US intelligence’s amended estimate, that Iran will be ready to build its first bomb just one month after the next US president is sworn in, as having been relayed as a guideline to the Middle East teams of both presidential candidates, Senators John McCain and Barack Obama.
The information prompted the assertion by Democratic vice presidential nominee Joseph Biden in Seattle Sunday, Oct. 19: “It will not be six months before the world tests Barack Obama like they did John Kennedy.”
McCain retorted Tuesday, Oct. 21: “America does not need a president that needs to be tested. I’ve been tested. I was aboard the Enterprise off the coast of Cuba. I’ve been there.”)
Military sources cite the new US timeline: By late January, 2009, Iran will have accumulated enough low-grade enriched uranium (up to 5%) for its “break-out” to weapons grade (90%) material within a short time. For this, the Iranians have achieved the necessary technology. In February, they can move on to start building their first nuclear bomb.
US intelligence believes Tehran has the personnel, plans and diagrams for a bomb and has been running experiments to this end for the past two years. The UN International Atomic Energy Agency in Vienna last week asked Tehran to clarify recent complex experiments they conducted in detonating nuclear materials for a weapon, but received no answer.
The same US evaluation adds that the Iranian leadership is holding off its go-ahead to start building the bomb until the last minute so as to ward off international pressure to stop at the red line.
This development together with the galloping global economic crisis will force the incoming US president to go straight into decision-making without pause on Day One in the Oval Office. He will have to determine which urgent measures can serve best for keeping a nuclear bomb out of the Islamic republic’s hands – diplomatic or military – and how to proceed if those measures fail.
His knowledge of the challenge colored Sen. Biden’s additional words in Seattle: “Remember I said it standing here if you don’t remember anything else I said. Watch, we’re gonna have an international crisis, a generated crisis, to test the mettle of this guy.”
Israel’s political and military leaders also face a tough dilemma that can no longer be put off of whether to strike Iran’s nuclear installations militarily in the next three months between US presidencies before the last window closes, or take a chance on coordination with the next president.
Waiting for the “international community” to do the job of stopping Iran, as urged by governments headed by Ariel Sharon and Ehud Olmert – and strongly advocated Tzipi Livni, foreign minister and would-be prime minister – has been a washout. Iran stands defiantly on the threshold of a nuclear weapon.
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December 27th, 2008 at 8:00 pm
December 27th, 2008:
Iran already has 12-to-18 nuclear weapons.
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Concerning the up-coming Iranian nuclear tests.
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A 10-to-25 kiloton-yield nuclear device will be test-fired
in the Dasht-i-Kavir Desert–near Khvor/Khor
220 kilometers southeast of Teheran Iran. Weapon will a Plutonium-PU-239
Implosion nuclear weapon. This will be an underground test-firing.
Accordingly:
Test Date—Mid to late March of 2009
A “parallel test” will be taking place, a small
2-to-5 kiloton-yield Uranium “collision” weapon–a “tactical nuke”–
at Parchin 40 kilometers southwest of Teheran Iran.
Another Underground test.
Test date—for Parchin test–early to mid March of 2009.
20-to-30 Iranian Shahab-3 missiles are being deployed to
eastern slopes of the Zagros Mountain in western Iran
by late-April-to mid-May of 2009.
These Shahab-3 missiles will go “operational” by Mid-May of
2009.
8-to-10 of these missiles will have 10-to-15 kiloton nuclear war-
heads attached on them, and the remaining Shahab-3 missiles
will have “dirty” warheads—Strontium-90, Cobalt-60, and Cesium-131.
Targets”: ISRAEL.
and Israel nuclear research station at Dimona, in the northern
Negev Desert of Israel, near Beersheva.
Iran will give it’s Generals-in-charge, “independent launch authority”.
Time is running out for either a U.S. and/or Israeli pre-emptive
strikes–with Tomahawk cruises and/or long-range jet fighter-bombers.
January 3rd, 2009 at 8:26 am
Quran Chapter 9
32:They (the disbelievers, the Jews and the Christians) want to extinguish Allâh’s Light (with which Muhammad has been sent – Islâmic Monotheism) with their mouths, but Allâh will not allow except that His Light should be perfected even though the Kâfirûn (disbelievers) hate (it).
33. It is He Who has sent His Messenger (Muhammad) with guidance and the religion of truth (Islâm), to make it superior over all religions even though the Mushrikûn (polytheists, pagans, idolaters, disbelievers in the Oneness of Allâh) hate (it).
January 25th, 2009 at 9:18 pm
Should be a simple matter to program a nuke tipped cruise missle to home in on the Kaaba in Mecca.