Iran on the Brink - Jack Kinsella - www.omegaletter.com
Last year, Iran was caught red-handed when traces of weapons-grade nuclear material in older centrifuges sparked the crisis that led to Iran's decision to allow the inspections by the UN.
Last week, diplomats in Vienna told The Associated Press that U.N. inspectors sifting through Irans nuclear files had discovered blueprints for high-tech equipment that could be used to make weapons-grade uranium.
UN inspectors in Iran had found blueprints for an advanced uranium enrichment centrifuge, the G2, that Tehran had failed to declare even as it was claiming to be providing full disclosure on its atomic energy program.
Iran denies the accusation. "That Iran is building a new generation of centrifuge is a lie. Iran is just conducting a preliminary study of the G2 centrifuge and has informed the International Atomic Energy Agency," senior Iranian official Hossein Mussavian told Iran's Hamshahri newspaper.
They said they matched blueprints of equipment found in Libya and supplied by an illicit network headed by Abdul Qadeer Khan, the father of Pakistans atomic bomb.
The new information from Libya came AFTER Iran swore they had already turned over all its information about its nuclear program to the IAEA.
A recent study published by the US Army War College determined that Iran has secretly accelerated its nuclear weapons program. The study, entitled, "Bounding the Global War on Terrorism," said that "neither Iran nor its ally, North Korea, has been swayed to abandon its missile or weapons of mass destruction programs' by the war against Iraq. In fact, the report concludes it was the invasion of Iraq that caused both to ratchet up their nuclear efforts.
Chillingly, the report summarizes, "In short," the report said, "threatened or actual preventive military action seems an inherently dangerous and potentially very counter-productive means to achieve the goal of halting the continued proliferation of WMD, which itself may simply exceed the limits of American power."
On Sunday, Iran declared its intention to sell nuclear fuel in world-wide markets, saying, "No one can deprive us of this natural, legal and legitimate right." The statement added dryly, "This industry is strictly for peaceful use."
Assessment:
While all this is going on, the Russians have (thankfully) suspended completion of the largest nuclear reactor project at Bushehr.
But not because Iran clearly intends to use the reactor to both build weapons and proliferate nuclear fuel. Instead it something more reliable that a Russian sense of global responsibility. Money.
The dispute regards Iran's refusal to return spent nuclear fuel for the Bushehr plant to Moscow. Iran insisted that Russia bear the costs of securing the spent nuclear fuel as well as its transfer from Bushehr to Moscow. Russia said 'no deal' and Iran said, 'anybody wanna buy some nuke fuel?'
While Iran's hard-line government grows increasingly belligerent, its grip on power at home is slipping disastrously. The country is ripe for a new revolution -- this time, without the mullahs and ayatollahs and Sharia law.
The students who shouted 'Death to America' in 1979 are now either part of the hated ruling class, or died in the 1980's war with Iraq.
Their children are less happy with the reality of an Islamic paradise than their fathers were with its promise. More than 74 percent of Iranians in Tehran support the re-establishment of relations with the "Great Satan," the U.S., according to a survey last fall by Iran's state-controlled National Institute of Opinion Polls.
Nearly half of the Iranians polled indicated at least partial acceptance of the U.S. stance toward Iran, meaning they agree with the inclusion of the theocratic regime in the "axis of evil."
The survey result prompted hard-liners to shut down the polling institute last October, but it clearly shows Iran is on the brink. The problem is defining what Iran is on the brink of? Revolution and peaceful democracy? Something worse than what is there now? War with the West over nuclear proliferation?
Iran's chief patron, since the fall of the Shah, has been the Kremlin. According to the prophet Ezekiel, Iran ultimately aligns itself with Russia. Ezekiel lists Iran by name (Persia) as being a member of the Gog-Magog Alliance of Ezekiel 38-39.
Watching Iran provides valuable clues about how far along we are in the Plan for the Ages. War with the West could easily drive Iran into the waiting arms of the Russians. So, too, could anarchy and civil war brought on by revolution. The Russians are skilled revolutionaries, and are none too happy with Iran's present government.
Everything continues to move in precisely the direction foretold by the prophets without deviation as the countdown continues.
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Last year, Iran was caught red-handed when traces of weapons-grade nuclear material in older centrifuges sparked the crisis that led to Iran's decision to allow the inspections by the UN.
Last week, diplomats in Vienna told The Associated Press that U.N. inspectors sifting through Irans nuclear files had discovered blueprints for high-tech equipment that could be used to make weapons-grade uranium.
UN inspectors in Iran had found blueprints for an advanced uranium enrichment centrifuge, the G2, that Tehran had failed to declare even as it was claiming to be providing full disclosure on its atomic energy program.
Iran denies the accusation. "That Iran is building a new generation of centrifuge is a lie. Iran is just conducting a preliminary study of the G2 centrifuge and has informed the International Atomic Energy Agency," senior Iranian official Hossein Mussavian told Iran's Hamshahri newspaper.
They said they matched blueprints of equipment found in Libya and supplied by an illicit network headed by Abdul Qadeer Khan, the father of Pakistans atomic bomb.
The new information from Libya came AFTER Iran swore they had already turned over all its information about its nuclear program to the IAEA.
A recent study published by the US Army War College determined that Iran has secretly accelerated its nuclear weapons program. The study, entitled, "Bounding the Global War on Terrorism," said that "neither Iran nor its ally, North Korea, has been swayed to abandon its missile or weapons of mass destruction programs' by the war against Iraq. In fact, the report concludes it was the invasion of Iraq that caused both to ratchet up their nuclear efforts.
Chillingly, the report summarizes, "In short," the report said, "threatened or actual preventive military action seems an inherently dangerous and potentially very counter-productive means to achieve the goal of halting the continued proliferation of WMD, which itself may simply exceed the limits of American power."
On Sunday, Iran declared its intention to sell nuclear fuel in world-wide markets, saying, "No one can deprive us of this natural, legal and legitimate right." The statement added dryly, "This industry is strictly for peaceful use."
Assessment:
While all this is going on, the Russians have (thankfully) suspended completion of the largest nuclear reactor project at Bushehr.
But not because Iran clearly intends to use the reactor to both build weapons and proliferate nuclear fuel. Instead it something more reliable that a Russian sense of global responsibility. Money.
The dispute regards Iran's refusal to return spent nuclear fuel for the Bushehr plant to Moscow. Iran insisted that Russia bear the costs of securing the spent nuclear fuel as well as its transfer from Bushehr to Moscow. Russia said 'no deal' and Iran said, 'anybody wanna buy some nuke fuel?'
While Iran's hard-line government grows increasingly belligerent, its grip on power at home is slipping disastrously. The country is ripe for a new revolution -- this time, without the mullahs and ayatollahs and Sharia law.
The students who shouted 'Death to America' in 1979 are now either part of the hated ruling class, or died in the 1980's war with Iraq.
Their children are less happy with the reality of an Islamic paradise than their fathers were with its promise. More than 74 percent of Iranians in Tehran support the re-establishment of relations with the "Great Satan," the U.S., according to a survey last fall by Iran's state-controlled National Institute of Opinion Polls.
Nearly half of the Iranians polled indicated at least partial acceptance of the U.S. stance toward Iran, meaning they agree with the inclusion of the theocratic regime in the "axis of evil."
The survey result prompted hard-liners to shut down the polling institute last October, but it clearly shows Iran is on the brink. The problem is defining what Iran is on the brink of? Revolution and peaceful democracy? Something worse than what is there now? War with the West over nuclear proliferation?
Iran's chief patron, since the fall of the Shah, has been the Kremlin. According to the prophet Ezekiel, Iran ultimately aligns itself with Russia. Ezekiel lists Iran by name (Persia) as being a member of the Gog-Magog Alliance of Ezekiel 38-39.
Watching Iran provides valuable clues about how far along we are in the Plan for the Ages. War with the West could easily drive Iran into the waiting arms of the Russians. So, too, could anarchy and civil war brought on by revolution. The Russians are skilled revolutionaries, and are none too happy with Iran's present government.
Everything continues to move in precisely the direction foretold by the prophets without deviation as the countdown continues.
Tick. . .tick. . .tick
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