A Cat and Mouse Nuclear Game – Ends When Iran Gets the Bomb!
November 15, 2005
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I am not overly concerned whether or not Iran gets a nuclear warhead
to mount on its Shahab Missile series, because they would never dare to launch it against Israel or Europe, unless one was launched against their own country. The last thing they want is a nuclear war in which the great superiority of U.S. and Israeli nuclear power would eliminate them as a nation in just a few hours. They want a conventional ground war fought with conventional weapons.
If that conclusion seems absurd to you, please read Prophecy Updates 187A, 176A, 135B, and 129C in our Prophecy Update Archives.
Although the American public has lost confidence in our CIA, I do believe the extracts from an article by the JPost Staff and AP in the Jerusalem Post, which follows.
BEGIN JERUSALEM POST EXTRACT
CIA: Iran Advanced in Nuke Program
JPost Staff and AP, THE JERUSALEM POST
November 13, 2005
American intelligence believes that Iran has advanced on its march toward development of nuclear weapons, a major US newspaper reported Sunday.
The newspaper The New York Times said that the CIA passed intelligence to the International Atomic Energy Committee that had been recovered from a computer stolen from a top Iranian official. The documents contained descriptions of experiments and blueprints
of Iranian nuclear facilities.
The US intelligence agency claimed that this new information was the strongest evidence yet that Iran is trying to develop a compact nuclear warhead to fit atop its lauded Shahab missile, which can reach Israel.
Speaking recently about Iran’s nuclear development, Chief of Staff Lt.
Gen. Dan Halutz said that “it can present an existential threat. Iran is determined to obtain nuclear weapons because that is in its national interest.
I’m convinced that the level of international pressure that is applied, and that will be applied, can slow down this process, but I doubt it can stop it. The State of Israel doesn’t need to lead any campaign against Iran. The Iranian problem is not an Israeli problem. From our perspective, we need to do all that is necessary so that if a threat materializes, we will be able to deal with it, and there are tools in order to do so.”
Iran on Sunday denied the report about the country’s alleged effort to design a nuclear warhead.
Teheran rebuffed Saturday the compromise agreement that was developed by western nations through which Iran would be able to continue with nuclear power development, but with the actual enrichment of uranium taking place in Russia.
But, when asked if Tehran would agree to carrying out enrichment abroad, Aghazadeh said, “Iran’s nuclear fuel will be produced inside Iran.”
In Vienna on Friday, a diplomat accredited to the International Atomic Energy Agency confirmed that a position paper entitled “Elements of a Long-Term Solution” had been passed on to the Russians about a week ago.
Under the reported compromise, Iran would be allowed to do the conversion work, but the enrichment would be done in Russia – an arrangement that theoretically would deny Iran the capacity to make fuel for nuclear weapons.
The IAEA on November 24 plans to discuss whether to refer Iran to the UN Security Council for possible sanctions connected to its nuclear program. An agreement before then could avert a vote and likely avoid straining relations between Russia and the United States, both of which have veto power on the Security Council.
END JERUSALEM POST EXTRACT
Iran is striving for a scattered tactical pattern of deliverable nuclear bombs mounted on Shahab missile heads. When they get such a system, they will believe it will allow them to launch a conventional Jihad war with Israel, because of the “tit for tat” nuclear standoff which will be in place. Since Israel is positive it can win a conventional war against the Arab nations, as it has done three times in the past, and with Iran also having nuclear missiles, as does Israel, Israel would be happy if nuclear weapons were not used. But this time Israel is not going to be facing 3 or 4 Islamic nations, she will be facing 10.