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Iran official: 'Big war' means Mahdi's coming

Military leader ties 'last messiah' to regime's preparations for conflict

Published: 4 hours ago

by Reza KahliliEmail | Archive

Reza Kahlili served in CIA Directorate of Operations, as a spy in the Iranian Revolutionary Guard, counterterrorism expert; currently serves on the Task Force on National and Homeland Security, an advisory board authorized by Congress. He is the author of the award winning book "A Time to Betray" and regularly appears in national and international media as an expert on Iran and counterterrorism in the Middle East.

For the first time, Iran’s highest-ranking military official has tied the reappearance of the last Islamic messiah to the regime being prepared to go to a war based on ideology.
“With having the treasure of the Holy Defense, Valayat (Guardianship of the Jurist) and martyrs, we are ready for a big war,” Defense Minister Ahmad Vahidi said, according to Mashregh news, which is run by the Revolutionary Guards.

“Of course this confrontation has always continued; however, since we are in the era of The Coming, this war will be a significant war.”
Shi’ites believe that at the end of time great wars will take place, and Imam Mahdi, the Shi’ites’ 12th imam, will reappear and kill all the infidels, raising the flag of Islam in all corners of the world.
Vahidi became the Revolutionary Guards intelligence officer after the 1979 Islamic revolution and later was promoted to chief commander of the Quds Forces. He is on the Interpol most-wanted list for the Jewish community center bombing in Buenos Aires in 1994 that killed 85 and injured hundreds.
Vahidi also played a major role in the 1996 Khobar Tower bombing in Saudi Arabia that killed 19 U.S. servicemen.
Speaking at a mosque in remembrance of the martyrs who died in service to Iran, Vahidi stated that, “The Islamic republic is going to create a new environment on the world stage, and without a doubt victory awaits those who continue the path of martyrs. … we can defeat the enemy at its home and our nation is ready for jihad. Martyrdom has taught us to avoid wrong paths and return to the right path. Martyrdom is the right path, it’s the path to God.”
Vahidi said Iran’s enemies would have taken action in Syria in the past couple of years if they had the capability. Iran is a much more formidable power than Syria, he said, and concluded that Tehran can easily wipe out the “Zionist regime” of Israel.
Several U.S. officials, including Gen. Martin Dempsey, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, have called the officials of the Islamic regime “rational actors.”
Meanwhile, a Revolutionary Guards report quoting the head of the Guards’ public relations, Ramezan Sharif, revealed that Iran has military assets in several countries.
The presence of Quds Forces in Syria and Lebanon, Sharif said, is with the goal of supporting the Islamic nations and for the special situations that exist in those countries.
Sharif said Iranian presence is based on international laws and that, “Currently the Revolutionary Guards has presence in 15 countries, among them Syria and Lebanon, while the Iranian military also has presence in some other countries.”

As revealed recently, terrorist assets of the Islamic regime have been put on high alert for attacks on Israeli and U.S. interests. This extends from the Middle East to Africa, Latin America and the United States.
In a report Thursday in the Washington Times, Kevin L. Perkins, deputy director of the FBI, told a hearing of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee that the agency considered Iran’s assets a “serious threat.”
“Quds Forces, Hezbollah and others have shown they both have the capability and the willingness to extend beyond that (Middle East) region of the world and likely here into the homeland itself,” he testified.
Guard commanders have openly stated that they have recruited assets from Latin America and even some from European countries to avoid suspicion by intelligence agencies and will target America should it get involved militarily against Iran.

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US Sends Ships, Fighter Jets to Brace for Iran Threat

Tuesday, 03 Jul 2012 11:04 AM

By Jim Meyers

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The United States has quietly moved significant new military forces into the Persian Gulf to discourage an Iranian response to new sanctions imposed on the Islamic Republic.

The American moves are designed to deter Iran from any attempt to shut the Strait of Hormuz and to increase the United States’ ability to strike into Iran if necessary, The New York Times reports in a front-page story on Tuesday.

The increased American forces include minesweepers and stealth jets. And a Pentagon official warned that if Iran’s navy harasses American vessels, “We’ll put them on the bottom of the gulf.”

A European Union oil embargo meant to pressure Iran over its nuclear program came into effect on Sunday, and on Monday Iran announced it would consider legislation to disrupt marine traffic in the Strait of Hormuz.

The legislation calls for the Iranian military to block any oil tanker on its way to countries that no longer buy Iranian crude because of the embargo.

During Iran’s war with Iraq in the 1980s, Iran attacked tankers and other commercial traffic to disrupt Iraq’s oil shipments and threaten shipments from Arab states supporting Iraq. Iran also laid mines intended to disrupt traffic, and the United States launched mine-clearing operations and attacks on the Iranian Navy by American warships.

On Tuesday, Iran test-fired several ballistic missiles capable of striking American bases in the region as well as Israel. Iran claimed the surface-to-surface missiles hit their targets after travelling 800 miles, The Associated Press reported.

America’s Fifth Fleet is based in Bahrain, 120 miles from Iran, and Israel is about 600 miles away.

The U.S. Navy has now doubled the number of minesweepers assigned to the region, to eight.

“The message to Iran is, ‘Don’t even think about closing the strait,” the Pentagon official told The Times. “We’ll clear the mines. Don’t even think about sending your fast boats out to harass our vessels or commercial shipping. We’ll put them on the bottom of the gulf.”

The Pentagon has sent additional F-22 stealth warplanes and older F-15 aircraft to two bases in the Persian Gulf, and carrier strike groups are always on patrol in the region.

The Navy has also moved a converted amphibious transport and docking vessel, the Ponce, into the Persian Gulf. It would serve as a “logistics and operations hub for mine-clearing,” according to the Times, and has a medical suite, helicopter deck, and bunks for combat troops.

And while U.S. troops have been withdrawn from Iraq, the Pentagon still maintains a force equal to a combat brigade in Kuwait.

The West suspects Iran is seeking to build nuclear weapons, and the Islamic Republic has resisted all attempts to force it to give up enrichment of uranium.


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Obama allowed this madman to continue Nuclear Power which was not used for Peace in Iran. We should have let Israel bomb Iran and make them a sea of glass but Muslim Obama wanted to show how he handles his own people. Meaning how he handles the Infidels in America. Vote for Leah Lax donate at www.leahlax.com 

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Iran dares the west as it flaunts its nuke power: Oil prices touch six-month high of $120 a barrel on supply worries

By MAIL TODAY REPORTER

Last updated at 9:27 AM on 16th February 2012

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Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad speaks at a ceremony in Iran's nuclear enrichment facility in Natanz south of capital Tehran, in 2007

Aftershocks of the bomb explosions in New Delhi and Bangkok had barely subsided on Wednesday when Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad dropped another bombshell by showcasing the country's advancements in nuclear technology - a move seen as Tehran's determination to precipitate a confrontation with the West.

Iran's claim that it has achieved major advances in its programme to master production of nuclear fuel is being seen as a defiant move in response to increasingly tough Western sanctions over its controversial nuclear programme.

Showcasing its nuclear prowess, President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad unveiled on state television what was described as Iran's first domestically produced 20-percent enriched nuclear fuel for Tehran's research reactor.

He said 3,000 more centrifuges had been added to his country's uranium enrichment effort, and officials said new-generation, high-capacity centrifuges had been installed in Iran's Natanz facility.

All this was shown live on state owned English broadcaster Press TV to accentuate the effect.

Using a split screen to show the nuclear rod placement even as he was speaking, it sent shockwaves in the hearts and minds of the western world.

Crude oil prices were virtually talked up with this war mongering scenario, ending at a six month high of $120 per barrel.

Ahmadinejad also said that uranium exploration in Iran had been stepped up and a new yellowcake processing factory would be pre-launched next month. And he ordered Iran to build four more nuclear research reactors. The Iranian President then went on to attack the Western countries for their 'double talk'.

'These are the countries which are stocking nuclear piles but preaching to others against it,' he said.

Wednesday's event caused even more concern coming as it did alongside Iran's warning that it could cut oil sales to six EU countries in a further show of resistance to international pressure.

Workers are seen in what is described by Iranian state television as an enrichment control room at a facility in Natanz

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad watches from a control room as a rod with 20 per cent enriched nuclear fuel is loaded into the Tehran Research Reactor

N-TRIAL

• Construction of Iran's first nuclear power plant at Bushehr was started with German help in 1975. After 1979 Islamic revolution, the West cut N-cooperation with Iran. In 1995, Iran signed a contract with Russia to complete on Bushehr plant
• In August 2002, existence of a uranium enrichment facility in Natanz and a heavy water facility in Arak was 'exposed'
• In Nov 2003, IAEA chief Mohamed ElBaradei reported that Iran had failed to respect its promise to report nuclear material, its processing and use
• In July 2004, Iran removed seals placed by IAEA and resumes construction of centrifuges at Natanz
• On April 9, 2009, Iran inaugurated its first N-fuel plant, and says it has installed 7,000 uranium enrichment centrifuges at Natanz
• In Sept 2009, Iran revealed another enrichment facility at Fordow near Qom

The warning was in retaliation to an EU ban on Iranian oil imports that is being phased in as existing contracts expire up to July 1. 

In India, the developments were seen more as an exercise in building Iranian national resolve to stand up to economic sanctions.

At the same time, experts said, the move will result in further Western pressure on India to downgrade its diplomatic ties with Iran.

'President Ahmadinejad's speech was essentially aimed at domestic audience at a time when Iran is coming under more sanctions.

All it meant was that Iran is now able to make centrifuges domestically.

His speech and Iranian action was not aimed at showcasing Iranian nuclear weapons. Iranian stand was a sign that Tehran was ready to stand up to global pressure,' former foreign secretary Lalit Man Singh said.

'After Tehran's action today, the US is expected to bring more pressure on India on downgrading its ties with Iran. But we have so far taken a credible and commendable stand and we should continue with that,' he added.

According to former foreign secretary Kanwal Sibal, Iran's move is strategic and it should not lead to any change in India's policy.

'Iran's defiance is both political and technological. That Western sanctions will not deter Iran was made clear by Ahmadinejad. It was a stern message for the US and the West,' Sibal said.

He stressed that India should resist pressure to change the balance in its relationship with Iran.

'While the President's speech was aimed at domestic audience, it will bring more pressure on countries like India which wants to follow a balanced policy… India cannot support the Western ambition of a regime-change in Iran,' Sibal said.

 

'Any such change must be driven democratically by the Iranians themselves. Our ties with Iran are beyond this regime and long standing which are rooted in strategic sphere. 

'We should not change our policy, which is anyway limited, vis-à-vis Iran,' he added. Significantly, the chest-thumping by the Iranians was accompanied by China defending its bilateral 'economic interests' with Iran.

'China does not want to see Iran develop nuclear weapons but intends to pursue its legitimate economic interests despite Western sanctions on the Islamic republic,' an official said.

China also asserted that it was not in favour of unilateral sanctions against Iran. The Russians, at the same time, seemed a trifle worried.

'We are concerned that the distance that separates Iran from the hypothetical possession of technologies to create nuclear weapons is contracting,' Russian deputy foreign minister Sergei Ryabkov said.

Iran key to India's oil supply

The international community wants India to downgrade its ties with Iran because of its nuclear activities. 

The pressure has increased following the attack on an Israeli diplomat in New Delhi for which Israel has blamed Iran. But New Delhi continues to resist the pressure as Iran remains crucial to its oil supply scheme. 

That's why India has refused to blame 'any country' for the blast. 

'We have no evidence to suggest that any individual and country has carried out the attack,' a government official said, adding categorically stated that India would continue to have relations with Iran. 

'Our relationship with Iran is neither in contradiction with our nonproliferation objectives nor with our ties with the US.' 

The ambassador of Saudi Arabia, India's biggest oil supplier, has offered additional crude supplies in a move seen as an offer to help reduce India's dependence on Iran. 

He met S.M. Krishna on Wednesday. The two sides may have focused on additional oil supplies.

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/indiahome/indianews/article-2101691/Iran-dares-west-flaunts-nuke-power-Oil-prices-touch-month-high-120-barrel-supply-worries.html#ixzz1mZJgWdxR

'IRGC wargames to be conducted as scheduled'

'IRGC wargames to be conducted as scheduled'

1/21/2012 6:10:32 PM

The Islamic Revolution Guards Corps navy will conduct warganes in the Persian Gulf and Strait of Hormuz as scheduled, Acting Commander of IRGC Brigadier-General Hossein Salami said on Saturday.

IRGC Navy Commander Brigadier General Ali Fadavi had already announced that its forces will conduct wargames in the Persian Gulf and Strait of Hormuz in the Iranian month of Bahman January-February, IRNA reported.

Salami said presence of US troops is the root cause of disability in the region.

US navy is present in the Persian Gulf and the Middle East for long time and Washington's decision to dispatch warships is not new, he said.

West blamed by Iran

Translated to English
 A new innocent victim of secularist fundamentalism: Martyr of the Iranian nuclear program, Dr. Massoud Ali-Mohammadi. The rogue and thug regimes of US, Israel assassinate Iranian physicist to deny further progress of an independent nation, through the method they master the most: Terrorism.

Dr. Ali-Mohammadi, lecturer at Tehran University, was the first scientist to achieve a PhD in the Islamic Republic of Iran. He received multiple threats because of his support for the Islamic Revolution and efforts for the scientific development of Iran, but still carried on with his work.

Prepare to see how Western media trivializes the death of yet another innocent human being, whereas similar acts carried out by Iran against Western or Israeli scientist would have been an excuse for the beasts to drop dozens of nuclear bombs in an innocent nation.

Fellow Westerners refuse to understand they are dealing with a nation of people who take pride in martyrdom, against which they can't do anything.

West blamed by Iran as YET ANOTHER nuclear scientist is assassinated by magnetic car bomb in the street

• Mostafa Ahmadi Roshan was a director of Natanz uranium enrichment facility
• Fourth nuclear scientist killed in Iran in the past two years
• Nuclear plants in country have also experienced two 'mystery' explosions
• Tehran accuses Israel of assassinating chemistry expert to halt its nuclear programme
• Israeli military warns Iran to expect more 'unnatural events' in 2012

By David Williams
Last updated at 6:09 PM on 11th January 2012

Target: Mostafa Ahmadi-Roshan who was killed in Tehran today 

when two motorcyclists attached a magnetic bomb attached to a car

Iran has blamed the U.S. and Israel for the assassination of a university professor and scientist who played a key role in the country’s controversial nuclear weapons programme.
Two assassins on a motorcycle were said to attached a magnetic bomb to the car of Mostafa Ahmadi Roshan killing him and a passenger instantly as they sat in the Iranian-assembled Peugeot 405 in northern district of the capital Tehran.
A 32-year-old chemistry expert and director of the Natanz uranium enrichment facility in central Iran, Roshan was said to have been involved in the development of Tehran’s atomic programme.
The assassination had strong similarities to other executions in recent years of scientists linked to the programme and underlined the belief that a major covert operation is underway against it.
Iran has accused Israel’s Mossad, the CIA and Britain’s spy agencies of engaging in an underground “terrorism” campaign against nuclear-related targets, including at least three killings since early 2010 and the release of a malicious computer virus that temporarily disrupted controls of some centrifuges - a key component in nuclear fuel production.
All three countries have denied the Iranian accusations.
Yesterday Tehran pointed the finger at the US and Israel as being behind the latest ‘terrorist’ attack but promised it would not be a setback to the expanding nuclear programme.

More...

• RIGHTMINDS: Another mysterious death of an Iranian nuclear scientist raises the possibility of war in 2012, says MICHAEL BURLEIGH
• RIGHTMINDS: Is the Iranian regime finally starting to crack? Their sabre rattling is a sign of desperation, says MELANIE PHILLIPS

‘The bomb was a magnetic one and the same as the ones previously used for the assassination of the scientists, and the work of the Zionists (Israelis),’ Deputy Tehran Governor Safarali Baratloo was quoted as saying.

Assassinated: Chemistry expert Mostafa Ahmadi Roshan was killed after magnetic bombs were attached to his car in Tehran

Plot: Two people on a motorbike pulled alongside the vehicle before attaching the bomb and riding away

Target: Tehran has blamed Israel for the death of Mr Roshan, the director of the Natanz uranium enrichment facility in the centre of Iran

First Vice President Mohammad Reza Rahimi added that Israeli agents were behind the attack, but cannot ‘prevent progress’ in what Iran claims are peaceful nuclear efforts.
Israeli officials have hinted about covert campaigns against Iran without directly admitting involvement.
On Tuesday, Israeli military chief Lt. Gen. Benny Gantz told a parliamentary panel that 2012 would be a “critical year” for Iran - in part because of “things that happen to it unnaturally’.

Explosion: A cloth covers a blood stain on the road as onlookers watch police on Iran's state-run Al-Alam TV

Covert: A satellite image of a suspected uranium enrichment facility near Qom. The West has accused Iran of trying to develop nuclear weapons

Capability: A report by the International Atomic Energy Agency said Iran was likely attempting to develop weapons

Roshan, a graduate of the prestigious Sharif University of Technology in Tehran, was deputy director of commercial affairs for the Natanz uranium enrichment plant and in charge of purchasing and supplying equipment for the facility. Natanz is Iran’s main enrichment site.
The U.S. and its allies are pressuring Iran to halt uranium enrichment, a key element of the nuclear programme that the West suspects is aimed at producing atomic weapons.
Uranium enriched to low levels can be used as nuclear fuel but at higher levels, it can be used as material for a nuclear warhead.
Iran denies it is trying to make nuclear weapons, saying its programme is for peaceful purposes only.

Spate: Four scientists apparently involved in Iran's nuclear programme have been killed in the last two years

Defiant: Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad shakes hands with Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez and Nicaragua President Daniel Ortega at the latter's swearing in ceremony in Managua yesterday. Ahmadinejad has insisted his country's nuclear programme is purely for peaceful means

Since December, Iran has held or announced a series of war games that included threats to close the Gulf’s vital Strait of Hormuz - the passageway for about one-sixth of the world’s oil - in retaliation for stronger U.S.-led sanctions.
‘Assassinations, military threats and political pressures ... The enemy insists on the tactic of creating fear to stop Iran’s peaceful nuclear activities,’ lawmaker Javad Jahangirzadeh said after yesterday’s blast.
‘Instead of actually fighting a conventional war, Western powers and their allies appear to be relying on covert war tactics to try to delay and degrade Iran’s nuclear advancement,’ said Theodore Karasik, a security expert at the Dubai-based Institute for Near East and Gulf Military Analysis.
He said the use of magnetic bombs bears the hallmarks of covert operations.

Tensions: Type 45 Destroyer HMS Daring was sent to the Strait of Hormuz by the British Navy last week after Iran threatened to block it because of attacks on its nuclear programme

CIA spies captured in Iran and Lebanon

'I don't think we'll ever see them again:' More than a dozen CIA spies captured in Iran and Lebanon 'feared executed'

• It's a blow to U.S. attempts to track Iran and Hezbollah
• Officials warn of problems from sloppy CIA operations
• Others say it's unlikely any found CIA agents survived

By Mark Duell
Last updated at 3:35 PM on 21st November 2011

More than a dozen CIA spies have reportedly been caught in Iran and Lebanon and the U.S. government now fears they have been executed.
The spies were paid informants who were targeting Iran - which is feared to be producing nuclear weapons - and the Hezbollah group in Beirut.
Their discovery is a big hindrance to U.S. attempts to track Iran’s nuclear activities and discover if Hezbollah is plotting any attacks against Israel.

Capture: Hezbollah's longtime leader Sheik Hassan Nasrallah boasted in June he had rooted out at least two CIA spies who had infiltrated his group's ranks

‘Espionage is a risky business,’ a U.S. official told ABC News. ‘Many risks lead to wins but some result in occasional setbacks.’
Former senior CIA officer Robert Baer worked against Hezbollah in the 1980s and said the group will often execute those it believes to be spies.

More...

• 22 dead and thousands more injured as ‘heavy handed’ military regime cracks down on third day of protests in Cairo
• Lone wolf U.S. citizen foiled in pipe bomb terror plot to kill police officers and returning soldiers in New York City

‘If they were genuine spies, spying against Hezbollah, I don't think we'll ever see them again,’ Mr Baer told ABC News.
Other officials pointed out Hezbollah killed more Americans than any other terrorist organisation before the 9/11 attacks.
In 1983 more than 300 people - including 260 Americans - were killed in an attack on the U.S. embassy and Marine barracks in Beirut.

Past explosions: In 1983 more than 300 people - including 260 Americans - were killed in an attack on the U.S. embassy and Marine barracks in Beirut

CIA IN IRAN AND LEBANON

Hezbollah and Iran are among the CIA's toughest adversaries and have been improving their ability to hunt spies by relying on patience and guile to exploit holes.
The number of CIA agents in Iran and Lebanon countries is classified - but Iran claimed in May it arrested at least 30 people allegedly linked to a CIA-run spy network.
Hezbollah - backed by Iran - has built a professional counter-intelligence operation they proudly describe as the 'spy combat unit'.
But the U.S. has had no diplomatic presence in Iran for 30 years and this makes the CIA's job of finding out what is happening on the ground all the more important.

Some officials speaking to ABC News credited Iran and Hezbollah with their detection of spies, but others blamed sloppy CIA operations.
One case came when two Hezbollah agents pretended to work for the U.S. and the group found out where CIA officers were meeting with agents.
Two former officials told ABC News the CIA used the code-word ‘Pizza’ and the location was a Beirut Pizza Hut - but a current official denied this.
Hezbollah's longtime leader Sheik Hassan Nasrallah boasted in June he had rooted out at least two CIA spies who had infiltrated his group’s ranks.
The damage to the Lebanon spy network has been greater than usual and the crisis is the latest mishap involving CIA counterintelligence.

Spying: The discovery of the agents is a big hindrance to U.S. attempts to track the nuclear activities of Iran and its president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

Two years ago a suicide bomber posed as an informant and killed seven CIA employees and wounded six others in Afghanistan in December 2009.

'It all depends on who these guys were and what they have to say. Hezbollah has disappeared people before. Others they have kept around'
Matthew Levitt

The U.S. State Department last year described Hezbollah as ‘the most technically capable terrorist group in the world’.
Matthew Levitt, an intelligence expert and author at the Washington Institute for Near East Studies, said Hezbollah treats spies differently.
He said: ‘It all depends on who these guys were and what they have to say. Hezbollah has disappeared people before. Others they have kept around.’


Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2064286/CIA-spies-captured-Iran-Lebanon-Hezbollah-feared-executed.html#ixzz1eMHYqeWq

Washington Post is catching up with me. First on the WW3 Issue.

This video was just released on Washington Post online . This Video below was floating on YOUTUBE since September 23,2011. Meanwhile people are shouting Israel is going to start WW3 . Israel is going to do the job this Muslim President Obama wont do . That is to save the lives of millions of Americans and Europeans. If the Muslims want to kill themselves and their children in a nuclear blast they should do it to themselves , But the West loves their children. That life is worth saving. Muslims go kill your children while you wrap yourselves in your own hate. Blow yourselves up. But do it in your own land and in your own homes and Mosques.

Vote for Leah Lax in the Primary . Send donations to www.LeahLax.com. We need to protect Americans who live in the modern world not the world of suicide bombers.

Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said in September that Iran is talking to Russia about building additional nuclear power reactors. (Sept. 23, 2011)

IAEA says foreign expertise has brought Iran to threshold of nuclear capability

http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/iaea-says-foreign-expertise-has-brought-iran-to-threshold-of-nuclear-capability/2011/11/05/gIQAc6hjtM_story.html?icid=maing-grid10%7Chtmlws-main-bb%7Cdl5%7Csec1_lnk2%7C110484

By Joby Warrick, Published: November 6

Intelligence provided to U.N. nuclear officials shows that Iran’s government has mastered the critical steps needed to build a nuclear weapon, receiving assistance from foreign scientists to overcome key technical hurdles, according to Western diplomats and nuclear experts briefed on the findings.
Documents and other records provide new details on the role played by a former Soviet weapons scientist who allegedly tutored Iranians over several years on building high-precision detonators of the kind used to trigger a nuclear chain reaction, the officials and experts said. Crucial technology linked to experts in Pakistan and North Korea also helped propel Iran to the threshold of nuclear capability, they added.

The officials, citing secret intelligence provided over several years to the International Atomic Energy Agency, said the records reinforce concerns that Iran continued to conduct weapons-related research after 2003 — when, U.S. intelligence agencies believe, Iranian leaders halted such experiments in response to international and domestic pressures.
The U.N. nuclear watchdog is due to release a report this week laying out its findings on Iran’s efforts to obtain sensitive nuclear technology. Fears that Iran could quickly build an atomic bomb if it chooses to has fueled anti-Iran rhetoric and new threats of military strikes. Some U.S. arms-control groups have cautioned against what they fear could be an overreaction to the report, saying there is still time to persuade Iran to change its behavior.
Iranian officials expressed indifference about the report.
“Let them publish and see what happens,” said Iran’s foreign minister and former nuclear top official, Ali Akbar Salehi, the semiofficial Mehr News Agency reported Saturday.
Salehi said that the controversy over Iran’s nuclear program is “100 percent political” and that the IAEA is “under pressure from foreign powers.”
‘Never really stopped’
Although the IAEA has chided Iran for years to come clean about a number of apparently weapons-related scientific projects, the new disclosures fill out the contours of an apparent secret research program that was more ambitious, more organized and more successful than commonly suspected. Beginning early in the last decade and apparently resuming — though at a more measured pace — after a pause in 2003, Iranian scientists worked concurrently across multiple disciplines to obtain key skills needed to make and test a nuclear weapon that could fit inside the country’s long-range missiles, said David Albright, a former U.N. weapons inspector who has reviewed the intelligence files.
“The program never really stopped,” said Albright, president of the Washington-based Institute for Science and International Security. The institute performs widely respected independent analyses of nuclear programs in countries around the world, often drawing from IAEA data.
“After 2003, money was made available for research in areas that sure look like nuclear weapons work but were hidden within civilian institutions,” Albright said.

(AP) - In this April 8, 2008 file photo released by the Iranian President's Office, President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad visits the Natanz Uranium Enrichment Facility.

Obama should write a book called the Audacity of My Lies WW3 is going to happen.

Obama should write a book called the Audacity of My Lies. Mr Obama who had the opportunity 1 year ago to stop AhMADinejad and refused to do so. He didn't want to hurt the Muslims feelings. He treated Israel as though they were criminals because that was the cool thing to take the lying Muslims SOB side because he didn't want to hurt the Muslims feelings. Gave Muslims Homes worth $250.000 and up  in America , green cards, social security , welfare, food stamps . He took all this away from Americans who are living on the streets now homeless because he didn't want to hurt the Muslims feelings. 

Leah Lax cares for Americans and if it takes hurting the Muslims feelings by evicting them from these $250,000 and up homes and giving them to American Citizens who are in the streets and sending these immigrant back to Iran, Iraq, Syria , etc she will hurt the Muslims feelings. Social Security and the Welfare system were made for Americans not privileged Muslims.

Visit Leahlax.com and donate so she can stop Obama from hurting the American Citizens feelings.

Israel's Peres Warns Attack on Iran Getting 'Closer'

Sunday, 06 Nov 2011 12:31 PM

http://www.newsmax.com/Newsfront/Israel-Peres-Iran-attack/2011/11/06/id/417026?s=al&promo_code=D72E-1
Israeli President Shimon Peres warned on Sunday that an attack on Iran is becoming increasingly likely, days before a report by the UN's nuclear watchdog on Iran's nuclear programme is due.

"The possibility of a military attack against Iran is now closer to being applied than the application of a diplomatic option," Peres told the Israel Hayom daily.

"We must stay calm and resist pressure so that we can consider every alternative," he added.

"I don't think that any decision has already been made, but there is an impression that Iran is getting closer to nuclear weapons."

His comments came after he warned in an interview aired by Israel's privately-owned Channel Two television on Saturday that an attack on Iran was becoming "more and more likely."

"The intelligence services of the different countries that are keeping an eye on (Iran) are worried and putting pressure on their leaders to warn that Iran is ready to obtain the nuclear weapon," he said.

In France meanwhile, French Foreign Minister Alain Juppe warned that an attack on Iran would be disastrous.

"We have imposed sanctions that continue to expand, we can toughen them to put pressure on Iran," Juppe told Europe 1 radio.

"We will continue on this path because a military intervention could create a situation that completely destabilises the region," he said.

"Everything must be done to avoid the irreversible."

In recent days, speculation in Israel has grown about the possibility of a pre-emptive strike against Iranian nuclear facilities, with Haaretz newspaper reporting that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Defence Minister Ehud Barak were seeking cabinet support for an attack.

And the military last week carried out what Israeli media called a "ballistic missile" test, as well as a large-scale civil defence drill simulating the response to conventional and non-conventional missile attacks.

Officials said both events were long-planned, but they drove talk here about whether Israel is ramping up plans for an attack.

On Sunday, Haaretz reported that US officials had failed to secure a commitment from Israel that it would coordinate any attack plans with Washington.

Still, media reports suggested no final decision has been taken and that a report by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) nuclear watchdog on November 8 or 9 would have a "decisive effect" on decision-making.

Previous IAEA assessments have centred on Iran's efforts to produce fissile material -- uranium and plutonium -- that can be used for power generation and other peaceful uses, but also for the core of a nuclear warhead.

However the new update, which diplomats say will be circulated among envoys on Tuesday or Wednesday, will focus on Iran's alleged efforts to put the fissile material in a warhead and develop missiles to carry them to a target.

On Monday, Barak denied reports that he and Netanyahu had already decided to attack Iran over the opposition of military and intelligence chiefs.

But he said "situations could arise in the Middle East under which Israel must defend its vital interests independently, without having to rely on regional or other forces."

Haaretz said a majority of the 15 members of Israel's security cabinet were still against an attack on Iran, and a poll published by the newspaper found Israeli public opinion divided, with 41 percent in favour, 39 percent opposed and 20 percent undecided.

Israel has consistently warned all options remain on the table when it comes to Iran's nuclear programme, which the Jewish state and Western governments fear masks a drive for nuclear weapons.

Iran denies any such ambition and insists its nuclear programme is for power generation and medical purposes only.

In comments published on Sunday, Iranian Foreign Minister Ali Akbar Salehi accused the IAEA of "political" behaviour and said its report would be "baseless."

"I believe that these documents lack authenticity. But if they insist, they should go ahead and publish. Better to face danger once than be always in danger," several Iranian dailies quoted Salehi as saying.

"We have said repeatedly that their documents are baseless. For example one can counterfeit money, but it remains counterfeit. These documents are like that," Salehi said.

Iran nukes may spark war

• AFP
• November 07, 20114:34AM

http://www.news.com.au/world/report-may-see-hit-on-iran/story-e6frfkyi-1226187201291

Nuclear fears: A UN report to be released this week is expected to detail Iran's push into nuclear weapons, similar to this nuclear-capable missile in Pakistan. Picture: AP Source: AP

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A UNITED Nations report to be released this week will provide evidence of Iran's nuclear weapons push.

The report has led Israel to propose a pre-emptive strike against Iran with President Shimon Peres warning overnight that an attack on the country was becoming increasingly likely.

"The possibility of a military attack against Iran is now closer to being applied than the application of a diplomatic option," Mr Peres told the Israel Hayom daily.  "We must stay calm and resist pressure so that we can consider every alternative."

"I don't think that any decision has already been made, but there is an impression that Iran is getting closer to nuclear weapons," Mr Peres said.

Previous International Atomic Energy Agency assessments have centred on Iran's efforts to produce fissile material - uranium and plutonium - which can be put to peaceful uses like power generation, or be used to make a nuclear bomb.

But the intelligence update, which diplomats say will be circulated among IAEA members tomorrow or Wednesday, will focus on Iran's alleged efforts towards putting radioactive material in a warhead and developing missiles.

"The report is not going to include some sort of 'smoking gun'," one Western diplomat told AFP. "But it will be an extensive body of evidence that will be very hard for Iran to refute as forgery, as they have done in the past."

Iranian officials have already seen the Vienna-based IAEA's information, diplomats told AFP, and Foreign Minister Ali Akbar Salehi said in comments published in Iran overnight that it was based on "counterfeit" claims.

IAEA head Yukiya Amano said in September's report he was "increasingly concerned" about the "possible military dimension" of Iran's atomic activities, including those "related to the development of a nuclear payload for a missile."

In May the agency listed seven areas of concern such as equipment and instrumentation for testing explosives over long distances, possibly underground, and "modelling studies" on arming a Shahab-3 missile with a nuclear payload.

The new intelligence, expected in an annex of the main Iran report, will include satellite imagery of a suspected nuclear installation at the Parchin military site 30 kilometres from Tehran, diplomats said.

According to analysts, Tehran has a fleet of ballistic missiles under development, the most capable of which has a range long enough to reach US bases in the Middle East, and Israel, fired from deep within Iran.

Western envoys hope the new IAEA report will help convince other countries to pile more pressure on the Islamic republic, which has been hit with four rounds of sanctions by the UN Security Council.

But Russia and China are unconvinced on the need for more action, diplomats say, with Moscow even going so far as to call openly on the IAEA not to release the report, saying it "may hinder the start of serious negotiations."

It is therefore unclear what resolution, if any, the IAEA's 35-nation board will adopt when it meets on November 17-18, with options including referral to the Security Council or setting Iran a new deadline.

"Would it be worth it to again divide the board on this issue, and also divide the E3+3?," asked Oliver Thraenert of the German Institute for International and Security Affairs, meaning the Security Council permanent members and Germany.

"To me that would not make much sense, although much will depend on the exact language of the report," he told AFP.

In either case, the release of the IAEA report comes at a time of growing speculation that Israel might launch a military strike in an attempt to knock out its arch-foe's nuclear activities.

Israeli daily Haaretz reported last week that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was seeking cabinet backing for a military strike, and that the new UN watchdog report would have a "decisive" influence.

In June 1981, Israeli planes bombed and destroyed an uncompleted French nuclear reactor in Iraq, and in 2007 it destroyed a suspected covert nuclear reactor in the Syrian desert.

Washington, whose relations with Tehran soured further last month over an alleged plot to kill the Saudi ambassador to the United States, has said that while the focus is on a diplomatic solution, all options are still on the table.

French Foreign Minister Alain Juppe said Sunday that sanctions should be toughened and that "everything must be done" to avoid a military conflict.

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