[strategofr]

Sounds as if the decision to act has been made.

[sgtbono2002]

Its a matter of survival.

The UN is as useles as Teats on a boar hog.
Europe is anti-semite
The US is busy in Iraq . More interested right now in their peace plan that wont work with the Palestinians and supporting the Palestinians with millions in aid.
I believe even the Arabs are silently hoping Israel will stop Iran, since no one else will.

Yes I believe Israel will have to make that call themselves.

[Gritty]

Ominous.

We are very apt to see a nuclear exchange very, very, soon. According to information revealed to Kenneth Timmerman, Iran probably already possesses nuclear warheads and the means to deliver them on Israel. If it doesn't today, it will have in a matter of weeks, at most a very few months. Iran has already declared they are going to annihilate Israel. Not "might" annihilate, "will" annihilate!

I just finished reading this revealing and scary book today, and I've gone to Condition Red. Forget about droning on in coulda, woulda, shoulda about Iraq. The immediate and deadliest threat is coming to a head in Iran and is nearly completely under our public radar.

As usual, the MSM is asleep at the switch, still stuck on Joe Wilson and Murtha.

[backhoe]

A little old, but still informative:

The Samson Option-- what is known about Israel's Nuclear Weapons?

If you'll follow "the links within the links," there is an old report that our Air Force estimated Israeli warheads to number around 400, versus the usually quoted 200 figure.

[stm]

Iran is bringing a knife to a gunfight if they decide to provoke a no-$hit confrontation with Israel. Israel will kick the ever loving dog$hit out of these Iranian diaperheads.

[rfreedom4u]

I have no doubts at all that Israel has nukes. I would have no sympathy should Iran be on the receiving end of one if it attacks Israel. That would also put the other arab countries on notice that Israel will no longer take their bullying. And if I were president I would respond that any sovereign nation has the right to defend itself. The arabs have not been held accountable for a long time. It's time to pay the piper.

[Calpernia]

December 4, 2005: Iran uses music to play out nuclear case

Source: IRNA

Iran has taken its nuclear energy campaign to the realm of music this time in an effort to strike a chord with the public about the peaceful nature of this "national" achievement.

The Music and Songs Center of the Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting (IRIB) has produced two musical pieces "in parallel with supporting the peaceful nuclear technology", the center said in a statement Saturday.

The works named "Indebted to Fire" and "The Burning Lantern" are being produced with a symphonic orchestra trait, it added.

Meanwhile, the press reported Saturday that a plan was being broached for a public offering of Iran's nuclear energy stock.

"According to a plan which has just been forwarded to the Supreme National Security Council and will soon be put on the agenda, the nuclear stock will be offered to the public," the daily Kayhan wrote.

The paper said feasibility studies on the plan would probably commence soon.

"The plan is based on the peacefulness of the nuclear energy according to which, the government can even issue bonds in order to provide finance for building nuclear plants," it added.

Kayhan went on to say that "based on what experts believe, the ceding of nuclear shares to the public beside reasserting the peaceful nature of Iran's nuclear technology can strengthen its place as a modern source of energy among the people".

The plan would require the government to find out mechanisms according to which revenues from the sale and exports of nuclear products would be distributed among the shareholders, the paper said.

The government is fresh from its approval of a bill on how to participate foreign companies in Iran's nuclear energy program.

The program is a thorn in Washington's side since the US law bans the country's firms from any engagement in Iran's development projects.

Iran's first nuclear plant is being built by Russia under a one-billion-dollar contract which is scheduled to become operational in mid-2006.

Last week, a key parliament speaker announced that Iran would tender by March 2006 the construction of two more nuclear power plants.

"In the 1384 budget, Iran's Atomic Energy Organization has been given license to set up 20 nuclear plants with a capacity to generate 20,000 megawatts of electricity," Alaeddin Boroujerdi, the head of parliament's National Security and Foreign Policy Commission, said.

US authorities claim that the program might be a front to build an atom bomb, a charge Tehran vigorously denies.

Iran's Supreme National Security Council (SNSC) announced last week that the so-called EU3 had accepted Iran's offer to take up nuclear negotiations from where they were left off in August.

In a letter dated November 6, SNSC Secretary Ali Larijani had invited the Europeans to resume the negotiations.

Negotiations broke down in August after Iran rejected an EU proposal of concessions, which the country described as 'a package of lollipops' and resumed uranium conversion work.

Foreign Ministry spokesman Hamid Reza Asefi has stressed that the focal point of any future negotiations would have to provide 'concrete guarantees for realizing production of nuclear fuel in Iran'.

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