Posted on 02/10/2010 12:41:03 PM PST by maquiladora
WASHINGTON (KMOX Radio) -- A warning earlier this week from Iran's supreme ruler that his country will deliver a "punch" February 11th that will "stun" the West is being taken seriously at the highest levels of the U-S government, according to Missouri's two Senators.
Democratic Missouri Senator Claire McCaskill described the concern about Iran today in Washington as a matter of "almost hyper focus."
"I know the military is monitoring it carefully. I know the intelligence community is monitoring it carefully. I can't share many of the details of that. But I will say that I think our government is very, very, very concerned."
Earlier this week, Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said in a speech that: "The Iranian nation, with its unity and God's grace, will punch the arrogance (Western Powers) on the 22nd of Bahman (February 11) in a way that will leave them stunned."
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You are correct. That is what NATO is for. If one member is attacked it is an attack on all members. We are required to come to their aid and defense.
The report about 2 Israeli ships transiting the Suez and heading down the Red Sea are from a source that quotes Debka for part of its info......anybody who relies on Debka is maybe not so up on things as they would like us to believe.
There was a satellite Omid launched 2/2/09 which reached an orbit of 383km and reentered in 4/09.
#iranelection has been in play since June, and continues to be active.
#22bahman refers to Feb 11 specifically.
I've followed an individual who goes by "oxfordgirl" since June. She(?)seems level headed and informed, and has apparently remained safe. Oxfordgirl also has a lot of Twitter connections.
Canada is current chair of the G-8 and that makes Canadian PM Stephen Harper a key player in any rachet-up of sanctions.
Why don’t they just go in and bestow Washington’s most powerful blessing upon him?
Sun is rising in Teheran right now...36 degrees....people heading to Azadi Square (the govt has declared Azadi closed).
Twitterfall “Iran” is streaming twitters, many of which are from Iran.
No problem. Iran has been buying unemployed Soviet scientists since the downfall of the Evil Empire. They don't have to develop anything in their own, their Russian hirelings will put it together for them.
The capsule, which the Kavoshgar-3 rocket carried into space, landed safely later Wednesday, the semi-official Fars news agency reported. Studies on the live animals that were inside are underway.
...just wondering. Can’t find any tracking info on it.
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Great catch,,,
This is the first story I heard,,,
It didn’t make it into orbit,,,
I can’t find any info on the Kavoshgar-3,,,payload/etc.,,,
Still lookin’...
True that would be a stunner, too. But for the general population an A-bomb test would be more impressive - for two reasons, it’s easier to understand and a lot of people still think they’re far enough away from test that they could still be stopped.
I’m worried the “punch” will be a total crackdown...people like to say freedom is inevitable, and I wish it were so, but it depends on how brutal the Iranian gov’t wants to be be.
I hope the new day will not be too bloody, but mostly, I hope the gov’t itself falters.
Well, now, see, I was commenting on the other poster’s suggesting Israel should “share” some of their nukes with Iran - meaning (my post) that if Israel were to “share” with Iran, there would be an excess of glass in Iran. I certainly hope that Iran isn’t actually stupid enough to nuke Israel, because that would result in Iran’s complete destruction.
According to Wikipedia, one 10kt fission device detonated at 450km would generate enough of an EMP to finish off the entire Eastern seaboard.
For comparison, Hiroshima was a 15kt device, and the reported yield of the 1998 Pakistani devices were 12-40kt.
And Iran launched a satellite into a 384km orbit last year.
We’ve got to develop a hardened infrastructure. This is ridiculous. At this rate, within 25 years, every country will be able to take us out.
I have NO idea how credible this site is (I never heard of it before; this article was linked from another blog) but this article - http://www.analyst-network.com/article.php?art_id=3345 - called “A devastating war between Israel & Hezbollah is on the horizon” contains the following quote that supports the first item on your list, SR.
“In a report written by Hamid Ghoriafi, Middle East analyst and journalist, that was published today by the Kuwaiti Daily Al-Seyassah, Ghoriafi drew a very dim picture for the whole situation and predicted a very devastating imminent war that will be according to the Israelis the last one with on their northern borders. Below are some excerpts from this report:
“*Reliable European intelligence reports in London unveiled on Monday an extensive secretive Israeli ongoing operation to evacuate hundreds of families living in the Galilee settlements adjacent to the border with Lebanon to safer locations inside Israel, especially west Jerusalem, Tel Aviv and surrounding areas. These families are transported by trucks and buses and priority is given to families with many children, the elderly and the physically disabled. The evacuees’ houses are put under the control of the Northern Military Command for reasons not yet known. “
Mind you, the report quoted is by an Arab analyst and published in a Kuwaiti newspaper so who knows how accurate it is, but I found it interesting in that it seems to corroborate your mention of evacuation of non-essential personnel from the north and east.
NOT A PLEASANT READ. SOMETHING TO PONDER.
Source: Before It’s News
fair use
link:
http://beforeitsnews.com/story/17243...amic_Iran.html
What Should We Expect on Feb. 11th from Islamic Iran
It all depends to what degree Iran wants to leave its fingerprints directly on the events. The analysis below is a partial and not a comprehensive list.
Some givens:
1. Supreme Ruler Ali Khamenei no longer has many Iranians in his personal bodyguards and is protected by the dregs of Palestinian prisons his son Mojtaba imported into Iran via flights into South Iran including into Kish Island.
2. Some 15,000 of these are the worst criminals he could find and the only triage was that they had to have bodybuilder physiques and preferably be in prison for murder or other violent crimes.
3. These 15,000 crew hit squads were also used for the murder and torture of the protestors and demostrators and Mojtaba not only participated frequently in torture sessions in Kahrizak prison but enjoyed raping the detainees.
Whether he limited himself just to girls and women has been hard to establish as young men and boys were treated as sex objects on a regular basis in all the prisons, specially the privately run 100 or so secret ones that report only to their bandit Mullah leaders and do not officialy exist.
He apparently personally took part in conducting horrible, barbaric tortures and enjoyed watching the gang rapes and frequently joined in, spending an inordinately unusual amount of time in the prisons, monitoring the torture of demonstrators.
3. His self-proclaimed, Imam father, Supreme Ruler Ali Khamenei has put his faith on Palestinians and no Iranian can buy a yard of land around the Imam Reza shrine in Mashhad, which has been repopulated by Sunni (not Shia) Palestinians! The shrine has enormous revenues he siphons off and is guarded by them.
4. This symbiotic Palestinian relationship leads to his hatred for Israel and serious declarations of imminent destruction of it.
5. 12th Imam, Hojatieh, adherent Ahmadi-Nejad has his own lunatic pull toward annihilating Israel and earning his 72 virgins in paradise as an act of obeisance for the End Times 12th Imam. With less and less to lose every day in a no win position and clashing wills with Khamenei, Ahmadi-Nejad will tend to try to go out in a blaze of glory with a huge act of detruction in the name of Shia Islam.
6. Suppression of the demonstrations against the regime on Feb 11th, while perhaps brutal and at the cost of thousands of lives with machine gunfire coming from the new Revolutionary Guard acquisition of armed pilotless helicopters may be an almost side issue for Khamenei and Ahmadi-Nejad. They have a global stage on which they want to play, knowing they may not survive the peoples’ rebellion on Feb 11th.
7. A Russian physicist, who worked in Iran for ten years has just leaked that Iran already has nuclear weapon capability. In addition to the nuclear material they acquired as far back as the late 80’s and early 90’s from Ukraine and had retrofitted onto their Shahab missiles by North Korea in reverse engineered nose cones.
8. With huge fortunes, Khamenei and some of the top regime Mullahs like Rafsanjani may flee the country or at least park their families in other countries. Khamenei was reported to have sent most of his and his wife’s family to Russia some time back.
Other factors come into play but this provides a stage setting for what may be done by the Islamic regime, remembering that they are Shia as opposed to Saudi Arabia Sunnis. And they have hundreds of Al Qaeda sheltering in Iran and others with whom they are in contact in Yemen, whose northern mountain tribes are Shia descendants of Zeid, son of Imam Ali (the Prophet’s son-in-law) and founder of the Shia sect of Islam.
Here are possible attacks or actions by the Islamic regime in Iran in no particular order of importance and could be in tandem or in combination:
1. A nuclear “test” by Iran on a target in the region, including on “enemy” naval warships as part of ostensibly protecting itself against a preceived invasion .
2. A nuclear missile or two sent at Israel, which is well within range and just one exploding in Central Israel would basically wipe out most of the the country’s population and make the rest uninhabitable.
3. Nuclear missiles sent at New York, Los Angeles and Washington D.C., any one of them or all three, launched from retrofitted cargo ships, possibly rust buckets rebuilt in West Africa, probably Somalia and sailed close to these three ports, bringing them all into easy range.
MORE LIKELY than this very violent attack with lots of dead would be to launch missiles at Israel, and the three U.S. cities above and explode nuclear EMP (Electro Magnentic Pulse) weapons above them. Optimum height to strength reportedly about 40,000 feet above them. The higher the wider the circumference but unless the force were also greater a lesser “damage” result.
Note Iran has had EMP capability for many years.
For “damage” read a disruption of any and all unshielded electronic circuitry - computers, traffic lights, trains, ships, automobiles, trucks, ports, subways to some degree, computer dependent equipment in hospitals, banks, Wall Street, cell phones, landline phones, radios, TV’s, gas stations etc., just to name a limited number of obvious failures.
AND NOT ONE LIFE WOULD BE LOST from the explosions, which destroy cicruitry but do not harm human or animal life!
MEANWHILE - Yemeni Shia pro-Iran terrorists, perhaps assisted by Al Qaeda forces in Yemen, would attack (infiltrating overland) major SaudiArabian oil installations, refineries and destroy as much of these as possible, thus harming Western economies and interests. Thus the Sunni Arabs, who consider Shia Moslems as infidels, would be punished and crippled.
Meanwhile Islamic Iran retaliation - for ensuing reaction by the West - might take the following forms and escalate:
a) An immediate barrage of thousands of prepositioned short range rockets at Saudi and Persian Gulf States, specially oil and fianncial installations of buildings.
b) A similar barrage on Israel from Lebanon, Syria and by Palestinian Hamas in Gaza and the 5,000 Palestinian Special Forces Obama has been training in Jordan with American Generals in charge.
c) Rockets fired at USA and Coalition troops in Iraq from within Iran.
d) Bomb attacks on US businesses around the world such as Starbucks, hamburger chains etc., and U.S. bank banches and where they can our Embassies and Consulates.
MOST DEMORALIZING....
Attacks within THE USA:
Some estimated 40,000 Islamist suicide bombers have been gathered in the USA over the past 15-years, newly trained ones have been entering under a variety of visas in a steady flow during the last few years and are waiting instructins to deploy.
Targets will include as many soft targets as can be reached with the most terrifying results. Shjopping malls, IED explosives on our freeways hitting random targets but specifically tanker trucks.
Major and minor airport terminals will become dangerous to visit as suiciders kill air passengers as well as at major train and bus terminals.
Directed charge explosives will easily bring down electricity network towers crippling the nation’s power grids.
PERHAPS WORST OF ALL is the terrorist kidnapping of our school children, which appears to have been in the planning stages for some time.
a) There are some 40 school buses which have “disappeared” around the nation, yes, they are no longer where they should be and nobody knows where they are.
b) An increasingly large number of school bus drivers are Afghan and other Islamic nationalities.
c) In the event a series of terrorist attacks and a sudden need to send children home rapidly, which school will carefully check out the drivers who show up? And how could they check the drivers’ validity anyway? All the terrorists need to say is that they were sent to help with the emergency. Busloads of our children might never make it home either to be killed in a sadistic retaliation for an attack on Iran or as hostages.
d) School buses become excellent cover for terrorists to move arms and personnel among the children they steal, who become shields, or apparently empty with equipment and men hidden on the floor. Who has time to check out yellow school buses when chaos abounds?
Ambulances are regularly used to smuggle arms and people in Palestinian territories, often displaying United Nations emblems, so not a new idea.
AND FINALLY we face poisoned food and water. Apparently, a large number of slaughter houses are operated by Islamists. Examples of tainted food and food products on Supermarket shelves has reached the news from time to time. A concerted effort would fall into place as terrorists attack another soft target with rudimentary chemicals and easy access.
Think about this.
What the heck....he is just going to change it to President Obama!
Back in June, I was on 24/7. She is THE one to watch.
Anyone who wants to follow, go here: #iranelection
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Oxfordgirl vs Ahmadinejad: the Twitter user taking on the Iranian regimeA woman tweeting from an English village is helping to moblise opposition protests across Iran
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/feb/10/oxfordgirl-ahmadinejad-twitter-iran
Matthew Weaver guardian.co.uk, Wednesday 10 February 2010 18.09 GMT Article history
Twitter updates have become an alternative to the Iranian government’s official version of events during the unrest. Photograph: AFP/Getty Images
As the resident of a quiet village in Oxfordshire with a plummy accent to match, she makes an unlikely revolutionary. But she has become a key player in the unrest that is shaking Iran and is such an irritant to President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad that she has been subjected to a propaganda campaign by the regime’s henchmen.
Known only by her Twitter name, Oxfordgirl has emerged as a crucial link between the protesters and the outside world. “Before they started blocking mobile phones I was almost co-ordinating people’s individual movements – ‘Go to such and such street,’ or ‘Don’t go there, the Basij [militia] are waiting,’ “ she said. “It was very strange to be sitting in Oxford and co-ordinating things like that.”
Tomorrow the opposition is planning another demonstration under the cloak of an official rally to mark the 31st anniversary of the revolution. Oxfordgirl, who guards her identity for fear of reprisals against her family in Iran, said: “It’s going to be a big day for the Persian psyche. It won’t topple the regime but it’s part of the process of showing the resistance won’t go away.
“It’s significant because of the symbolism of the revolution. A lot of people will attend the official rally and see lots of protesters coming out against the regime.”
Over the last seven months Oxfordgirl has built a reputation as one of the most reliable sources of information on the turmoil. Since the disputed election last June she has posted more than 12,000 updates on Twitter, and has become convinced that the social networking site is helping to bring down the regime.
“People who haven’t been involved in Iran don’t understand how Twitter can work – they think it’s about chatting about pop stars. But if it hadn’t been for Twitter a lot of people wouldn’t have got involved [in the unrest] and they wouldn’t know what’s going on.
“On a practical level it has saved lots of lives by warning people not to go down certain roads.”
A former journalist in Tehran, she has used her contacts to spread word of the unrest. With heavy restrictions on foreign media, Twitter updates from Oxfordgirl and a handful of others counter-balance the official version of events.
“In the early days I was posting news of riots in other cities, at a time when the international media was saying it was only in Tehran,” she said. “Several days later the BBC confirmed there had been riots elsewhere. This made what I was tweeting more trustworthy.”
In the run-up to tomorrow’s protest she has been using her 10,000 Twitter followers to disseminate ways of avoiding the anticipated crackdown. “The regime is getting better at shutting down the internet and my contacts are nervous about what might happen,” she said. “But Iranians are clever at getting around things.”
Oxfordgirl’s effectiveness appears to have rattled the regime. She is convinced that the Iranian government has tried to use Twitter itself to undermine her.
“One day a whole load of new people arrived on Twitter. It was quite clear that some ministry got them to join at the same time and follow each other. They started putting out rumours about me. When Persiankiwi [another prominent Twitter user] went silent, they said it was me who had turned him in. Then they started saying I was Maryam Rajavi [an exiled opposition leader regarded as a terrorist in Iran].”
She is acutely aware of the dangers of being discovered. “I live in a small village so anyone who is out of place stands out immediately. There have been a couple of moments when I’ve seen people outside, and my heart started going faster. Your imagination runs wild. I don’t want my cousins disappeared in the middle of the night.”
Despite the risks she is determined to carry on. “I’m doing this because I love Iran and I want to it to be free,” she said. “I don’t want people to be frightened of what they say.”
What’s with the half hour difference in your time stamp?
http://www.astreetjournalist.com/
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bttt
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