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From FoxNews: Chavez Proposes Referendum to Stay President Until 2031.

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Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad delivers his speech during a gathering of commanders of Basij, a paramilitary volunteers group affiliated with the Revolutionary Guards, in Tehran, Iran, Sunday, May 7, 2006. The Iranian parliament threatened in a letter to U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan Sunday to force the government to withdraw from the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty if the United States continued pressuring Tehran to suspend uranium enrichment.

Powerline: Contra Iran

Jerusalem Post editor David Horovitz conducts an interesting interview with “a longtime Iranian-born opposition activist who, among other efforts, is a member of the National Union for Democracy in Iran, a three-year-old, US-based opposition group…” Horovitz’s introduction and the interview itself are interesting in their entirety.

Powerline: What Can the Mullahs Do?

This post by Austin Bay is a useful follow-up to Scott’s discussion of Iran below. Austin has war-gamed the possibility of an Iranian attempt to close the Strait of Hormuz to shipping, through which 20% of the world’s oil production passes. The results are interesting, to say the least. To me, the most optimistic observation, by one of Austin’s commenters, is that China is largely dependent on oil that flows through the Strait and would not look kindly on disruption of its supply.

Austin Bay: UPDATED: Iran’s nuclear mullahs and the UN: closer to sanctions?/A look at the Strait of Hormuz

Saturday, May 6: Fox is reporting that Russia and China may support the US and UK resolution, as long as the UN continues to stress “diplomacy.” A Chapter 7 resolution allows for sanctions or war or both.

This recent South African update claims US patience is wearing thin. Meanwhile, Iran is rejecting EU criticism of its human rights record and is once again threatening to disrupt oil tanker traffic in the Strait of Hormuz. In the late 1980s Joe Balkosi and I designed a game titled :Light Division: The Strait of Hormuz.” The game examined several US, US coalition, Iranian andRussian military scenarios focusing on the Straits of Hormuz. (Here’s a link to an earlier post of mine on that game and on Iranian options from March 6, 2005.)

UPDATE: This map and background data from fas.org are very useful. This AFP report from April 4 has more on the Kowsar. And here is the link I was looking for earlier — fas.org on the Chinese C-801. It mentions the C-801’s similarity to the Exocet. Note it mentions that Iran is developing a C-801 knock-off. The fas.org article says the missile is named the “Karus.” The warhead is estimated to be 165 kilograms.

UPDATE 2: NewsMax ran this Hormuz piece in March.

All interesting pieces but……..

Flap is a civilian and Flap does NOT worry about what Iran’s Ahmadinejad and the Mullahs do sans nuclear weapons.

Why?

If Iran were to provoke a military operation, a state of war would exist and the United States would use its nuclear arsenal to destroy Iran’s military capability, its nuclear facilities and vaporize hundreds of thousands of its citizens. Iran would cease to exist.

Anyone going to stop the USA?

NOPE.

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The Natanz uranium enrichment complex in Natanz is pictured in this January 2, 2006 satellite image.

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Iran Nuclear Watch Briefings

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NewsBusters.org: Bill Maher Compares ExxonMobil CEO to Terrorist Zacarias Moussaoui

HBO’s Bill Maher has made some absurd statements on his “Real Time” program in the past. But, this one made during Friday night’s installment should offend all Americans regardless of party affiliation.

In a discussion about recently sentenced terrorist Zacarias Moussaoui, Maher contended that ExxonMobil’s CEO Lee Raymond failing to warn Americans about global warming was an equal crime as Moussaoui not warning America about 9/11.

Excuse me? What possible connection exists here, Bill?

Well, there is NO connection and Maher is just a LEFTY MORON SHOCK JOCK.

Expose the Left: Maher Rationalizes Moussaoui’s Hate For America, Compares To Exxon’s Raymond (VIDEO)

On the May 5th edition of HBO’s Real Time, host Bill Maher suggested that we listen to what convicted terrorist Zacarias Moussaoui says about America. Giving his last words while being sentenced, Moussaoui said this about Americans: “you wasted an opportunity to learn why people like me have so much hatred of you. If you don’t want to hear, you will feel pain”. Maher says that Moussaoui’s remark is “absolutely, one-hundred percent true”.

I don’t know how to respond to this, I really don’t. Comparing an American businessman to a convicted terrorist that was involved with in 9/11 and a plot to run a plane into the White House. Can we just say that they hate America now?

FLASHBACK: Maher’s show, “Politically Incorrect” was cancelled in 2002 because of the following remark:

BILL MAHER: “We have been the cowards lobbing cruise missiles from 2,000 miles away. That’s cowardly. Staying in the airplane when it hits the building, say what you want about it, it’s not cowardly.”

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Ian has it RIGHT.

But, Flap wonders why HBO tolerates this nonsense?

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AFP: Iran warns UN of ‘confrontation’ over nuclear programme

Iran has vowed that it would refuse to comply with any UN Security Council demand to halt its disputed nuclear programme and warned the crisis was leading the two sides towards a “confrontation”.

Asked how Iran would respond if the Council adopted a tough resolution drafted by Britain and France, foreign ministry spokesman Hamid Reza Asefi said Sunday that Iran “will certainly reject it and cannot carry it out”.

“We will not accept any resolution that is against our rights,” he told reporters.

And Iran is threatening to withdraw from the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty.

ASSociated Press: Iran Threatens to Quit Nuclear Treaty

The Iranian parliament threatened Sunday to force the government to withdraw from the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty if the United States continues pressuring Tehran to suspend uranium enrichment.

n a letter to U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan read on state-run radio, the lawmakers said they would consider forcing the withdrawal if “the U.N. Secretary General and other members of the
U.N. Security Council fail in their crucial responsibility to resolve differences peacefully.

The legislators said they would have no choice but to “review Article 10 of the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty.” The article allows signatories to pull out of the treaty if they decide that extraordinary events have jeopardized the supreme interests of its country. A withdrawing nation must give fellow treaty signers and the U.N. three months notice and detail the events that have forced the decision to pullout of the agreement.

North Korea withdrew from the treaty in 2003 on that basis.

Turkish protesters hold banners “Don’t touch Iran” during a demonstration in Istanbul. The world community should take Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s threats concerning both its nuclear program and Israel “very seriously,” US President George W. Bush said in an interview.

More Iran BLOVIATIONS prior to UNSC action.

And who cares if Iran leaves the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty. Hell, they will lie about it anyway and every Hezbollah terrorist will have a “RADIOACTIVELY DIRTY” sucicide bomber vest.

Condoleezza Rice will be hosting a meeting on Monday between the big six players amid the recalcitrance of Russia and China.

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, right, listens to Defence Minister Mostafa Mohammad Najjar, during a gathering of commanders of Basij, a paramilitary volunteers group affiliated with the Revolutionary Guards, in Tehran, Iran, Sunday, May 7, 2006. The Iranian parliament threatened in a letter to U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan Sunday to force the government to withdraw from the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty if the United States continued pressuring Tehran to suspend uranium enrichment.

Stay tuned…….

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The Natanz uranium enrichment complex in Natanz is pictured in this January 2, 2006 satellite image.

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