Posted on 04/06/2005 8:40:27 AM PDT by Interesting Times
Dr. Jerome Corsi: Thank you. It’s a great honor to be at the Heritage Foundation today, and I look forward to this, really the first speech I’ve given introducing the book “Atomic Iran.” And Rebecca, you're exactly right. I have a nine-year-old daughter and she says to me, “Daddy, the cover scares me.” And I say, “Well that's okay Alexis, it scared Daddy to write the book.”
I wrote this book because Iran with its current leadership, this Islamic republic; the theocracy, the clerics that are ruling Iran today are really terrorists. And in the very early part of my career I had done an enormous amount of work on anti-terrorism. I had worked as Rebecca mentioned with a Top Secret clearance to help the government understand even these Iranian terrorists and what they were capable of doing.
I want to make a distinction -- two distinctions -- these clerics have hijacked Islam and they’ve hijacked Iran. The Iranian people, by and large, between 70 to 90% of the people of Iran want this theocracy done away with. It is not a popular government. Nor does it have anything to do with the true principles of Islam, which I strongly support in the book. Islam is a religion believed by nearly a billion people; it's a fully legitimate religion, and the principles that these mad mullahs represent do not represent anything to do with Islam as a legitimate religion.
Now I want to make a few points very clear: the Islamic Republic in Iran is pursuing nuclear weapons -- we should make no qualms about that. Iran is sitting on approximately one-fourth of the world's proven reserves of natural gas and oil. Nuclear energy is a more expensive form of energy; one that the country does not need to go into the development of. There are nearly 300 sites in Iran dedicated to nuclear technologies, and even the International Agency for Atomic Energy in the United Nations has openly admitted that for 25 years Iran has been lying about its nuclear technologies capability.
We find out new things every week. Last week it came up that the Iranian Republic had purchased cruise missiles from the Ukraine, secretly. Those muscles were capable of holding nuclear warheads. We've had new discoveries saying that they've tested their Shahab-3 missile, which can fly 1700 km fast and accurately -- more than enough to reach Tel Aviv. They have constantly been lying about their enrichment of uranium. They have got one of the largest abilities to enrich uranium in the Middle East including a heavy water plant whose main purpose is to produce plutonium.
What I learned in studying terrorism -- and I was trained by many psychiatrists, watched hundreds of hours of interviews with terrorists, various forms of bad guys, serial killers, etc. -- what I can tell you is they don't think like normal people. Terrorists will sit there and lie to you because they don't share your same attachment to the truth. In fact, they think your attachment to the truth limits you in that it's a vulnerability that they don't share. They’re in a value system beyond; a value system that they think justifies their killing and murdering hundreds of thousands of people. These mullahs in an eight-year war with Iraq sent their own children, wave after wave of children into battlefields and minefields, many times with no weapons, saying, “Well, there will be troops ahead of you who will be dead; pick up the weapons if you get there.” …and with little keys around their necks reminding the children that today they were going to be in heaven because they were about to be martyred. That's not sane thinking to have your own children to go into that kind of a suicidal action.
For 25 years, the mullahs in Iran have been supporting Hezbollah, which they created: the terrorist organization in Lebanon. That terrorist organization has been actively sending suicide bombers to Israel. In fact, the mullahs invented suicide bombing. They invented the whole technique and have argued for martyrs all around the Middle East to attack Israel and the United States. We can see in the television produced by Hezbollah, which is called “Suicide TV” around the world. We banned it in the United States – it’s even banned in France. Hour after hour of television programming, which shows and makes heroes out of the suicide bombers. It shows their mothers talking about how they prepare these children for sacrifice.
The mullahs have said that they will take 200 million casualties in the world if a nuclear conflagration ended up also eliminating the State of Israel, because they have pledged death to Israel and death to the United States. And they mean it. Their rabid anti-Semitic Jewish hatred is almost identical to what we saw from Hitler, and with Hitler we had a holocaust that killed 6 million Jews and a World War that killed at least another 60 million. To get rid of this evil, we could be looking at the possibility that if they have a nuclear weapon, they’ll launch one on Tel Aviv, or bring an improvised nuclear device into the United States and explode it in a major US city through Hezbollah sleeper cells that are probably already here, and that city will most likely be New York.
The danger is intense, especially when you realize that the mullahs have been repressing their own people. Women, for minor offenses, are stoned or hanged. They invented hanging with hydraulic cranes. Regularly, 200 to 300 people disappear every week in Iran, because they’ve spoken out against the government.
These mullahs are living in luxury; they’re a Mafia. They have offshore contracts where they’re raking off oil profits and sharing them in many cases with their friends in Europe. They’ve bought for themselves and their families and their adult children high-rise luxury apartments in the United Arab Emirates. They have their bank accounts, private bank accounts stacked away in Syria or in Europe. At the same time the average person in Iran is living on less than a dollar a day. $200 million a day to these mullahs are going to their personal enrichment, the development of nuclear weapons, and putting money into the United States in the various ways it gets here to buy legitimacy, to have our politicians say that we can work with them, to argue that they should be given nuclear fuel because it's their right as a nation.
All of these things are lies. If they have the ability, they’ll take the same track that North Korea has outlined for them. The mullahs intend to play the world as a fool, to say they will only use nuclear power for peaceful purposes, to claim it's their right by being a signatory to the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty -- a bizarre concept, that because they've signed this treaty they have the right now to enrich uranium: that's what they're arguing, and if they get to proceed along this track, one day they'll just announce, as did Kim Jong-il, that suddenly they have nuclear weapons.
Now, I wrote this book to sound an alarm bell; to bring this message to the American people. I know it will not be a popular message. I know we’re going to hear, “Well, there were no weapons of mass destruction found in Iraq, so what makes you think there are any problems in Iran?” Well, the world knows. The documentary evidence, which I present in great detail in the book, shows from US government reports, the United Nations reports, experts around the world, that no one doubts that Iran is pursuing a nuclear weapons track. The question is: how are they going to be stopped?
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i DONT AGREE these mullahs have 'hijacked' islam. this so-called religion is BENT on Israel and the U.S' destruction. THAT is not a religion!
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Excellent!
Yes, thank you for the post.
Thanks... have you seen the TV ad?
The only way to prevent this is to make it very clear to the Iranian Mullahs, that their country will be "glassed" immediately following that event....no questions asked.
Mullahs, Shieks, and Imans never, ever commit suicide.....They aren't anxious to die.
The only way?
Rather than planning to incinerate millions of people, many of whom hate the mullahs and have no animosity towards us, wouldn't it be better to work towards changing the leadership of Iran?
Rather than planning to incinerate millions of people, many of whom hate the mullahs and have no animosity towards us, wouldn't it be better to work towards changing the leadership of Iran
Of course! Thats first choice.....But the two are not mutually exclusive. To walk quietly while carrying a big stick works every time.
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this man impresses me and I hope he DOES run for Senator from Massachusetts. play the security card, jerry.
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While many Iranians hate the Mullahs they don't hate a nuclear Iran. They hate the repressive theocracy. What is the theory, that with the Mullahs gone Iran will abandon nukes? I see no connection. And I don't have the faith in the anti- Mullah populace that some seem to.
The nuclear program has to be eliminated.
Yes I looked at the TV ad from the website after reading the article. It was excellent also, I hope it gets a lot of play.
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