Posted on 03/19/2015 1:14:07 PM PDT by familyop
Suspected for years of plotting to dismantle the U.S. electric grid, American officials have confirmed that Iranian military brass have endorsed a nuclear electromagnetic pulse explosion that would attack the country's power system.
American defense experts made the discovery while translating a secret Iranian military handbook, raising new concerns about Tehran's recent nuclear talks with the administration.
The issue of a nuclear EMP attack was raised in the final hours of this week's elections in Israel when U.S. authority Peter Vincent Pry penned a column for Arutz Sheva warning of Iran's threat to free nations.
"Iranian military documents describe such a scenario — including a recently translated Iranian military textbook that endorses nuclear EMP attack against the United States," he wrote.
A knowledgable source said that the textbook discusses an EMP attack on America in 20 different places.
Arizona Republican Rep. Trent Franks, who is leading an effort to protect the U.S. electric grid from an EMP attack, has recently made similar claims based on the document translated by military authorities.
Once sneered at by critics, recent moves by Iran and North Korea have given credibility to the potential EMP threat from an atmospheric nuclear explosion over the U.S.
Pry has suggested ways for Iran to deliver a nuclear attack: by ship launched off the East Coast, a missile or via satellite.
Either way the result could be destruction of all or part of the U.S. electric grid, robbing the public of power, computers, water and communications for potentially a year.
Frank Gaffney, founder and president of the Center for Security Policy, said the threat to the grid can also come from solar activity.
He has been pushing Washington and state governments to take the relatively inexpensive move to protect the electric grid, though his concern is from a nuclear attack by Iran or North Korea.
"It is increasingly frightening," he said. "We have to get started on this."
He noted that Iran's top military leader recently announced that he was ready for war with the U.S.
"We are ready for the decisive battle against the U.S. and the Zionist regime," Iranian Armed Forces Chief of Staff General Hassan Firouzabadi told Iran's Fars News Agency in 2014.
Below is from Pry's column that discusses an Iran EMP attack:
Iran armed with nuclear missiles poses an unprecedented threat to global civilization.
One nuclear warhead detonated at high-altitude over the United States would blackout the national electric grid and other life sustaining critical infrastructures for months or years by means of an electromagnetic pulse (EMP). A nationwide blackout lasting one year, according to the Congressional EMP Commission, could cause chaos and starvation that leaves 90 percent of Americans dead.
Iranian military documents describe such a scenario--including a recently translated Iranian military textbook that endorses nuclear EMP attack against the United States.
Thus, Iran with a small number of nuclear missiles can by EMP attack threaten the existence of modernity and be the death knell for Western principles of international law, humanism and freedom. For the first time in history, a failed state like Iran could destroy the most successful societies on Earth and convert an evolving benign world order into world chaos.
I believe that if they did this and Obama refused to retaliate then Netanyahu would obliterate Iran with thermonuclear weapons.
Not only as retaliation for the strike on the US but to protect against a strike on Israel.
I can see no other possibility in such circumstances.
No need to worry here. Why, just today, the regime’s “Anthony Blinken ... reassured ... lawmakers [that a] nuclear deal the Obama administration signs with Iran would prevent Tehran from developing a nuclear weapon...”
EMP would cause the grid to go down.
The Grid will not come back up for days.
someone will stand trial for treason.
Yes, this is scary atuff. But, if it happened, where would Obama play golf, an activity of transcendent importance to him?
When they say “Death to America” it’s more like a slogan. They don’t really mean it.
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Why would he? They have the same goals.
If it’s “ballistic” and can go into orbit,
it can land anywhere on earth.
There is no such thing as EMP, there will be expert FReepers along shortly to explain it to you. /s
The dirty little secret is that they need only master orbital telemetry and have a launch vehicle suitable for LEO insertion of a nominal payload...they don’t need long range ICBM capability nor MIRV.
Besides, they’ve already demonstrated sea launch from a converted freighter...iirc
Deterrence depends on credibility. Obama has no credibility, but Netanyahu certainly does. That’s for sure.
“where would Obama play golf”
You don’t need electricity or Blackberry to play golf.
I will be okay. As long as it happens to every country I do not fear an EMP. The hipster and hood rat herds will be thinned however...
I’m betting Obama would willingly give them satellite technology
like Clinton did for the Chinese.
An excellent book that really opened my eyes to just how un-prepared I was.
As for a single EMP burst over America; it will take more than that to wipe out the whole country. Sure, we will be feeling lots of pain as a result, but the country as a whole will not be lost.
And I wonder what Canada and Mexico think of this Iranian plan. It’s not like the pulse will stop at the borders.
They have been monitored in the Caspian Sea launching at trajectories well suited for EMP deliveries that would float such a device up our southern border.
Not a chance..The standard line would be "We don't have time for this, we need to get America back up and running again; we'll deal with it later". And it will never come. Stand trial? No. The citizenry needs to take note of the treasonous bastards and do the work themselves if such an even as an EMP attack happens.
Aren’t most golf carts electric? Note to the point, if a successful EMP attack throws the US in chaos and tens of millions starve, golf course opration will likely be disrupted.
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