Iran is a very serious threat
Stop Iran's nuclear ambitions | 26.09.2010 14:04
Iran today poses a five-pronged threat, warned the man who first blew the whistle on the Islamic republic's nuclear program. Iran is "a very, very serious threat to the free world," said Alireza Jafarzadeh, who outlines the dangers posed by the Islamic republic, as he sees them, in his new book, "The Iran Threat: President Ahmadinejad and the coming nuclear crisis."
"Iran wants to extend its influence beyond its borders," said Jafarzadeh.
"Iran wants to extend its influence beyond its borders," said Jafarzadeh.
"The agenda of Ayatollah Khomeini was to establish global Islamic rule, to expand Iran's influence beyond the Iranian borders. They want to deliver Jerusalem via Karbala, meaning to turn Iraq into an Islamic republic and from there use it as a springboard to spread their revolution to other countries in the area," he said.
The author, who is close to the Mujahedeen-e-Khalq, was the first person to reveal the Islamic republic's secret nuclear processing sites at Natanz and Arak.
On Iran's role in Iraq, Jafarzadeh wrote: "The problem in Iraq is neither a civil nor a sectarian war. The main threat to Iraq is neither al-Qaida nor the Sunni insurgents -- they both are cause for major problems, but neither can take the whole future of Iraq as a hostage. Rather, Iraq is now a battleground for the clash of two alternatives: Islamic extremist opinion which gets its orders from Tehran and seeks to establish an Islamic republic in Iraq, and a democratic alternative seeking a pluralistic democracy in the country. The former seeks sectarian violence and fans the flames of civil war while the latter seeks to ease tension, provide security and stability and establish democratic institutions."
Outlining those threats, Jafarzadeh, an Iranian exile who lives in Washington, underlined the five prongs followed by the regime in Tehran.
First: Iran wants to pursue its nuclear program, come what may. Iran is cognizant of the facts possession of nuclear weapons puts it in a different category altogether. The regime in Tehran believes that nuclear weapons will offer it protection from a potential invasion by the United States. Indeed, Washington is likely to think twice about waging war on a country that is armed with nuclear weapons.
Second: Iran's meddling in Iraq. Since the start of the Iranian revolution in 1979, Khomeini wanted to export the Islamic revolution to neighboring countries, particularly Iraq, Bahrain and Kuwait, who have important Shiite minorities. But try as they did, Iran's mullahs were unsuccessful until the fall of Saddam Hussein.
The American invasion of Iraq in 2003 offered the Iranians a unique opportunity to intervene in Iraq's internal affairs. Immediately after the fall of Baghdad to the U.S.-led coalition, Iranian Revolutionary Guards profited from the fact that Iraq's 900-mile border with Iran was largely unguarded as the Iraqi army was, first, on the retreat, and, second, disbanded by order of the U.S. administrator of Iraq. Iranian forces therefore immediately began to cross into Iraq and began supporting anti-American and anti-coalition forces. Iranian agents started training Iraqis in insurgency tactics and, according to several sources, Iran has provided training, financing and explosives and weapons to the insurgency.
Third: Iran's support of international terrorism. The United States accuses the Tehran regime of supporting terrorist groups, or groups considered to be terrorists by the United States. Iran, says Jafarzadeh, poses a serious threat to the world by its support of terrorism. The Islamic republic has long been a supporter of groups such as Lebanon's Hezbollah, or the Islamic resistance movement in the Palestinian territories, better known as Hamas.
Fourth: Iran continues to oppose the Middle East peace process. However, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad does nothing to encourage peace in the Middle East with his repeated claims that "Israel should be wiped off the map," and persists with his insistence that the "Holocaust never happened.
Needless to say, this has raised concern, not only in Israel, but in the United States and Western countries that a nuclear-armed Iran will only make matters worse.
Jafarzadeh writes: For 27 years, the Iranian regime has voiced its hatred of the United States and the West, and for the same number of years attempts have been made to change the regime's behavior through external pressures, threats, negotiations and appeasement. All these attempts have the failed, and as the Iranian regime accelerates its push for a nuclear arsenal, the world no longer has the luxury of waiting for Tehran to turn itself around and shed its medieval mindset. The Iranian regime was not budged from its original theme of hating the West and working to export its Islamic revolution.
"Ignoring this will only further step up Tehran's rush to the bomb," Jafarzadeh said.
And five: The way Iran treats its own citizens. The mistreatment of women, abuse of human rights, censorship and executions continue to preoccupy human rights groups and Iranians struggling and hoping to see democracy blossom in their country.
http://www.spacewar.com/reports/Iran_Is_A_Very_Serious_Threat_999.html
The author, who is close to the Mujahedeen-e-Khalq, was the first person to reveal the Islamic republic's secret nuclear processing sites at Natanz and Arak.
On Iran's role in Iraq, Jafarzadeh wrote: "The problem in Iraq is neither a civil nor a sectarian war. The main threat to Iraq is neither al-Qaida nor the Sunni insurgents -- they both are cause for major problems, but neither can take the whole future of Iraq as a hostage. Rather, Iraq is now a battleground for the clash of two alternatives: Islamic extremist opinion which gets its orders from Tehran and seeks to establish an Islamic republic in Iraq, and a democratic alternative seeking a pluralistic democracy in the country. The former seeks sectarian violence and fans the flames of civil war while the latter seeks to ease tension, provide security and stability and establish democratic institutions."
Outlining those threats, Jafarzadeh, an Iranian exile who lives in Washington, underlined the five prongs followed by the regime in Tehran.
First: Iran wants to pursue its nuclear program, come what may. Iran is cognizant of the facts possession of nuclear weapons puts it in a different category altogether. The regime in Tehran believes that nuclear weapons will offer it protection from a potential invasion by the United States. Indeed, Washington is likely to think twice about waging war on a country that is armed with nuclear weapons.
Second: Iran's meddling in Iraq. Since the start of the Iranian revolution in 1979, Khomeini wanted to export the Islamic revolution to neighboring countries, particularly Iraq, Bahrain and Kuwait, who have important Shiite minorities. But try as they did, Iran's mullahs were unsuccessful until the fall of Saddam Hussein.
The American invasion of Iraq in 2003 offered the Iranians a unique opportunity to intervene in Iraq's internal affairs. Immediately after the fall of Baghdad to the U.S.-led coalition, Iranian Revolutionary Guards profited from the fact that Iraq's 900-mile border with Iran was largely unguarded as the Iraqi army was, first, on the retreat, and, second, disbanded by order of the U.S. administrator of Iraq. Iranian forces therefore immediately began to cross into Iraq and began supporting anti-American and anti-coalition forces. Iranian agents started training Iraqis in insurgency tactics and, according to several sources, Iran has provided training, financing and explosives and weapons to the insurgency.
Third: Iran's support of international terrorism. The United States accuses the Tehran regime of supporting terrorist groups, or groups considered to be terrorists by the United States. Iran, says Jafarzadeh, poses a serious threat to the world by its support of terrorism. The Islamic republic has long been a supporter of groups such as Lebanon's Hezbollah, or the Islamic resistance movement in the Palestinian territories, better known as Hamas.
Fourth: Iran continues to oppose the Middle East peace process. However, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad does nothing to encourage peace in the Middle East with his repeated claims that "Israel should be wiped off the map," and persists with his insistence that the "Holocaust never happened.
Needless to say, this has raised concern, not only in Israel, but in the United States and Western countries that a nuclear-armed Iran will only make matters worse.
Jafarzadeh writes: For 27 years, the Iranian regime has voiced its hatred of the United States and the West, and for the same number of years attempts have been made to change the regime's behavior through external pressures, threats, negotiations and appeasement. All these attempts have the failed, and as the Iranian regime accelerates its push for a nuclear arsenal, the world no longer has the luxury of waiting for Tehran to turn itself around and shed its medieval mindset. The Iranian regime was not budged from its original theme of hating the West and working to export its Islamic revolution.
"Ignoring this will only further step up Tehran's rush to the bomb," Jafarzadeh said.
And five: The way Iran treats its own citizens. The mistreatment of women, abuse of human rights, censorship and executions continue to preoccupy human rights groups and Iranians struggling and hoping to see democracy blossom in their country.
http://www.spacewar.com/reports/Iran_Is_A_Very_Serious_Threat_999.html
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Black is White, White is Black.
26.09.2010 14:58
The situation as it stands right now.
Or
I can believe what my own eyes are telling me an opt for the basic reality of what modern Zionist empire building looks like.
Now which is it?
Longbow
Tin foil hat
26.09.2010 16:07
And I thought the US asked Iran to 'interfere' in Iraq in order to stabilise it?
"The Iran Threat: President Ahmadinejad and the coming nuclear crisis.
This is just a silly consp.iracy theory about Iran taking over the Middle East. People who believe this wear tin foil hats
insidejob
It is U.S. Imperialism That is the Serious Threat to all in the Holyland.
27.09.2010 04:57
The Shah of Iran was an absolute dictator and murdered large numbers of trade unionists, communist Tudeh party members and suppressed woman's liberation and genuine and independence throughout Iran. Then when the shah was overthrown by the workers who nationalized the oil fields to the Iranian people again, it was the U.S. Imperialist C.I.A. who ordered their puppet Saddam Hussein to attack Iran, and amputate the oil province to Iraq so they would have use of it again. For twenty-seven years Saddam was the head man in the U.S. C.I.A.'s usage,and did the bidding of the C.I.A. in Iraq. Saddam again followed orders from the U.S. Masters. and attacked Iran, which aggressive war cost one million arab lives, and when the Iranians started winning the war, the U.S. gave Saddam (Rumsfeld) chemical weapons to Saddam which he used to kill close to 100,000 Iranians and 5,000 of Iraqi Kurds who opposed him. This is not ancient history (1988-90 approx).
The U.S. Made Iran-Iraq war ended and Iran still controls the oil producing province next to the Iraq border. The U.S. Imperialists, however have never stoped organizing in every way to overthrow the independent government of Iran and impose a system that would give the oil of Iran back to the American Empire, so they could control the world oil markets. Iran wants to make sure that it does not go back to the dollar and insists on breaking out of U.S. Imposed dictates, and dictatorships again.
That is the real reason that the U.S. Military has atomic nuclear submarines off the shores of Iran and threatening a nuclear war of aggression against the Iranian people. There are numerous battleships and atomic cruisers and destroyers as well as landing craft in the Persian Gulf, the straights of Oman and the Arab sea. These are backed up by Airforce fighters and bombers with (Bunker Busters Diego Garcia) and from numerous countries surrounding the Iranian people with atomic bombs (see map provided by longbow). The U.S. Imperialist military also has ICBM's stationed in the surrounding countries, and they are equpped with nuclear weapons as are the submarines and battle ships of the U.S. Imperialist Navy.
In other words the U.S. planned invasion of Iran has been on-going and threatening for decades now, and is false in that it says that Iran might make a nuclear weapon sometime in the future but as of this time, it is the U.S. Imperialist state that is the only real threat to Iran as it has more than 6,000 nuclear weapons including those in stockpiles in various countries around the world and that is the biggest threat to world peace and security globally. The U.S. is lying and fraudulently and hypocritically blaming the victims of its empire's bullying and the whole world knows it.
Gone are the days when their troopers were cheered for destroying the axis powers and causing liberation. Now America is top Imperialist in the world and heading the Imperialist camp of exploiting war mongers with more WMD than all the rest of the world combined. That is the material reality. They cannot win that way as to win coal, gas, oil, and atomic energy is defeat of the livability of the Planet.
The quagmire they are in can only be solved by sending their troops home immediately from all the countries they have invaded, and putting them to work (at union rates) re-tooling the entire industrial revolution to the non-pollution renewables such as wind, tidal, and solar power which transforms to electricity, and is more power than the societies of the world can use. The oxygen is being burnt out of the atmosphere faster than the green ecological balance can replace it (36% gone), and we cannot live on the C02 that the fossil fuels put in its place. Suffocation and atomic poison is inevitable if their systems continue. That is not a victory in any way, shape or form. End pollution wars for oil, not endless wars for more and more pollution. Viva socialist liberation.
Papryus