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"Iran Will Have Bomb in April"
News submitted by thomas gowin
Mar 5 2006 12:18PM


1. Khamenei: Iran Will Have Bomb in April

April 8, 2006 could turn out to be an ominous date in history - that's the day Iran's Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei says that Iran will have a nuclear weapon.

Late last year Khamenei gathered his top advisers for a strategy meeting and told them "it has been promised that by April 8, we will be in a position to show the entire world that we are members of the club."

This presumably refers to nuclear weapons, according to National Review Online Contributing Editor Michael Ledeen, who offered an inside look at the top-level meeting.

Among the assessments by Iran's leaders:

The U.S. is seriously divided and President Bush is paralyzed, unable to make any tough decisions - and therefore unable to order an attack against Iran.
Israel is also divided. Netanyahu has opposed Sharon (the meeting took place before Sharon's stroke) and no strong government is possible, so Israel too is unable to order an attack against Iran.
Since the mullahs are confident that Iran will soon acquire nuclear weapons, there is no longer any need to play stalling games with the West.
But if the Iranian leadership has come to believe it has little to fear from the West, there are clear signs of trouble within the regime, Ledeen reports.

Khamenei is said to be fighting a losing battle with cancer, and a succession struggle is already underway. The government has stepped up repression of groups suspected of opposing the regime, and President Ahmadinejad recently canceled most foreign travel by government officials, which is "not the sign of a confident mullahcracy," Ledeen writes.

What's more, the Iranians may be misreading the U.S., says Ledeen. He writes that the perceived "paralysis" of America is "nothing more than a replay of the usual blunder committed by our enemies, who look at us and see fractious politics," only to learn that "free societies are quite capable of turning on a dime and defending their interests and values with unanticipated ferocity."

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from: http://www.injesus.com/index.php?module=me...ew&MID=OT00AO7P

Of course, Iran is only using Nuclear energy for power and they are probably going to just hold onto that bomb in April and decorate it to make their country look more beautiful. They're not planning to use it or anything.

I love your sense of humor! Thanks--I needed a good laugh!

Thanks. You know it really just bugs me that all you hear from Iran and their loony President is that they are going to harness nuclear energy for whatever reason other than killing people and yet all they seem to do is brag, basically about building them and having them. In other words saying, we're here, IF you want to attack us. Then, we'll have a reason. Unfortunately, I don't think they need one. "People" (I use the term very lightly) this crazy don't need an excuse to bomb others. Case in point, sucide bombers.

Bush 'is planning nuclear strikes on Iran's secret sites'

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The Bush administration is planning to use nuclear weapons against Iran, to prevent it acquiring its own atomic warheads, claims an investigative writer with high-level Pentagon and intelligence contacts.

President George W Bush is said to be so alarmed by the threat of Iran's hard-line leader, Mahmoud Ahmedinejad, that privately he refers to him as "the new Hitler", says Seymour Hersh, who broke the story of the Abu Ghraib Iraqi prisoner abuse scandal.

Some US military chiefs have unsuccessfully urged the White House to drop the nuclear option from its war plans, Hersh writes in The New Yorker magazine. The conviction that Mr Ahmedinejad would attack Israel or US forces in the Middle East, if Iran obtains atomic weapons, is what drives American planning for the destruction of Teheran's nuclear programme.

Hersh claims that one of the plans, presented to the White House by the Pentagon, entails the use of a bunker-buster tactical nuclear weapon, such as the B61-11, against underground nuclear sites. One alleged target is Iran's main centrifuge plant, at Natanz, 200 miles south of Teheran.

Although Iran claims that its nuclear programme is peaceful, US and European intelligence agencies are certain that Teheran is trying to develop atomic weapons. In contrast to the run-up to the Iraq invasion, there are no disagreements within Western intelligence about Iran's plans.

This newspaper disclosed recently that senior Pentagon strategists are updating plans to strike Iran's nuclear sites with long-distance B2 bombers and submarine-launched missiles. And last week, the Sunday Telegraph reported a secret meeting at the Ministry of Defence where military chiefs and officials from Downing Street and the Foreign Office discussed the consequences of an American-led attack on Iran, and Britain's role in any such action.

The military option is opposed by London and other European capitals. But there are growing fears in No 10 and the Foreign Office that the British-led push for a diplomatic solution to the Iranian nuclear stand-off, will be swept aside by hawks in Washington. Hersh says that within the Bush administration, there are concerns that even a pummelling by conventional strikes, may not sufficiently damage Iran's buried nuclear plants.

Iran has been developing a series of bunkers and facilities to provide hidden command centres for its leaders and to protect its nuclear infrastructure. The lack of reliable intelligence about these subterranean facilities, is fuelling pressure for tactical nuclear weapons to be included in the strike plans as the only guaranteed means to destroy all the sites simultaneously.

The attention given to the nuclear option has created serious misgivings among the joint chiefs of staff, and some officers have talked about resigning, Hersh has been told. The military chiefs sought to remove the nuclear option from the evolving war plans for Iran, without success, a former senior intelligence officer said.

The Pentagon consultant on the war on terror confirmed that some in the administration were looking seriously at this option, which he linked to a resurgence of interest in tactical nuclear weapons among defence department political appointees.

The election of Mr Ahmedinejad last year, has hardened attitudes within the Bush Administration. The Iranian president has said that Israel should be "wiped off the map". He has drafted in former fellow Revolutionary Guards commanders to run the nuclear programme, in further signs that he is preparing to back his threats with action.

Mr Bush and others in the White House view him as a potential Adolf Hitler, a former senior intelligence official told Hersh. "That's the name they're using. They say, 'Will Iran get a strategic weapon and threaten another world war?' "

Despite America's public commitment to diplomacy, there is a growing belief in Washington that the only solution to the crisis is regime change. A senior Pentagon consultant said that Mr Bush believes that he must do "what no Democrat or Republican, if elected in the future, would have the courage to do," and "that saving Iran is going to be his legacy".

Publicly, the US insists it remains committed to diplomacy to solve the crisis. But with Russia apparently intent on vetoing any threat of punitive action at the UN, the Bush administration is also planning for unilateral military action. Hersh repeated his claims that the US has intensified clandestine activities inside Iran, using special forces to identify targets and establish contact with anti-Teheran ethnic-minority groups.

The senior defence officials said that Mr Bush is "determined to deny Iran the opportunity to begin a pilot programme, planned for this spring, to enrich uranium".

Of course the Bush administration is planning the use of nuclear bunker buster bombs. After all, it is an option. Whats being left out in this article written by a leftist to try and make it appear as though this were fact is that plans are also being drawn up to act with a coalition (preferred) or act unilaterally. To use conventional bombs or tactical nuclear bunker busters. Initiate a regime change from within or send in black op forces to do it.

Truth is is that there's more than one way to skin this cat and all options are being drawn up and they will all be weighed against each other and the President with the help of his advisors will choose from whatever looks the best.

As the article explains, nobody wants to make a strike to take out Irans nuke facilities and leave anything to chance that those in the hardened bunkers will survive. Nuclear bunker buster bombs are the only assurance that that won't happen.

But Bush has to aslo look at the Muslim community backlash that's inevitable once the inevitable attack happens, be it by us or the Israeli's. Even if the Israeli's carry this attack out unilaterally, the US will by De Facto have also contributed by supplying them with the bombs and the approval to fly over airspace we control to do it.

As far as the original post of April the 8th being a red letter date in history, well it was yesterday and yesterday is now history without a new label on the date.

Christian Fellowship: / NEWS Corner / IRAN REMAINS INSOLENT IN THE FACE OF MOUNTING INTERNATIONAL PRESSURE 4/9 on: Today at 05:56:08pm
Iran Remains Insolent in the Face of Mounting International Pressure
16:40 Apr 09, '06 / 11 Nisan 5766


(IsraelNN.com) Iranian officials have once again announced that the international community cannot dictate what Tehran does regarding ongoing nuclear enrichment efforts. Officials added that America and the West are “badly mistaken” if they believe the UN Security Council can compel Iran to comply with its demands.

According to a Washington Post report, despite American intelligence community reports that Tehran is about a decade away from building an atom bomb, Israel has recently sent warnings to the White House that the “point of no return” is very rapidly approaching, only months away, calling for American intervention.

The New Yorker Magazine reports America is planning to use bunker-busting bombs against nuclear facilities throughout Iran.

from: http://www.israelnationalnews.com/news.php3?id=101742

I think it just means they will have enough enriched uranium to make use of nuclear energy. Not quit enough highly enriched uranium to make a bomb just yet

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But Bush has to aslo look at the Muslim community backlash that's inevitable once the inevitable attack happens, be it by us or the Israeli's. Even if the Israeli's carry this attack out unilaterally, the US will by De Facto have also contributed by supplying them with the bombs and the approval to fly over airspace we control to do it.

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AND very soon tomorrow MAYBE? OR maybe the JURY of the Mousaouii trial get instructions to drag it out a bit?

With the Iraq/Afghanastan/possibly Iran, and Iran so close to the above Al Quada members SENTENCING.....add that to backlash maybe just a little or alot? OPINIONS?

I am amazed, sorry to burst in like this, but perhaps you did not know that United States ALREADY have Nuclear Weapons.... Why are you taking about Iran? The U.S is the only country using Nuclear Weapons against other human beings.. Why talk about Iran? U.S ALREADY have the weapons, something should be done about that, should it not?

Hypocrisy?

Actually, the world has enough on its hands with having one hypocrite. The question is can it deal with having two?

BTW Iran has announced it has achieved enriching uranium, in appreciable amounts, for fueling a nuclear reactor.

...I doubt they will stop there.

LATEST TODAY...

Iran takes nuclear technology step Wednesday April 12, 02:29 AM


TEHRAN (Reuters) - President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad says Iran wants to achieve industrial-scale uranium enrichment, setting his country on a collision course with the United States which fears Tehran wants to make an atomic bomb.

On Tuesday, Ahmadinejad said Iran had successfully produced the enriched uranium needed to make nuclear fuel for the first time, triggering a warning from Washington that Tehran's latest declared nuclear advance could heighten international pressure.

Ahmadinejad said in a televised address: "I am officially announcing that Iran has joined the group of those countries which have nuclear technology. This is the result of the Iranian nation's resistance."

"Based on international regulations, we will continue our path until we achieve production of industrial-scale enrichment," he told officials and some ambassadors from regional states gathered in the northeastern city of Mashhad.

The United Nations has said Iran must halt uranium enrichment, a process Western nations fear Tehran wants to master so that it can develop nuclear weapons. Tehran insists its aims are entirely peaceful.

White House spokesman Scott McClellan said that Iran's announcement could force further talks among the U.N. Security Council powers.

"If the regime continues to move in the direction that it is currently, then we will be talking about the way forward with the other members of the Security Council and Germany about how to address this going forward," he said.

The U.S. State Department said it was unable to confirm Iran's announcement, and some experts said that even if Tehran's assertions were accurate, it would still be years before the Islamic state was able to produce a nuclear weapon.

U.S. State Department spokesman Sean McCormack said the announcement gave "more weight to the international community to act in a concerted fashion", but some experts said it was unclear if Russia and China, veto-wielding members of the Security Council, would be willing to back sanctions.

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Iran 1 step from atomic bomb
With 3 developments this year, Tehran's pace startling analysts

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Posted: April 12, 2006
1:00 a.m. Eastern



© 2006 WorldNetDaily.com


Satellite image of Iranian nuclear facility at Bushehr
Confounding the predictions of many Western analysts, Iran's announcement yesterday that it successfully enriched uranium was the third major development this year on the way to producing an atomic bomb, leaving only one more step.

That next development – metalizing the enriched uranium to fit it into a warhead – could come as soon as four months from now, says author Jerry Corsi, who has watched the predictions in his book "Atomic Iran" unfold since it was published one year ago.

"They have only one more problem to solve," Corsi said. "The world has got to stop thinking about these Iranians as backward, just because Ahmadinejad has a radical religious agenda. They have all the technical knowledge and all the money they need to solve these problems."

full story at: http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article....RTICLE_ID=49698

Thats right because The US is using them to wipe counries off the face of the map. Good idea. Lets just do away with America and let communism or radical Islam rule so we have no freedom, even to say the ridiculous statement you just made. The fact that you have the right to come on this post and do nothing but try to start a fight is proof that you like freedoms and like to use them. So try and defend the countries that give you those freedoms. The time will come when you or no one will have these freedoms and you'll beg for a country like America to come to the rescue and pay for your freedom with the lives of her troops. So pleasssse show some respect. Hypocrisy???????????????????????

1 Christian Fellowship: / NEWS Corner / IRAN'S AHMADINEJAD: WEST WILL BURN IN NATIONS' FURY 4/12 on: Today at 11:23:14am
Iran’s Ahmadinejad: West will burn in nations’ fury
Wednesday, 12th April 2006
Iran Focus

Tehran, Iran, Apr. 12 – Iran’s radical President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in a fiery sermon demanded that “Iran’s enemies”, or the West, bow down before Iran and apologize for having held back Tehran’s nuclear program for three years. He also warned the West that it would “burn” in the “fire of the nations’ fury”.

“Those who insulted the Iranian nation and set back Iran’s movement for progress for several years must apologise”, Ahmadinejad said at a rally in the eastern town of Rashtkhar. His comments were aired on state television and carried by the official news agency.

“You must bow down to the greatness of the Iranian nation”, he said, addressing the West.

He added that if the United States continued to seek to use “bullying” tactics then “every nation of the world” would chant “Death to America” and “Death to Israel”.

“If you do not return to monotheism and worshipping god and refuse to accept justice then you will burn in the fire of the nations’ fury”, Ahmadinejad said.

He once again accused the West of launching a “psychological war” against Iran.

On Tuesday, Ahmadinejad declared that Iran had joined the Nuclear Club.

“I officially announce that Iran has joined the world’s nuclear countries”, Ahmadinejad said in a speech that was broadcast on state television.

The UN Security Council adopted a “Presidential Statement” unanimously on March 29 giving Iran 30 days to suspend all of its uranium enrichment activities and resume its cooperation with the International Atomic Energy Agency.

http://www.iranfocus.com/modules/news/arti...hp?storyid=6733

Iran said could have atomic weapon in 16 days....
http://www.tribulation.ws/listnews.php?article=1654


After I read this article, I happened to glance at my calender, and I saw that I had written on it on this month, "16 days left" in the margin for this month. I wrote that on my calender 3 weeks ago, half way through March, as I was counting how many vacation days left....this startled me when I saw that. Concidence?

Easter is the 16th but let's not go off on this rabbit trail again..We did this before with numbers and dates.

Easter, Rabbit trail? No pun intended I'm sure?

Good one Chrio!

Squirrel trail ok?

LOL