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Iran Nuclear Watch: Khamenei – Iran Will Outsmart “Drunken and Arrogant” West
Ayatollah Ali Khamenei (R) shakes hands with General Yahya Rahim Safavi — the former chief of the Revolutionary Guards — while his newly-appointed successor General Mohammad Ali Jaafari looks on during a meeting in Tehran. Khamenei pledged that Iran will never yield to Western pressure over its nuclear program, and it would outsmart “drunken and arrogant” Western opponents in the standoff.
The Iran nuclear program, the Iranian government and Iran’s Mullahs who control the country are all over the place this weekend.
Iran announces they have met a uranium enrichment centrifuge goal of 3,000. This is disputed by the IAEA.
The British press reports that “war plans” have been finalized for a three day military blitz against Iran and their military plus nuclear facilities. Another UK newspaper asks whether Bush will bomb Iran?
In response, Iran President Ahmadinejad states he has “PROOF” that the United States will NOT attack Iran.
But, not to be seen as WEAK, Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei calls the United States and West names – “drunken and arrogant” and says that Iran would never yield to Western pressure over its nuclear program.
Where does the United States, its Allies, including Israel stand?
There will be renewed pressure to sanction Iran through the United Nations. However, without Chinese and Russian cooperation these sanctions will be MEANINGLESS.
In the meantime, President Bush has diplomatically defused a North Korean threat and has cut off Iran’s pipeline to advanced missile and nuclear technology from North Korea.
The “PROXY WAR” Iran has been waging against the United States in Iraq has been exposed and the United States is conducting clandestine military ops into Iran to gather intelligence and tactical advantage.
While Iran has been stalling to further develop their nuclear program, the United States has not been idle. Watch for increasing pressure immediately in the United Nations at first and if no result look for increasing OVERT military operations against Iran in the proxy war in Iraq.
If Iran were to confront the United States, then the President Bush will neutralize the threat.
Stay tuned………
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There is also a move afoot to divest Iranian investment.
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Iran Watch: Brit Capture NOT Iran’s First Attempt
Video grab shows Iran’s President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad speaking to Britons who had been detained in Iran at a ceremony to mark their release, April 4, 2007.
Remember the Brit capture story by Iran in March?
Well, this was not Iran’s first attempt.
Iranian naval forces in the Gulf tried to capture an Australian Navy boarding team but were vigorously repelled, the BBC has learned.
Flap supposes the Aussie’s had the “STONES” and the Brits did not.
Apparently……
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Iran Nuclear Watch: Ahamdinejad – TOO LATE to Stop Iran’s Nuclear Program
President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has warned the UN Security Council against imposing new sanctions against Iran over its nuclear drive, telling the world body it risked playing with a “lion’s tail”.
AP: Iran: ‘Too late’ to stop nuclear program
President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said Tuesday that it was “too late” to stop Iran’s nuclear program and warned the U.S. and its allies not to push for new U.N. sanctions, comparing his country to a lion sitting quietly in a corner.
“We advise them not to play with the lion’s tail,” Ahmadinejad said, drawing applause from a room of reporters, Iranian officials and foreign dignitaries at a Tehran news conference.
“It is too late to stop the progress of Iran,” Ahmadinejad said. “Iran has passed the point where they wanted Iran to stop.”
The U.N. Security Council is preparing to debate a third set of sanctions against the Islamic republic in response to Tehran’s continuing refusal to suspend uranium enrichment, which can produce fuel for civilian energy or fissile material for a bomb.
Addressing the West, Ahmadinejad said that a third round of sanctions will only “make things harder for you and distances you from resolving the issue … We advise them to give up stubbornness and childish games.”
Ahmadinejad MAY be RIGHT.
The “NUCLEAR POINT OF NO RETURN” is at hand but neither Israel nor the United States show any proclivity in stopping Iran achieve nuclear “BREAKOUT CAPABILITY.”
So, what would additional United Nations sanctions do? Iran has ignored the previous UN resolutions:
By fiddling while Rome has burned, the United States and Israel have allowed Iran to achieve nuclear “statehood” while insisting the Iran shall never obtain a nuclear weapon.
Mr. President, if Iran does not obey United Nations security Council Resolutions and halt uranium enrichment, military operations to hobble/destroy their nuclear program are required.
The time to act is NOW.
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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: COUNTDOWN to Israel’s End
Iran’s President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad (R) waits during meeting with the Director General of the Islamic Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (ISESCO) Abdul Aziz Bin Osman Al-Tajviri in Tehran May 20, 2007. Iran is close to achieving its “ultimate goals”, Ahmadinejad said on Thursday, accusing the West of trying to stop Tehran’s nuclear programme in order to reduce its influence in the world.
Iran president sees “countdown” to Israel’s end
Iran’s president said on Sunday the Lebanese and the Palestinians had pressed a “countdown button” to bring an end to Israel.
President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, who triggered outrage in the West two years ago when he said Israel should be “wiped off the map”, has often referred to the destruction of the Jewish state but says Iran is not a threat.
“With God’s help, the countdown button for the destruction of the Zionist regime has been pushed by the hands of the children of Lebanon and Palestine,” Ahmadinejad said in a speech.
“By God’s will, we will witness the destruction of this regime in the near future,” he said. He did not elaborate.Yet, President Bush wishes to continue a “diplomatic approach” to Iran’s nuclear weapons program.
Is Ahamdinejad trying to push Israel PM Olmert’s or Bush’s button prior to the G-8 meeting that starts Wednesday? Or is he just stating the inevitable.
The “NUCLEAR POINT OF NO RETURN” is at hand.
If the United States and Israel wait much longer, the “nuclear blackmail” will begin.
Or has it already started?
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Iran Watch: Uproot Israel?
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad speaks in Parliament in Tehran in this May 16, 2007 file photo. Iran’s nuclear work is almost at its “peak”, Ahmadinejad said on Thursday while the head of the U.N.’s atomic watchdog said Iran was probably at least three years from making a nuclear bomb if it so chooses.
Nuclear Blackmail and “UPROOT” Israel talk will win Iran a mushroom cloud.
Boom….
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Iran Nuclear Watch: John Bolton – We Must Attack Iran Before it Gets the Bomb
Workers hang a huge poster of Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in Dubai 14 May. UN nuclear inspectors say Iran is pressing ahead on a larger scale than ever with the uranium enrichment activities that Western powers suspect are aimed at developing a nuclear bomb, the New York Times reported Tuesday.
Los Angeles Times: U.S. cautious about Iran nuclear report
Bush administration officials reacted cautiously Tuesday to indications that Iran has improved its ability to enrich uranium as fuel for nuclear reactors, a crucial step toward nuclear weapons.
White House and State Department officials say they still believe diplomacy can persuade Iran to freeze its program before it has mastered the complex technology involved.
The International Atomic Energy Agency will report to the United Nations Security Council next week on Iran’s apparent progress. The Tehran regime has defied U.N. resolutions demanding an immediate suspension of its nuclear enrichment program, and another negative report by the nuclear watchdog agency is almost certain to spur a new round of U.N. sanctions.
Top IAEA officials suggested that Iran’s engineers had achieved significant progress since early this year. The officials indicated that Tehran had overcome several technical challenges that hampered operation of centrifuges in the fuel enrichment plant at Natanz, Iran’s main nuclear facility.
Mohamed ElBaradei, director of the IAEA, said that the goal of a suspension — preventing Tehran from gaining knowledge about enrichment — had been overtaken by events.
“We believe they pretty much have the knowledge about how to enrich,” ElBaradei told the New York Times on Tuesday. “From now on, it is simply a question of perfecting that knowledge. People will not like to hear it, but that’s a fact.”
The Bush administration has been fecking around for the past 18 months while Iran has been enriching uranium at Natanz. As Iran stalls and “negotiates” and ignores United Nations Security Council resolutions, the United States is now proposing more UNSC sanctions?
Ridiculous……
John Bolton, former U.S. United Nations Ambassador understands the nuclear stakes at hand.
Telegraph UK: We must attack Iran before it gets the bomb
Iran should be attacked before it develops nuclear weapons, America’s former ambassador to the United Nations said yesterday.
John Bolton, who still has close links to the Bush administration, told The Daily Telegraph that the European Union had to “get more serious” about Iran and recognise that its diplomatic attempts to halt Iran’s enrichment programme had failed.
Iran has “clearly mastered the enrichment technology now…they’re not stopping, they’re making progress and our time is limited”, he said. Economic sanctions “with pain” had to be the next step, followed by attempting to overthrow the theocratic regime and, ultimately, military action to destroy nuclear sites.
Mr Bolton’s stark warning appeared to be borne out yesterday by leaks about an inspection by the UN’s International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) of Iran’s main nuclear installation at Natanz on Sunday.
The experts found that Iran’s scientists were operating 1,312 centrifuges, the machines used to enrich uranium. If Iran can install 3,000, it will need about one year to produce enough weapons grade uranium for one nuclear bomb.
The “NUCLEAR POINT OF RETURN” is at hand.
The United States and Israel need to move and MOVE NOW.
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Iran Nuclear Watch: Ahmadinejad Leads Anti-USA Rally in Dubai
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad waves as he addresses the Iranian residents of Dubai May 13, 2007. Ahmadinejad called for an end to the presence of U.S. troops in the Gulf during a visit to the U.S.-allied United Arab Emirates on Sunday, an Iranian news agency reported.
Iranian President Leads Anti-U.S. Rally
Iran’s president led a raucous anti-American rally on Sunday in this tightly controlled U.S. ally in the Persian Gulf, a day after a low- key visit by Vice President Dick Cheney aimed at countering Tehran’s influence in the region.
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad told a cheering crowd that America was to blame for creating instability and robbing the region of its wealth.
“We are telling you to leave the region. This is for your benefit and the benefit of your nation,” Ahmadinejad shouted to the crowd of thousands at a soccer stadium. “The nations of the region can no longer take you forcing yourself on them. The nations of the region know better how to create peace and security.”
Ahmadinejad’s visit was the first by an Iranian head of state to this Sunni-led Arab country since its independence in 1971 and his rally was remarkable in a country where political parties are banned and power is held solely by tribal families.
Cheney’s quiet visit Saturday to the Emirates, which hosts three American military bases, was part of a tour of the region to try to curb Iran’s growing influence. On Friday, from an aircraft carrier in the Persian Gulf, Cheney warned Iran that the U.S. and its allies will keep it from restricting sea traffic as well as from developing nuclear weapons.
Iran’s Mullahs and Ahmadinejad want the Emirates, Oman and other Gulf States to drop their alliance with the United States. This is the start of expanding Iranian hegemony in the region to include Sunni Arab countries.
And, why Iran is helping Iraqi insurgents fighting the United States in the Iraq War.
Is the picture getting clearer for the rest of the world?
An Iranian girl holds posters of Iran’s President, Mahmood Ahmadinejad, during his visit at the Iranian Club in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, Sunday May 13, 2007. Ahmadinejad is in UAE for a two day visit.
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Iran Nuclear Watch: Iran Moves Ahead with Uranium Enrichment
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad (C) speaks during a military parade to commemorate Army day in Tehran April 18, 2007. The banner reads ‘Peaceful nuclear technology is a basic fundamental right for our country’.
AP: Watchdog: Iran moves ahead nuke program
Iran is delivering small amounts of uranium gas to centrifuges that can enrich it to weapons-grade level and is running more than 1,300 centrifuge machines, according to an
International Atomic Energy Agency document obtained Wednesday by The Associated Press.The confidential document — a letter to Iranian officials from a senior staff member at the International Atomic Energy Agency — also protests an Iranian decision to prevent agency inspectors from visiting the country’s heavy water facility that, when built, will produce plutonium.
Enriched uranium and plutonium can both be used for the fissile core of nuclear warheads.
The letter, signed by IAEA deputy director general Olli Heinonen and dated April 18, said Iran has provided information to the agency that it has put into operation 1,312 centrifuges — the machines used to spin the gas into enriched uranium.
The letter also cites Iranian information to the agency that “some UF6 is being fed” into the centrifuges at the underground Natanz facility, referring to the uranium gas that can be enriched to levels potent enough to be used for nuclear arms.
Iran stopped experimental enrichment — which it was doing on a much smaller scale — in exchange for negotiations with European nations. Talks broke down in 2005, but Tehran has generally refrained from even small scale enrichment, while continuing to develop the technology.
The document reports a significant development, particularly considering the number of centrifuges involved, and the next step — large scale enrichment.
The ball is now in the United Nations Security Council’s court. Here are the resolutions that Iran is clearly violating.
The United Nations sanction resolutions:So, what will the feckless UNSC P-5-Plus Germany do?
Probably talk with Iran until the Mullahs have a few nuclear weapons. But, will the United States and Israel wait?
NOPE.
Iran’s President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad points to his supporters as he speaks at a sport complex in the city of Shiraz, 895km (556 miles) south of Tehran April 16, 2007. Iran will announce unspecified new ‘nuclear achievements’ if the United Nations takes fresh steps against it over its disputed atomic program, President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said on Monday.
Stay tuned……..
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Iran Nuclear Watch: Iran Will Respond to United Nations Sanctions
Iran’s President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad points to his supporters as he speaks at a sport complex in the city of Shiraz, 895km (556 miles) south of Tehran April 16, 2007. Iran will announce unspecified new ‘nuclear achievements’ if the United Nations takes fresh steps against it over its disputed atomic program, President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said on Monday.
AP: Iran: Sanctions could spur nuclear push
President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Monday warned that Iran would respond to additional U.N. sanctions with new nuclear advances, in yet another show of defiance to international demands that the country roll back its atomic program.
The U.N. Security Council has set a deadline of late May for Iran to halt its uranium enrichment program, warning it will gradually ratchet up its punishments. The council imposed limited sanctions in December and strengthened them slightly last month because of Iran’s refusal to suspend enrichment.
The United Nations sanction resolutions:
And how credible is Ahmadinejad’s threat?
Hell, everyone in the world knows that barring military action by the United States and Israel Iran will not be deterred from obtaining a nuclear weapon. It is a matter of will.
This threat is more cover for the on-going Iranian nuclear weapons program.
During Monday’s speech, Ahmadinejad reiterated that Iran would not back down from its right to pursue nuclear development and maintained the peaceful nature of the country’s program.
“The Iranian nation will use all capacities of nuclear energy in agriculture, industry, medicine and generating electricity,” he said.
Iran’s defiance has heightened concerns in the region that the U.S. or Israel could respond with a military strike against the country’s nuclear facilities.
But, will President Bush pull the trigger?
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Iran Nuclear Watch: Iran Announces Industrial Expansion of Uranium Enrichment on Iran’s National Day of the Nuclear Technology
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, speaks at a ceremony in Iran’s nuclear enrichment facility in Natanz, 300 kms 186 (miles) south of capital Tehran, Iran, Monday April, 9, 2007. Iran announced Monday that it has begun enriching uranium with 3,000 centrifuges, a dramatic expansion of a nuclear program that has drawn U.N. sanctions and condemnation from the West. President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said at a ceremony at the enrichment facility at Natanz that Iran was now capable of enriching nuclear fuel ‘on an industrial scale.’ Asked if Iran has begun injecting uranium gas into 3,000 centrifuges for enrichment, top nuclear negotiator Ali Larijani replied, ‘Yes.’ He did not elaborate, but it was the first confirmation that Iran had installed the larger set of centrifuges after months of saying it intends to do so.
AP: Iran Expands Uranium Enrichment
Iran announced Monday that it has begun enriching uranium with 3,000 centrifuges, defiantly expanding a nuclear program that has drawn U.N. sanctions and condemnation from the West.
President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said at a ceremony at the enrichment facility at Natanz that Iran was now capable of enriching nuclear fuel “on an industrial scale.”
Asked if Iran has begun injecting uranium gas into 3,000 centrifuges for enrichment, top nuclear negotiator Ali Larijani replied, “Yes.” He did not elaborate, but it was the first confirmation that Iran had installed the larger set of centrifuges after months of saying it intends to do so. Until now, Iran was only known to have 328 centrifuges operating.
Uranium enrichment can produce fuel for a nuclear reactor or the material for a nuclear warhead. The United States and its allies accuse Iran of intending to produce weapons, a charge the country denies.
Iran’s nuclear enrichment facility in Natanz
An Iranian flag is seen outside the building housing the reactor of the Bushehr nuclear power plant at the Iranian port town of Bushehr, 03 April 2007.
So, while the feckless United Nations Security Council and the European Union have been talking and “negotiating with Iran, the Iranians have been growing their nuclear program.
Let’s see, Iran has ignored three United Nations resolutions calling upon them to halt uranium enrichment:
But, Iran doesn’t care – THE MULLAHS COVET NUCLEAR WEAPONS.
Iranian clerics greet each other after attending in a ceremony at Iran’s nuclear enrichment facility in Natanz.
Notably, the United Nations sanctions have been tested by Iran and they simply are USELESS. Russia and China are complicit in Iran’s uranium enrichment program and must be held accountable – unless the West bows down to the GREAT IRAN and allows them to have a nuclear weapon.
Iranian state television reported Monday that an Iranian Revolutionary Guard general who is under travel restrictions urged by the sanctions has visited Russia without any difficulty.
Gen. Mohammad Baqer Zolqadr, who is also deputy interior minister for security affairs, was quoted on the state TV Web site as saying that his six-day journey to Moscow, which ended Monday, showed “the ineffectiveness of the resolution.”
The resolution urges all governments to ban visits by the 15 individuals and says that should such visits occur – presumably for exceptional circumstances – the countries should notify a U.N. committee.
Russian Foreign Ministry spokesman Andrei Krivtsov confirmed that Zolqadr visited Russia. He told The Associated Press that the resolution does not prohibit visits by the listed individuals, but calls for heightened vigilance “directed first of all at people who are directly related to nuclear programs” – suggesting that Zolqadr was not.
ABC News has reported that Iran will possess a nuclear bomb by 2009. There is no reason to believe this will not be the case. Iran has stalled for years. Now the United States and Israel either must take action or acquiesce to the idea that Iran will become a nuclear power – like Jacques Chirac let slip.
The “NUCLEAR POINT OF NO RETURN” HAS BEEN REACHED
World powers won’t thwart Iran nuclear drive: Ahmadinejad
President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Monday vowed that world powers would not be able to stop Iran’s nuclear drive and that the Islamic republic would defend its atomic programme “to the end.”
“The great Iranian nation, which for past centuries has been a pioneer of science, will not allow some bullying powers to put obstacles in its path of progress by influencing the international community,” he said in a speech.
“We will go on to reach the summits,” he added in a keynote address at Iran’s ultra-sensitive uranium enrichment plant in Natanz.
And like the British humiliation of last week, the Mullahs and Ahmadinejad will rub the West’s nose in it.
Iran’s chief nuclear negotiator Ali Larijani, answers questions from media at Iran’s nuclear enrichment facility in Natanz.
With today’s announcement the hatred of the Great Satan was on display:
Iranian students burn mock US and British flags outside Iran’s Atomic Energy Organization in Tehran, 09 April 2007.
Iranian female students stand on a representation of a U.S flag and a representation of a British Union flag during a gathering to show their support to their country’s nuclear activities, marking “National Day of the Nuclear Technology”, in front of the Iran’s Atomic Energy Organization in Tehran, Iran, Monday, April 9, 2007.
An Iranian student steps on a paper hat designed with an image of a U.S. flag as she stands in front of Iran’s Atomic Energy Organization in Tehran during a rally to mark the country’s national day of nuclear technology.
How will the United States and Israel respond?
Will it be back to the United Nations for more sanctions?
Will they militarily take out the facilities?
Will they surrender?
As Flap said yesterday – TIME TO SHIT OR GET OFF THE POT.
Stay tuned……
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