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Tech Central Station points out the dangers of a nuclear armed Iran:
While the "News Cycle" focuses its attention on a mid-level functionary's startling revelation that, had only everyone listened to him, this whole terror thing could have been averted (that is, had they listened then to what he's saying now, not to what he said before… oh well, never mind), let us avert our eyes from the posturing and finger-pointing for a moment and consider what to do about the next threat: a nuclear-armed Iran.For those who haven't been paying attention to the danse macabre that has been going on between the Mad Mullahs and the International Atomic Energy Agency, a short review:
At Bushehr, they are building a light-water reactor with the aid of the Russians, which (even if our Slavic friends are sincere in their promise to monitor it faithfully and recover all spent fuel) will be a source of practical expertise for the Iranians and allow them to claim they need to have a uranium enrichment capability to ensure fuel supplies. (These reactors run on uranium that has been enriched from the natural 0.7% U-235 to 2-5%; but if you just keep running the same enrichment plant, you can keep going to above 80%, which will work as the core of a nuclear bomb.)
They've recently been caught red-handed and forced to admit that they have been developing two separate secret uranium enrichment programs for the better part of two decades.
At Natanz, a secret gas-centrifuge uranium enrichment plant has been discovered, and traces of highly-enriched (weapon-usable) uranium were found there.
At Arak, a secret (have you noticed the "secret" trend here?) heavy water production plant has been uncovered. Heavy water is used in the type of nuclear reactors that can run on natural, unenriched uranium (so if the enrichment part goes sour, they're still in business), and which are especially suited to produce plutonium (which, of course, is the other potential nuclear bomb core.)
Iran has purchased parts for advanced uranium-enriching centrifuges and probably actual bomb designs from A.Q. Khan's Pakistani Nuclear Warehouse.
As a matter of fact, it's beginning to look like they have a club membership card and are eligible for discounts and special members-only offers.
The Iranians, of course, claim they have no plans to build nuclear weapons. No sir. They are merely spending billions of dollars to develop nuclear power as an alternative energy source for when their oil runs out, say, somewhere around the year 3015.
Meanwhile, the Jerusalem Post writes that Iran binds Hizbullah to Hamas.
With the assassination of Hamas leader Sheikh Ahmed Yassin, history may repeat itself.On October 26, 1995 in Malta, Israeli agents assassinated Fathi Shkaki, the secretary-general of Palestinian Islamic Jihad. He was replaced by Ramadan Abdallah Shallah, who was not as effective a leader.
As Islamic Jihad began to decline, Iran became its primary funder, and Islamic Jihad in turn became Iran's proxy in the West Bank and Gaza.
With Sheikh Yassin, Hamas's founder dead, Iran may again attempt to move into a power vacuum in order to extend the reach of its terror network both against Israel and worldwide.
The relationship between Hamas and Hizbullah, Iran's leading terrorist proxy, dates back to the early 1990s. After being released from Israeli prison in 1997, Yassin visited Iran and secured a multimillion dollar annual Iranian contribution to Hamas. In the Aksa Intifada, Hizbullah has been generous in sharing its expertise, smuggling plans, equipment, and operatives with the Palestinian territories.
Hizbullah has helped Hamas build rockets based on Katyushas and bombs – including the device used in the March 27, 2002 Passover Massacre. Hamas has also carried out ambushes, such as a February 2002 attack that destroyed an Israeli tank, based on tactics Hizbullah honed in its long fight against Israel in Lebanon.
In the wake of Yassin's assassination, Hizbullah shelled northern Israel, further demonstrating the expanding ties between the two organizations.
Posted by Robert at March 30, 2004 10:19 AM
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Get Sharon the location of Hizbollah's leadership so he can order them to be splattered into mush like the Terror Sheikh Yassin was.....
Isreal needs to just pull an all out assault on that entire region, and be done with it.
Posted by: D C Watson at March 30, 2004 10:30 AMA liberation army is just what Iran needs. Now is the ideal time. A whole generation has grown up under the mullahs and know that they want rid of them.
The media however consider all the demonstrations and marches against the theocracy almost a non story. To hear anything about the situation in Iran, all we have are internet pages.
http://www.daneshjoo.org/smccdinews/article/publish/article_4167.shtml
http://www.cafeshops.com/activistchat/120762
and many others.
Unlike Iraq, where the people can get rid of one sunni dictatorship and then embrace on the rebound what could become a shiite dictatorship. In iran if they revolt against the mullahs, the only direction they can go at least in the short term is towards secularisation.
For the West to openly do anything may be impossible politically unless we are attacked openly and clearly.
If there is no revolution in Iran however, the future is horrifying. An Ayotolla with an atom bomb.
And remeber deterence and MAD only prevents nuclear war against people who care about life.
Why a liberation army when you can do the job with less than 25% of the actual invading costs?
how?
let the cia stablish a connection with millions of iranian students and help them with money and gun, i can promise you a fall down for mullahs in less time than everyone can ever imagine.
iranian cia is working so hard in iraq by supporting money and gun, why not letting cia do the same job in iran? iranian needs financial and moral support, not a liberation army. liberation army i use as the last option while at present time you can still count on the potential energy inside iranian students.
and..... i don't think israel will ever allow iran to have a-bomb, they will bomb iranian nuclear facilities sooner or later, as same as they did with saddam's.
Iran is ok - the people are great. Once again the problem is the barbaric system of religious government they have in place that CRUSHES the life out of people instead of giving them hope and peace.
Oh yeah, sorry, that religious govenment has a name and I should use it, it is only polite.
It's called Islam..
Posted by: Mustapha Burger at March 30, 2004 4:45 PMAt some point heads of states in Europe may face an ultimatum along these lines " have your population bow five times a day to pray to Allah, provide every house with a copy of the Koran and make your women wear veils or be nuked. For Allah is all merciful and all compasonate. "
The Islamic morons in Iran are just drooling to give that mandate to Italy, France......and think nothing of killing millions if that mandate is not
honoured. They would just chalk such mindless ruthlessness to " the power of Islam ".
Why should we wait for the Israelis to bomb the reactors? Isn't that why we have intercontinental B2's?
Posted by: Michael Hiteshew at March 31, 2004 1:17 AMMichael,
Let's say you send 3 B2's to bomb the place, you just destroy a limited place, now is this what you want? or you want to root out the terror once and forever?
If the same costs of this operation (making 3 Bs's fly to iran and destroy the place and come back safe) can be spent inside iran to help millions of iranian students in their struggle against the mullahs, you can achieve the same goal but with more and more broader effects.
Do you think the threat of tehran will bo gone if they just give up their atomic researches? iranians will sooner or later send this islamic regime to the recycle bin of the mankind history. with or without atomic bomb. now who wants to help?
Posted by: kianb at March 31, 2004 7:14 AM
The Expectation that the persian people will solve the problem with their own hands and we just have to sit and wait, is the same unreal as when the french and german companies want biz-contracts in post-saddam era in iraq. we all have to do it together. united states gov. has to start helping iranian self-growed youth organizations inside the country in a very clear way which in turn they will topple down the islamic regime with all what it can take. it's more effective and more hopefull than just bombing a limited place. If the workers of iran's oil company go to a strike, the regime will collapse in 1 week. Most of the workers want to strike, but they are uncertain and feared, not for themselves but for what will happen to their families after the strike. if they get arrested and killed, how thier families will earn money and live? this is their fear. the same for students (most of them also work for their families), teachers (althought they were in strike last month for almost 10 days)
Ok now are we able to realize the weakness of the islamic regime and mobilize underground teams in iran which can help those who are in strike and their families? the fall down is very easier than we can imagine just if we use the right tools and very fast before it's late.
keep the faith, kianb. i'm on your side. the persians were very good to the russian side of my family when they fled the bolsheviks. after 20 years of living in iran, they moved to america.
Posted by: ted at April 1, 2004 11:54 AM
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