Iranian Troops cross into Iraqi oilfields – Iraq requesting they leave peacefully

Iranian troops have entered Iraqi territory, an Iraqi oilfield, an Iraqi official said.
A security source in the southeastern Maysan province, speaking on condition of anonymity, said that Iranian troops made their way onto the Fakka oilfield, located just on the Iraqi side of the two countries’ long desert border.
According to Arabic-language television reports, Iranian troops [...]

Secret document exposes Iran’s nuclear trigger

From The Times

December 14, 2009
Confidential intelligence documents obtained by The Times show that Iran is working on testing a key final component of a nuclear bomb.
The notes, from Iran’s most sensitive military nuclear project, describe a four-year plan to test a neutron initiator, the component of a nuclear bomb that triggers [...]

Iran tested advanced nuclear warhead design – secret report

Is this what Israel has been waiting for?
The UN’s nuclear watchdog has asked Iran to explain evidence suggesting that Iranian scientists have experimented with an advanced nuclear warhead design, the Guardian has learned.
The very existence of the technology, known as a “two-point implosion” device, is officially secret in both the US and Britain, but according [...]

French Minister: Iran and Israel in ‘race to confrontation’

Iran’s nuclear ambitions have started a “race to confrontation” with Israel and the world’s leading powers must break the deadlock before the Jewish state “reacts”, according to France’s foreign minister Bernard Kouchner.
Telegraph
Bernard Kouchner stressed the urgency of reaching agreement with Iran over its nuclear programme and [...]

Russia: We’ll Nuke ‘Aggressors’ First

Russia is weighing changes to its military doctrine that would allow for a “preventive” nuclear strike against its enemies — even those armed only with conventional weapons.
In an interview published in Izvestia, Nikolai Patrushev, the secretary of the Kremlin’s security council, said the new doctrine offers “different options to allow the use of nuclear weapons, [...]