Two Objectives of Iran’s Bomb – Deterrent & Appeasement!
November 13, 2007
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I have taught for some 35 years that the coming tribulation period war, which terminates in the final great battle of Armageddon in Israel, will not be a war where atomic weapons are used.
It will be a high tech war using a multiplicity of sophisticated military equipment, but I do not believe it will include thermonuclear bombs delivered via aircraft and missiles.
I have made my case to prove this belief in all four books
I have had published.
In all four books I have made the case for the Antichrist to come out of the Middle East to lead the ten horns of Daniel and Revelation, which are Islamic nations.
I have consistently taught that Iran does not want a nuclear arsenal of warheads to launch a preemptive strike against Israel. Iran wants a deliverable nuclear arsenal for two major reasons – (1) As a deterrent to keep Israel from launching a preemptive strike against her, and (2) To bring all the Islamic nations into a position such that that must appease her because of her nuclear power.
The excerpt by Barry Rubin from the Jerusalem Post was taken from the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs Daily alert. It is an outstanding analysis of the Iranian threat.
The second article by the Associated Press was taken as a Fox News release from an Iranian Newspaper. It gives a good assessment of the nuclear dispute now raging between the Iranian President Ahmadinejad and the Reform elements in the Iranian leadership.
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Understanding the Iranian Threat
Barry Rubin
November 12, 2007
Why should Iran having nuclear weapons bother you? Appeasement.
Frightened by Iran’s possession of nuclear weapons and uncertain of Western protection, Arabic-speaking states will rush to meet Iran’s demands. They will be afraid to cooperate with U.S. policy or provide facilities for Western efforts to contain Iran.
Given Iran’s rejectionist stance, no Arab state, or the Palestinian Authority, would dare move toward peace with Israel.
Intoxicated with a belief that Islamism is on the march to victory, tens and perhaps hundreds of thousands will join radical Islamist groups, either clients of Iran or independent ones.
It is quite conceivable that even if the Iranian government makes no decision to give nuclear weapons to terrorists, super-extremist elements in the regime will do it on their own.
Even if Iran never uses nuclear weapons to make mushroom clouds, it will quite effectively use them to gain strategic and economic leverage.
The writer is director of the Global Research in International Affairs Center at IDC Herzliya.
(Jerusalem Post)
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Fox News Release
Ahmadinejad: Nuclear Critics Are ‘Traitors’
Monday , November 12, 2007
Associated Press
TEHRAN, Iran
Iran’s hard-line President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Monday blasted critics of his nuclear policies as “traitors” and accused them of spying for Iran’s enemies, using his strongest rhetoric yet against domestic opponents and raising concerns of a possible crackdown.
Ahmadinejad’s tough comments appeared to be an escalation aimed at silencing calls for him to compromise with the West over Iran’s nuclear program, at a time of increasingly high-level criticism of his policies within the country’s ruling establishment.
Ahmadinejad has moved to exert greater control over the nuclear issue, replacing Iran’s top nuclear negotiator, Ali Larijani, with a close loyalist — a step that angered even some conservative politicians.
At the same time, complaints against the president have become more vocal. Ahmadinejad has long faced domestic criticism that he was failing to improve the worsening economy and has needlessly worsened the stand-off with the West with his inflammatory speeches.
But recently, more leading figures have spoken out.
Last month, Larijani’s predecessor as top nuclear negotiator, Hasan Rowhani, delivered an unusually sharp rebuke to Ahmadinejad, saying he was making more enemies for Iran with his policies.
One of Iran’s most powerful cleric-politicians, former president Ayatollah Akbar Hashemi Rasfanjani, issued a veiled criticism of Ahmadinejad last week, saying officials must “avoid immaturity and not cause trouble for the people.”
On Monday, Ahmadinejad warned he would expose his critics, saying, “They are traitors.”
“If internal elements do not stop pressures concerning the nuclear issue, they will be exposed to the Iranian nation,” Ahmadinejad said in a speech to students at Tehran’s Science and Industry University in Tehran.
“We have made promises to the people and believe anyone giving up over the nuclear issue is a traitor.”
He accused critics of regularly providing “the enemy” with “information from within the ruling system.”
“We even have a recorded speech of one of them who tells the enemy, ‘Why should you give up? … Step up pressures to make them (Iran) retreat,”‘ Ahmadinejad said, without identifying the person he was referring to, according to the state television Web site.
The president said one official has already been arrested for espionage and accused his critics of pressuring the courts to acquit him. “But I announce here that the Iranian nation won’t allow these persons and groups to use political and economic influence to save criminals from the clutches of justice,” he said.
Ahmadinejad did not name the official.
But earlier this year, Hossein Mousavian — an ally of Rafsanjani who was the top nuclear negotiator under former reformist President Mohammad Khatami — was briefly detained. Authorities have not said what charges he faces, but the semiofficial Fars news agency has reported that the charges were likely related to espionage.
Rafsanjani, who lost to Ahmadinejad in 2005 elections, has emerged as the leader of Iran’s camp of moderate conservatives, many of whom were former supporters of Ahmadinejad who have since become disillusioned with his rule.
The camp is likely the most worrisome domestic challenge for Ahmadinejad, since — unlike more liberal reformists — they have influence with Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.
Rafsanjani on Monday warned that Iran was facing “serious threats.”
“We are subject to big conspiracies. Regional tensions are at its peak. Americans have deployed their forces everywhere they wanted. There is danger. It is serious,” Rafsanjani said in a speech at a Tehran conference, with Rowhani and Mousavian sitting next to him.
It was Mousavian’s first major public appearance after being released in May.
Reformist lawmaker, Esmaeil Gerami Moghadam, said Ahmadinejad’s harsh comments were “the beginning of a new crackdown against his critics. He is resorting to threats to escape plausible criticism.”
Mohammad Ravanbakhsh, a reformist writer, said Ahmadinejad denounces anybody opposing his policies as being weak or being an agent of the enemy.
“Ahmadinejad assumes that anybody opposing his policies is either a compromiser giving in to the West or is a coward,” he said.
The United States and some of its allies accuse Iran of seeking to develop nuclear weapons, a claim denied by Iran, which says its program aims only to generate electricity. Iran has taken a tough stance, rejecting United Nation’s demands that it suspend uranium enrichment, a process that can produce either fuel for a reactor or a nuclear warhead.
On Monday, Ahmadinejad again insisted that there will be no halt or slowing down of Iran’s uranium enrichment.
“Today, bad-wishers … try to get a very small concession from this nation. In the latest talks, they raised the issue of declining the installation of centrifuges … we don’t accept this,” he said.
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