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Iran Nuclear Watch: Ahmadinejad Fails to Deliver Nuclear News
AFP: Defiant Ahmadinejad promises nuclear news in two months
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad delivers a speech in Tehran. Ahmadinejad has said Iran was ready to negotiate to end the standoff over its nuclear programme but insisted Tehran would never agree to the West’s most critical demand — a freeze in uranium enrichment.
President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has vowed Iran would never surrender to Western demands to suspend its nuclear drive and promised announcements on Tehran’s atomic progress in the next two months.
Many observers had expected Ahmadinejad to make a major announcement on the nuclear programme in a speech marking the 28th anniversary of the Islamic revolution but the president instead focused on Tehran’s continued defiance.
“If you are willing to negotiate why do you insist on a suspension (of nuclear enrichment)?” Ahmadinejad said Sunday, referring to the sensitive nuclear process the West wants Iran to halt as proof it is not seeking nuclear weapons.
“If we suspend our activities then what are we going to talk about? Why if your nuclear plants are working 24 hours a day why must Iran be pressured to shut them down?”
“We are ready to negotiate but under fair and even conditions,” he added.
Iran must be having technical difficulties with their uranium enrichment centrifuge placements and so Iranian President Ahmadinejad went to PLAN B – excoriate the Great Satan and STALL.
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America’s military has evidence that Iran is supplying Iraq’s Shiitie militias with arms that are killing American soldiers.
Yet, Iran’s nuclear negotiator, Ali Larijani states that Iran’s Nuclear program ‘no threat to Israel.
Right…….
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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:: Boasts of Nuclear Program Propaganda?
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Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad (L) shakes hands with Russia’s security chief Igor Ivanov (C) as Iran ‘s top nuclear negotiator, Ali Larijani (R) looks on in Tehran. Ivanov vowed to launch Iran’s nuclear plant on schedule in September after talks in Tehran with leaders of the Islamic republic.
Guardian Unlimited: Nuclear plans in chaos as Iran leader flounders
Boasts of a nuclear programme are just propaganda, say insiders, but the PR could be enough to provoke Israel into war
Iran’s efforts to produce highly enriched uranium, the material used to make nuclear bombs, are in chaos and the country is still years from mastering the required technology.
Iran’s uranium enrichment programme has been plagued by constant technical problems, lack of access to outside technology and knowhow, and a failure to master the complex production-engineering processes involved. The country denies developing weapons, saying its pursuit of uranium enrichment is for energy purposes.
Read the entire piece.
Flap agrees that intelligence from the Iranian nuclear program is sketchy at best. This is Cold War stuff.
However, this piece smacks of DISINFORMATION coming directly from Iran’s Mullahs meant for the Iran nuclear appeaser crowd in Europe and the United States.
Who REALLY knows how far along the Iranians are in their nuclear program?
And who REALLY wants to roll the dice?
Certainly, not Israel and the United States.
Iran ‘s top nuclear negotiator Ali Larijani (R) shakes hands with Russia’s security chief Igor Ivanov (L) during a press conference in Tehran
Flap does agree with one statement in the piece:
Yet some involved in the increasingly aggressive standoff over Iran fear tensions will reach snapping point between March and June this year, with a likely scenario being Israeli air strikes on symbolic Iranian nuclear plants.
And the “NUCLEAR POINT OF NO RETURN:”
The escalating sense of crisis is being driven by two imminent events, the ‘installation’ of 3,000 centrifuges at Natanz and the scheduled delivery of fuel from Russia for Iran’s Busheyr civil nuclear reactor, due to start up this autumn. Both are regarded as potential trigger points for an Israeli attack.
Iran has already set in motion an ever cascading series of events that are unacceptable to Israel and the United States. As soon as the logistics are in place, the nuclear facilities of Iran will be destroyed by military means.
Captain Ed has Iran Loses Its Bearings
The Israelis face that now with Iran. Iran represents a material and existential threat to the existence of Israel, especially with the new Shahab-3 missiles Iran has tested the past few years. Even without the nuclear warheads, those missiles could hit all over Israel. Tipped with nukes, they could wipe out the entire country — and more than a few of the Palestinians — in a few minutes. They cannot afford to just sit and watch the Iranians bring nuclear facilities on line without reliable, outside verification of their civilian purposes, nor can they abide Russian deliveries of nuclear materials without verifiable controls on their use.
If these events come to pass, expect the Israelis to act aggressively to protect themselves. And perhaps that’s what the mullahs really want: an attack from Israel would unite the nation under their rule for the next twenty years, much more so than a narrowly-targeted American strike. If so, then the billions thrown away on this program will be forgotten as Iran continues its life in darkness for at least another generation. The sensible and cosmopolitan Iranian people will have lost the bearings in more than just the literal sense.
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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Iran Nuclear Watch: Iran Defiant of United Nations Sanctions, Plan Missile War Games
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad delivers his budget bill to the parliament, in Tehran, Iran, Sunday, Jan. 21, 2007. Ahmadinejad on Sunday defended his economic policies from sharp recent domestic criticism and said U.N. Security Council sanctions imposed in December would never deter the country from pursuing its nuclear program.
AFP: Iran defiant on UN sanctions, plans war games
President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has vowed that Iran will never bow to UN resolutions over its nuclear programme, as the military prepared for war games that will include short-range missile tests.
“Even if they adopt 10 other resolutions it will not have any effect,” Ahamdinejad told parliament as he introduced a new budget for the Iranian year starting March 21.
The UN Security Council passed Resolution 1737 on December 23 imposing sanctions on Iran for its refusal to suspend uranium enrichment — the process which can not only make nuclear fuel, but also, in highly purified forms, produce the fissile core of an atomic bomb.
Reciting supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei’s emphatic rejection of the UN resolution on January 8, the president said: “No Iranian official has the right to back down on Iran’s nuclear right.”
Iranian state television revealed on its website that Iran’s elite Revolutionary Guards would on Monday begin three days of military exercises, 140 kilometers (90 miles) southeast of Tehran.
Flap cannot refrain from thinking that this sabre-rattling by Ahmadinejad is in response to Secretary of Defense Gates statement that Iran has “OVERPLAYED THEIR HAND” on the world stage; President Bush’s warning about Iranian involvement in the Iraq War and the announced deployment of an additional Nimitz-class Aircraft Carrier Strike Group, USS John C. Stennis to the Persian Gulf.
AP: Iran Plans to Conduct Missile War Games
Iran plans three days of military maneuvers, including short-range missile tests, beginning Sunday – its first since the U.N. Security Council imposed sanctions against it in late December, state-run television said.
“The elite Revolutionary Guards plans to begin a three-day missile maneuver on Sunday near Garmsar city,” said the broadcast. The city is located in northern Iran on the edge of Kavir desert, about 60 miles southeast of Tehran.
“Zalzal and Fajr-5 missiles will be test fired in the war game,” the television quoted an unnamed commander of the guards, as saying. Both are considered short-range missiles.
Iran conducted three large-scale military exercises last year as tensions with the West and the United States rose.
Iran’s Revolutionary Guards fire test missiles during the first phase of military manoeuvres in the central desert outside the holy city of Qom. Iran has fired its longer-range Shahab-3 ballistic missile on exercise for the first time as it began 10 days of war games amid a mounting standoff with the West over its nuclear programme (November 2, 2006).
Here is a video of Iran’s Missile Capability:
So, how can Iran hurt the United States if a conflict escalated into military action?
And military war plan scenarios have been discussed in the American press and nuclear strike plans leaked from the Israeli’s.
The latest Iranian maneuvers also come just days after the U.S. announced it would deploy a second aircraft carrier to the Gulf, the USS Stennis.
That appeared to have alarmed some in Iran’s hard-line leadership. A prominent member of a powerful cleric-run body this week warned that the U.S. plans to attack Iran in the coming months, possibly by striking its nuclear facilities.
The United States has said it is focusing on diplomacy but will not rule out other options.
Washington has accused Iran of backing militants fueling Iraq’s violence and has tried to rally its Arab allies in isolating Tehran.
Last year, Iran held three large-scale military exercises. In April, Iran tested what it called an “ultra-horizon” missile, fired from helicopters and jet fighters, and the Fajr-3 missile, which can reportedly evade radar and use multiple warheads to hit several targets simultaneously.
While U.S. officials have suggested that Iran is exaggerating the capabilities of its newly developed weapons, Washington and its allies have been watching the country’s progress in missile technology with concern.
Flap believes Iran’s nuclear program with the ultimate goal of manufacturing a nucear weapon will ONLY be stopped by military action. The Bush Administration has allowed diplomacy to run its course and now it is time to PREVENT Iran to further develop its nuclear weapons program.
Mr. President it is time to take action.And as a reminder to the Iranians as to what military might the United States may employ in any attack on United States ships or troops, there are these:
Trident II D-5 Fleet Ballistic Missile
Stay tuned……..
Syrian President Bashar al-Assad (R) meets Iran’s chief nuclear negotiator Ali Larijani in Damascus January 21,2007
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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: Next Target Tehran?
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Saudi King Abdullah (R) meets with Iran ‘s top national security official Ali Larijani in Riyadh. Saudi Arabia’s official SPA official news agency said that Larijani, who is also Tehran’s top nuclear negotiator, delivered a letter from Iran’s supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei to the Saudi monarch.
Guardian: Next target Tehran
All the signs are that Bush is planning for a neocon-inspired military assault on IranThe evidence is building up that President Bush plans to add war on Iran to his triumphs in Iraq and Afghanistan – and there is every sign, to judge by his extraordinary warmongering speech in Plymouth on Friday, that Tony Blair would be keen to join him if he were still in a position to commit British forces to the field.
“There’s a strong sense in the upper echelons of the White House that Iran is going to surface relatively quickly as a major issue – in the country and the world – in a very acute way,” said NBC TV’s Tim Russert after meeting the president. This is borne out by the fact that Bush has sent forces to the Gulf that are irrelevant to fighting the Iraqi insurgents. These include Patriot anti-missile missiles, an aircraft carrier, and cruise-missile-firing ships.
Many military analysts see these deployments as signals of impending war with Iran. The Patriot missiles are intended to shoot down Iranian missiles. The naval forces, including British ships, train to pre-empt Iranian interference with oil shipments through the straits of Hormuz.
Having been given so much advice on what to do in Iraq – most notably by the Baker-Hamilton Iraq Study Group – the president went with the recommendations of the neoconservative American Enterprise Institute (AEI). So much for the idea that the Iraq debacle marginalised the neocons.
Well, DUH
Let’s see why:
Iran continues (despite United Nations resolution 1737) to enrich uranium to manufacture a nuclear weapon
Iran is sending war material including IED’s and advisors to kill American troops in Iraq
Iran’s President Ahmadinejad is fomenting anti-American activities in Central and South America to THWART the United States
Iran’s President wants to “wipe Israel off the map.”
President Bush has put Iran on notice.
The USS Enterprise and USS Dwight David Eisenhower
Military assets have been positioning themselves for some time, including 21,000 more troops and war plans have been gamed.
Israel has been evaluating the Iranian threat to its survival and is rumored to be planning a nuclear attack.
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The “NUCLEAR POINT OF NO RETURN” is imminent.
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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: Ali Larijani – Iran if Threatened Will Obtain NUKES
Ali Larijani, Iran ‘s nuclear negotiator, delivers a speech during a news conference at the Iranian Embassy in Beijing January 5, 2007. Chinese President Hu Jintao urged Iran on Friday to ‘respond seriously’ to a U.N. Security Council resolution which imposes sanctions on Tehran’s trade in sensitive nuclear materials and technology.
Haaretz: Iran: If threatened, we may alter opposition to obtaining nukes
Iranian top nuclear envoy Ali Larijani said in a meeting with Chinese President Hu Jintao Friday that Iran is committed to peaceful use of nuclear technology.
“We oppose obtaining nuclear weapons and we will peacefully use nuclear technology under the framework of the Nonproliferation Treaty,” he said. “But,” he warned, “if we are threatened, the situation may change.”
Larijani also said Iran’s situation is “totally different” from that of North Korea, which conducted its first atomic test Oct. 9. International talks aimed at Pyongyang’s nuclear disarmament have failed.
“North Korea already has nuclear weapons, we are not after nuclear weapons,” Larijani said. “It is not part of our doctrine, political or national doctrine, to go after nuclear weapons.
But, if THREATENED Iran will just have to dust off the ol’ nuclear weapons and NUKE someone.
What a load……but not a surprise, now is it?
In the meantime, President ahmadinehad was bloviating about the rights of the Iranian people to nuke someone – I mean develop peaceful nuclear power.
In Tehran, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said Friday that sanctions won’t stop Iran from enriching uranium, state-run television reported.
“Iran will stand up to coercion. … All Iranians stand united to defend their nuclear rights,” state-run TV quoted him as saying.
“Enemies have assumed that they can prevent the progress of the Iranian nation through psychological war and issuing resolutions, but they will be defeated,” Ahmadinejad was quoted as saying on state-run TV.
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The Natanz uranium enrichment complex in Natanz is pictured in this January 2, 2006 satellite image.
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