FULL SPEED AHEAD ON IRANIAN NUCLEAR POGRAM
November 9, 2009
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I am waiting for two things in the Middle East to occur because I do not believe the last war of the Age of the Gentiles will begin until after they happen.
1. U.S. troops are withdrawn from Iraq and Afghanistan
2.
Iran develops a sufficient arsenal of mounted deterrent nuclear warheads
I believe both of these events will occur before 2015.
Began Excerpt 1 from DEBKAfile
Iran set to launch 200-kg spy satelite into orbit
DEBKA-Net-Weekly 420 updated by DEBKAfile
November 7, 2009, 2:41 PM (GMT+02:00)
Iran is ready to launch its second homemade spy satellite, with the Safir 2 rocket (Messenger of Ambassador) already in position on its pad, DEBKAfile’s military and intelligence sources report.
The new satellite weighs 200 kgs, ten times more than Omid 1 (Hope), which was successfully tested only ten months ago, on Feb. 2. Tehran’s missile program is clearly rushing forward at a rapid pace. In fact, some Western and Israeli missile experts suspect it may have overtaken North Korea and that Iran no longer stands in need of technical assistance from Pyongyang or Beijing.
If the second launch succeeds, it would mean that Iran is capable of producing solid fuel-powered rockets with a range of 2,450-2,450 kilometers, which covers not only all of Israel but would reach as deep into Europe as the Polish capital of Warsaw. Heads of the Islamic regime in Tehran hope that the advent of a second Iranian spy satellite in Middle East skies, boosted by the new Safir rocket, will so astound the Americans and Israelis that they will think twice before going after Iran’s nuclear installations.
Most of all, they want Israel to count the cost of being subjected to their high-grade lethal weaponry before embarking on military action.
In contrast to the Netanyahu government’s outcry over the capture of the Iranian arms ship bound for Hizballah last week (“this is a real war crime”), Israel has made very little of two ominous spurts in Iran’s progress toward a nuclear military capability.
1. On Nov. 4, US satellite photos were published showing that Iran had raised output at its Gchine uranium mine near Bandar Abbas and is producing enough raw ore for processing into two warheads a year.
Tehran has shut this mine to UN watchdog inspections claiming its agreement with the IAEA does not cover mining operations.
The agency is therefore unable to establ
ish where the raw uranium is going.
2. On Nov. 5, US and UK media quoted IAEA sources in Vienna as asking Iran to explain evidence that its scientists have experimented with an advanced nuclear warhead design.
They referred to the discovery of high-explosive components of a “two-point implosion” device that could enable Iran to eventually install small nuclear warheads on its ballistic missiles.
Command of this process would short-cut and simplify Iran’s path to fitting nuclear warheads on long-range ballistic missiles such as the Shehab-4 which is about ready to go operational.
Iran is stonewalling on this international query too, continuing to dicker over every Western compromise proposal while racing ahead with its plans.
Begin Excerpt 2 from DEBKAfile Special Report
Ahmadinejad to cancel food, fuel subsidies, for transfer to nuclear projects
DEBKAfile Special Report
November 8, 2009, 8:35 PM (GMT+02:00)
Iran’s parliament (Majlis) Sunday, Nov. 8, granted president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad unlimited control of an estimated $30-50 billion of national treasure under legislation empowering him to cancel government subsidies on food and fuel.
He gained majority endorsement for these measures over the objections of the Speaker Ali Larijani, who demanded Majlis oversight of the recycled expenditure.
DEBKAfile’s Iranian sources report that the president demanded the transfer of subsidy funding to the nation’s nuclear and missile programs, preparations for war and measures to offset international sanctions.
Ahmadinejad’s parliamentary initiative and his overwhelming victory belied suppositions in some Western circles that he was actually in favor of a nuclear accommodation with the world powers but was obstructed by hardline opposition to his purported “pragmatic” policy. His success in ramming the new measures through parliament Sunday proved he was at the peak of his political strength and determined as never before to defy the world.
The president was able to make himself dictator of national expenditure and gain control over the wherewithal he sought for pushing ahead with his plans to arm Iran with a nuclear weapon and fund the military preparations for war against the powers who would stand in his way.
With the annual subsidy of $90 billion in government subsidies now at his disposal, the president is in a position to manipulate fuel prices in order to keep Iran standing on its feet under a new round of international sanctions. The radical Ayatollah Ahmad Jannati, one of his leading allies, justified the cancellation of subsidies with a sophistic argument: “It is oppression when 30 percent of society that is rich and middle class, receives 70 percent of the subsidies. This must stop,” he said.
When the Islamic regime last tried to cancel subsidies, it was forced to back down by rioting in Iran’s cities. Ahmadinejad proposes to offer the poorer classes the sop of a $17 handout to every low-income household.
DEBKAfile’s Iranian sources say that this meager pittance will hardly compensate the impoverished majority of the population for losing the basics of subsistence at affordable prices to the grandiose plans managed by the Revolutionary Guards and Ahmadinejad – certainly not for the soaring inflation which the removal of subsidies will generate. But for now on, the people will have no recourse to parliament for help but have to rely on
the mercy of President Ahmadinejad.
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