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Iran Begs Israel to Attack and Be Buried
A bluff or a threat? A top Iranian commander begs Israel to attack so Iran can throw the “enemy’ into the “trash can of history.”
By Tzvi Ben Gedalyahu
First Publish: 11/21/2011, 6:50 PM
'Bunker Buster' bombs'
Israel news photo: Wikimedia Commons
A top Iranian Guards commander has begged Israel to stage an attack so Iran will be justified to throw the “enemy’ into the “trash can of history.”
Revolutionary Guards Aerospace Force Commander Brigadier General Ali Hajizadeh told the Iranian FarsNews Agency, "One of our big wishes is that they take this action because it is now a long time that we have piled up a huge potential energy and we are eager to spend it and throw the enemies of Islam and Muslims to thetrash can of the history."
His comments are part of a continuing and escalating psychological war of words between Iran and Israel and several American officials.
Iran has continually mocked Israel for allegedly bluffing with threats to attack Iran in order to delay or step the Islamic Republic from manufacturing a nuclear weapon.
Ian’s constant militant verbal response is thought by some to be bluff because of doubts whether it has all of the military power it claims.
Nevertheless, the Guards Politburo chief stated, "If the Zionist regime commits such a mistake [of attacking], it would mean that it has entered the final days of its existence since the Islamic Republic of Iran is a powerful and strong country which can defend its territorial integrity and interests across the globe, specially in the Middle-East.”
President Shimon Peres, who almost always appeals for dialogue and not weapons, said earlier this month that an attack on Iran was becoming "increasingly more likely.”
While France has warned Israel not to exercise the “military option,” an increasing number of American officials are reaching the conclusions that it is too late for tougher economic sanctions to stop Iran’s nuclear program.
John Bolton, former U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, said more than two years ago that Israel should take the initiative and attack Iran because sanctions and diplomatic “engagement” would not work.
Revolutionary Guards Aerospace Force Commander Brigadier General Ali Hajizadeh told the Iranian FarsNews Agency, "One of our big wishes is that they take this action because it is now a long time that we have piled up a huge potential energy and we are eager to spend it and throw the enemies of Islam and Muslims to thetrash can of the history."
His comments are part of a continuing and escalating psychological war of words between Iran and Israel and several American officials.
Iran has continually mocked Israel for allegedly bluffing with threats to attack Iran in order to delay or step the Islamic Republic from manufacturing a nuclear weapon.
Ian’s constant militant verbal response is thought by some to be bluff because of doubts whether it has all of the military power it claims.
Nevertheless, the Guards Politburo chief stated, "If the Zionist regime commits such a mistake [of attacking], it would mean that it has entered the final days of its existence since the Islamic Republic of Iran is a powerful and strong country which can defend its territorial integrity and interests across the globe, specially in the Middle-East.”
President Shimon Peres, who almost always appeals for dialogue and not weapons, said earlier this month that an attack on Iran was becoming "increasingly more likely.”
While France has warned Israel not to exercise the “military option,” an increasing number of American officials are reaching the conclusions that it is too late for tougher economic sanctions to stop Iran’s nuclear program.
John Bolton, former U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, said more than two years ago that Israel should take the initiative and attack Iran because sanctions and diplomatic “engagement” would not work.
Iran Whitewashing Nuclear Test Site
Iran is trying to cover its tracks at a nuclear testing site by removing traces of nuclear research, sources told Associated Press.
By Tzvi Ben Gedalyahu
First Publish: 11/21/2011, 3:17 PM
Bushehr nuclear power plant
Arutz Sheva: archive
Iran is trying to cover its tracks at a nuclear testing site by removing traces of nuclear research, sources told the Associated Press.
The source from an unnamed country said intelligence officials noticed through satellite pictures that there had been an unusual amount of activity at the site, with the movement of a large number of vehicles.
“Freight trucks, special haulagevehicles and cranes were seen entering and leaving... Some equipment and dangerous materials were removed from the site," the source told AP.
The activity was confirmed by sources in two other countries, whose officials did not reach the same conclusion that Tehran is trying to hide nuclear weapons research. All three countries noting the unusual activity are members of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), which declined to comment on the latest allegations.
The site at the large Parchin complex is suspected of being home to a large metal structure referred to earlier this month in an IAEA report as being used for explosive tests. The same site is used for research, development, and production of ammunition, missiles, and high explosives
The IAEA concluded in its report on November 8 that the steel chamber referred to in the new disclosure was designed for manufacturing an atomic bomb.
Iran’s postponements of IAEA attempts to visit the site have given the Islamic Republic time to try to sanitize the complex and cover its tracks, as it has allegedly done at previous nuclear facilities. One example was a nuclear site that was turned into a park before IAEA officials were able to visit for an inspection.
Iran is being coy in its response – or lack of it – to the request by the United Nations to send a mission to assess whether its scientists are building an atomic weapon or not.
Although the U.N. International Atomic Energy Agency sent its letter of request to Tehran on November 2, the Iranian government has yet to respond.
The head of the IAEA, Yukio Amano, reiterated his request on Thursday in an address delivered at the opening of the meeting of the agency's board of governors. The board approved a resolution calling on Iran to address concerns about the military dimensions of its nuclear development activities.
“The visit was supposed to take place before the board meeting, and therefore the request by the IAEA general director to dispatch the inspection team should first be examined again by Tehran,” Ali Asghar Soltanieh said on Saturday in a statement to the ISNA news agency.
Soltanieh's coy response made it clear that Tehran was continuing to play for more time, however -- just as the evidence detailed in the November 8 IAEAreport presented at the gathering made it equally clear that time for an intervention to block further development of a nuclear weapon by Iran is rapidly running out.
The source from an unnamed country said intelligence officials noticed through satellite pictures that there had been an unusual amount of activity at the site, with the movement of a large number of vehicles.
“Freight trucks, special haulagevehicles and cranes were seen entering and leaving... Some equipment and dangerous materials were removed from the site," the source told AP.
The activity was confirmed by sources in two other countries, whose officials did not reach the same conclusion that Tehran is trying to hide nuclear weapons research. All three countries noting the unusual activity are members of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), which declined to comment on the latest allegations.
The site at the large Parchin complex is suspected of being home to a large metal structure referred to earlier this month in an IAEA report as being used for explosive tests. The same site is used for research, development, and production of ammunition, missiles, and high explosives
The IAEA concluded in its report on November 8 that the steel chamber referred to in the new disclosure was designed for manufacturing an atomic bomb.
Iran’s postponements of IAEA attempts to visit the site have given the Islamic Republic time to try to sanitize the complex and cover its tracks, as it has allegedly done at previous nuclear facilities. One example was a nuclear site that was turned into a park before IAEA officials were able to visit for an inspection.
Iran Coy with IAEA on Request for Fact-Finding Mission
Iran is being coy in its response to the UN request to send a mission to assess whether its scientists are building an atomic weapon or not.
By Chana Ya'ar
First Publish: 11/20/2011, 5:13 PM
Qoms Nuclear Site
NASA
Iran is being coy in its response – or lack of it – to the request by the United Nations to send a mission to assess whether its scientists are building an atomic weapon or not.
Although the U.N. International Atomic Energy Agency sent its letter of request to Tehran on November 2, the Iranian government has yet to respond.
The head of the IAEA, Yukio Amano, reiterated his request on Thursday in an address delivered at the opening of the meeting of the agency's board of governors. The board approved a resolution calling on Iran to address concerns about the military dimensions of its nuclear development activities.
“The visit was supposed to take place before the board meeting, and therefore the request by the IAEA general director to dispatch the inspection team should first be examined again by Tehran,” Ali Asghar Soltanieh said on Saturday in a statement to the ISNA news agency.
Soltanieh's coy response made it clear that Tehran was continuing to play for more time, however -- just as the evidence detailed in the November 8 IAEAreport presented at the gathering made it equally clear that time for an intervention to block further development of a nuclear weapon by Iran is rapidly running out.
Iran Says It's 'Ready to Cooperate' ... 'If'.... 'And'...
Iran says it's "ready to cooperate" with the UN "more than ever" -- but as usual, officials used cagey language in the message.
By Chana Ya'ar
First Publish: 11/21/2011, 9:47 AM
Radioactive
Wikimedia Commons
Iran says it is “ready to cooperate” with the United Nations “more than ever,” but as usual, its officials used cagey language.
Iranian Foreign Minister Ali Akbar Salehi issued a statement Sunday saying the Islamic Republic is ready to cooperate “further” with the United Nations International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA).
“We are prepared to cooperate with the agency more than ever, if the agency balances its approach and complies with its statues and the safeguard agreements,” Salehi said, according to the ISNA news agency.
“If that is the case, we are prepared to cooperate much the same as before and even further with the agency,” he added.
The statement came after the IAEA board of governors approved a resolution Friday that said it was “essential for Iran and the Agency to intensity their dialogue.” The resolution pointedly called on Iran to “comply fully and without delay with its obligations under relevant resolutions of the U.N. Security Council.”
IAEA head Yukiya Amano noted that although he had sent a letter to Tehran on November 2 requesting Iran's cooperation in allowing an agency mission to visit nuclear sites in the country to determine whether, in fact, the country is engaged in building atomic weapons, there had been no response.
In his address to the agency's board of governors on Thursday, Amano called on Tehran to “clarify the issues” detailed in the IAEA report and to “engage substantively with the agency without delay.”
The United Nations is hoping Iran will allow a high-level mission to inspect the country's nuclear sites.
The head of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), Yukiya Amano said Thursday he wrote a letter on November 2 proposing an inspection team visit Tehran.
“I wrote to Iran's vice-president and president of the country's Atomic Energy Organization, Dr. [Kausar] Abbasi... proposing to send a high-level team to Iran,” Amano revealed Thursday in an address at the start of a two-meeting of the IAEA's board of governors.
“I hope a suitable date can be agreed upon soon. It is essential that any such mission should be well planned and that it should address the issues contained in my report,” he continued.
“I ask Iran to engage substantively with the agency without delay and provide the requested clarifications regarding possible military dimensions to its nuclearprogram.
“I remain willing to engage in dialogue with Iran,” he added.
In its latest report, the IAEA said last week that it was able to build an overall “credible” impression that Iranian scientists were engaged in carrying out “activities relevant to the development of a nuclear explosive device.”
Iran has dismissed the report as “baseless.”
The report included detailed evidence such as the transfer underground of low-enriched uranium in large containers, a bus-sized steel container visible by satellitefor explosives testing and weapons design work – including how to arm a Shahab-3 missile with a nuclear warhead.
The Shahab-3 has a range long enough to reach the State of Israel, which Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has for years threatened to “wipe off the map.”
Iranian Foreign Minister Ali Akbar Salehi issued a statement Sunday saying the Islamic Republic is ready to cooperate “further” with the United Nations International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA).
“We are prepared to cooperate with the agency more than ever, if the agency balances its approach and complies with its statues and the safeguard agreements,” Salehi said, according to the ISNA news agency.
“If that is the case, we are prepared to cooperate much the same as before and even further with the agency,” he added.
The statement came after the IAEA board of governors approved a resolution Friday that said it was “essential for Iran and the Agency to intensity their dialogue.” The resolution pointedly called on Iran to “comply fully and without delay with its obligations under relevant resolutions of the U.N. Security Council.”
IAEA head Yukiya Amano noted that although he had sent a letter to Tehran on November 2 requesting Iran's cooperation in allowing an agency mission to visit nuclear sites in the country to determine whether, in fact, the country is engaged in building atomic weapons, there had been no response.
In his address to the agency's board of governors on Thursday, Amano called on Tehran to “clarify the issues” detailed in the IAEA report and to “engage substantively with the agency without delay.”
IAEA Hopes for Mission to Tehran
The United Nations is hoping Iran will allow a high-level mission to inspect the country's nuclear sites.
By Chana Ya'ar
First Publish: 11/17/2011, 2:24 PM
Qoms Nuclear Site
Israel news photo: NASA
The United Nations is hoping Iran will allow a high-level mission to inspect the country's nuclear sites.
The head of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), Yukiya Amano said Thursday he wrote a letter on November 2 proposing an inspection team visit Tehran.
“I wrote to Iran's vice-president and president of the country's Atomic Energy Organization, Dr. [Kausar] Abbasi... proposing to send a high-level team to Iran,” Amano revealed Thursday in an address at the start of a two-meeting of the IAEA's board of governors.
“I hope a suitable date can be agreed upon soon. It is essential that any such mission should be well planned and that it should address the issues contained in my report,” he continued.
“I ask Iran to engage substantively with the agency without delay and provide the requested clarifications regarding possible military dimensions to its nuclearprogram.
“I remain willing to engage in dialogue with Iran,” he added.
In its latest report, the IAEA said last week that it was able to build an overall “credible” impression that Iranian scientists were engaged in carrying out “activities relevant to the development of a nuclear explosive device.”
Iran has dismissed the report as “baseless.”
The report included detailed evidence such as the transfer underground of low-enriched uranium in large containers, a bus-sized steel container visible by satellitefor explosives testing and weapons design work – including how to arm a Shahab-3 missile with a nuclear warhead.
The Shahab-3 has a range long enough to reach the State of Israel, which Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has for years threatened to “wipe off the map.”
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