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Wednesday, July 27, 2011

What's going on in the World Today 110727

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USA

NOTHING SIGNIFICANT TO REPORT

EUROPE

Lithuania and Austria's Feud Highlights Europe's Split Over Russia | STRATFOR

Consequences of a Moderated Far Right In Europe | STRATFOR

Dispatch: Europe's Far-Right Parties and the Norway Attacks | STRATFOR

ASIA

NOTHING SIGNIFICANT TO REPORT

RUSSIA

Dispatch: Energy Pipeline Politics in the Former Soviet Union | STRATFOR

Russia: Military Spending To Increase By 50 Percent In 2011 July 26, 2011

Russia will increase military spending by 50 percent in 2011 compared to 2010 to modernize and rearm its military, Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said July 26, Reuters reported. In 2011, about 750 billion rubles (27.3 billion) will be used to buy arms and research defense and development.

IRAN

Iran: Guards Kill 50 Kurdish Anti-Revolutionaries July 27, 2011

Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) killed at least 50 anti-revolutionaries from Kurdistan’s Free Life Party (PJAK), wounded 100 and imprisoned an unspecified number in recent operations, an IRGC commander in northwestern Iran said, AFP reported July 27. He added that the IRGC will continue its attacks on PJAK’s American anti-revolutionaries along the northern part of Iran’s border with Iraq until the Kurdish and Iraqi governments send police and military personnel to the region

Iran: Scientist Shot Dead in Tehran July 23, 2011

An Iranian scientist was shot dead June 23 in Tehran, Reuters reported, adding that Iran’s student news agency ISNA quoted a police officer as saying the physicist was a nuclear scientist. The scientist is named by ISNA as Darioush Rezaie, 35, a university teacher. Deputy Interior Minister Safarali Baratlou told Iran’s Labor News Agency that it is not known whether Rezaie was one of Iran’s nuclear scientists.

IRAQ

Iraq: Military Needs U.S. Training Past 2011 - FM July 27, 2011

Iraq needs U.S. troops to train its military after 2011 ends, Iraqi Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari said July 27, AP reported. Zebari said Iraq has not asked U.S. forces to stay, and no agreement has been reached yet. He did not offer further details.

Iraq: Iran May Attempt To Inflict Mass Casualties To Expel U.S. Troops July 26, 2011

Iran’s increased arming of Shiite militant groups in southern Iraq is meant to create a “Beirut-like moment” by inflicting mass casualties on U.S. forces and send the message that they have expelled the United States from Iraq, U.S. Army Gen. Martin Dempsey said to Congress on July 26, citing his Iraqi contacts and other intelligence sources, AP reported. When asked what Iran should know about the plan, Dempsey said it would be a mistake on Iran’s part to proceed without considering the U.S. response to Iran’s aggression. Dempsey is the Obama administration’s nominee to chair the Joint Chiefs of Staff.


ISRAEL

NOTHING SIGNIFICANT TO REPORT

AFGHANISTAN

NOTHING SIGNIFICANT TO REPORT

MIDDLE EAST

Dispatch: Saudi-Iranian Rivalry and Indian Oil Imports | STRATFOR

SOUTH OF THE BORDER

Mexico: Public Protest and Meth-Precursor Shipments in Michoacan | STRATFOR

MISC

Above the Tearline: Tactical Assessment of the Oslo Bombing | STRATFOR



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