A wide-ranging interview with Raymond Tanter, the prominent Georgetown University lecturer and leading expert on  U.S. policy options toward Iran.

JAN. 11 – The following links may be of interest to Countdowniran.com readers:
Israel and Iran: The Gathering Storm. The Economist. Jan. 7, 2010.  Israel’s  Government Spokesman, Mark Regev, is asked about the piece in the Jan. 8th broadcast of “Frost Over the World.”

JAN. 10 – Gen. David Petraeus, head of U.S. Central Command, has told CNN’s Christiane Amanpour that the United States has developed contingency plans for dealing with Iran’s suspected program to develop nuclear weapons.
“It would be almost literally irresponsible if  CENTCOM were not to have been thinking about the various ‘what ifs’ and to make [...]

JAN. 3 – Israel Channel 10 Military Affairs correspondent Alon Ben David reports that the Israeli Air Force has successfully retrofitted decades-old Boeing 707 airplanes, essentially turning them into aerial tankers for refueling Israeli F-15’s.
Covering an air force drill and broadcasting pictures of a mid-air refueling, Ben David showed the interior of an old Boeing aircraft, with its passenger seats replaced with fuel tanks.  
Ben [...]