Thursday, July 8, 2010

National Security Updates

By Ryan Mauro

Dissent in the Iranian Revolutionary Guards

A new documentary interviews four former members of the Iranian Revolutionary Guards Corps testifying that the regime's top security force isn't as united behind the regime as it may appear. Dissent in the IRGC poses a mortal threat to the regime, and a former member that spied for the CIA tells FrontPage that they can no longer be relied upon. The regime is finding itself unable to trust even its top operatives as one of the pillars holding it together starts to crumble. [more...]


Will Turkey Turn Back Toward the West Next Year?
Prime Minister Erdogan is in trouble, as the opposition takes aim at his foreign policy.

Turkey is lost under Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan and the Justice and Development Party (AKP). They are firmly in the camp of Iran despite their competition over the title of reigning anti-Israel champion. Israel has labeled the IHH - the group that tried to break the Gaza blockade with the Marvi Marmara - a terrorist group, which indirectly labels Turkey a state sponsor of terrorism because of the AKP and Erdogan's close ties to the IHH. Luckily, this may only last for a year. [more...]


Burma Goes for the Nuke

A major in Burma's army has defected and delivered hundreds of secret documents and photographs to the Democratic Voice of Burma, an opposition group that has tried for years to convince the West that the ruling military junta is pursuing nukes to no avail. The information provided by the defector, Sai Thein Win, shows that Burma is going for nuclear weapons and long-range ballistic missiles and has joined a growing list of rogue nations and the world will have to handle another region in crisis. [more...]

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