@@ Satanic U.S. & Israel both nuclear-armrd have the audacity to tell other nations to sit defenseless in the face of JEW aggression @@

Foreign Correspondent
January 16, 2006

Nuclear Showdown with IRAN

By Eric Margolis

Iran has thrown down the gauntlet to the U.S. and EU by resuming uranium enrichment
laboratory tests. Tehran is not heeding a mounting chorus of warnings from its foes
in the west and even its friends in Moscow.

"We won't be bullied", said Iran's President, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, who denied Iran
has nuclear ambitions and insisted his nation had every right under the Nuclear
Non-proliferation Treaty (NPT) to enrich uranium to produce electrical power.

In a prime example of the pot calling the kettle black, the U.S. and Israel - both
nuclear powers - accuse Iran of secretly developing nuclear weapons in violation of
the Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT).

They offer no confirming proof of this charge, just more so-called leaks from
"high-level administration sources" in the U.S. accusing Iran of working on a nuclear
delivery system. We saw precisely the same pattern in the run-up to the invasion of
Iraq.

Tehran accuses the west of nuclear apartheid and hypocrisy, citing the Bush
Administration's recent pact to provide fuel and technology to India's nuclear
programs, which Washington formerly condemned. India has an estimated 100 nuclear
weapons and is building land and sea-launched missiles that can strike the
continental United States.

Only Muslim nations, (Pakistan excepted since it's a reliable U.S. ally) it seems,
are not to be allowed nuclear weapons.

Given that U.S. and Israel are already probing Iran's defenses and may soon outright
attack Iran, and threats from the EU to impose sanctions, one suspects Iran would not
likely risk so much unless it is racing to make nuclear weapons. Or, it has simply
decided to seek a showdown with the U.S. and its allies.

NOTE: Iran has not violated the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty
(http://tinyurl.com/87t7x), which nuclear-armed Israel, India, North Korea and
Pakistan never even signed!!!

So Iran may be punished for "agreeing to international inspection" of nuclear
facilities while those nations that "refused to cooperate" with efforts to limit
nuclear weapons are being studiously ignored. In fact, the head of the UN nuclear
agency was recently in Israel and failed to say anything about its secret nuclear
arsenal, estimated at 200 nuclear warheads.

UN monitors say Iran may have concealed some questionable activities - even these
charges are hotly disputed - but did not violate the treaty. Western experts believe
"if" Iran is indeed secretly working on nuclear arms, it is still 5-10 years away
from being able to develop deliverable nuclear weapons (http://tinyurl.com/drwr8).

The U.S. recently admitted to losing thousands of documents and tins of radioactive
material from its nuclear program. Iran is being asked to adhere to a much higher
level of accountability and record-keeping than the USA.

A "deliverable nuclear warhead" means a compact, lightweight nuclear device that can
withstand the g-forces and heat of being carried in a missile warhead.

The recent brouhaha over a New York Times story (http://tinyurl.com/ct2ma) claiming
leaked data from a purloined Iranian laptop computer showing Iran was working on a
nuclear missile warhead has been dismissed by a leading American expert as erroneous.

The design in question dealt with a conventional missile warhead, not one designed to
carry a nuclear weapon. But no matter. The New York Times, continuing to act as a
mouthpiece for administration war propaganda, trumpeted these latest spurious charges
(http://tinyurl.com/blvnl).

Why would Iran seek nuclear arms? What motivates Iran's new president, Mahmoud
Ahmadinejad to challenge the west?

Iranians see themselves threatened by the U.S., Britain, Israel and Russia. Iran is
now surrounded by U.S. bases in Iraq, Afghanistan, the Persian Gulf, and Pakistan.

Iranians feel historically exploited and victimized by the great powers - and indeed,
they were.

In 1941, Britain and Soviets invaded Iran (http://tinyurl.com/86gb2). This forgotten
part of WWII was an aggression every bit as criminal as Hitler's 1939 invasion of
Poland.

In 1953, the U.S. and Britain overthrew Iran's democratic government
(http://tinyurl.com/9eoee) after it tried to take the national oil company away from
British control (http://tinyurl.com/bzwug). They imposed their puppet, the grotesque
Mohammad Reza Pahlavi (http://tinyurl.com/9c985), who inflicted a reign of terror and
unbridled thievery on Iranians.

In 1980, the U.S. and Britain engineered Saddam's invasion of Iran
(http://tinyurl.com/5prmu) in an attempt to crush its new revolutionary Islamic
government. That war inflicted nearly one million casualties on Iran. President
Ahmadinejad led volunteers in the war.

Iran's suffering at foreign hands has produced national fury, paranoia, and
xenophobia.

Many Iranians have a "the world is against us" mentality, fear and hatred of Israel,
which threatens Iran with nuclear weapons, and belief the U.S. and Russia intends to
seize Iran's oil.

The U.S. invasion of Iraq has heightened these fears. Allocation of funds by the U.S.
Congress to overthrow Iran's elected government, and the conviction among Iranians
that Israel controls U.S. foreign policy accentuates Iran's sense of growing peril.

Accordingly, some militants insist Iran must have nuclear weapons for self-defense.
They point to nuclear-armed North Korea, which forced Washington to back off threats
of invasion when it dug and threatened to fight to the death. Iraq's lesson is not
lost on Iranians: if Saddam had nuclear weapons, the U.S. would not have invaded his
nation.

Ironically, hard-line President Ahmadinejad is the only democratically elected leader
in the Mideast.

But since taking office, he has ignited an international firestorm by calling for
Israel to be "wiped off the map", and the Jewish holocaust 'a myth'. While popular at
home, these inflammatory statements have brought international condemnation down in
Iran.

This recalls the PLO's idiotic former spokesman, Ahmad Shukairy, who proclaimed, on
the eve of the 1967 Arab-Israeli War, "we will drive the Jews into the sea!" This
ludicrous bombast gave Israel a perfect excuse to launch a surprise attack on the
Arabs, and seize large swathes of their territory.

Similarly, Ahmadinejad just gave Israel a perfect excuse to attack Iran. When this
happens, there will be scant sympathy around the globe for Iran .

There is little doubt Israel is preparing to attack Iran's nuclear infrastructure,
repeating its 1981 destruction of Iraq's Osirak reactor. The U.S. has provided Israel
long-ranged F-15J strike aircraft and new deep penetrating bombs for this mission.
Israeli aircraft need only overfly Jordan, which is a virtual US-Israeli
protectorate, then US-controlled Iraq, to reach Iran. A similar route would be used
to attack Pakistan's nuclear infrastructure.

The western media is saying a leader who utters such dangerous nonsense as
Ahmadinejad cannot be trusted with nuclear weapons. Iranians would reply that unlike
the U.S., Iran has not invaded any other countries.

Speaking of dangerous nonsense, was it not George Bush - who commands the U.S.
nuclear button - who claimed Iraq had WMD's that menaced the world? Or that Iraqi
germ-dispensing drones were poised to attack a sleeping USA from lurking freighters
in the North Atlantic?

Ahmadinejad is picking this fight because his challenge to the west and Israel hugely
appeals to most Iranians. He seems to be actually daring the U.S. to attack Iran.

Some Islamic militants are actually hoping for a U.S. invasion of Iran, which has 68
million people. Such an adventure, they believe, would result in a major American
defeat, just as the Germans were broken in Russia.

Ahmadinejad comes from the generation of Shia fighters that faced eight years of
savage, bloody war with Iraq - twice the length of World War I.

During this holocaust, they faced massed bombardments, Western supplied poison gas
attacks (http://tinyurl.com/a6loe), and the nightmare of trench warfare.

Iran used human wave suicide attacks, and sent teenage volunteers to clear Iraqi
minefields with their bodies. It was the realization of the Shia creed of sacrifice
and martyrdom in a fight against hopeless odds.

Having faced Saddam's fury in an eight-year war in which 1,000,000 Iranian soldiers
died and 600,000 were wounded, Iranians do not fear George Bush.

Like Bush, Ahmadinejad boasts, "bring'em on". He assumes the over-stretched U.S.
military can barely hold on to Iraq, never mind invade Iran. A shutoff of Iranian oil
exports would send gas prices skyrocketing. And he knows that U.S. forces in Iraq are
hostages to its Shia majority. Any attack on Iraq would invite reprisals by Shias
against U.S. forces spread across Iraq.

So, at least for now, it appears President Ahmadinejad has decided to do a North
Korea: that is, defy the western powers, dig in, and be ready to fight to the last
man.

But Iran must also face the very real threat of punishing UN-imposed sanctions,
unless they are vetoed by China or Russia or even a U.S. naval blockade. The EU is
proposing sanctions as a way of trying to divert the U.S. from military action, which
would damage Europe more than the United States.

Both Iran and its western oil customers may end up the losers in such a
confrontation.

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