Hmm, is this Iranian Chest Thumping of "Sanctions are NO problem," kind of like Putin and the Russian Military’s, chest thumping, of yes, then no, we ain't afraid?

In the right hand, the Old USSR Chest thump publicly how their “new Maneuverable Nuclear Missiles can defeat ANY anti-Missile system in the world,” while, in their Left hand, of perhaps bluff and fear, they go publicly Psycho in rants of how the European based US Anti-missiles system, “they defeat easily, wink,” is a dire and imminent threat to Russia?

Kind of like Doomocracy hubris of “well, It is, and it is not, at the same time… Perhaps in similarity like the Iranian's below, who perhaps have the same play book, eh?

Iranians urged to tighten belts

TEHRAN

Iranians have been urged to adopt austerity measures to limit the impact of possible international sanctions as a result of Tehran’s drive to become a nuclear power Mostafa Pour Mohammadi, the Interior Minister, marking the 28th anniversary of the seizure of the US Embassy in Tehran, said Iranians should cut back on consumption to ensure that any sanctions imposed on the country had no effect.

His remarks come as the UN Security Council considers more sanctions against Tehran.

“All of us in our households can bring down our consumption expenditure by 10 per cent,” he said. “We need to send a call to the young people.”

Iran’s energy consumption has become a serious issue in recent winters, when excess demand has caused gas shortages. The minister said that petrol rationing – imposed this year to reduce dependence on foreign imports – had reduced consumption by 25 per cent already and was an example of what could be done. (AFP)

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/worl...RSS&attr=797093


And the beat goes on!!

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More Gorilla in the room chest thumping or snake slithering fearful bluffs?

Russia sends warning to the West

President Vladimir Putin's decision to suspend Russia's participation in the Conventional Forces in Europe, or CFE, treaty is a potent political signal.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/6898897.stm

Russia suspends arms treaty

Russia's parliament has voted to suspend Moscow's support for a key treaty limiting the deployment of armed forces along its border with Europe.

Parliament's lower house, the Duma, unanimously agreed to temporarily abandon the 1990 Conventional Forces in Europe treaty (CFE).

The bill still faces approval in the upper house in December before President Vladimir Putin can sign it.

The CFE is one of many issues recently putting Moscow at odds with the West.

The Duma approved the bill in the 418-0 vote.

In the motion, MPs said the CFE treaty "no longer responds to the security interests of the Russian Federation" in light of Nato expansion and other factors in Europe.

The vote amounted to legislative confirmation of a decree signed by President Putin in July.

The CFE was one of the most significant arms control agreements of the Cold War years.

It set strict limits on the number of conventional weapons - battle tanks, combat aircraft, heavy artillery - that the members of the Warsaw Pact and Nato could deploy in European territory stretching from the Atlantic coast to the Urals.

In the wake of the collapse of communism, the treaty was revised in 1999, in part to address Russian concerns.

Russia ratified the 1999 revised version, but Nato has not done so.

Nato states are first demanding the withdrawal of Russian forces from Georgia and Moldova, but Moscow says the issues are not linked.

The Kremlin has also voiced concern over US plans to station part of a missile defence shield in Poland and the Czech Republic.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/7082501.stm

Iran 'could have atom bomb in a year'

President Ahmadinejad of Iran claimed today that his country had developed 3,000 centrifuges for enriching uranium - a sufficient number, according to scientists to allow it to build an atomic bomb within a year.

In a defiant speech, Mr Ahmadinejad also vowed to continue ignoring UN Security Council resolutions to stop Iran's nuclear programme, claiming that "the Iranian nation could not care a less" about two rounds of sanctions that had been imposed.

"We have now reached 3,000 machines," the Iranian leader told a rally in the north eastern city of Birjand.
Enriched uranium can fuel power plants but also, if refined further, provide fissile material for bombs, although Iran says that its nuclear programme is for generating electricity.

Western experts say that, in ideal conditions, Iran's 3,000 centrifuges could enrich enough uranium within a year to make a nuclear warhead. The centrifuges are located at an underground nuclear facility at Natanz in central Iran.

Mr Ahmadeinjad said that he would not back down on uranium enrichment and UN sanctions programmes and resolutions were meaningless. "Some people say implement the resolutions, but we say the resolutions are based on a wrong report," he said.

"Iran will not give any credit to these resolutions. They should know that the Iranian nation could not care less
about the sanctions."

He added that the Iranian people "will not retreat an iota from any of their rights, especially nuclear rights".
Rejecting Western pressures to halt the programme, he added: “Our response is: ’Who are you to make comments about the Iranian nation. Do we ask you how many machines you have?"

Two programmes of sanctions have now been imposed which target the Islamic Republic's nuclear programme and ballistic missile programme. In addition, the United States has imposed its own unilateral sanctions, including blacklisting the country's elite Revolutionary Guard corps and its Quds force, accused of arming and training insurgents in Iraq.

It has also blacklisted major Iranian banks and successfully encouraged virtually all major European banks into cutting business with the Islamic republic.

Iran and the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) agreed on a timetable in August for Tehran to provide answers to outstanding questions over its nuclear programme. In addition, the EU foreign policy chief Javier Solana is due to publish a report by mid-November.

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/worl...icle2824127.ece

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