Iran has not nuclear capabilities

[LilOlLady]

IRAN HAS NO NUCLEAR CAPABILITIES.

Iran is just bluffing as Saddam did. He actually wants us to attack so his allies will come to his aid and then he will have a legitimate excuse to develop nuclear weapons. But no near by country want to see Iran with a nuclear weapon and if Iran wanted a nuclear weapon they would have one and we would know nothing about it. He is not throwing them in our face.
We need to stop obsessing about Iran’s nuclear capability and concentrate on an anti-nuclear weapon program that will make all nuclear weapons useless. Bombing every country we think have nuclear weapons is going GOP on other countries and costing us billion and lives.
Why are we wasting billions on orbiting the moon when others have the same capability? When the money could be better spent. Space program should be scraped.

 

[Mr. H.]

And like Iraq, it would rather go to war than open its doors to proper inspection and monitoring.
Quaint.

 

[waltky]

Is okay, Obama gonna kick their butt fer general purposes anyway...

'US Deploys Troops In Israel For Iran War'
Wed Jan 4, 2012 - The US military is preparing a massive military campaign against Iran, sending thousands of American troops, warships and weaponry to Israel.

An unnamed source said the military deployment of US anti-missile ships and accompanying support personnel will occur in January and later this spring, Global Research reported. Commander of the US Third Air Force based in Germany Lt.-Gen Frank Gorenc said it is not just an "exercise," but a "deployment," The Jerusalem Post said. Washington and Tel Aviv have planned to hold what they call the largest-ever joint military exercise this spring. The US commander visited Israel two weeks ago to confirm details for “the deployment of several thousand American soldiers to Israel.”

The US General also visited one of Israel's three Iron Dome anti-missile outposts. The Israeli Air Force has announced plans to deploy a fourth Iron Dome system in coming months. While US troops will be stationed in Israel for an unspecified amount of time, Israeli military personnel will be added to United States European Command (EUCOM) in Germany. This is while the US is reportedly bringing its Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) and ship-based Aegis ballistic missile systems to Israel. The White House has resumed its anti-Iran war rhetoric after the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) released a report in November, in which Tehran was accused of conducting activities related to developing nuclear weapons. Iran strongly dismissed the allegations.

US analyst Robert Pa rry said the documentary evidence showed that IAEA Director General Yukiya Amano was installed with the support of the US and that he privately indicated to US and Israeli officials that he would help advance their goals regarding Iran. In December, Iran's Navy launched massive 10-day military drills in the strategic Strait of Hormuz to show that the country is ready to defend itself against any attack. "We wanted to send this message to certain powers that Iran is always prepared to defend itself against foreign aggression," Iran's Navy Deputy Commander Admiral Amir Rastegari told Press TV.

Meanwhile, US President Barack Obama on Saturday signed into law fresh economic sanctions, targeting Iran's Central Bank and financial sector. Anti-Iran measures provoked by the US and Israel are aimed to deny Iran's right of having peaceful nuclear program. Tehran, as a signatory to the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty and a member of the IAEA, has repeatedly stated that its nuclear activities are solely for civilian purposes.

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Screws tighten on Iran as big buyers shun its oil
Thu Jan 5, 2012 - Iran faced the prospect on Thursday of cutbacks in its oil sales to China and Japan as new measures to cut off Tehran's crude exports appeared to be driving its economy to the wall.

The developments in Asia follow news on Wednesday that EU leaders had agreed to halt European purchases of Iranian crude. China, Iran's biggest trade partner, has already cut its purchases of Iranian oil by more than half this month and will extend the cuts to February, a Beijing-based trader who deals with Iranian oil said. Japan will consider cutbacks in its Iranian oil purchases to secure a waiver from new U.S. sanctions signed into law on New Year's Eve by President Barack Obama, a government source said. Between them, China, the EU and Japan buy about half of Iran's exports of 2.6 million barrels of oil per day.

International sanctions that for years had little effect are for the first time having a real impact on day-to-day life in Iran, where the rial currency has tumbled and people have rushed to convert savings into dollars. Most oil traders still expect Iran will be able to find buyers for its crude, but it will have to offer steeper discounts that will cut the hard currency revenue it needs to import food and other basic supplies for its 74 million people. Iran has put on a brave face. Foreign Minister Ali Akbar Salehi said on Thursday Iran would "weather the storm." "Iran, with divine assistance, has always been ready to counter such hostile actions and we are not concerned at all about the sanctions," he told a news conference.

The economic hardship comes just two months before a parliamentary election, the country's first since a disputed presidential vote in 2009 led to massive public demonstrations across the country. The authorities put those protests down by force, but since then the Arab Spring has revealed the vulnerability of authoritarian governments in the region to public anger driven by economic hardship. Iran's leaders have responded to the sanctions with military saber-rattling, including a threat to blockade the Middle East's oil by shutting the Strait of Hormuz that leads to the Gulf, and even challenging a U.S. aircraft carrier if it sails the strait. Washington says it will sail the strait at will and will guarantee free passage through the international waterway. British Defense Secretary Philip Hammond said any attempt to block the strait "would be illegal and would be unsuccessful."

EUROPEAN EMBARGO

 

[daveman]

IRAN HAS NO NUCLEAR CAPABILITIES.

Iran is just bluffing as Saddam did. He actually wants us to attack so his allies will come to his aid and then he will have a legitimate excuse to develop nuclear weapons. But no near by country want to see Iran with a nuclear weapon and if Iran wanted a nuclear weapon they would have one and we would know nothing about it. He is not throwing them in our face.
We need to stop obsessing about Iran’s nuclear capability and concentrate on an anti-nuclear weapon program that will make all nuclear weapons useless. Bombing every country we think have nuclear weapons is going GOP on other countries and costing us billion and lives.
Why are we wasting billions on orbiting the moon when others have the same capability? When the money could be better spent. Space program should be scraped.

Simply unrealistic. And wrong.

 

[JWBooth]

IRAN HAS NO NUCLEAR CAPABILITIES.

Iran is just bluffing as Saddam did. He actually wants us to attack so his allies will come to his aid and then he will have a legitimate excuse to develop nuclear weapons. But no near by country want to see Iran with a nuclear weapon and if Iran wanted a nuclear weapon they would have one and we would know nothing about it. He is not throwing them in our face.
We need to stop obsessing about Iran’s nuclear capability and concentrate on an anti-nuclear weapon program that will make all nuclear weapons useless. Bombing every country we think have nuclear weapons is going GOP on other countries and costing us billion and lives.
Why are we wasting billions on orbiting the moon when others have the same capability? When the money could be better spent. Space program should be scraped.

My default is set to disbelieve the government in every circumstance. So I accept the concept that Iran has no current nuclear capability.
But
Given a choice between your completely dumb ass and some government drone....
I'd look into what the drone had to say for confirmation.

 

[waltky]

Well den, Granny wantin' to know what dis Iran stuff is all about?...

Q&A: What's with the war talk surrounding Iran?
8 Jan.`12 - Tensions over Iran’s nuclear program have escalated in recent weeks as the US and Europe ramp up sanctions against the Islamic Republic. The country’s currency took a nosedive after President Obama signed legislation on Dec. 31 targeting Iran’s Central Bank. Tehran has responded with threats to cut off the Strait of Hormuz, a vital corridor for international oil shipments.

1. What are the odds of armed conflict?

The short answer for this year is “low.” But all the muscle flexing in recent months has increased the risk. That posturing has included US sanctions; a European agreement in principle to an oil embargo on Iran; apocalyptic warnings by Iranian, American, and Israeli politicians; and military exercises in the Strait of Hormuz – through which roughly a fifth of the world’s oil tankers pass each day.

President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, facing an economy in a tailspin and fears of imminent military action against Iran, has gone into aggressive speech mode, as much to get Iranians to rally around the flag as to scare the United States.

Israel hints from time to time that it’s planning a unilateral attack, but that generally appears to be an attempt to push the US to take a tougher line rather than a statement of genuine intent. US Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta cautioned Israel against such an attack during an appearance on CBS' Face the Nation on Sunday. "We have common cause here" with Israel, Mr. Panetta said. "And the better approach is for us to work together."

The real wild card is the risk of unplanned violence: an Iranian naval commander taking it into his own head to attack a US ship, or the US mistaking innocuous maneuvering as a hostile act and firing first.

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Report: Iran fires up new uranium enrichment plant
January 8, 2012 - A leading newspaper in Iran says the country has begun enriching uranium at a new underground site, ratcheting up Western concerns about Iran's nuclear program.

Iran has begun uranium enrichment at a new underground site well protected from possible airstrikes, a leading hardline newspaper reported Sunday in another show of defiance against Western pressure to rein in Tehran's nuclear program. Another newspaper quoted a senior commander of the powerful Revolutionary Guard force as saying Tehran's leadership has decided to order the closure of the Strait of Hormuz, a strategic oil route, if the country's petroleum exports are blocked. Revolutionary Guard ground forces also staged war games in eastern Iran in an apparent display of resolve against US forces just over the border in Afghanistan.

"The supreme authorities ... have insisted that if enemies block the export of our oil, we won't allow a drop of oil to pass through the Strait of Hormuz. This is the strategy of the Islamic Republic in countering such threats," Revolutionary Guard deputy commander Ali Ashraf Nouri was quoted as saying by the Khorasan daily. Iranian politicians have issued similar threats in the past, but this is the strongest statement yet by a top commander in the security establishment. The latest statements are certain to fuel tensions with the US and its allies, which are trying to turn up pressure on Iran with new sanctions to punish it over its disputed nuclear program. The West suspects Iran is trying to make nuclear weapons, but Iran denies this.

The United Nations has already sanctioned Iran for refusing to stop uranium enrichment — which can produce both nuclear fuel and fissile warhead material. Tehran says its nuclear program is only for energy and medical research, and refuses to halt uranium enrichment. Kayhan daily, which is close to Iran's ruling clerics, said Tehran has begun injecting uranium gas into sophisticated centrifuges at the Fordo facility near the holy city of Qom. "Kayhan received reports yesterday that show Iran has begun uranium enrichment at the Fordo facility amid heightened foreign enemy threats," the paper said in a front-page report. Kayhan's manager is a representative of Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, who has the final word on all important matters of state.

Iran's nuclear chief, Fereidoun Abbasi, said late Saturday that his country will "soon" begin enrichment at Fordo. It was impossible to immediately reconcile the two reports. Iran has a major uranium enrichment facility in Natanz in central Iran, where nearly 8,000 centrifuges are operating. Tehran began enrichment at Natanz in April 2006. The Fordo centrifuges, however, are reportedly more efficient. And the site better shielded from aerial attack. Nouri said Iran's leadership has made a strategic decision to close the Strait of Hormuz, should the country's exports be blocked. One-sixth of the world's oil flows to market through the Strait of Hormuz, at the mouth of the Persian Gulf.

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[R.C. Christian]

For many different reasons this war is going to happen, and there isn't anything we're going to be able to do to stop it.

 

[zzzz]

Did we bomb N. Korea, Pakistan, India? These countries acquired nukes and we conducted no military action.

 

[waltky]

Iran Has Decided To Become A Nuclear State...

Iran has ingredients to make nuclear bomb, says former Israeli top military official
Friday 20th January, 2012 - Iran has all the necessary components to construct a nuclear bomb, a former Israeli military intelligence chief has said even as US military chief General Martin Dempsey Friday met top Israeli leaders in an effort to prevent any escalation of tension in the region.

Retired Gen. Amos Yadlin, who was Israeli military intelligence chief until his retirement in 2010, said: "If the Iranians decide tonight that they're going to develop a nuclear weapon secretly, they have the means and the components to do soThe timetable depends on the Iranians' decision." Gen. Yadlin told Tel Aviv newspaper Maariv that in order to deal with a nuclear-armed Iran a "military option must remain on the table."

The remarks by Yadlin come even as Dempsey met Israeli Defence Minister Ehud Barak and urged for greater engagement on regional issues. He also asked Israel to keep the channels of communication open, amid worry that the Jewish state could launch a military strike on Iran's nuclear facilities. "We have many interests in common in the region in this very dynamic time and the more we can continue to engage each other, the better off we'll all be," Dempsey said.

Israel fears a nuclear-armed Iran would pose a threat to it and has refused to rule out military action to pre-empt it. U.S. Ambassador to Israel Daniel Shapiro has, meanwhile, said that Washington has a set of options to deal with Iran's nuclear program if the current economic sanctions fail to dissuade the Islamic republic's leadership. He said the results of efforts to reduce Iran's income from sale of its oil are "getting stronger every day" as more nations have announced decision to cut their purchase of Iranian petroleum.

The developments came a day after European Union governments reached a preliminary agreement to freeze the assets of Iran' central bank, going beyond their planned sanctions on Iranian oil. European Union foreign ministers are expected to firm a decision on an oil embargo and a freeze on the assets of Iran's central bankat a meeting on Monday, French Foreign Minister Alain Juppe said. Adding to the tension over its nuclear programme, Iran has also threatened to close the Strait of Hormuz, used for a third of the world's seaborne oil trade, if the West's move to ban its crude exports cripple its energy sector.

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Netanyahu: Iran has decided to become a nuclear state. Action needed before it is too late.
January 19, 2012, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu declared Thursday night, Jan. 19 that Iran had decided to become a nuclear state.

He urged action before it was too late to stop Iran completing the construction of a nuclear weapon. His statement at the end of a visit to Holland gave Gen Martin Dempsey, on his first visit to Israel as Chairman of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff, the message he will be asked to take back to President Barack Obama. It also contradicted Defense Minister Ehud Barak's statement that Tehran had not yet decided to go nuclear. On Dec. 22, 2011, debkafile first revealed Tehran had reached a decision to go ahead and build a nuclear weapon. Netanyahu has kept the Iranian cards close to his chest. His statement therefore caught wrong-footed the Israeli officials, including Defense Minister Ehud Barak, who in the last 48 hours had asserted that Iran had not yet decided whether to build a nuclear bomb and there was still time for US-led sanctions to work.

debkafile reported earlier Thursday: Gen. Martin Dempsey begins his first visit to Israel as Chairman of the Joint US Chiefs of Staff amid a major falling-out between the two governments over the handling of Iran's nuclear weapon potential. debkafile's military and Washington sources confirm that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu stands by the view that Iran is advancing its plans to build a nuclear bomb full speed ahead, undeterred even by the threat of harsher sanctions. Netanyahu therefore stands by his refusal of President Barack Obama's demand for a commitment to abstain from a unilateral strike on Iran's nuclear sites without prior notice to Washington. The US president repeated this demand when he called the Israeli prime minister Thursday night Jan. 13. Netanyahu replied that, in view of their disagreement on this point, he preferred to cancel the biggest US-Israel war game ever staged due to have taken place in April. The exercise was to have tested the level of coordination between the two armies in missile defense for the contingency of a war with Iran or a regional conflict.

The prime minister was concerned that having large-scale US military forces in the country would restrict his leeway for decision-making on Iran. In an effort to limit the damage to relations with the US administration, Defense Minister Ehud Barak struck a conciliatory note Wednesday, Jan. 18, saying, "Israel is still very far from a decision on attacking Iran's nuclear facilities." Striking the pose of middleman, he was trying to let Washington know that there was still time for the US and Israel to reach an accommodation on whether and when a strike should take place. debkafile's sources doubt that President Obama and Prime Minister Netanyahu are in any mood to respond to Barak's effort to cool the dispute. Obama needs to be sure he will not be taken by surprise by an Israel attack in the middle of his campaign for re-election, especially since he has begun taking heat on the Iranian issue.

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[FuelRod]

American elite forces have gotten alot better at Black ops.
Sucks to be one of Iran's leaders.

 

[waltky]

Obama gettin' ready to clean Iran's clock, France against it - as usual...

American military 'fully prepared' to deal with Iran: US defence secretary Panetta
Jan 19, 2012, WASHINGTON: The US military is now "fully prepared" to deal with any Iranian effort to close the Strait of Hormuz, a vital Gulf avenue for international oil shipments, defense secretary Leon Panetta said on Wednesday.

At a Pentagon news conference, Panetta was asked whether, in light of Iran's threat to close the strait in retaliation for stronger international economic sanctions, Washington is adjusting US forces in the region. "We are not making any special steps at this point in order to deal with the situation," Panetta replied. "Why? Because, frankly, we are fully prepared to deal with that situation now." He noted that routine planning continues as the US and its allies consider a range of potential Iran-related problems. The Navy this month added a second aircraft carrier strike group in the Middle East, portraying it as part of a normal rotation and not a deliberate buildup of force. The carriers are the USS Carl Vinson and the USS Abraham Lincoln, under the control of US Naval Forces Central Command in Bahrain.

The US has kept a continuous naval presence in the Gulf region for decades, but international concerns about a potential confrontation have grown amid tensions over the advancement of Iran's nuclear program. The US also has military forces in nearby United Arab Emirates, Qatar, Kuwait and other Gulf nations. Iran's Revolutionary Guard, the country's most powerful military force, says Tehran's leadership has decided to order the closure of the Strait of Hormuz if Iran's oil exports are blocked as a result of sanctions. A senior Guard officer said earlier this month that the decision has been made by Iran's top authorities. Iranian politicians have made the threat in the past, but this was the strongest statement yet that a closure of the strait is official policy.

In his remarks at the Pentagon, Panetta said he still holds out hope for a diplomatic solution with Iran. "It takes two to be able to engage, and we've always expressed a willingness to try to do that," he said. "But we've always made clear that in terms of any threats to the region, in terms of some of the behavior that they've conducted in the region, that we'll also be prepared to respond militarily if we have to." In what some view as a sign of concern about aggravating tensions with Iran, the US and Israel have postponed what Panetta has called the largest-ever US-Israeli air defense exercise. It was supposed to be conducted in April.

Israeli government spokesman Mark Regev said on Monday the postponement was a "joint" decision with Washington. "The thinking was it was not the right timing now to conduct such an exercise," he said. He refused to elaborate. Asked about this Wednesday, Panetta said Israel's defense minister, Ehud Barak, had approached him to suggest the delay "in order to be able to plan better." Panetta said the decision had nothing to do with Iran. Israel's ambassador to Washington, Michael Oren, issued a statement on Tuesday saying the delay "stemmed solely from technical issues." He said the exercise, dubbed "Austere Challenge 2012", would be held in the second half of this year.

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Intervention in Iran would trigger war and chaos: France
Jan 21, 2012: French President Nicolas Sarkozy warned on Friday that any foreign military intervention against Iran's nuclear programme would trigger "war and chaos" across the Middle East and beyond.

"France will do everything to avoid a military intervention," Sarkozy said before an audience of senior diplomats in Paris, calling instead for a "much stronger" sanctions regime to be imposed on Tehran. "A military intervention would not solve the problem but would unleash war and chaos in the Middle East and perhaps the world," he warned.

France has been one of the loudest Western voices pushing for economic sanctions to force Iran to abandon its nuclear programme, which Paris fears could lead to the Islamic regime developing an atomic bomb. But it remains opposed to calls from some hawks in the United States and Israel for air strikes against Iranian facilities. Iran insists its nuclear fuel enrichment programme is designed to produce fuel for reactors in future civilian power stations and for medical isotopes.

Tehran has vowed to defeat any military intervention and has warned that it may attempt to block shipping lanes and choke off oil exports from the Gulf if sanctions target its own energy industry or banks. Britain and the United States have tightened their economic sanctions while the European Union is to meet next week and is expected to approve new measures against Iranian oil exports and the financial sector.

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[Sunni Man]

Even though Israel will not allow any inspections of it's known but undeclared nuclear sites.

Israel insists that Iran allow inspectors full access to all of it's nuclear facilities.

Why not hold Israel to the same standards as Iran?

 

[Unkotare]

Even though Israel will not allow any inspections of it's known but undeclared nuclear sites.

Israel insists that Iran allow inspectors full access to all of it's nuclear facilities.

Why not hold Israel to the same standards as Iran?

Because Israel has not set as a national goal the utter destruction of another country and people. Because Israel does not encourage/require demonstrations wherein thousands chant "Death to ___!" Because Israel is not a lunatic asylum bent on the destruction of Islam or any Islamic nation and people. Because Israel is a demoncratic state. Because Israel is not a global sponsor of terror. Do you need more?

 

[daveman]

Even though Israel will not allow any inspections of it's known but undeclared nuclear sites.

Israel insists that Iran allow inspectors full access to all of it's nuclear facilities.

Why not hold Israel to the same standards as Iran?

Because Israel isn't run by crazy people.

 

[Sunni Man]

So you consider starting a small country from stolen land smack dab in the middle of several hundred million people that hate you represents sanity??

 

[daveman]

So you consider starting a small country from stolen land smack dab in the middle of several hundred million people that hate you represents sanity??

They're still there, despite the best efforts of those hundred million people.

Allah sucks at warfare.

 

[Sunni Man]

So you consider starting a small country from stolen land smack dab in the middle of several hundred million people that hate you represents sanity??

They're still there, despite the best efforts of those hundred million people.

Israel only has to only lose once.

 

[Unkotare]

Israel has set a national goal of the utter destruction of Palestine and it's people. Israel is bent on the destruction of Islam, Islamic nations, and people. Israel a terrorist nation and terrorizes all of the countries that surround it. Israel is a fascist and apartheid state just like the former South Africa. Do you need more?

Even you don't believe that hyperbole, whereas what I stated is universally known and most of it has been directly stated by Iran itself.

 

[daveman]

So you consider starting a small country from stolen land smack dab in the middle of several hundred million people that hate you represents sanity??

They're still there, despite the best efforts of those hundred million people.

Israel only has to only lose once.

They haven't yet.

Allah lacks game.

 

[Sunni Man]

Israel has set a national goal of the utter destruction of Palestine and it's people. Israel is bent on the destruction of Islam, Islamic nations, and people. Israel a terrorist nation and terrorizes all of the countries that surround it. Israel is a fascist and apartheid state just like the former South Africa. Do you need more?

Even you don't believe that hyperbole, whereas what I stated is universally known and most of it has been directly stated by Iran itself.

Kinda sad, but you really don't have a clue.