Israel Prepares for Nuclear Strike on Iran
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Reuven Koret, 10th of Nov. 2007


(Fight what fire? Israel is plotting unprovoked Aggression - for which men hung at Nuremberg - against a sovereign state, using nuclear weapons. By every yardstick these Extremists have used thus far to justify "pre-emption", not only is Israel ripe for attack itself, but since it's plotting against Iran, Iran has the right to attack Israel. Right ... ?)

As hope fades for a diplomatic solution to Iran's development of enriched uranium for production of weapons with the primary purpose of destroying Israel,

(Thaaat's quite the sentence. The Extremists who long ago planned to attack Iran, and are using this as a way to feign a justification, have no evidence to support their all-too-familiar allegations (Iraq, anyone?), are contradicted by the IAEA, and are flogging a lie that Iran's president made a threat that was never uttered.)

the IAF is practicing for a mission to destroy key Iranian facilities, at least one with low-yield nuclear munitions, the Times of London reported.

Citing "several Israeli sources," the Times said that two IAF squadrons are training to blow up an Iranian facility using a combination of precision laser bombs and low-yield nuclear "bunker-busters". The Times report was supplemented by one from Fox News.

The attack would be the first with nuclear weapons since 1945, when the United States dropped atomic bombs on the Japanese cities Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The Israeli weapons would each have a force equivalent to one-fifteenth of the Hiroshima bomb, the Times said.

Under the plans, the report said, conventional laser-guided bombs would open shafts into the targets. Then the nuclear bombs would then be fired into a plant at Natanz, exploding deep underground to reduce the risk of radioactive fallout.

(No, to maximize their destructive power.)

"As soon as the green light is given, it will be one mission, one strike and the Iranian nuclear project will be demolished," said one of the sources.

Israeli intelligence recently announced that Iran is on the verge of producing enough enriched uranium to make nuclear weapons by 2009. Meir Dagan, head of Mossad, the Israeli intelligence service, told the Knesset, Israel's parliament, also believes that the Iranians will have a complete nuclear device by 2009.

(Even though the International Atomic Energy Agency says that Iran hasn't even been able to enrich enough to generate power, which is vastly less than the amount needed for weapons development - should they choose to pursue such a course. Remember, "Israeli Intelligence" was instrumental in creating similar LIES that led to the war in Iraq.)

Conventional strikes, IDF commanders believe, are insufficient to destroy the deeply buried enrichment facilities, which are reportedly built beneath at least 70 feet of concrete and rock and surrounded by dozens of Iranian anti-aircraft batteries.

Israel has identified three prime targets south of Tehran believed to be central to Iran's nuclear program, the Times reported:

Natanz, where thousands of centrifuges are being installed for uranium enrichment;

A uranium conversion facility near Isfahan where, according to a statement by an Iranian vice-president last week, 250 tons of gas for the enrichment process have been stored; because this is located near a city of 4.5 million people, Israeli may opt to use conventional munitions here.

(May ...)

A heavy water reactor at Arak, which may in future produce enough plutonium for a bomb.

(Note the use of the phrase "may in future", meaning that there is no actual justification for this attack, just the usual fearmongering we've come to know under these Neo-Fascists.)

Israeli officials believe that destroying all three sites would delay Iran's nuclear program for years and prevent the Zionist State from living in fear of a "second Holocaust," a mounting threat since Iranian president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, has been declaring that "Israel must be wiped off the map" and promoting the desirability of "a world without Israel."

(But he never actually said that, as they know, and they don't actually believe any of this.)

Dr. Ephraim Sneh, the former deputy Israeli defense minister, said last month: "The time is approaching when Israel and the international community will have to decide whether to take military action against Iran." But he lamented that "At the end of the day it is always down to the Jews to deal with the problem."

(he means Israelis or Zionist Extremists. And there is no actual problem. The problem is that these fanatics think it's alright to start wars and attack their neighbours, and are willing to LIE through their teeth to Israelis, and the world, in order to achieve their goal.)

But the United States is believed to be backing away from military action in Iran, and the new US defense secretary, Robert Gates, has described a strike against Iranian targets as a "last resort", leading Israelis to believe that it will be left to the IAF to strike. Israeli sources do not believe that the US is likely to give explicit permission for Israel to use tactical nukes.

(Leaked documents, however, reveal that this has been the plan all along, and this has come directly from Dick Cheney himself. Since Israel and the US have signed a rather bizarre "defense" agreement, the US will side with Israel, even if it starts the war.)

The Times, citing Israeli sources, said Israeli pilots have flown to Gibraltar in recent weeks to train for the 2,000-mile round trip to the Iranian targets.

(And have done so for two years now.)

The report said that the air force squadrons are based at Hatzerim in the Negev desert and Tel Nof, south of Tel Aviv, under the personal supervision of Major General Eliezer Shkedy, commander of the Israeli Air Force, training to use Israel's arsenal of tactical nuclear weapons on the mission.

The strike is expected to release nuclear material from the plants, rendering the facilities uninhabitable and crippling their reconstruction.

The Israelis believe that Iran's expected retaliation would be constrained by fear of an Israeli second strike.

(Not really. And Russia has stated that any attack on Iran will be considered an attack on Russia. This attack, what the IAEA Head and many others have refered to as "an act of Madness" will most likely start a war from which we may never recover.)

The leak of a possible nuclear option by Israel may be intentional, US analysts have said. "In the cold war, we made it clear to the Russians that it was a virtual certainty that nukes would fly and fly early," said an American defense source. "Israel may be adopting the same tactics: 'You produce a weapon; you die'."

(Or in this case, you don't produce a weapon, you die ...)

http://web.israelinsider.com/Articles/Security/12333.htm

The world is quickly waking up to the real "axis of evil" ...

"Only anti-Semites can't see the Iranian's new clothes, er, nukes!"

(ahem)

Many men who cheat on their wives assuage their feelings of guilt by convincing themselves that their wives are also having affairs, and deflect questions about their own actions by accusing their spouses of the ill behavior they themselves are guilty of.

Psychiatrists have a term for this called "Projection". And it happens to nations as well as people.

Israel knows it has been clandestinely building nuclear weapons of mass destruction underneath Dimona. Israel knows that the rest of the world knows (or at least suspects) Israel's immoral behavior. So Israel assuages its feelings of guilt by imagining that every other nation is doing the exact same thing, and hurling accusations at other countries of the crime Israel is itself guilty of.

Just as there is no amount of evidence that will convince the cheating husband that his wife is faithful, there is no amount of evidence that will convince Israel that Iraq or Iran is not building nuclear weapons. Indeed, the cheating husband will decide that the well-meaning friends supporting his wife are all part of a "plot" to deceive him, just as Israel, rather than facing the truth, accuses the IAEA of "failure" to see what Israel believes to be obvious.

Psychiatrists have a term for this as well called "Paranoid Delusion".

And from Paranoid Delusion to Psychotic Break is a short step indeed, and worrisome when the "patient" has nuclear weapons.

November 17, 2007
IAEA Again Verifies Iranian Compliance

by Gordon Prather

Hallelujah! The International Atomic Energy Agency has, once again, verified "the non-diversion of declared nuclear material in Iran."

It seems the Iranians continue to provide the IAEA access to all "special nuclear materials" – as proscribed by the Treaty on Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons – and all relevant nuclear material accountancy reports, as well as access to all activities involving said materials.

So, let the dancing in the streets commence!

But wait a minute.

Even though compliance by Iran is the principal and only conclusion of the current IAEA report [.pdf at link below] – entitled Implementation of the NPT Safeguards Agreement and relevant provisions of Security Council resolutions 1737 and 1747 in the Islamic Republic of Iran – the neo-crazy media sycophants at the New York Times don't even mention it in their "report" on the IAEA report!

Well, if they don't even mention the IAEA report's principal conclusion – that Iran is compliant with its NPT Safeguards Agreement – what do Elaine Sciolino and William Broad report?

That Iran has not suspended its uranium-enrichment activies, "contrary to the decisions of the Security Council"?

No, no.

Quoth Sciolino-Broad:

"VIENNA, Nov. 15 — A new report says Iran has made new but incomplete disclosures about its past nuclear activities, missing a key deadline under an agreement with the IAEA."

Incomplete "disclosures"?

Missed a "key deadline"?

Wrong, wrong.

Nowhere in the IAEA report does Director-General Mohamed ElBaradei even suggest that Iran has missed a "key deadline" previously agreed to by Iran and the IAEA.

Furthermore, far from complaining about "incomplete disclosures," ElBaradei reported that Iran has provided "sufficient access" to individuals, and has "responded in a timely manner" to questions, and provided "clarifications and amplifications" on issues raised in the context of the "work plan."

ElBaradei even reports – not unfavorably – the Iranian-supplied justification for the secretive manner in which they have pursued the civilian nuclear power fuel-cycle which both the IAEA Statute and the NPT assure them is their inalienable right.

"According to Iran, in its early years, the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran (AEOI) concluded a number of contracts with entities from France, Germany, the United Kingdom and the United States of America to enable it to acquire nuclear power and a wide range of related nuclear fuel cycle services, but after the 1979 revolution, these contracts with a total value of around $10 billion were not fulfilled.

"Iran noted that one of the contracts, signed in 1976, was for the development of a pilot plant for laser enrichment.

"Senior Iranian officials said that, in the mid-1980s, Iran started working with many countries to revitalize its nuclear programme to meet the State's growing energy needs. Taking advantage of investments already made, Iran said it focused its efforts initially on the completion of the Bushehr nuclear power plant, working with entities from, inter alia, Argentina, France, Germany and Spain, but without success.

"At that time, Iran also initiated efforts to acquire research reactors from Argentina, China, India and the former Soviet Union, but also without success.

"Parallel to the activities related to nuclear power plants, Iran started to build supporting infrastructure by establishing nuclear technology centres in Esfahan and Karaj.

"However, apart from uranium conversion technology acquired from an entity in China, Iran was not able to acquire other nuclear fuel cycle facilities or technology from abroad.

"As a result, according to Iran, a decision was made in the mid-1980s to acquire uranium enrichment technology on the black market."

Now, bear in mind that the IAEA's primary mission is to facilitate the fullest possible transfer – for peaceful purposes – of nuclear materials and technology from the "have" states to the "have-not" states. True, the IAEA is required to ensure – "insofar as it is able" – that the technology and materials so transferred are not diverted to a military purpose. But, Bonkers Bolton to the contrary, that's not IAEA's primary mission.

Furthermore, the "have" states are obligated under the IAEA Statute and under the NPT to facilitate that transfer – for peaceful purposes.

Hence, that history of Iran's attempts to obtain their "inalienable" rights under the IAEA Statute and NPT – if verified by the IAEA – constitutes an indictment of the IAEA's long-term abdication of its primary mission. To say nothing of an indictment of the perverse stewardship of "have" states, such as the United States.

So, how's ElBaradei's verification of Iran's story going?

"To assess the detailed information provided by Iran, the Agency held discussions with senior current and former Iranian officials.

"The Agency also examined supporting documentation, including Iranian legislation, contracts with foreign companies, agreements with other States and nuclear site surveys.

"Bearing in mind the long history and complexity of the program and the dual nature of enrichment technology, the Agency is not in a position, based on the information currently available to it, to draw conclusions about the original underlying nature of parts of the program.

"Further light may be shed on this question when other aspects of the work plan have been addressed and when the Agency has been able to verify the completeness of Iran's declarations."

Okay, Sciolino-Broad didn't even mention the principal conclusion of ElBaradei's report, nor did they appear to understand the potential dynamite of ElBaradei's ongoing assessment of the truth of Iran's allegations. So, what did Sciolino-Broad focus on.

"The agency's report also confirmed for the first time that Iran has now crossed the major milestone of putting 3,000 centrifuges into operation, a tenfold increase from just a year ago. In theory, that means that Iran could produce enough uranium to make a nuclear weapon within a year to 18 months."

In whose theory?

What neo-crazy crackpot told gullible [or complicit?] New York Times' reporters that gas centrifuges could produce uranium at all, much less produce weapons-grade almost pure Uranium-235?

Uranium-enrichment plants don't "produce" uranium, they "cast out" the Uranium-238 istopes from the uranium-hexafluoride fed them.

What ElBaradei "verified" was that Iran had finished installing eighteen 164-machine cascades and that uranium-hexafluoride had been fed into all 18 cascades. ElBaradei also reported that the "feed rate" as well as the enrichment level – both of which the IAEA "audits" – have remained low.

But Sciolino-Broad did get one thing right. ElBaradei did complain that Iran's "cooperation has been reactive, rather than proactive."

Whatever that means.

www.antiwar.com/prather/

Israel slams IAEA for 'failing to expose' Iran ambitions by Ron Bousso
Fri Nov 16

JERUSALEM (AFP) - Israel slammed the United Nations nuclear watchdog on Friday for failing to expose what it insisted was Iran's drive to acquire an atomic bomb in a key report on its archfoe's nuclear programme.

(Perhaps if the Extremists in the Israeli Government want to be taken seriously, then they should make some counter-argument, with evidence. It appears they can't, however, and are only 'acting out' in order to keep their deception going.)

The International Atomic Energy Agency report on Thursday said Iran has made some progress in revealing the extent of its nuclear programme, but that it is still defying UN demands to suspend its controversial uranium enrichment.

(Those US-sponsored resolutions were designed to leverage a justification for planned aggression, and investigations are currently underway into allegations that countries, like India, were coerced into voting for them. Nonetheless, the NPT overrides this.)

"The report fails to expose (Iranian President Mahmoud) Ahmadinejad's intentions that are well known to the IAEA and its chief Mohamed ElBaradei," Deputy Foreign Minister Majalli Whbee told AFP.

Israel and the West fear that Iran's nuclear programme is cover for a drive to develop the bomb, but Tehran insists it is solely for peaceful ends.

(Actually, Israel and 'the West' don't believe this. Their politicians say it, but the people don't believe them, as they have absolutely no evidence, and everyone knows they're just trying to excuse their own plans for Aggression.)

In a statement, the Israeli foreign ministry said the report "confirms that Iran is committing an ongoing violation of the Security Council resolutions and continues to advance its nuclear programme."

"It must be stated that the agency says in its report that it is not in a situation in which it can carry out its mandate and reliably state the non-existence of undeclared nuclear activites and/or materials by Iran," it said.

(The report doesn't actually say that.)

The IAEA report, which said that Iran's "cooperation has been reactive rather than pro-active," allows the Islamic republic to buy time in its drive to produce a nuclear weapon, Whbee charged.

(Note the deceptive construction of that sentence. The report didn't say this, the Israeli minister did. Iran has been "reactive" because it is under attack from Extremists in Israel and the US, whose demands keep shifting. They did the same thing in attempting to feign justification for a planned war against Iraq.)

"ElBaradei is aware of Iran's selective cooperation. He knows the truth that it wants to carry on enriching uranium," he said.

(As is its right ...)

"Any extension of time that the international community gives Iran will allow it more time to develop a bomb. The international community must act to make Iran stop its programme and abide by the UN Security Council resolutions."

(The US-sponsored resolutions violate Iran's NPT rights. And Israel's statements actually highlight the true purpose of these resolutions.)

Thursday's report acknowledged that Iran had provided "sufficient access" and responded in a "timely manner" to questions and requests for clarifications.

Whbee said the report could act as a milestone on the road to a third round of Security Council sanctions against Tehran, adding that "the world must toughen the sanctions and not accept Iran's selective cooperation."

(The report actually kills the argument for further sanctions - and aggression - against Iran.)

Washington wants further UN sanctions against Tehran. Britain and France have said they need more time to study the IAEA report, but both urged Iran to cooperate fully with the international community.

Whbee joined a growing chorus of senior Israeli officials who have called for the IAEA chief to step down.

(Because he's destroyed their only argument for Military Aggression against Iran, while they view their plot against the country as inevitable.)

"ElBaradei is hiding his head in the sand and exposing the region and the entire world to a real threat. This raises many questions," he said.

Israel, which belongs to the UN nuclear watchdog but is not a signatory to its key Non-Proliferation Treaty, is widely considered to have the Middle East's sole -- if undeclared -- nuclear arsenal.

It considers Iran its chief enemy after repeated statements by Ahmadinejad that the Jewish state should be wiped off the map.

(However, these statements were never made, and the mistranslation which led to this meme was corrected the week it was made. Repeating this false statement is an intentional LIE. This is about oil, geopolitics, and the regional influence of Israel and the United States.)

www.news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20071116/wl_mideast_afp/irannuclearpoliticsiaeaisra

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