Iran is our friend

Tags: Iran + friend + Kuwait

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Posted by Ingvaar 10 months 7 days ago; via kuwaittimes.net/read_news...

Tehran (AFP): Kuwait's foreign minister yesterday called Iran a friend only days after US President George W Bush visited the Gulf and branded Tehran "the world's leading state sponsor of terror". "I can only speak on my government's behalf. My country knows who is our friend and who is our enemy and Iran is our friend," Sheikh Mohammed Sabah Al-Salem Al-Sabah said at a joint news conference with his Iranian counterpart Manouchehr Mottaki.

Bush visited Kuwait on Friday at the start of a Gulf tour aimed at rallying the support of Arab allies...

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Military tracks Russian subs off Norway's coast

Tags: Russia + submarine + fighter jet + Norway + rocket shield system

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Posted by Ingvaar 12 months 1 day ago; via aftenposten.no/english/lo...

The Russians have been sending fighter jets near Norwegian air space for months. Now some of their submarines have been tracked near territorial waters.

Norwegian officials have attributed the flights to an apparent need by the Russians to show renewed strength. They're not particularly alarmed over the emergence of the submarines as well.

"They showing off both a will and an ability to be a super power to be reckoned with," State Secretary Espen Barth Eide in the Defense Ministry told newspaper Aftenposten. "The u-boats are a Russian...

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