Iran Military Practicing Straits Of Hormuz Closure. Pimco's 4 "Iran Invasion" Oil Price Scenarios: From $140 To "Doomsday" Pimco's Greg Sharenow has released a white paper on what the Newport Beach company believes are the 4 possible outcomes should Iranian nuclear facilities be struck as increasingly more believe will happen given enough time.
The conclusion is sensible enough "Whenever the global economy is in a fragile state, as it is today, geopolitical concerns such as the possibility of a strike on Iran’s nuclear facilities become much more exaggerated. Although we cannot (and will not) predict whether an attack is imminent, or even likely, our experience and research tells us that any major disruption in the supply of oil from Iran could have either subtle or profound global repercussions – especially as excess capacity is virtually exhausted and we doubt that other OPEC nations would be able to compensate for a reduction in Iranian oil production.
" As for those looking for numbers associated with the 4 scenarios presented by PIMCO here they are: "i) Scenario 1: Exports minimally effected. ? Iran Begins Straits of Hormuz Wargames. Iran Moves Forces To War Alert. Exclusive: Iran hijacked US drone, says Iranian engineer (Video) By Scott Peterson, Staff writer, Payam Faramarzi*, Correspondent / December 15, 2011 Iran guided the CIA's "lost" stealth drone to an intact landing inside hostile territory by exploiting a navigational weakness long-known to the US military, according to an Iranian engineer now working on the captured drone's systems inside Iran.
Skip to next paragraph Subscribe Today to the Monitor Click Here for your FREE 30 DAYS ofThe Christian Science MonitorWeekly Digital Edition In an exclusive interview, an engineer working to unlock the secrets of the captured RQ-170 Sentinel says they exploited a known vulnerability and tricked the US drone into landing in Iran. Iranian electronic warfare specialists were able to cut off communications links of the American bat-wing RQ-170 Sentinel, says the engineer, who works for one of many Iranian military and civilian teams currently trying to unravel the drone’s stealth and intelligence secrets, and who could not be named for his safety. Iran Releases Video Of Captured US Drone Plane. 'Amerikaanse rode lijn overschreden: Iran begonnen met bouw kernwapen' De recent door Iran buitgemaakte RQ-170 stealth drone was voor het eerst het Iraanse luchtruim ingestuurd omdat de Amerikanen bevestiging wilden van hun vermoeden dat de Iraniërs inderdaad de laatste fase van hun kernwapenprogramma zijn ingegaan.
De stealth drone ging verloren, maar de VS -en waarschijnlijk ook Israël- wisten via hun inlichtingendiensten definitief bewijs te krijgen voor het feit dat Iran is begonnen met het samenvoegen van afzonderlijke onderdelen tot een kernbom. VS erkent zorgen Israël Minister van Defensie Leon Panetta erkende eergisteren dan ook dat Iran binnen maximaal één jaar een kernwapen zal hebben gebouwd. Een dag later sprak stafchef van Defensie generaal Martin Dempsey openlijk van het gevaar van een 'conflict dat een tragedie voor de regio en de wereld' zou zijn. Gisteren legde Dennis Ross, de voormalige belangrijkste Midden Oosten adviseur van president Obama, nog eens uit wat Israëls grote zorgen zijn ten aanzien van de huidige ontwikkelingen in Iran: 'Iran verblindde Amerikaanse satelliet met Russische laser'
Iran 'blinded' CIA spy satellite. European intelligence source claims Iran stuns West by 'aiming a laser burst quite accurately' at US satellite in never before reported incident.
US official: If Russians provided Iran with sophisticated jamming equipment it means a lot else is at risk too Is Iran in possession of satellite jamming technology? A European intelligence source claimed Iran stunned Western intelligence agencies when it managed to "blind a CIA spy satellite by aiming a laser burst quite accurately," in a never before reported incident. According to an article in The Christian Science Monitor, this unreported incident might suggest that the Iranians have successively gained access to jamming technology, allowing them to track unmanned aerial vehicle navigation capabilities.
Related articles: Former US Ambassador to the United Nations John Bolton told Fox News on Sunday that such an option is possible. ‘Hundreds’ of North Korean Nuke Scientists in Iran - Global Agenda. Hundreds of nuclear scientists from North Korea, whose leader Kim Jong-il died Saturday, are working in 10 different locations in Iran, The South Korean-based Korea Times reported this week.
North Korea has been known to be working closely with Iran, Pakistan and Syria on nuclear development, but the disclosure of the number of scientists in the Islamic Republic spells out the close ties between the two powers, part of what Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman has called the ”axis of evil.” The Korea Times quoted an unnamed source that the scientists and missile engineers are working at the Natanz and Qom sites, among others. Iran is operating a uranium enrichment plant at Natanz. Despite Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s denials, Israel and Western powers assume the objective of the enrichment plant is to use the uranium to build a nuclear weapon, while engineers try to build a missile capable of delivering it.
Iran reports all its nuclear installations now underground.