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A Warning on Iran -Editorial
According to Director of National Intelligence James Clapper, not only is Iran prepared to use terrorism in retaliation for any military strikes against it, they're also prepared to get their retaliation in first. "There is more to unfold here," he said. "They're trying to penetrate and engage in this hemisphere."
If the regime is prepared to stage terrorist strikes in America when they don't have a bomb, what will they be capable of when they do have one?
(Wall Street Journal)
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IMPORTANT UPDATE:
Iran was working on US-range missile -Yaakov Katz
Iran was working on developing a missile with 10,000 km range that would put America in reach of a potential Iranian attack, Strategic Affairs Minister and Deputy Prime Minister Moshe Ya'alon said.
According to Ya'alon, the missile was based on a solid fuel propellant and would have been able to significantly increase Iran's offensive capabilities. Last month, a mysterious explosion rocked an Iranian missile base near Tehran where Iran was working on developing this long range missile.
According to the deputy prime minister, who was in the United States last week for talks on Iran with senior officials from the Obama administration, Turkey was helping Iran circumvent the sanctions by allowing it to use its banking system.
Ya'alon also said that Iran and Hezbollah were working with drug cartels in Mexico to learn how to smuggle materials into the US, a conduit that could one day be used to smuggle weapons into the country.
Ya'alon said that the West still does not fully understand the severity of the nuclear threat posed by Iran. "America is the larger Satan," he said.
[Jerusalem Post]
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4 comments:
I think the West fully understand the threat. I think what is misunderstood is how the world works. Israel can get away with certain attacks while the US gives bluster and cover in the UN but the world has changed. China and Russia are nearing the hostile rhetoric of the cold war days and as the Iraq and Afghanistan wars showed, it is not always possible to trust intelligence or to achieve what you need to do militarily. Many avenues must be explored. The pages are not written yet, even if they appear to be going in a certain way....
The world has indeed changed, but one thing that has yet to change is the nature of evil. Like a certain German equivalent in the 1930's, Iran's mullahs may have to be tamed before it becomes the 1940's again.
Bruce
The allusion to WWII may be apt. With the nations taking sides it might indeed involve a World War to sort this out and that would be a terrible tragedy. We would have been wise to have looked at the bigger picture, invaded only Afghanistan and properly finished that job, then moved into Iran if they were even able to assert themselves this much with a strong Iraq and Hussein left in power to keep them in check. But that is not how things went an I fear the days when that was possible are gone. In the world today I think it is going to be economic and political will that wins the day, or Iran will get to the point when their intentions are clear, their lies obvious, their danger to the world unequivocal and the West will act--and pray that Russia and China have the good sense to not start a world war to support a war mongering nuclear Iran.
It is quite possible to put together a coalition of Sunni Arab states, EU, etc. That is an opportunity that i hope the White House will avail itself of.
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