Acordo da NATO resolveu principal questão entre UE e EUA, diz António Costa

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Já agora para quem quiser ver o crash de um B2 em Guam (os pilotos safaram-se no último segundo):

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Declaração de Olmert, PM de Israel, após a reunião de ontem com Bush:

Olmert: We're close to stopping Iran's nuclear program

After his meeting with U.S. President George W. Bush in Washington on Wednesday, Prime Minister Ehud Olmert said that the end of Iran's controversial nuclear program was approaching.

"With every day that passes, we are getting closer to stopping Iran's nuclear program," he said, adding that substantial steps were being taken to handle the Iranian threat in "a more effective manner."

Olmert added that, as a result of the hour-long meeting with Bush, there were fewer question marks between the two allies concerning the means, the time constraints, and the level of American determination in dealing with the Iranian nuclear program.

"Naturally the Iranian issue was central to our talks, and our shared point of departure is the need to deal with Iran before it manages to acquire non-conventional capabilities," Olmert told reporters.

"Every day that goes by we are making significant steps in dealing with this problem [Iran]. We, with the world under American leadership, are dealing with it in an effort to reach the goal which is to prevent Iran from acquiring [nuclear] arms," Olmert said.

"I do not think it is appropriate for Iran to know what we are doing," Olmert said, and described the cooperation with the United States on countering Iran's nuclear program.

Não é nenhum Amadinejad que fala por falar.

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Se calhar faz parte da estratégia dos Republicanos para as eleições:

McCain Calls for Iran Sanctions

McCain Calls Iran 'Foremost' Middle East Enemy

Sen. John McCain called Monday for broad sanctions against Iran and a South African-style worldwide divestment strategy aimed at pressuring the country's regime to abandon efforts to acquire nuclear weapons and encourage its people's democratic aspirations.

In a speech to the pro-Israel lobbying group AIPAC in Washington, McCain declared Iran the "foremost" enemy in the Middle East and said it could pose an "existential threat" to Israel if it succeeds in acquiring a nuclear bomb.

"A sponsor of both Hamas and Hezbollah, the leadership of Iran has repeatedly used violence to undermine Israel and the Middle East peace process," McCain said. "It has trained, financed, and equipped extremists in Iraq who have killed American soldiers fighting to bring freedom to that country. It remains the world's chief sponsor of terrorism and threatens to destabilize the entire Middle East, from Basra to Beirut."

McCain once again mocked his likely Democratic rival, Sen. Barack Obama, for his willingness to meet unconditionally with Iran's president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.

"It's hard to see what such a summit with President Ahmadinejad would actually gain, except an earful of anti-Semitic rants, and a worldwide audience for a man who denies one Holocaust and talks before frenzied crowds about starting another," McCain said. "Such a spectacle would harm Iranian moderates and dissidents, as the radicals and hardliners strengthen their position and suddenly acquire the appearance of respectability."

Instead, McCain told the approving crowd, the U.S. should lead the world in political and economic sanctions against Iran, including limits on Iranian imports of gasoline and an enhanced effort by worldwide financial institutions to freeze the regime's assets.

The U.S. Treasury department has already begun to clamp down on Iranian financial transactions. In March, the administration issued a warning to U.S. banks about the dangers of doing business with Iranian banks. And the United Nations Security Council has passed three resolutions calling on an end to Iran's nuclear development, each with slightly tougher sanctions.

But McCain appears not to have much confidence in the U.N. process, saying the U.S. should be prepared to step in.

"Should the Security Council continue to delay in this responsibility, the United States must lead like-minded countries in imposing multilateral sanctions outside the UN framework," he said.

Obama's campaign responded quickly to McCain's speech, accusing the Republican nominee of "stubbornly" insisting on what spokesman Hari Sevugan called a "dangerous and failed foreign policy that has clearly made the United States and Israel less secure."

Sevugan noted that McCain had voted against a divestment bill sponsored by Obama and said he "stubbornly refuses to engage in aggressive diplomacy, ruling it out unconditionally as a tool of American power."

Posted at 11:24 AM ET on Jun 2, 2008

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Isto vale o que vale, mas aqui fica a notícia.

Já se sabe que qualquer cena destas terá impactos brutais no petróleo e por arrastamento nas bolsas.

Limited US attack on Iranian Revolutionary Guards bases in sight

June 2, 2008, 11:31 AM (GMT+02:00)

Our Washington sources report that president George W. Bush is closer than ever before to ordering a limited missile-air bombardment of the IRGC-al Qods Brigade’s installations in Iran. It is planned to target training camps and the munitions factories pumping fighters, missiles and roadside bombs to the Iraqi insurgency, Lebanese Hizballah and Palestinian terrorist groups in Gaza.

Iran is geared up for counteraction.

US intelligence estimates that Tehran’s counteraction will likewise be on a limited scale and therefore any US-Iranian military encounter will not be allowed to explode into a major confrontation. Because this US assault is not planned to extend to Iran’s nuclear installations, Tehran is not expected to hit back at distant American targets in the Persian Gulf or at Israel.

DEBKAfile’s Iranian sources report, however, that Iran’s military preparations for countering an American attack are far broader than envisaged in Washington. Tehran would view a US attack on the IRGC bases as a casus belli and might react in ways and on a scale unanticipated in Washington.

Two days ago, Iran’s defense minister Gen. Mostafa Mohammad-Najjar warned: “Iran’s Armed Forces are fully prepared to counter any military attack with any intensity and to make the enemy regret initiating any such incursions.”

According to DEBKAfile’s Iranian and military sources, the IRGC had by mid-May completed their preparations for a US missile, air or commando assault on their command centers and bases in reprisal for Iranian intervention in Iraq.

These preparations encompass al Qods’ arms, most of them undercover, in Iraq, Afghanistan, Lebanon and Sudan. At home, the Revolutionary Guards have evacuated their key bases together with manpower and equipment to regular army sites or temporary quarters in villages located in remote corners of eastern and northern Iran. Their main headquarters and central training center at the Imam Ali University in northern Tehran are deserted except for sentries on the gates.

Indoctrination seminaries and dormitories hosting fighting strength in the holy town of Qom are empty, as is the Manzariyah training center east of the capital.

Deserted too is the main training camp near Isfahan for insurgents and terrorists from Iraq, Afghanistan, Baluchistan, Lebanon and the Gaza Strip. It is here that they take courses from friendly al Qods training staff on how to sabotage strategic targets such as routes, bridges and military installations, and the activation of the extra-powerful roadside bombs (EFPs) which have had such a deadly effect on American troops in Iraq.