Iran has the Greatest ISLAMIC Missile Inventory in the Middle East
June 9, 2007
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Iran has the Greatest ISLAMIC Missile Inventory in the Middle East, and is indeed driving toward development of nuclear bombs to mount eventually as warheads on their Shihab Missile series, I do not believe they will be launched in what many refer to as WWIII. My reasons for believing this are included in my lengthy discourse following the June 2 article extracted from:
http://www.unitedjerusalem.org/index2.asp?id=926130
Begin June 2 Article
Iran leveraging its missile arsenal to intimidate U.S. allies in Gulf region
http://www.unitedjerusalem.org/index2.asp?id=926130
June 2, 2007
WASHINGTON
Iran is threatening to use its huge missile arsenal in any attack on American allies in the Gulf, the U.S. intelligence community has determined.
Officials said the mullah regime seeks to intimidate Gulf Cooperation Council states with Teheran´s ballistic missile arsenal. They said Iran views its missiles as the primary element in power projection.
“Iran is enhancing its ability to project its military power — primarily with ballistic missiles and naval power — with the goal of dominating the Gulf region and deterring potential adversaries,” National Intelligence Director John McConnell told the Senate Armed Services Committee on Feb.
27.
The intelligence community said Iran has the largest missile inventory in
the Middle East. Iran´s Shihab-2 medium-range and Shihab- 3 intermediate-range missiles could strike virtually any strategic site in the Gulf.
“Teheran views its growing inventory of ballistic missiles as an integral part of its strategy to deter — and if necessary retaliate against-forces in the region, including U.S. forces,” McConnell said.
Defense Intelligence Agency Director Michael Maples said Iran has been developing weapons of mass destruction for use with its missile arsenal. Maples said Iran, which increased defense spending by 6.7 percent in 2006, is expected to advance in its nuclear weapons program this year.
“In 2007, DIA expects further progress including completion of a nuclear reactor Fuel Manufacturing Plant and installation of additional centrifuges at Natanz,” Maples said.
“Iran has a growing biotechnology industry, significant pharmaceutical experience and the overall infrastructure that could be used to support a biological warfare program,” he said. “DIA believes Iran is pursuing development of biological weapons. Iran has a large and growing commercial chemical industry that could be used to support a chemical agent mobilization capability.”
Maples said Iran has been training its missile forces in an attempt to hone wartime operations skills and tactics.
He said Iranian missiles could strike Israel as well
as Central Europe.
“It is fielding increased numbers of theater ballistic missile, and claimed it has incorporated anti-missile defense tactics and capabilities into its ballistic missile forces,” Maples said.
Maples said Iran plans to use missiles and naval attacks in any war with the United States. He cited the Great Prophet exercise in November 2006, which focused heavily on the use of missiles.
“Iran intends to rely on asymmetric tactics, using its ballistic missiles, naval attacks in the restricted waters along its coast against U.S. forces, and possibly a strategic terror campaign to disrupt U.S. war plans,” Maples said.
Maples said Iran “may be in the process of receiving the SA-15 short- range air defense system from Russia. Iran could acquire other advanced defense systems.
“Anti-ship cruise missiles, a small boat fleet, sea mines, and submarines comprise Iran´s efforts to contest access to the Persian Gulf,” Maples said.
Teheran has also been producing enhanced anti-ship cruise missiles for any attack on U.S. or Gulf Arab shipping. Officials said the use of the C-802 cruise missile by Hizbullah in the war against Israel in 2006 marked a test of Iran´s development program.
“They´ve [Iran] put a great deal of concentration into things like submarines and cruise missile-equipped patrol boats that could go out to sea to be able to attack naval forces that might be approaching,” McConnell said.
“They´ve also recently acquired surface-to-air-missiles in the country to be able to repel an attack on the country.”
End June 2 Article
Begin Excerpts from Special Prophecy Updates 129C and 187A
“One of the main reasons I wrote three books on prophecy in the late seventies and early eighties was to establish a case advocated by teachers of the pre-World War
II era. It was, simply stated, that man would not destroy the earth with his weaponry, but rather that God would destroy the earth by the use of this own power. I am certain that the horrifying changes in the topography of Israel, as well as the terrifying destruction of the antichrist’s forces at Armageddon, are by the awesome power of God, not atomic, chemical, or biological weapons of man.
The lifting of the land from Geba to Rimmon south of Jerusalem, the breaking up of Jerusalem into three sections, the splitting of the Mount of Olives, and the consuming of the flesh, tongues, and eyes of the antichrist’s men are natural phenomena unleashed by God, not by man. All the Scriptures dealing with these phenomena unleashed by God are covered in Birth Pang and Prophecy Archives.
There are many advocates of a great atomic, chemical, and biological war in Israel when the antichrist attacks 1260 days before Armageddon.
It might happen at the time of Armageddon, but the initial attack will start what amounts to a non-nuclear, non-chemical, and non-biological war. So why am I so confident and outspoken about this being the case?
Israel has more than 200 extremely well concealed missile sites in the Negev between Beersheba and the Gulf of Aqabah.
(1) It has more than 300 nuclear, chemical, and biological warheads to mount on Jericho missiles.
(2) The Jericho is a very accurate missile, and can hit a target in any Islamic country from Morocco to Pakistan and from Turkey to Yemen.
(3) Israel has an excellent anti-missile defense to protect its array of silos, warheads, and missiles. It is able to pick up an incoming enemy missile launched from Syria before it reaches it maximum altitude.
(4) So why do I believe this array of WMD will not be unleashed by Israel when it is attacked? Because the Israeli War Contingency Plan of Israel directs that WMD will never be launched against a foreign nation unless they are first launched against Israel.
(5) So how do I know the Islamic countries will not launch WMD in their initial attack? All of them are well aware of what is listed in (1) through (4)! The former Soviet Union, which it existed, shared Israeli intelligence information with Syria, which it collected over a long period of time from its hundreds of spy satellites it launched from pads between Moscow and the White Sea, and on the eastern side of the Aral Sea. Syria, in turn, has shared it with some of the other Islamic countries around Israel. Only a leader possessed of rank insanity would ever launch WMD first against Israel, which is why I was so relieved when Saddam Hussein was taken out of the way.
Many believe the United States will quickly rush to the aid of Israel, and, as the world’s greatest power, will immediately deliver her from any kind of attack she can’t handle. There are two problems with this idea: (1) The United States believes Israel can defeat any Islamic attack on its own without any help from us. After all, Israel has easily done so in three previous wars and, (2) This will be a lightning Jihad, and better coordinated than any of the previous wars, and this time Israel will have a Palestinian state attacking it from within, while the other Islamic nations come in from outside its borders. It will probably last less than a couple of weeks, and Jerusalem is likely to fall within four days. By the time we decide they must have our help it will be too late, because they will have occupied most of the land from Dan to Beersheba. It would take months, as it did in Operation Desert Storm and Operation Freedom Iraq, to get enough American troops on the ground to do any good.
I do not believe a major attack will be launched against Israel as long as American troops are in Iraq, nor do I believe one will be launched prior to the Iranian development of a deliverable nuclear weapon. I do not believe we will commit American ground troops in Israel.
What was the character of Israel’ s pa
st three wars? They were all very short in duration, and they all ended abruptly in a truce.
That will be the case in this war. The United States knows that the Negev is the place where Israel will flee. When we believe they are safely in the Negev, we will be more than willing to accept a truce to give us time to think about what to do, and Israel will remain trapped in the Negev for some three and one-half years.
The part played by the United States during this period of three and one-half years is interspersed throughout our Prophecy Archives, with some of it in Prophecy Updates 5 through 11, 32 & 33, and 74 & 75.” (END QUOTE OF UPDATE 129C).
Since Update 129C was issued, several noteworthy things have come to pass that reduce the likelihood of a nuclear war in the Middle East. The area is headed toward a situation where both sides will realize a nuclear war would leave the victor, or victors, in such a powerless state, that any future they might have would be desolate, and leave them in a position of great vulnerability to the rest of the oil consuming nations. Some of these noteworthy recent events, which would tend to create a standoff, such as the one that developed between the United States and the once mighty Soviet Union, are as follows:
(1) Syria now has a better Scud than the Scud B. The Scud D missile, considered to be the most sophisticated weapon of its kind, is now in the hands of the Syrian military. It is able to deliver nuclear, chemical, or biological multiple warheads to their targets in Israel from Syria.
(2) The jointly developed American-Israeli Arrow 2 missile successfully launched an Arrow 2 missile that destroyed a Scud B over the Pacific Ocean earlier this year.
The Arrow 2 is designed to intercept an enemy missile before it reaches its peak altitude, far from Israeli territory. However, in a recent test against the Scud D, it failed to intercept the detached warhead. It was not a complete failure, and the results are in the process of being analyzed. Israel says it can still effectively destroy the Scud D.
(3) Syria also maintains a sizeable ballistic missile arsenal and, like Iran, is active in upgrading and expanding its capabilities.
(4) Iran has announced it is building its first stealth missile, a rocket that can evade electronic detection.
The missile was named Kowsar, in honor of the Kowsar river in paradise, which is found in the Koran, the Holy Book of Islam. Iran announced it would be capable of hitting ships and aircraft.
(5) Iran is continuing to steam toward development of its own nuclear bomb, which many believe it could develop as early as next year. It has now going underground, and is spreading out its nuclear development sites in order to limit the damage that could be incurred by an Israeli air strike, like the one carried out on Iraq’s nuclear facility in 1981.
(6) Iran is manufacturing various missiles, chief among them being the Shahab-3, whose range of 1300 km (793 mi) allows it to reach Israel.
It is designed to carry up to a 700-kilogram conventional warhead. But the Iranians are currently developing the Shihab 4 and 5, with ranges of 3000 km (1830 mi) and 6000 km (3660 mi), which puts all of Europe in its sights, and these both missiles will be able to carry chemical, nuclear, and biological weapons.
(7) At the same time that Iran and Syria are attempting to manufacture weapons of mass destructions, and the missiles to deliver them, they are also building up their conventional arsenal of weapons. Iran has been making its own tanks, armored personnel carriers, and fighter planes, inside its own borders for some time. They have been guided by the designs of weaponry supplied to them by North Korea, Russia, and even China in both their conventional
and non-conventional programs of weaponry development.
The huge payments from the Iranian oil money have, for some time, helped to keep
the Russian Economy afloat, and the North Korean economy from completely collapsing.
I do not believe there will be a nuclear, biological or chemical war in the Middle East. I have long been convinced of this.
It will be a great war, but only conventional weapons will be used.
I will not rule out the possibility of some being used at Armageddon, but I really don’t believe they will be launched even them.
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