Kenneth Timmerman’s group Foundation for Democracy in Iran is reporting that Iran is planning to test an underground nuclear explosion on March 22, 2006. They also say that Western powers and Israel have known Iran’s nuclear capabilities were at this level for over 6 months.
Tehran plans a nuclear weapons test before March 20, 2006 ? the Iranian New Year, moves Shahab-3 missiles within striking range of Israel
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Reporting this, the dissident Foundation for Democracy in Iran, a US-based watch group, cites sources in the US and Iran. The FDI adds from Iran: on June 16, the high command of the Revolutionary Guards Air Force ordered Shahab-3 missile units to move mobile launchers every 24 hours instead of weekly. This is in view of a potential pre-emptive strike by the US or Israel.
Advance Shahab-3 units have been positioned in Kermanshah and Hamad within striking distance of Israel, reserve launchers moved to Esfahan and Fars.
The missile units were told to change positions ?in a radius of 30-35 kilometers? and only at night.
DEBKAfile?s Iranian sources add: FDI reporting has a reputation for credibility. Western and Israeli intelligence have known for more than six months that Iran?s nuclear program has reached the capability of being able to carry out a nuclear explosion, albeit underground. It would probably be staged in a desert or mountain region and activated by a distant control center. Tehran would aim at confronting the Americans, Europeans and Israelis with an irreversible situation.
At the same time, an explosion of this sort would indicate that Iran is not yet able to produce a nuclear bomb that can be delivered by airplane or a warhead adapted to a missile. The stage Iran has reached is comparable to Pakistan?s when it conducted its first nuclear tests in the nineties and North Korea?s in 2001. All the same, an Iranian underground nuclear blast, which will most probably be attempted on March 22, would turn around the strategic position of all the parties concerned and the Middle East as whole.
The question now is: will the United States, Israel or both deliver a pre-emptive strike ahead of the Iranian underground test – or later? Or will Washington alternatively use the event to bring the UN Security Council round to economic sanctions? Tehran is already organizing to withstand economic penalties. For Israel, the timing is getting tight in view of its general election on March 28. Acting prime minister Ehud Olmert must take into account that a ruling party which allows an Iranian nuclear explosion to take place six days before the poll would draw painful punishment from the voter.
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Everybody knows Iran with a nuke is a bad thing and that moving against Iran is a costly move from a financial standpoint. But once allies are blow away, that is an even more costly price to pay. Both the US and Israel have been talking about how they don’t want Iran to have a nuclear weapon. Well if this new information is true, it’s about time the USA and Israel stop the talking and get into action, with a military strike. Iran is not going to stop their efforts and the UN is going to talk till people are blue in the face. Full economic sanctions will not stop this new insane leader in Iran. Like with North Korea, he will keep building his nukes whether or not he’s doing trade with the Western world. (Some Islamic countries are going to continue doing trade with him regardless of what the UN says.) Also even Chapter 2 of the 9/11 Report details how Iran has supported Radical Islam. So the time for talk is over and everyone realizes that talking with Iran is wasted air.
If our government knows the FDI information is true, it is time to launch an air strike on any known nuclear facilities in Iran now and worry about who cries later. There will be a stiff price to pay financially as well. But it is the better price to pay. And it’s time to stop being punks when it comes to drilling for more oil in the USA, plus build more refineries and do away with any environmentalist red-tape!
January 24th, 2006 at 5:32 am
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Iran threatened that if the UN imposed sanctions that it would EXPEDIATE IT’S PLANS TO PRODUCE NUCLEAR FUEL.
Wait a minute. If they are doing this only for peaceful purposes why would they make such a statement?
Why are there so many “Abstract Kneegrows” who say that the USA is trampling on the RIGHT of an indpendent nation to have Nukes in the spirit of imperialism. The USA has nukes – why can’t Iran they say.
I believe that they will not change until they are personnally impacted by their theories.
January 24th, 2006 at 11:03 am
If they want they can move to any of the Arab controlled areas in Africa an see what happens when Radical Islam is not put in check. I see a lot more Africans from Arab controlled areas running here than Blacks here running to move there!
February 7th, 2006 at 1:11 am
Islamic Radicalism is Not Based in Poverty and Low Education
Today I heard someone making the claim that Islamic Radicals exist because of people who are living in poverty and have a low amount of education.
I must say that claim is very false.
Islamic Radicals are on American College Campuses. That would …