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Topic started on 4-3-2009 @ 10:43 PM by jdub297

'Israel seriously considering military action against Iran'


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Israel is seriously considering taking unilateral military action to stop Iran from acquiring nuclear weapons, according to a report by top US political figures and experts released Wednesday.

The report also says Israel's time frame for action is growing shorter, not only because of Iranian advances, but because Teheran might soon acquire upgraded air defenses and disperse its nuclear program to additional locations.
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reply posted on 4-3-2009 @ 10:43 PM by jdub297
The report, put out by the Washington Institute for Near East Policy), argues that international sanctions against Iran need to be intensified urgently for the engagement the Obama administration is planning with Teheran to be effective.

In recent days, four key developments have clicked in to edge Iran and Israel much closer to a military denouement with profound consequences.

First, Iran has proven it can successfully launch a satellite. Teheran claimed, to the incredulity of Western governments, that the satellite was to monitor earthquakes and enhance communications. Few believe that, especially since America's own space program continuously launches unpublished military satellite missions. Teheran plans three more satellites this year, creating an easily weaponized space net that worries American military planners.

Second, the International Atomic Energy Agency last week admitted that it had underestimated Iran's nuclear stockpile by about one-third. The watchdog group now confirms Iran possesses 2,227 lbs. of nuclear material, sufficient to create at least one nuclear bomb. That stockpile includes 1,010 kilograms of low-enriched uranium hexafluoride, or approximately 700 kilograms containing the vital uranium 235 isotope, the stuff needed to weaponize.

Third, Iran has ramped up its enrichment program with thousands of new homegrown, highly advanced centrifuges. Iran wants 6,000 centrifuges to speed the enrichment of weapons-grade material. The number of working centrifuges now exceeds 5,400, including 164 new ones believed to be the faster and more efficient IR-2 and IR-3 models made in Iran.

American policymakers are now convinced that Iran, despite all protests and charades, is in a mad dash to create a deliverable nuclear weapon. The Obama administration has almost openly abandoned the assertions of the CIA's much-questioned 2008 National Intelligence Estimate that concluded Iran was not pursuing nuclear weaponry for the simple reason that its atomic program and military programs were housed in separate buildings.

Fourth, Binyamin Netanyahu has just become prime minister of Israel. He is determined to take action before - not after - Iran achieves its nuclear potential. This creates a volatile, hair-trigger situation that could explode at any moment. Hence, the endgame is now vastly closer than it was in mid-January, when many believed Israel might take action during the lame-duck interregnum.
Israeli countermeasures to date have included a massive international covert program of equipment sabotage, assassination of key nuclear personnel and a vibrant diplomatic offensive. But all these efforts combined amount to nothing more than delaying tactics, as Iran is irrevocably determined to achieve a nuclear weapon as fast as possible. Many believe such a weapon will be used to fulfill its prediction that Israel will soon be wiped off the map.

THE CONSEQUENCES for this confrontation are apocalyptic because Iran's full partner in this enterprise is Russia. The Russian company Atomstroiexport has provided most if not all of the nuclear material for the 1,000 megawatt Bushehr reactor, along with thousands of technicians to service and operate it.



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reply posted on 4-3-2009 @ 10:59 PM by Ownification
Originally posted by jdub297


The report, put out by the Washington Institute for Near East Policy), argues that international sanctions against Iran need to be intensified urgently for the engagement the Obama administration is planning with Teheran to be effective.

In recent days, four key developments have clicked in to edge Iran and Israel much closer to a military denouement with profound consequences.

First, Iran has proven it can successfully launch a satellite. Teheran claimed, to the incredulity of Western governments, that the satellite was to monitor earthquakes and enhance communications. Few believe that, especially since America's own space program continuously launches unpublished military satellite missions. Teheran plans three more satellites this year, creating an easily weaponized space net that worries American military planners.

Second, the International Atomic Energy Agency last week admitted that it had underestimated Iran's nuclear stockpile by about one-third. The watchdog group now confirms Iran possesses 2,227 lbs. of nuclear material, sufficient to create at least one nuclear bomb. That stockpile includes 1,010 kilograms of low-enriched uranium hexafluoride, or approximately 700 kilograms containing the vital uranium 235 isotope, the stuff needed to weaponize.

Third, Iran has ramped up its enrichment program with thousands of new homegrown, highly advanced centrifuges. Iran wants 6,000 centrifuges to speed the enrichment of weapons-grade material. The number of working centrifuges now exceeds 5,400, including 164 new ones believed to be the faster and more efficient IR-2 and IR-3 models made in Iran.

American policymakers are now convinced that Iran, despite all protests and charades, is in a mad dash to create a deliverable nuclear weapon. The Obama administration has almost openly abandoned the assertions of the CIA's much-questioned 2008 National Intelligence Estimate that concluded Iran was not pursuing nuclear weaponry for the simple reason that its atomic program and military programs were housed in separate buildings.

Fourth, Binyamin Netanyahu has just become prime minister of Israel. He is determined to take action before - not after - Iran achieves its nuclear potential. This creates a volatile, hair-trigger situation that could explode at any moment. Hence, the endgame is now vastly closer than it was in mid-January, when many believed Israel might take action during the lame-duck interregnum.
Israeli countermeasures to date have included a massive international covert program of equipment sabotage, assassination of key nuclear personnel and a vibrant diplomatic offensive. But all these efforts combined amount to nothing more than delaying tactics, as Iran is irrevocably determined to achieve a nuclear weapon as fast as possible. Many believe such a weapon will be used to fulfill its prediction that Israel will soon be wiped off the map.

THE CONSEQUENCES for this confrontation are apocalyptic because Iran's full partner in this enterprise is Russia. The Russian company Atomstroiexport has provided most if not all of the nuclear material for the 1,000 megawatt Bushehr reactor, along with thousands of technicians to service and operate it.



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Iran is not planning to attack Israel, it is the other way around so why are they advising more sanctions against Iran. What has the world come to lol. This just makes me laugh.



reply posted on 5-3-2009 @ 10:59 PM by UmbraSumus
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Israeli countermeasures to date have included a massive international covert program of equipment sabotage, assassination of key nuclear personnel


Sounds like International terrorism to me.

So ..... when will Mohamed El Baradei and the (IAEA) be visiting Dimona ?

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Now don`t get me wrong , there are no "righteous" sides , the worst aspects of human nature are prevalent on all sides of this issue.

But until there is even handedness and a level playing field with adherence to clearly defined rules by which all groups must abide , there will be no peace.
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reply posted on 6-3-2009 @ 01:36 AM by Britguy
Originally posted by neo67
iran with nukes = armageddon


How so? People always seem to have this crazy idea of manic eyed Iranian clerics pushing to bring the end of the world closer. Of course, they have no proof of this other than baseless propaganda. But hey, never let a few complete lies get in the way of the truth.

iran will go after the little satan-isreal then come after the big satan usa


Iran is going after nobody. Whose carrier fleets keep steaming around whose shores again? How many Iranian fighters and bombers patrol the US borders?

iran actively fought agianst us and openly in iraq


Credible evidence please. There was never any evidence shown of Iranian involvement or the fabled Iranian weapons, allegedly supplied to Iraqis, shown to back this up.

is there any common sense left in this country


Not likely. Israel will get it's way probably simply because it has the the US political might bought and paid for.

the rhetoric already comming out of iran is obama is another bush...


Well if Obama wants talks with Iran then he only has to ask, but do not expect to go in with a list of predetermined actions to impose on Iran.

then you know they will give hamas nukes and god knows who else not to mention
the entire middle east doesnt want this to happen


Priceless! What nukes? Stop and think for a minute. Israel, for all the talk about Iranian arms smuggled daily into Gaza have not shown any evidence. Apart from small arms and homemade rockets, Hamas has nothing. Absolute hysteria!

wake up people


Maybe it's because people have woken up to all the lies from our governments and Israel that no war has broken out yet.
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