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Iran’s Khamenei presents war scenarios

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h/t Richard

(This is about 1/2 of the whole article available at…)

YNET NEWS:

In an unusual step, Iran’s spiritual leader publishes commentary on official website outlining three scenarios for strike against Islamic Republic. Meanwhile, Yedioth Ahronoth reports Israel has taken in shipment of Patriot missiles

Dudi Cohen

11.25.11, 12:02 / Israel News

In an unusual step that comes on the heels of Iran’s threats and warnings to the US and Khamenei warns US, Israel against strike

The article details three possible war scenarios Iran could be faced with if Israel or the US proceed with a strike:

1. An all out war of attrition that would combine aerial and ground forces attack.

2. Limited war as a preparatory action for political proceedings. This would include hitting Iran’s control centers for the purpose of disrupting the stability of the Islamic regime. The best case scenario here would be that war leads to the regime’s fall; the worst case would see Iran surrendering at the negotiating table.

3. A war on specific targets with the aim of destroying the regime’s assault capabilities, especially against the “Zionist regime.”
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Ready for action? Netanyahu and Obama (Photo: Reuters)

The Iranian commentator goes on to assess the possibility of likelihood of each scenario. He believes the feasibility of the first option is due, among other things to the fact that “the western countries’ capabilities to carry out such a complex operation are very limited and nearly nonexistent.”

Mohebian also mentioned the upcoming US presidential elections and the fact that the west doesn’t have sufficient intelligence on Iran. In light of these problems Mohebian believes that the chances of an all out war against Iran are close to nothing.

He goes on to point out the main problems of the second and third scenarios: The Iranian regime is prepared for an attack on its centers of power, the Iranian response to such an attack could be unexpected, the attack could turn the regime to an even more extreme path and encourage it to set the Middle East on fire, which would endanger the western world. Continue Reading →

Pakistan asks US to vacate Shamsi airbase within 15 days

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Dawn.com

Pakistan asks US to vacate Shamsi airbase within 15 days

Prime Minister Syed Yusuf Raza Gilani chairs the meeting of Defence Committee of the Cabinet at Prime Minister House on Saturday. – Photo by APP

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan on Saturday ordered the United States to vacate a controversial airbase within 15 days and closed Nato supply lines into Afghanistan permanently in response to a deadly cross-border Nato air strike.

The order refers to Shamsi, the remote desert outpost in southwest Pakistan reportedly used as a hub for covert CIA drone strikes, which Pakistan previously told the United States to leave in June.

Pakistan would also review all its diplomatic, political, military and intelligence activities with US and Nato. Continue Reading →

Iran threatens to target NATO missile shield in Turkey if attacked by US or Israel

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part of the article from the

WAPO

       By Associated Press, Updated: Saturday, November 26, 10:38 AM

TEHRAN, Iran — A senior commander of Iran’s powerful Revolutionary Guard says the country will target NATO’s missile defense shield in Turkey if the U.S. or Israel attacks the Islamic Republic.

Gen. Amir Ali Hajizadeh, the head of the Guards’ aerospace division, is quoted by the semiofficial Mehr news agency as saying the warning is part of a new defense strategy to counter what it sees as an increase in threats from the U.S. and Israel.

Dagestan:

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I have re-uploaded one of the videos that YT took special objection to, even though it was merely a subtitled compilation of two videos already on YT but by the original terrorist groups who posted them.

The first one is by a Dagestani leader who calls for all out war on the infidel and asks that women and children (with husbands or fathers permission of course) join the jihad and the second is a Dagestan women homicide bomber’s video she made right before slaughtering over a dozen uninvolved Russians at a Subway station in Russia.

I am reposting this video at this time because of the article a few posts down on Dagestan, and because the BBC will be airing a documentary today/tonight on how the entire region has become a chaotic violent jihad for the purpose of imposing sharia law on everyone and forcing Islamic hegemony and primacy through bombs and killing on all peoples of the area.

It is very important that those of us at more mild stages of the jihad, where it is about simpler rights and less intrusive violations of our own legal, moral and ethical systems pay close attention to what happens in areas where Islam grows in population and consequently influence. This is no joke and neither is it subtle.

Is this 15-ton bunker buster the bomb U.S. will use to destroy Iran’s nukes?

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This is a part of the article from:

The Daily Mail:

  • .S. Air Force takes delivery of eight Big Blu bombs
  • 6m long weapons contain 2.5 tons of explosives

By Lee Moran

Last updated at 1:45 PM on 17th November 2011

Could a 15 ton bunker buster that blows apart 200ft of concrete be the bomb that stops America’s adversaries from developing nuclear weapons?

The U.S. Air Force has unveiled the Massive Ordnance Penetrator – dubbed the Big Blu – and speculation is already mounting that it may be used in airstrikes on Iran or North Korea.

B-2 Stealth Bombers will use the six metre long GPS guided rocket, fitted with 2.5 tons of explosives, to smash open underground bunkers and tunnels suspected of containing weapons of mass destruction.

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Threat: USAF specialists stand under a mock-up of the new bunker busting Big BluThreat: USAF specialists stand under a mock-up of the new bunker busting Big Blu

Bunker buster: The USAF's $32 million contract with aerospace firm Boeing will see eight of the devices delivered to 'fulfil the Air Force's operational needs'Bunker buster: The USAF’s $32 million contract with aerospace firm Boeing will see eight of the devices delivered to ‘fulfil the Air Force’s operational needs’

USAF Lieutenant Colonel Jack Miller said the service started taking delivery of the giant bomb, a staggering ten times more powerful than its predecessor the BLU-109, in September.

He added that the $32 million contract with aerospace firm Boeing would see eight of the devices delivered to ‘fulfil the Air Force’s operational needs’.

Bahrain says terror cell linked to Iran, planned to kill Gulf dignitaries

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Anyone else seeing a pattern here?

From Al Arabiya.net

Sunday, 13 November 2011

Bahrain said four people arrested Saturday had links to Iran and Hezbollah. (Al Arabiya)

Bahrain said four people arrested Saturday had links to Iran and Hezbollah. (Al Arabiya)
By Al Arabiya And Agencies 

DUBAI

A cell broken up in Bahrain was linked to Iran’s Revolutionary Guard and planned to murder prominent Gulf figures, Al Arabiya TV reported on Sunday, quoting the prosecutors’ office in Bahrain.

 Bahrain’s state news agency BNA earlier reported that Members of the cell, four of them Bahrainis detained in neighboring Qatar, had also planned to attack a causeway joining Bahrain to Saudi Arabia. The suspects’ interrogation led to the arrest of a fifth member of the group in Bahrain, BNA reported.
Some of the suspects had confessed that “the group was set up abroad … to carry out terror operations in Bahrain … and was in coordination with the military overseas, including the Revolutionary Guards and the Basij (militia),” BNA quoted a Bahraini prosecution spokesman as saying. Continue Reading →

Kuwait ready for military strike against Iran: report

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Gulf News:

Manama: The Kuwaiti government has prepared since 2007 a comprehensive plan to ensure that any possible military attack against Iran over its nuclear programme would not have severe effects on Kuwait, a local daily reported.

According to Kuwait Times, the government has medicine and foodstuff in store to serve the country for six to eight months during “unexpected events,” and that it has also set up a tripartite committee made up of officials from the health, interior and foreign affairs ministries to review the latest developments in that regard.

Unidentified sources told the daily that the foreign affairs committee would this week hold a meeting to follow up the developments and would discuss with Shaikh Sabah Al Khalid Al Sabah, the Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Affairs Minister, the level of government’s readiness in case of a sudden attack against Iran.

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Israel debates military strike against Iran

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 From DW-World.DE

Israeli media, politicians and analysts have been discussing for a week the possibility of a military strike against Iranian nuclear facilities, but the country and its allies are far from a unified stance.

Iran is the greatest threat facing Israel and the rest of the world, Israeli President Shimon Peres said over the weekend as the nation debates whether it should carry out an airstrike on Iran’s nuclear facilities.

“Iran is the greatest danger, both for Israel and for the entire world,” Peres told a meeting of Druze leaders in a village in northern Israel on Sunday.

Shimon PeresPresident Peres says Iran is the greatest threat for Israel and the worldHis comments came after a weekend of appearances by Israeli leaders on domestic and international media outlets, as they campaigned for increasing international pressure on Tehran to halt its nuclear program.

“The Iranians are determined to turn into a military nuclear power,” Defense Minister Ehud Barak told CNN. “They are ready to deceive, to defy and to deter the rest of the world from doing something about it.”

Barak also told the BBC that “paralyzing” sanctions could force Iran to abandon its nuclear program, but that “no option should be removed from the table.”

Warnings against unilateral action

Peres also said Israel must build an international consensus on Iran, and that Israel could not take unilateral action. Nearly all the former intelligence chiefs in Israel stressed this point, with former Mossad chief Meir Dagan several months ago calling a military strike against Iranian nuclear centers the “stupid” and something that would risk starting a region-wide war.

Amiram Levin, ex-general and deputy intelligence chief from 1998 to 2000, told Israeli radio that Israel “must have an interest in preserving the balance of power in the Middle East.”

Iranian nuclear facilityIran says its nuclear program is for peaceful purposes“We are a tiny drop in this enormous Arab and Muslim sea, and we have no reason to destroy the balance of power and create an escalation that will last for many years,” he said, adding that Israel was “too small and in the wrong region” to play the role of world police.

French Foreign Minister Alain Juppe echoed those concerns, telling Europe 1 radio on Sunday that “everything must be done to avoid the irreversible.”

“We will continue on this path [of sanctions] because a military intervention could create a situation that completely destabilizes the region,” he said.

IAEA report

Speculation is growing that Israel may be planning a preemptive strike against Iran. The Haaretz newspaper reported that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has support from Defense Minister Barak and Foreign Minister Avigdor Liebermann for such a strike.

Barak was in London over the weekend, which Israeli media interpreted as evidence of the government’s desire to build international support for military action against Iran. The daily Guardian newspaper reported that the British military was already preparing for an attack.

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad Ahmadinejad says Iran will fight back against any attackMeanwhile Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad told the Egyptian state-owned newspaper Al-Akhbar accused Israel and the United States of building international support for a military strike, and that “the arrogant should know that Iran will not allow them to take any action against it.”

The International Atomic Energy Agency is expected to release a report on Iran’s nuclear program later this week. Previous reports have focused on Iran’s uranium enrichment program, which it says are solely for civilian purposes. The latest report is to focus on allegations that Iran plans to use the material to build a nuclear warhead.

Author: Bettina Marx, Tel Aviv / acb
Editor: Nancy Isenson

Israel speeds up ballistic missile tests as speculation grows of attack on Iran

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From The Guardian

H/T Snaphanen.DK

By Wil Longbottom

Last updated at 8:52 PM on 2nd November 2011

Israel successfully test-fired a missile capable of carrying a nuclear warhead and striking Iran today, fuelling concerns the country’s leaders are considering a military attack.

The concerns were sparked over the weekend by a report in the Yediot Ahronot newspaper that said Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Defence Minister Ehud Barak favour an attack.

That was followed by a report in the Haaretz daily today that said Mr Netanyahu is now lobbying Cabinet members for a military strike, despite the likelihood it would draw a retaliation from Iran.

Concerns: Israel has test-fired a missile, thought to be a Jericho missile, capable of carrying a nuclear warhead today (file picture)Concerns: Israel has test-fired a missile, thought to be a Jericho missile, capable of carrying a nuclear warhead today (file picture)

Threat: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is said to favour military action to thwart Iran's nuclear programmeThreat: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is said to favour military action to thwart Iran’s nuclear programme

An Israeli defence official said the military tested a ‘rocket propulsion system’ in an long-planned exercise.

Further information about the test was censored by the military, but foreign reports said it was a long-range Jericho missile – capable of carrying a nuclear warhead and striking Iran. Continue Reading →

Iran Rattles Saber at Israel, US

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From Israel-National-News 

H/T Richard.

Speculation in Israel’s press about a potential strike on Iran’s nuclear program, Tehran has warned of counter-punching in ‘a surprising way’

By Gavriel Queenann

First Publish: 11/2/2011, 4:23 PM

 

Ayatollah Ali Khameini

Ayatollah Ali Khameini
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Iran would cause serious damage to the United States and Israel should Jewish state strike the Islamic Republic’s nuclear program, Iran’s top military official said on Wednesday.

The “Zionist regime’s military attack against Iran would lead to heavy damages to the US as well as [to the] Zionist regime,” Iran’s Chief of Staff Maj.-Gen. Hassan Fayrouz Abadi said.

Iran would attack Israel in a “surprising” way, he was quoted by Army Radio as saying.

Iran’s bellicose rhetoric comes as senior ministers in Jerusalem took Israel’s media to task for discussing a potential strike on Iran, which commentators have suggested may be near. Continue Reading →

‘Israel warns Assad: Attack us, we’ll hit you personally’

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From The Jerusalem Post

By JERUSALEM POST STAFF AND REUTERS
06/29/2011 10:48

Israel reportedly sends message through Ankara following intelligence reports revealing unusual troop, missile movement, Kuwaiti paper reports.

The government sent a message to Syrian President Bashar Assad in recent days, warning him that if he started a war with the Jewish state in order to divert attention from domestic problems, Israel will target him personally, Kuwaiti newspaper Al-Jaridareported on Tuesday.

According to the report, the personal warning was sent through Turkey following intelligence reports of unusual Syrian troop movements, including the moving of long-range ballistic missiles that could be used to attack Israel.

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The report added that the IDF has increased its preparedness on the northern border out of fear that Hezbollah may try to again kidnap soldiers or civilians along the Lebanese border. Continue Reading →

How many laws will Anjem Chaudary not be charged with in this recent event?

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Below, there has to be 4 or more indictable offenses Chaudary commits or more. Surely knowingly making up false claims about the police and chanting them in the streets with a megaphone (I bet without a permit) has to be at least two or three of them. Public mischief? I don’t know British law well enough. But I can guarantee he has broken some. At least given what counter-jihadis are charged with constantly who do far far less and for an infinitely greater cause.

Please click over to Luton Today for more on this, newest tactic, by Anjem, leader of a group symbolically banned by the dhimmi government of Great Britain.

Iran nuclear drive heightens risk of strike: France

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 (AFP) – 14 hours ago  

UNITED NATIONS — France’s UN envoy warned that Iran faces the risk of a military strike if it pursues its nuclear drive because certain countries would not accept it having an atomic weapon.

In surprisingly frank comments at a New York panel discussion, Ambassador Gerard Araud on Tuesday followed up on President Nicolas Sarkozy’s statement that there could be a “preventive strike” against the Islamic republic.

Asked what would happen if Iran reaches the threshold of a nuclear weapon, Araud said: “Personally I am convinced that some countries won’t accept this prospect.” Continue Reading →