WarSclerotic

Iran: Palestinian firepower is 1000 stronger than before, Ynet News, March 15, 2014

(Kind of him to tell Israel, but how could he possibly know? It’s not as though Iran sends them missiles, or something.– DM)

Iranian defense minister warns Palestinian terror groups in Gaza have yet to display their actual missile capabilities.

Palestinian terror organizations in Gaza have yet to display their actual missile capabilities, Iranian Defense Minister Hossein Dehqan told the semi-official Iranian news agency Fars on Saturday.

“The resistance forces have fired over 150 missiles against the occupied territories in the last four days and after the assassination of a number of resistance commanders by the Zionist regime in Gaza and the West Bank,” Dehqan said.

He warned that “the operational power of the Resistance against the Zionist regime is a thousand times more than what it was before.”

Iran says detects sabotage at nuclear facility, Ynet News, March 15, 2014

Tehran claims its intelligence agencies identified an attempt to harm its heavy water reactor and neutralized it before any damage was done.

A senior Iranian official says authorities detected sabotage at the country’s heavy water reactor facility and neutralized it before any damage was done.

Semiofficial Fars news agency quoted Asghar Zarean, a senior official in charge of nuclear security at the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran, as saying Saturday that Iran’s intelligence agencies were instrumental in uncovering the plot. He didn’t provide further details.

Iran’s Natanz uranium enrichment facility was the target of the so-called Stuxnet virus in 2010 that temporarily disrupted operation of centrifuges, a key component in nuclear fuel production.

Tehran says Stuxnet and other computer virus attacks are part of a concerted campaign by Israel, the US and their allies to undermine its nuclear program.