale not only that he was taken to an Israeli prison after his disappearance in Istanbul, but that he died there . . . On the morning of that same Wednesday, Israel’s Deputy Prime Minister in charge of Strategic Affairs, General (retired) Moshe Yaalon, told a radio interviewer that Iran was not currently able to manufacture a nuclear bomb because of technical difficulties but he estimated it would attain this capability within three years. DEBKAfile‘s intelligence sources note that the Israeli intelligence timeline for a nuclear-armed Iran was previously 2011 …
Dodging Repatriation Tax Lets U.S. Companies Bring Home Cash
At the White House on December 15, business executives asked President Obama for a tax holiday that would help them tap more than $1 trillion of offshore earnings, much of it sitting in island tax havens. The money – including hundreds of billions in profits that U.S. companies attribute to overseas subsidiaries to avoid taxes – is supposed to be taxed at up to 35 percent when it’s brought home, or “repatriated.” Executives including John T. Chambers of Cisco Systems Inc. say a tax break would return a flood of cash and boost the economy. What nobody’s saying publicly is that U.S. multinationals are already finding legal ways to avoid that tax. Over the years, they’ve brought cash home, tax-free, employing strategies with nicknames worthy of 1970s conspiracy thrillers – including “the Killer B” and “the Deadly D.” Merck & Co Inc., the second-largest drugmaker in the U.S., last year brought more than $9 billion from abroad without paying any U.S. tax to help finance its acquisition of Schering- Plough Corp., securities filings show. Merck is also appealing a federal judge’s 2009 finding that Schering-Plough owed taxes on $690 million it had earlier brought home from overseas tax-free. The largest drugmaker, Pfizer Inc., imported more than $30 billion from offshore in connection with its acquisition of Wyeth last year, while taking steps to minimize the tax hit on its publicly reported profit …
[Editor’s Note: The Iranian attitude towards world concerns about its nuclear program continues to be shouted defiantly. Ahmadinejad’s interest in gaining nuclear independence would not be of such a concern, indeed, would be none of the world’s business, were it not for its stated hostility towards neighboring states.
Although it’s feasible the present crisis conditions will subside, Iran has openly vowed to retaliate for what it says is the state-sanctioned murder of certain members of its nuclear brain trust. The political brinkmanship is potentially vulnerable to a miscalculation, for a recent German analysis says the Stuxnet virus has set back Iran’s ambitions by about 2 years. What should be of real concern is not being voiced anywhere. What if the Stuxnet virus were actually designed to seize control of Iran’s nukes, and actually cause them to self destruct as a way of discrediting the regime’s braggadocio concerning their technical prowess? In other words, a conspiracy to cause Iran’s systems to initiate a nuclear event is a very real possibility, and then the only “reasonable” response would be to retaliate in what would then become the most destructive ‘false flag’ episode in world history.
The high stakes poker game being played can only end in tragedy. It’s not a case of if, but when, and if the international cabal that is scheming on world dominion gets its way, it’s likely to be sooner than later. For more on the end of the age, see the book The Reckoning LINK]
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