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Washington warns Delhi over UN vote on Iran
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All possible methods to get Iran to the UN Secruity Consoul are being used. Once it is refered the green light is open to begin preperations for war. Just like Iraq.
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Washington on Wednesday raised the stakes in the confrontation over Iran when it warned India that Delhi’s own nuclear deal with the US could be ditched if the Indian government did not vote to refer Tehran to the United Nations Security Council.
The US’s tough new move came amid increasing signs that Iran’s efforts to delay referral to New York may be gaining ground. On Wednesday, Kofi Annan, United Nations secretary-general, expressed doubts that the UN’s nuclear watchdog would be able to take such a step next week, as the US and the European Union intend. Meanwhile, Russia and Iran emphasised their “fast-growing” ties with each other.
In comments reported by the Press Trust of India news agency, David Mulford, US ambassador to India, said that if India decided not to vote against Iran, the US-India deal on nuclear energy co-operation would “die”. He added: “The effect on members of the US Congress with regard to the civil nuclear initiative will be devastating.”
The US State Department later clarified the ambassador’s remarks, saying he was expressing his analysis of how Congress might react to Indian opposition. Asked for the official US position, he said Washington hoped India would vote in favour of referral as it had done before.
At the last vote at the International Atomic Energy Agency in September, India caused a domestic uproar when it supported a softer resolution against Iran just months after reaching its landmark deal with the US. On Wednesday, India said it “categorically” rejected any link between its own deal, intended to alleviate its chronic energy shortage, and the vote on Iran.
Mr Annan indicated it would be difficult to refer Iran to the Security Council next week, since a wide-ranging IAEA report on Iran’s recent behaviour would be ready only for the following meeting, in early March. “I am not sure that they will be ready to refer [Iran] to the Security Council if the official report of the board has not been released,” he told Reuters.
John Bolton, US ambassador to the UN, responded to Mr Annan’s intervention by saying it was up to the governments to decide, not the secretary-general.
Meanwhile, the joint Russian-Iranian statement that followed a Moscow visit by Ali Larijani, Tehran’s chief nuclear negotiator, indicates that Russia’s position may, if anything, be hardening against swift referral to the Security Council.
The current phase in the dispute is set to climax at the February 2-3 meeting of the 35-country board of the IAEA in Vienna. Foreign ministers from the US, Russia, China and the EU will meet at the margins of a conference in London next week.
Soon afterwards, the EU and the US have to decide whether they will insist on a speedy referral to the UN, as has been their plan since Iran announced its intention to restart nuclear enrichment – the process that can produce nuclear weapons material. They know if they delay again, after having previously scaled back plans for a referral in September and November, it could be seen as a sign of weakness.
But they also know that there are likely to be four votes against them on the IAEA board – Venezuela, Cuba, Syria and Belarus – and that there is more scope for winning over waverers, if, as Mr Annan suggests, they delay a definitive UN referral to a meeting in March.
Already, a draft EU declaration, scheduled for next week, speaks of Europe’s desire to “involve the Security Council” rather than pushing for a Security Council resolution straight away.
On Wednesday, a western diplomat in Vienna suggested “some kind of possible Security Council involvement” could take the form of the UN body issuing a statement that it was “watching and waiting for the results of [Mohamed] ElBaradei’s March 6 report”.
A delay would allow more time for Iranian-Russian negotiations, the main international attempt to broker a deal, and for Mr ElBaradei, IAEA director-general, to report on whether Iran has increased co-operation.
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The Carlye Group is now in complete control of the US nuclear weapons R&R.This would be Big Bucks for the dead presidents club,did I say dead,I mean the retired Presidential PERS Club.And old cabinet buddies as well as former Prime Ministers of bootlicking nations from around the world,ones that will bow down and kiss Poppys ring along with other parts of the body. Inside the national weapons laboratories in Livermore and Los Alamos, N.M., scientists are working on a project called the Reliable Replacement Warhead. Congress initiated the program in 2005 to "improve the reliability, longevity and certifiability of existing weapons and their components." This innocuous-sounding undertaking, however, could significantly damage our national security.
The Department of Energy's National Nuclear Security Administration and the weapons labs want to grow RRW into a multibillion-dollar effort to redesign and replace every nuclear weapon in the U.S. arsenal. But an expansive RRW program would significantly damage U.S. national security, because the international uproar over our country's development of new nuclear weapons would severely disrupt global cooperation in nonproliferation and consequently diminish pressure on Iran and North Korea to forgo their weapons programs and thwart efforts to stop clandestine trafficking in nuclear materials and equipment.
The Department of Defense will likely demand that any replacement warhead undergo nuclear explosive tests before it is accepted into the stockpile. If the United States were to conduct even a single nuclear weapons test, other nations would surely follow suit, which could lead to a new arms race. The damage this would impart to the broad nonproliferation regime far exceeds any conceivable U.S. advantage from new nuclear weapons.
A wide chasm exists between the RRW program the weapons labs are planning and what Congress believes it is funding. Last April, NNSA Administrator Linton Brooks told the Senate Armed Services Committee that we need new nuclear weapons because, "The Cold War legacy stockpile may be the wrong stockpile from a military perspective." Brooks believes that current explosive yields are too high, our systems are not capable against deeply buried targets, and they are unsuited to defeat biological and chemical munitions.
Nevertheless, Congress opposes building new types of nuclear weapons. It recently stipulated that weapons design work under the RRW program stay within the military requirements of the existing stockpile and that any new weapon design stay within parameters validated by past nuclear tests. This limited version of the RRW is a slippery slope, however, and will be impossible to enforce. If the weapons labs are given approval to design any new warhead, they will be the ones to determine if specific modifications meet the funding restrictions. Over time, NNSA and the weapons labs will undoubtedly skirt congressional restrictions and will add new capabilities to nuclear weapons. The weapons labs are more interested in job security than national security. Congress will simply not be able to control the RRW program.
There is no need for any RRW program. The existing nuclear stockpile is extremely capable. It has considerable flexibility for responding to new security demands should they arise. The stockpile includes at least two warhead types for each of four kinds of delivery vehicle -- land-based ballistic missiles; submarine-based ballistic missiles; aircraft; and cruise missiles. Explosive yields vary from 0.3 kilotons to 1,200 kilotons. U.S. nuclear warheads can explode at various heights above the ground, on impact with the ground, with a delay after ground impact, and even after penetrating several feet into the ground to attack bunkers. Neither the Defense Department nor NNSA has identified any capability it is even thinking of adding to the existing stockpile, except for an improved earth-penetrating warhead, which Congress has already emphatically rejected.
Existing U.S. nuclear weapons are extremely safe, secure and reliable. For the past nine years, the secretaries of Energy and Defense have been required to jointly certify to the president whether U.S. nuclear weapons are safe and reliable. They have done so in the affirmative every year. Designing and building new nuclear warheads without testing them is risky. As Hoover Institution fellow Sidney Drell and former U.S. Ambassador James E. Goodby stated in their 2005 report for the Arms Control Association, "What are Nuclear Weapons For? Recommendations for Restructuring U.S. Strategic Nuclear Forces": "It takes an extraordinary flight of imagination to postulate a modern new arsenal composed of such untested designs that would be more reliable, safe and effective than the current U.S. arsenal based on more than 1,000 tests since 1945."
The expansive RRW program envisioned by the weapons labs would be disastrous for U.S. nonproliferation objectives. Congress thinks it can allow the labs to develop new designs, but limit the scope of the program. History shows that not to be the case. Congress should eliminate all funding for the RRW and cancel the program before it results in new weapons development and diminishes our security.
Robert Civiak is a physicist and consultant who authored a new report on the Reliable Replacement Warhead for the nonprofit Tri-Valley CAREs, or Communities Against a Radioactive Environment. The report can be found at www.trivalleycares.org.
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http://www.rense.com/general69/hit.htm Booga...Booga.....
Signposts Lead To
Imminent Nuclear Attack
Intel Army Capt. Eric May Issues 'Red Alert'
For Next 9 Days For Texas City-Houston Area
By Greg Szymanski
1-26-6
Capt. May claims to have broken the Illuminati and Bush Cabal's "embedded code" in an effort to beat the neocons at their own nasty game. Capt. May may have thwarted one attempted nuclear attack last July, but says the Bush Cabal is coming back again for a second try.
The January air is again filled with rumblings about an imminent nuclear attack on American soil, as ominous signs are popping up all over the place indicating the "dropping of the real potato" is right around the corner.
Sources inside the military and close to the action this week warned areas of "nuclear concern" within the next 10 to 90 days include Texas City, Tex., the Houston metro area, Charleston, S.C., Los Angeles, Ca., and Kansas City, Ka.
"I am worried," said Jon Watkins of Texas City. "My family is right in the middle of it. I have asked two police officers to keep an eye out for any suspicious activity during the next 10 days.
"I also am sending a copy to the FBI of the interview I heard today on Greg Szymanski's, Investigative Journal, where his guest, Army Capt. Eric May, presented compelling evidence that a nuclear attack, created by the Bush Cabal, could very well take place on or near Jan. 31, 2006, right here in Texas City."
And From east coast to west, people like Watkins from all walks of life, including military and civilian, are coming forward with stories about "an impending disaster," most of them linking the insidious Bush Cabal pushing the "nuke buttons," not the fictitious and Illuminati-created Al Qaeda terrorists.
For the rest of the story, go to www.arcticbeacon.com
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http://www.rense.com/general69/disas.htm This is all a prelude to the coming nuclear attack on Iran.
Houston PD Running
Nuclear Disaster Drills
As Build-Up Of Numerous Law Enforcement
Agencies Seen In Nearby Texas City
By Greg Szymanski
1-26-6
Sources inside the Houston Police Department (HPD) have confirmed officers in recent weeks have been taking part in nuclear disaster drills, adding more fuel to the fire that the city is being targeted by the "enemies within" the Bush administration for a nuclear attack.
"In the last week I have multi-checked with sources of mine in the Houston Police Department and confirmed that HPD has been running nuclear disaster drills," said former Army Intel Capt. Eric May, who is trying to alert Americans of a possible nuclear strike in the upcoming days, possibly to take place in the Texas City or Houston metro area.
"Accordingly, I've been calling my personal contacts, among them HPD CID Sergeant John Karshner and HPD Internal Affairs Lt. Felix Garcia, to let them know that the set-up is on."
Capt. May, who once backed the government's position while serving his country, became disillusioned after 911, saying facts surfaced making it "crystal clear" the enemy wasn't Al Qaeda but an "enemy within," or the Bush-New World Order Cabal.
Since realizing 911 was an inside government job, Capt. May has used every ounce of his military training, energy and intelligence to try and stop the Bush administration and what he calls its "phony war on terror." His info-war on terror can be better understood by a Google search of Ghost Troop Bibliography, taken from the name of his cyber-unit called Ghost Troop.
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Israeli Spooks Busted In
Deal To Steal German Passports
By Christopher Bollyn
American Free Press
1-25-6
MUNICH, Germany -- Sixty years after the end of the war, Germany remains an occupied nation-both physically and spiritually. While the physical presence of the foreign military occu-pation is seen only in those places where the occupa-tion forces have bases, the evidence of the spiritual and intellectual occupation is everywhere. Just as in the United States, it is only the alternative and smaller press that tackles the most provocative reporting.
The daily Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger recently reported that Germany's intelligence agency, the BND, has issued German passports for Israeli Mossad agents car-rying out covert operations in places like Iran, where German citizens raise little suspicion. While Israelis are not permitted to enter the country, many Germans travel to Iran, one of Germany's major trading part-ners.
Mossad is reportedly using German passports, issued in the name of unaware German citizens, for covert missions in Iran including targeting future mil-itary air strikes.
As part of a long history of cooperation between the intelligence agencies of Israel and Germany, the German intelligence service reportedly provided the passports of its own will, in contrast to previous incidents where Mossad agents tried to obtain passports illegally and without the authorization of the countries involved, such as New Zealand.
Reacting to the news report, an unidentified BND spokes-man said, "Of course we have co-operation with Mossad. But we are not commenting on what kind of documents were for-warded."
The number of issued German passports for Mossad oper-atives has reportedly increased dramatically since Sept. 11, 2001.
Andreas von Bülow, former member of Germany's parlia-mentary control commission, which oversees the secret serv-ices, told AFP that he does not believe the passports had been issued by the BND, but that they had been stolen by Mossad.
"I can't imagine that the BND is doing this," he said. "It would be stupid."
When he first heard that Israeli agents had tried to steal the identities of handicapped and institutionalized patients in New Zealand, he said that Germany should investigate to determine if such identification theft was occurring among Germans.
He told AFP that this "clever scheme" to steal the identities of people, who will never leave Germany, is probably behind the Israeli use of fraudulent German passports.
However, just like in the United States, important report-ing such as this seldom makes it into the mainstream.
Evidence of the occupying powers' strategy of mind-control is easily found in the daily propaganda sheet called Bild, Germany's most widely read tabloid. The semi-pornographic Bild is forced onto Germans across the country.
Bild recently called Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, the outspo-ken Iranian president, "the most dangerous man in the world." Bild's anti-Iranian machine is now in high gear. On Jan. 18 the paper said the "madman" Ahmadinejad is as dan-gerous as Adolf Hitler.
A written request to the editorial staff of Bild asking about its anti-Iranian fear-mongering has gone unanswered.
Iran had agreed to suspend uranium enrichment research under the "voluntary deal" agreed to with the foreign ministers of Britain, France and Germany. The so-called Euro-3 had negotiated with Iran in an attempt to get it to abandon its uranium enrichment program, which it has a legal right to continue.
The Euro-3 all have extensive nuclear research programs. These operations generate a significant portion of each nation's electricity through networks of nuclear power plants.
As American Free Press has previously reported, these three European nations contributed significantly to the development of the unregulated Israeli nuclear arsenal, the only one of its kind in the Middle East. Germany, for example, has provided Israel with free submarines that would allow it to launch nuclear missiles anywhere in the world.
The international community is actually obliged to help Iran with its peaceful nuclear program. Under the founding statute of the International Atomic Energy Agency of 1956, the IAEA and its member states are "to encourage and assist research and development and practical application of, atomic energy for peaceful uses."
Iran, an under-developed nation of some 70 million non-Arab people, has the legal right to enrich uranium and produce nuclear energy under international law and the treaty known as the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, which it, unlike Israel, has ratified and abides by.
The controlled press frequently repeats its criticism of Ahmadinejad for his anti-Zionist comments about Israel being "wiped off the map" without providing the context or even the complete sentence for which he has been pilloried.
At the end of an Iranian religious holiday, on a day devoted to the liberation of Jerusalem, Ahmadinejad repeated the long-held position of the Iranian govern-ment that the "occupying regime of Jerusalem must be wiped off the map."
"We concur!" Rabbi Yisroel Dovid Weiss of Neturei Karta International wrote about Ahmadinejad's com-ments.
"It is a dangerous distortion to see the president's words as indicative of anti-Jewish sentiments," Weiss wrote. "The political ideology of Zionism alone was rejected.
President Ahmadinejad stressed this distinction by referring only to Zionism, not Judaism or the Jewish people, regardless of whether they reside in Palestine or elsewhere.
"Orthodox Jews have always prayed and till today, continually pray for the speedy and peaceful dismantling of the Zionist state," Weiss wrote. "Based on our religious teachings, we believe it is impossible that any lasting peace can be achieved, for so long as the state of Israel exists."
The Zionist occupation of Jerusalem, East and West, is in violation of international law and a raft of UN resolutions. Under the UN Partition Plan of 1947, Jerusalem was meant to be an international entity, separate from the Jewish and Palestinian sections, surrounded by the West Bank, which the UN granted to the Palestinians. Zionist forces seized the west-ern approach to the city in the 1948-49 war and invaded and occupied the Old City and its eastern villages in 1967.
Since 1967, Israel has greatly expanded and subsequently annexed the area around Jerusalem and now claims this area as its "eternal capital," which it says will never be divided.
The United States and European nations, however, do not recognize the Zionist occupation of Jerusalem and have ratified numerous UN resolutions calling for the illegal occupa-tion to cease. Yet, when the Iranian president calls for exactly that, he is condemned in the United States and Israel as "the world's most dangerous man."
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Jack D. Douglas | January 27 2006
"An attack on, say, Ras Tanura, an important oil processing centre in Saudi Arabia, could remove up to 4m barrels a day from the market and overnight send the price of oil well above $100 a barrel. Such a sharp disruption could last up to a year and could lead within weeks to the meltdown of the Japanese economy, due to its almost total dependence on imports, and before long to the collapse of other industrialized economies."
Robert McFarlane and James Woolsey,
Former NSA advisor and Director of the CIA, Financial Times, January 24, 2006
The President of Iran has proclaimed repeatedly that any attack by the U.S. and Israel (which are now seen largely as one by the Muslim World) would lead to full-scale Iranian resistance. Like any intelligent strategist, he does not spell out what counterattacks they would make, but he states calmly and strongly that Iran has all the power needed to resist any attacks or invasion. Anyone who carefully considers the many "powers" that Iran has to counter-attack can see that they have many powerful economic and military weapons that could have as much destructive power as nuclear weapons. In fact, their economic weapons are immensely more powerful than any weapons of mass destruction they might be able to develop and deliver, and the economic weapons would not necessarily have great blowback effects on Iran, as nuclear weapons would.
The NSC advisor to Reagan and the director of the CIA under Clinton (1993–95) give one powerful example of what a small, conventional attack by Iran on oil from one point in Saudi Arabia could do. The Iranians have a great many excellent short and intermediate surface-to-surface missiles imported from China. One well-placed missile might knock out Ras Tanura's oil shipment facility. But they would use a good number to make sure. They can also knock out Saudi Arabia's other important shipment points in the Persian Gulf and on the eastern side. They could do the same for the oil emirates that are now part of the U.S. Imperial Centcom. confederation run from Qatar and D.C. (I am using realistic, descriptive titles, not the Agit-Speak propaganda terms the U.S. uses. The Persian Gulf emirates and Saudi Arabia are in fact colonies of the U.S. in the same way hundreds of the supposedly "independent" states of India were independent of the British Raj in India. They are "independent" in name and as long as they do what they know they are required by the Empire to do – send us oil and docilely go along with the invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq, and so on. The U.S. Central Command was moved from Tampa to Qatar to symbolize the U.S. command of the pseudo-independent colonies of the Empire.)
They do not even have to attack these other Muslim states. They can declare a U.N.-sanctioned defensive war against the attackers, in accord with all U.N. and other treaties, call on the U.N. to support their legal, defensive war, then declare a wartime emergency allowing them to legally shut down their coastal waters to all attackers and their allies. They can then shut down the Strait of Hormuz, which at its narrowest point is only 35 miles wide, so old-fashioned missiles, Exocets, or whatever can knock out any oil super-tankers trying to run their wartime economic blockade. The first super-tanker to go up in flames will lead immediately to prohibitive insurance rates for the entire War Zone, which will send oil prices sky high. They can also mine the Strait, attack it with low-flying planes and fast, small boats, and clog it with flammable gas and oil. They can also attack shipping at any point along their long coast with the Gulf.
They do no even have to take these measures. If for any reason (see below) they cannot do so or choose not to do so, an attack on them will lead to a shutdown of their vast oil and gas exports to the global economy (but probably not to their ally, China). This would have roughly the same effect as knocking out Ras Tanura. Energy prices would sky-rocket immediately worldwide.
If for any reason the Japanese economy plunges because of high energy costs, it might have to sell its $800 billion in U.S. dollar reserves, mainly U.S. bonds. That would send U.S. rates sky-high. Ditto for China with its $800 billion in dollar reserves and many other nations with lesser amounts – Korea, Taiwan, also totally dependent on imported oil and gas.
The U.S. is aware of this. Every analyst in the CIA, DIA, ONI, NSA, and beyond has certainly told them so. Previous military war games and strategic analyses have concluded, therefore, that the U.S. has no good military options against Iran. Their economic power is of nuclear proportions. Their conventional power to shut down the Persian Gulf and maybe exports beyond that are vastly greater than the shutting down of a mere 4m bd of oil by shutting down Ras Tanura. MacFarlane and Woolsey may just be pointing out to the world what is obvious to any political economist or military analyst. Or they may be trying to make sure Bush, Cheney and the other people at DOD and in the White House who find it hard to read larger reports get the big news.
I'm sure Cheney and Rumsfeld have gotten this news. (Bush may still be out to lunch. I have no way of knowing, since everything he says implies he has not gotten the news, but it's hard to believe anyone could be that totally ignorant of the simple truths the analysts are reporting.) Therefore, if there is an attack on Iran it will probably be an all-out U.S. attack with massive air and space weapons. This will not be a pin-point attack such as the Israeli attack on the Iraqi nuclear power plant. The attackers would have to assume they can absorb the huge losses from shutting down the Iranian oil and gas, but no one would think they could absorb the costs of shutting down the Gulf. The Iranians know the U.S. will attack massively to knock out all the command and control assets, all of their air and missile forces, all of their big artillery, and boats. The Iranians have already built deep-underground, hardened facilities for at least one huge nuclear plant and probably more. (This facility is like the US Norad control center in Cheyenne Mountain.) They most likely are using hardened, underground facilities to protect their missile and air forces. The U.S. attack will have to be immense to get all of these and it seems very unlikely they can do it, unless they begin with tactical nuclear weapons of the sort the Bush people have been developing for exactly these purposes of hitting hardened, underground facilities.
Attacking Iran would probably be an Economic Doomsday Scenario. No reasonable person would do it. But that is what I and a vast number of other people, some in the CIA, were screaming when the U.S. invaded, annihilated, and got stuck catastrophically in Iraq. The Bush people have produced catastrophes over and over again at home and around the world. They literally turned the world against the U.S. and seem to think that's great. They do not reason as we human beings do. They may push onward to the Economic Doomsday hoping it will trigger that Armageddon and Second Coming Bush seems so anxious to see during his three remaining years in absolute power. |
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Attacking Iran would probably be an Economic Doomsday Scenario. No reasonable person would do it.
Dubya would be the perfect moron to unlease this scenario for the NWO,Illuminati,Freemason,Tri Lateral Commision,Bildeburgers.bored rich fuc.s.
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Fri Jan 27, 6:24 PM ET
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Senate on Friday unanimously passed a resolution condemning
Iran for its nuclear program and backing efforts to report it to the
U.N. Security Council.
The resolution, approved by a voice vote, cites Iran's "many failures ... to comply faithfully with its nuclear non-proliferations obligations."
It "strongly urges" the
International Atomic Energy Agency at its special meeting on Thursday to refer Iran to the U.N. Security Council over suspicions it is secretly trying to develop atomic bombs.
The resolution also calls on all Security Council members, particularly Russia and China, to "act expeditiously" to deal with Iran's suspected noncompliance with the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty.
The United States, Britain, France, Russia and China, the five veto-wielding powers of the 15-member Security Council, plus Germany plan to meet in London on Monday to try to resolve differences over whether to send Iran to the council. Russia and China to date have opposed a formal referral. |
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KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist said Saturday night that the United States must be prepared to take military action against Iran if nonviolent means don't deter the country from building nuclear weapons.
Iran has said it wants to enrich uranium only to make nuclear fuel for generating electricity. But concerns that it might misuse the technology led the International Atomic Energy Agency on Saturday to report Iran to the U.N. Security Council.
The United States has long advocated Security Council action against Iran, including possible political and economic sanctions, which have not yet occurred.
Asked whether Congress had the political will to use military force against Iran if necessary, First said: "The answer is yes, absolutely."
"We cannot allow Iran to become a nuclear nation," Frist told reporters at the Missouri GOP's annual Lincoln Days conference. "We need to use diplomatic sanctions. If that doesn't work, economic sanctions, and if that doesn't work, the potential for military use has to be on the table."
Frist also defended a program in President Bush's administration that allowed the government to eavesdrop, without warrants, on international calls and e-mails in the United States that were believed to be terrorist-related.
As Senate majority leader, the Tennessee senator said he was one of eight people in Congress who were "fully briefed" on the program. He said Democrats who criticize it do so at their own political peril.
"The program is constitutional, it is lawful and it is absolutely imperative for the safety and security of people in Missouri and people around this country," Frist said.
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Strategists at the Pentagon are drawing up plans for devastating bombing raids backed by submarine-launched ballistic missile attacks against Iran's nuclear sites as a "last resort" to block Teheran's efforts to develop an atomic bomb.
Central Command and Strategic Command planners are identifying targets, assessing weapon-loads and working on logistics for an operation, the Sunday Telegraph has learnt.
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"This is more than just the standard military contingency assessment," said a senior Pentagon adviser. "This has taken on much greater urgency in recent months."
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http://www.boston.com/news/world/middleeast/articles/2006/02/12/iran_is_prepared_to_retaliate_experts_warn/ Remember folks, when the Neo-Nazis and their buddies, the Israelis,attack Iran,it is an attack on every American.They will be looking forward to the renewed terrorist attacks on the American citizens.Martial Law
By Bryan Bender, Globe Staff | February 12, 2006
WASHINGTON -- Iran is prepared to launch attacks using long-range missiles, secret commando units, and terrorist allies planted around the globe in retaliation for any strike on the country's nuclear facilities, according to new US intelligence assessments and military specialists.
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US and Israeli officials have not ruled out military action against Iran if diplomacy fails to thwart its nuclear ambitions. Among the options are airstrikes on suspected nuclear installations or covert action to sabotage the Iranian program.
But military and intelligence analysts warn that Iran -- which a recent US intelligence report described as ''more confident and assertive" than it has been since the early days of the 1979 Islamic revolution -- could unleash reprisals across the region, and perhaps even inside the United States, if the hard-line regime came under attack.
''When the Americans or Israelis are thinking about [military force], I hope they will sit down and think about everything the ayatollahs could do to make our lives miserable and what we will do to discourage them," said John Pike, director of the think tank GlobalSecurity.org, referring to Iran's religious leaders.
''There could be a cycle of escalation."
President Bush has said military force should be the last resort in international efforts to deter Iran from acquiring a nuclear bomb. Yet Bush has stated unequivocally that the United States would not tolerate an Iranian nuclear arsenal, which the CIA estimates could be in place in three to 10 years. Iran maintains its nuclear program is solely aimed at producing electricity, not weapons.
Israel, which Iran's new president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, has threatened to annihilate, asserts that Tehran is much closer to going nuclear and has been far more direct with its counter-threats.
The Israel Defense Forces, which destroyed Iraq's nuclear reactor in 1981, has said it is perfecting ways to launch a preventative strike against Iranian nuclear sites, including outfitting its Air Force with American-made, bunker-busting munitions.
US intelligence officials have said that Iran, which fought a war with Iraq from 1980-1988 that cost one million lives, still has the most threatening armed forces in the immediate region. Its combined ground forces are estimated at about 800,000 personnel. The CIA has concluded that Iran is steadily enhancing its ability to project its military power, including by threatening international shipping.
But it is Iran's unconventional weapons and tactics -- rather than its conventional military -- that would pose the greatest threat, according to the intelligence officials.
Bush's new intelligence chief, John D. Negroponte, outlining the conclusions reached by a variety of US spy agencies, warned in his first overall annual threat assessment this month to Congress that Iran is capable of sparking a much wider conflict it comes under threat. A major worry: newly acquired long-range missiles. Obtained with the assistance of North Korea, the Shahab 3 could strike Israel and perhaps even hit the periphery of Europe, according to a recent report by the Pentagon's National Air and Space Intelligence Center.
The missiles could also be tipped with chemical warheads and threaten US military bases in the region.
Iran is believed to have at least 20 launchers that are frequently moved around the country to avoid detection.
''Iran has an extensive missile-development program and has received support from entities in Russia, China, and North Korea," the Pentagon report said, estimating their range to be at least 800 miles.
New missile designs under development could travel 400 miles farther, it said, while Iran purchased at least a dozen X-55 cruise missiles from Ukraine in 2001 that are capable of carrying a nuclear warhead as far as Italy.
Meanwhile, Iranian agents and members of the Revolutionary Guard Corps, widely believed to have a large presence in Iraq, could attempt to foment an uprising by the their fellow Shi'ite majority in Iraq or join insurgents in directly attacking US troops there, Negroponte warned.
He reported that Tehran has ''constrained" itself in Iraq because it is generally satisfied with the political trends in favor of the Shi'ite majority and to avoid giving the United States another excuse to attack Iran. But that could change if Iran were targeted militarily.
A leading Shi'ite cleric in Iraq, Moqtada al-Sadr, whose militia has clashed with US troops and rival Shi'ite groups, vowed in a visit to Tehran last month to defend Iran if it were attacked.
The assessment presented by Negroponte said the Iranian regime already provides ''guidance and training" to militant groups in Iraq and ''has been responsible for at least some of the increasing lethality of anticoalition attacks by providing Shia militants with the capability to build" improvised explosive devices.
Government and private analysts assert that Iran's intelligence apparatus and Revolutionary Guard Corps could cause serious damage to US efforts to pacify Iraq.
''The Iranian ayatollahs may deploy an 'asymmetric' answer and incite a Shi'ite rebellion in Iraq," the respected Russian military publication ''Defense and Security," warned last month, referring to a military strategy that employs such tactics as guerrilla warfare. ''That would be disastrous for the United States."
Iran, believed to be responsible for the bombing of a US Air Force barracks in Saudi Arabia in 1996, also would be expected to enlist its terrorist allies around the world to come to its aid if attacked, US officials and private specialists contend.
''Tehran continues to support a number of terrorist groups, viewing this capability as a critical regime safeguard by deterring US and Israeli attacks, distracting and weakening Israel, and enhancing Iran's regional influence through intimidation," according to Negroponte's assessment to Congress.
Primary among them is Hezbollah, the Lebanese terrorist group that killed 241 US Marines when it bombed a Beirut barracks in 1983.
''Lebanese Hezbollah is Iran's main terrorist ally, which . . . has a worldwide support network and is capable of attacks against US interests if it feels its Iranian patron is threatened," according to the report.
''They have all kinds of people that would like to embrace martyrdom," Pike said of Iran, raising the specter that a terrorist group allied with Iran would be capable of launching attacks inside the United States to avenge a strike against Iran.
Intelligence officials also point out that Iran controls a small island at the mouth the Strait of Hormuz and could use missiles and gunboats to temporarily shut off access to the economically vital Persian Gulf, sparking an oil crisis.
''Military attack is not the solution to this problem," Mohammad Mohaddessin, chairman of the foreign affairs committee of the National Council of Resistance of Iran, the leading dissident group, said in a telephone interview from Paris. ''The regime is absolutely focusing on nonconventional responses. Missiles and terrorist operations are the strong points."
© Copyright 2006 Globe Newspaper Company.
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