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Iran has uranium for 4 nukes, builds US-reach missiles - Israel
Published: 02 February, 2012, 18:02
Edited: 03 February, 2012, 12:11
The test firing of the Iranian surface-to-surface missile Qiam (AFP Photo / DSK)
TAGS: Arms, Conflict, Military, Nuclear, Politics, Iran, Israel
Iranian scientists have already managed to enrich enough radioactive material to successfully produce not just one, but four nuclear bombs, Israel’s military intelligence chief has announced.
General Aviv Kochavi broke the news at a security conference on Thursday. The intelligence chief says he believes Iran would need a year from the word go to actually producing a crude device, and another year or two to manufacture a nuclear warhead that can be installed on a ballistic missile.
Kochavi also claimed that “Iran is very actively pursuing its efforts to develop its nuclear capacities, and we have evidence that they are seeking nuclear weapons."However, no actual evidence was produced or even referred to at the conference.
The Israeli Deputy PM added fuel to the fire, claiming that Iran has also succeeded in building a long-range missile capable of putting the US within its reach. Moshe Ya’alon, who had just returned from Washington where he discussed the Iran situation with President Obama’s administration, chose to echo Kochavi’s words of warning, saying “The Israeli government will stop Iran one way or another.”
These latest statements are very much in line with the position of Israel and its allies who are accusing Iran of using its nuclear industry to mask plans to develop nuclear arms, a charge official Tehran has frequently and vehemently denied.
Israel, backed by its key ally the United States, has long pushed for tougher sanctions against Iran. Top level officials in both Tel Aviv and Washington DC have recently said they do not rule out a military attack against the Islamic Republic.
As sparks continue to fly around the powder keg of Iran’s supposed nuclear ambitions, the Middle Eastern state is not playing dead either. A defiant President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad announced on Thursday that the country is planning to double its military spending over the next year; a sign that is being interpreted by many as “taking a stand” against pressure from the West.
The United States and their NATO allies are also flexing their muscles, with recent transfers of US fighter jets and other military planes to the region. Troops have also been reportedly arriving at various American military bases in the Persian Gulf, with another ten thousand soldiers recently transferred to Israel – allegedly to test the US anti-ballistic missile defense system.
On top of that, two US Navy aircraft carriers – the USS Abraham Lincoln and Carl Vinson – are on patrol in the Persian Gulf and are expected to be joined by the USS Enterprise in March. The USS Annapolis, a nuclear submarine, was earlier reported to have entered the Red Sea and is rumored to be heading towards the Gulf as well.
Together with the US military bases already established in the region – for example, the 5th Fleet, stationed in Bahrain – all of this is interpreted by many as nothing shy of intimidation, and some experts believe the US is trying to provoke Iran into making the first move.
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jews invented nothing; have you ever seen a leach inventing anything? Nope. And in retrospect an 'Islamofascist' is an oxymoron, but heck it's good to be an 'Islamofascist' than a parasites. =D
Jews invented the atomic bomb for America, and even the USSR had some help from Jewish spies, so only the Jewish state, Israel alone, has the true right to have them in the first place! The Islamofascist Republic of Iran signed the Nuclear Non-Prolifration Treaty and therefor has NO right to have them. There is already a Muslim nuclear state, Pakistan, and it has been the worst proliferator to date, having provided parts and knowhow to North Korea, Libya and probably Iran as well. The Islamofascist Republic has threatened to wipe out Israel and had even threatened and used terror against Americans as well.
They have no right to the bomb, and must be stopped at any cost, just as Hitler should have been stopped in the late 1930s. If not, woe unto the world. Remember, people once thought that Hitler was only a Jewish problem, and now they believe Iran is only Israel's problem. They will find out otherwise if Iran is not stopped dead in its tracks.
Wasnt there a joint radar sytem design formed by germany and isreal to survay the middle eastern skys for nuclear tiped war heads or somthing like that.
There is something like that from (metal gear solid) where a warhead can be used from a railgun system other than conventional rockets to deliver a warhead by using high voltage solanoid prepultion with magnetic build up for repel forces greater than that of other delivery mechanisms in irans arsenal.
The nazis where working on many electro propulsion concepts one being near the shores of normandy it was called the V3 but you wont find it on jewtube but its was kinda like the metal gear solid stealth nuke that i might add iran now have from the stealth fighter that crashed there wow a stealth nuke from american made spy tech.