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| Harper: Iran ready to use nuclear weapons |
| 2012-01-06 |
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| Posted by:Durnham Freebody |
| #6 TOPIX > [Supreme Cleric Ayatollah Khamenei]IRAN'S WARNINGS LAYS OUT TOUGHER MILITARY DOCTRINE, namely ... > Iran will respond or answer any foreign threats, real or perceived, wid threats of its own. > Maintain BOLD-IF-NOT-BOLDER DISPLAYS OF MILITARY = MILPOL POWER. > BRINKMANSHIP-BASED DIPLOMATIC POSTURING. > Keep the US + its ARab-Muslim Allies guessing. > RAMP UP ANY + ALL INTERNATIONAL PRESSURES, ETC. AGZ ENEMIES, BUT NOT BE RECKLESS. * SAME > A SECRET NUCLEAR TEST [drive = push for] COULD BE IRAN'S TRUMP CARD IN STRAIT OF HORMUZ STANDOFF. Iran wants no repeat of the losses in mil assets + loss of international credibility it received during the late 1980's as per the Reagan-Bush Admins [KUWAITI TANKER REFLAGGING + ESCORT], HENCE IS PUSHING/DRIVING HARD TO DEV ITS NUCLEAR CAPABILITY ASAP AMAP. * SAME > IRAN'S SECRET INTERCONTINENTAL BALLISTIC MISSLE [ICBM] PROGRAMME, as based on on-going indigenous modifications + improvs to SHAHAAB-III'S = NORTH KOREA-SUPPLIED LRBMS. versus * WAFF > [StrategyPage = Pakistan] DESPERATE, CORNERED, + WILLING TO KILL. * SAME > US + PAKISTAN HEADING TO CONFRONTATION OVER ISRAEL. Pakland's indirect threat to Israel vee PROLIFERATION OF PAK-DEV NUCLEAR, MIL TECHNOLOGY TO ANTI-ISRAELI MUSLIM GOVTS-STATES IN THE MIDDLE EAST. Lest we fergit, LOSS OF PAKISTAN'S GOVT. TO PRO-ISLAMIST MILITARY ELEMENTS, OR TO MILITANTS VEE POLITICAL-LEGAL JIHAD [elections] is deemed a DISASTER FOR ISRAEL + US FOREIGN, GWOT POLICY, espec as Pak is the World's only Nuke-armed Muslim State. * SAME > {PressTv.IR] JAPAN MULLS IGNORING US OIL BAN ON IRAN. * PAKISTAN DEFENCE FORUM > ASIAN NATIONS WANT IRANIAN OIL, despite US-led Sanctions. |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2012-01-06 22:49 |
#5 Because I would think the Testing of one would set off a world of hurt for them. Umm, why? You do something before they get nukes. Afterwards, you've waited too long. |
| Posted by: Thang Angagum7054 2012-01-06 22:13 |
| #4 What the US Govt-DOD has labeled as covert "Franchising" of Miltechs + related proficiencies between countries, aka bvilateral or multilateral tech-sharing. Again, unless US-Allied INTEL have clusterfucked on Iran's true mil arsenal + capabilities, in its present state the best Iran can do is ALLOW A US-LED ATTACK + GROUND INVASION TO OCCUR, ALL US = US-ALIED MILFORS TO PENETRATE INTO IRAN'S DEEP INTERIOR, + THEN WAGE ASYMMETRIC, VIETNAM-STYLE MILITARY-CIVILIAN "PEOPLE'S WAR" + GEOPOL BRINKMANSHIP = "GREAT POWERS" MILPOL CONFRONTATIONISM. TIME FACTORS is prolly Iran's greatest single asset, i.e. TIME TO DEVELOP RELIABLE ADVANCED NUKE-WMD WEAPONS, AT LEAST AT THE TACTICAL/CONVENTIONAL LEVEL(S), WHICH WOULD MAKE ANY FOREIGN GROUND CAMPAIGN COST-PROHIBITIVE IN TERMS OF CASUALTIES + MEDIA, DIPLOMATIC HUMILIATION. IOW, THE LONGER THE US-ALLIES PUT OFF A MILSTRIKE + GROUND CAMPAIGN, THE STRONGER IRAN WILL GET + HARDER IT WILL BE TO DEFEAT. |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2012-01-06 18:32 |
| #3 They don't care. |
| Posted by: gorb 2012-01-06 13:59 |
| #2 Out of curiosity, how would Iran go about test-firing a nuke without us noticing? Anybody know? Because I would think the Testing of one would set off a world of hurt for them. |
| Posted by: Charles 2012-01-06 13:57 |
| #1 Once. |
| Posted by: Redneck Jim 2012-01-06 08:40 |