VS-Iran (nr 26): Israel: aanval op Iran desnoods zonder de VS

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Op woensdag 3 september 2008 20:53 schreef SeLang het volgende:

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Welke bondgenoten heeft Iran dan?
De meeste landen in de regio hopen in stilte dat iemand iets gaat doen want zij zijn ook bang voor een Iran met kernwapens

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Op vrijdag 12 september 2008 17:30 schreef Grenadier het volgende:
De Islam zal zegevieren na de Derde Wereld Oorlog, mark my words.

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Op vrijdag 12 september 2008 17:30 schreef Grenadier het volgende:
De Islam zal zegevieren na de Derde Wereld Oorlog, mark my words.

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Op donderdag 4 september 2008 23:01 schreef mr.marcus het volgende:

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Als israel had gewild hadden ze die hele regio van de kaart geveegd, maar Israel moet voor het oog van de westerse pers zich natuurlijk (enigszins) gedragen en zich aanpassen aan de urban warfare methodes van hezbollah die zich voordoen als vrouwen, die zich verstoppen in ziekenhuis en aanvallen vanuit hinderlagen.

Wanneer er een echte strijd uitbreekt en Israel zich niets meer aan hoeft te trekken van de westerse opinie en ALLE middelen kan inzetten die ze willen, zit de baarden van hezbollah binnen 3 dagen in het stenen tijdperk.

Tot die tijd kunnen ze met laffe guerrilla methodes misschien een paar punten pakken.

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Op vrijdag 12 september 2008 17:30 schreef Grenadier het volgende:
De Islam zal zegevieren na de Derde Wereld Oorlog, mark my words.

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Op vrijdag 12 september 2008 18:08 schreef -scorpione- het volgende:

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Op vrijdag 12 september 2008 18:23 schreef Meki het volgende:

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Jep het is waar

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ISRAEL ASKS U.S. FOR BUNKER BUSTERS; ‘Iran renews N-arms work’

LONDON, Sept 12, (Agencies): Fresh evidence has emerged that suggests Iran has renewed work on developing nuclear weapons, according to Western security sources Friday. Nuclear experts responsible for monitoring Iran’s nuclear programme have discovered that enough enriched uranium, which if processed to weapons grade level could be used to make up to six atom bombs, has disappeared from the main production facility at Isfahan, The Daily Telegraph newspaper said.
American spy satellites have identified a number of suspicious sites, which the Iranians have not declared to nuclear inspectors, that intelligence officials believe are being used for covert research, the paper added. The new discoveries emerged as it was revealed that Israel had asked America for military supplies, including “bunker buster” bombs and re-fuelling planes, suitable for an attack on Iranian nuclear installations.

Concern that Iran has resumed work on building atom bombs has deepened following the revelation that large quantities of uranium has gone missing from Iran’s conversion facility at Isfahan.
The Isfahan complex, which enriches raw uranium “yellow cake” into material that can be used for either nuclear power or atomic weapons, is supposed to be subject to close supervision by the Vienna-based International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA).
But the Iranians only allow IAEA inspectors access to the final stage of the production process, where the uranium in gas form, UF6, is stored.
By conducting a careful study of the amount of material stored at Isfahan, and the amount of “yellow cake” known to have been processed at the plant, nuclear experts believe between 50-60 tons of uranium, which if enriched to weapons grade level would be sufficient to produce five or six atom bombs, has gone missing from the plant.
IAEA officials believe the Iranians have deliberately removed the uranium at a stage in the production process that is not under their supervision.
A nuclear official said, “If Iran’s nuclear intentions are peaceful, then why are they doing this?”
Military
A military solution to the standoff over Iran’s nuclear ambitions is unacceptable and there is no need at the moment for new sanctions, Russian President Dmitry Medvedev said on Friday.
But Medvedev said Russia continued to support a diplomatic drive led by European Union foreign policy chief Javier Solana to offer Tehran a package of incentives in return for it reining in some of its nuclear activities.
Western states are anxious that a rift between Moscow and the West over Russia’s intervention in Georgia may shatter the fragile international coalition that has been applying pressure on Iran over its nuclear programme.
“We should not take any unilateral steps. It is not acceptable to opt for a military scenario. It would be dangerous,” Medvedev told the Valdai Club, a panel of journalists and academics who specialise in Russia.
“The key is that negotiations be pursued... They have been quite positive,” Medvedev said. “We should not adopt any additional sanctions now.”
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov held talks Friday with his Iranian counterpart amid Western concerns over the two countries’ nuclear cooperation heightened by the Georgia crisis.
Lavrov said he and Manouchehr Mottaki would discuss Russia’s conflict with Georgia and the imminent completion by a Russian company of the Bushehr nuclear power plant in Iran, the country’s first, Interfax news agency reported.
“We will consider agreements... which are developing well,” above all over the completion of nuclear work at Bushehr, Lavrov was quoted as saying before the talks.
The head of the Russian company working on the facility, Atomstroiexport, said earlier this week that the start-up of the first reactor at Bushehr would be “irreversible” by February next year.
The West suspects that Iran is developing nuclear weapons under cover of a civilian nuclear energy program that includes the Bushehr plant. It has imposed sanctions on Teheran and refused to rule out the use of force.
Tehran vehemently denies that it is developing nuclear weapons and says that it has a sovereign right like any country to develop nuclear power.
Lavrov said talks would also focus on the Georgia conflict, which has led to a diplomatic stand-off between Moscow and the West over the fate of two breakaway Georgian regions, Interfax reported.
Libya
The UN nuclear watchdog said on Friday it had verified Libya’s elimination of a covert atom bomb project, but that the ease with which a Pakistani-led ring supplied it with weapon designs had alarming wider implications.
The A.Q. Khan network that smuggled nuclear weaponisation blueprints to Iran, Libya and North Korea was active in 12 countries, the International Atomic Energy Agency said in a confidential report obtained by Reuters.
The report said Libya, which has emerged from isolation by the West since publicly renouncing a secret weapons of mass destruction programme in 2003, had become transparent enough for IAEA inspectors to give it a clean bill of health.
The Vienna-based agency said inspections in the Arab North African country would be “a routine matter” from now on.
But Libya’s contacts with Khan’s shadowy peddlers stretched back to 1984, a decade earlier than Libya earlier acknowledged, said the report, which detailed more sophisticated weapons design information obtained by Tripoli than previously known.
The report, the first on Libya by the IAEA since 2004, said that while inspectors had accounted for all declared nuclear materials there, they could not yet guarantee the absence of undeclared items or activities.
It said a number of boxes of information related to “core and sensitive” projects, such as a plant that could have yielded 10 kg (22 pounds) of bomb-grade plutonium fuel a year, appeared to be missing and Libya could not explain this.
The report said the A.Q. Khan ring had operated in Germany, Italy, Liechtenstein, Spain, Switzerland, Turkey, South Africa, the United Arab Emirates, Pakistan, Malaysia, Singapore, South Korea and Japan.
Blueprints for fuel fabrication and reprocessing plants capable of producing plutonium came from German technology.
Libya, which abandon ed a clandestine nuclear weapons programme in 2003, was in contact with the black market network of Pakistani nuclear scientist Abdul Qadeer Khan much earlier than first thought, a confidential report by the UN atomic watchdog revealed on Friday.
According to the restricted report by International Atomic Energy Agency chief Mohamed ElBaradei, a copy of which was obtained by AFP, Libya’s contacts with Khan date back to 1984, 10 years earlier than previously assumed.
The report, which was circulated to the IAEA’s board on Friday, said that Libyan officials met with Khan in January 1984.

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Despite reservations in Washington regarding a possible Israeli strike on Iran, the American administration will supply Israel with sophisticated weapons for heavily fortified targets, the U.S. administration announced.

The U.S. Department of Defense announced it would sell the Israel Air Force 1,000 new smart bombs, rumored to significantly enhance the IAF's military capabilities. The deal was approved amid public and secret messages from Washington, with the Americans expressing their reservations about a possible Israeli strike against the Islamic Republic's suspected nuclear sites.

The Pentagon's announcement, which came on Friday, said the U.S. will provide Israel with 1,000 units of Guided Bomb Unit-39 (GBU-39) - a special weapon developed for penetrating fortified facilities located deep underground.

The $77 million shipment, which includes launchers and appurtenances, will allow the IAF to hit many more bunkers than currently possible. Although each bomb weighs 113 kilograms, its penetration capabilities equal those of a one ton bomb, according to professional literature.

Most U.S. Air Force aircraft are able to carry a pack of four of these bombs in place of a single one-ton bomb. The bomb's small size allows a single-strike aircraft to carry more of the munitions than is possible utilizing currently available bomb units, thus increasing firepower, or, alternatively, allowing the aircraft to fly longer distances to deliver a single bomb.

During demonstrations, the GBU-39 - labeled by the manufacturer, Boeing, as a Small Diameter Bomb (SDB) - has successfully penetrated more than 1.8 meters of thick reinforced concrete with a 23-kilogram warhead. The GPS-guided weapon is said to have a 50-percent probability of hitting its intended target within 5-8 meters, which should minimize collateral damage.

The estimated value for the bomb's GPS version, which military experts have called the latest development in the bunker-buster line, is around $70,000 to $90,000 for each individual bomb.

The U.S. has already supplied Israel with earlier versions of bunker busters. In 2005, the Pentagon authorized the sale of GBU-28 to Israel, in a move that commentators construed as a hinted threat aimed at Iran. Haaretz reported earlier this month that the U.S. was hesitant about selling Israel heavier busters.

The Pentagon's announcement also said that the U.S. would help upgrade the Israel Defense Forces' patriot anti-aircraft missiles - which Israel uses as part of its missile-interception array. Israel will also receive 28,000 LAW (Light Anti-Tank Weapon) tube launchers for land forces.

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Op dinsdag 16 september 2008 14:51 schreef Ahmadinejjad het volgende:
Nee, daarvoor was de reguliere iraanse marine verantwoordelijk voor de veiligheid. nu is het overgedragen aan de IRG (Hardline forces)

http://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iraanse_Revolutionaire_Garde

De Iraanse Revolutionaire Garde (IRG) (Perzisch: سپاه پاسداران انقلاب اسلامی ), Sepáh e Pásdárán e Enqeláb e Eslámi) is een tak van het Leger van Iran. De IRG is opgericht in mei 1979 en speelde een belangrijke rol in de Irak-Iranoorlog. De huidige commandant is Mohammed Ali Jafari.

De IRG staat los van het Iraanse leger. Het heeft haar eigen landmacht, luchtmacht en marine.


IRG is verantwoordelijk voor :

- Beschermen van de Velayate Faghih (Islamitische Regime)

- Beschermen van de Iraanse nationale grenzen

- Iraanse Politie, Geheime dienst etc.

- Protectie van hoge functionarissen

- Nucleaire programma

- Iraanse Militaire industrie

- Ruimtevaartprogramma

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Op dinsdag 16 september 2008 16:57 schreef PDOA het volgende:
Als de VS Iran zal aanvallen dan kunnen ze tegenacties van het formaat 9/11 verwachten. Dit wordt dan echt WO3. Rusland zal dan Iran versterken om de VS een loer te draaien.

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Op dinsdag 16 september 2008 16:57 schreef PDOA het volgende:
Als de VS Iran zal aanvallen dan kunnen ze tegenacties van het formaat 9/11 verwachten. Dit wordt dan echt WO3. Rusland zal dan Iran versterken om de VS een loer te draaien.

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Op dinsdag 16 september 2008 16:57 schreef PDOA het volgende:
Als de VS Iran zal aanvallen dan kunnen ze tegenacties van het formaat 9/11 verwachten. Dit wordt dan echt WO3. Rusland zal dan Iran versterken om de VS een loer te draaien.

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Op dinsdag 16 september 2008 17:08 schreef PDOA het volgende:
Daarom. Rusland is dat heus niet vergeten, en de relatie is sowieso al zwak te noemen na het Georgie debacle.

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Iraanse Revolutionaire Garde maakt zich op voor oorlog

Iran heeft de Revolutionaire Garde in opperste paraatheid gebracht om het land te beschermen tegen een mogelijke aanval van de Verenigde Staten of Israël op de Iraanse nucleaire faciliteiten. Dat heeft een topadviseur van de Iraanse Opperste Leider ayatollah Ali Khamenei vandaag gezegd.

"Niet twijfelen"

Als de VS of Israël besluiten Iran aan te vallen zal de Garde volgens de adviseur niet twijfelen om een tegenaanval uit te voeren.

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Op dinsdag 16 september 2008 17:52 schreef IFU het volgende:

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Vond ook raar dat Amerika zo heftig reageerden,
Bedoel wat wij met Kosovo deden was precies hetzelfde.

Europa moet Rusland steunen en Zuid Ossetie en Abchacie (of hoe het ook heet ) erkennen deze staten hebben nooit echt bij Georgie gehoord zijn na de sovjet periode aan Georgie gegeven tegen de wil van de burgers aldaar.