'Israel seriously considering military action against Iran'

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 Few believe that, especially since America's own space program continuously launches unpublished military satellite missions.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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Originally posted by jdub297
Picture this:
Your neighbor is constantly telling everyone in the neighborhood that you should be eliminated, have no right to exist, and will soon be reduced to ash.

I believe that Ahmedinijad (sp?) never said anything about eliminating Israel. It was a mistranslation and he actually said that the regime of Israel needs to be taken out.

As he is saying these things, he's gathering the parts to build a bomb in his garage.

He arranges with others in the neighborhood for delivery service to your door.

The bomb will be ready for delivery in a few months, or the really nasty parts of it can be delivered right now.

You have nothing to worry about, right?

Did I misread your post?

deny ignorance

jw

Israeli countermeasures to date have included a massive international covert program of equipment sabotage, assassination of key nuclear personnel

iran with nukes = armageddon

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

iran actively fought agianst us and openly in iraq

is there any common sense left in this country

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

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

wake up people

Originally posted by neo67
what good is a weapon that can never be used--nuke are useless


the largest arms dealers in the world are the us,china,russia,france,and great britain.

heres a why you dont want iran with nukes look at pakistan and india how many times have those 2 been on the brink of total obliteration?

[edit on 6-3-2009 by neo67]

Originally posted by disfugured


Around the same amount of times the Americans and Russians have during the cold war ?

Originally posted by jdub297
Nukes can be, have been and will be used again. The more self-righteous and nationalistic a nuclear capable orgaization is, the more likely it will use the most extreme measures at its disposal.

Look at Al-Qaeda and airliners, Hezbollah and rockets/assassination. Anthrax has been used. Saddam Hussein had no problem using chemical weapons.





jw

Forget the examples of WWI and WWII

The threat is real