Time is Up to Stop Iran's Nuclear Bomb
by Clare M. Lopez
It’s not that unusual to hear hostile remarks directed at the United States from the Iranian regime -- but lately, it’s been getting not only personal but frankly contemptuous. Iranian Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki recently let it be known that “we do not take [U.S. Secretary of State] Mrs. Clinton seriously.” Hostility is normal between mortal enemies. Contempt means they think we’re so weak, we don’t even rate the effort hostility would take.
At this point, even moves intended to show resolve fall flat with Tehran. Despite a U.S. naval build-up in the Persian Gulf that includes stationing two ships armed with anti-missile missiles and providing additional defensive missiles to Sunni regimes in the area, the Iranians remain unimpressed. Just as they were earlier when the Obama administration offered an “outstretched hand” if Iran would “unclench its fist.” Or when president Obama wrote ridiculous letters of supplication and congratulation to Iranian Supreme Leader Khamenei and president Ahmadinejad.
The White House decision not to speak out in support of the Iranian demonstrators who took to the streets to protest rigged presidential elections in June 2009 didn’t seem to win any points with the mullahs either. Instead, the Iranian parliament voted to approve $20 million for exposing human rights abuses in the U.S. Is this country even capable anymore of realizing when it’s being seriously dissed?
Apparently not, because events in the Middle East are closing inexorably on an Iranian demonstration of nuclear weapons status. Years of dithering negotiations have proven utterly ineffective in halting Tehran’s deliberate, determined progress towards acquiring the bomb. The ayatollahs have missed deadline after deadline set by the international community while brazenly forging ahead with nuclear enrichment and a succession of missile delivery system tests. That not one single meaningful consequence has ever followed years of Iranian non-compliance with obligations of the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty they willingly signed must be the cause of much chuckling in Tehran’s tea rooms and war rooms. As long as China and Russia can be counted on at the United Nations Security Council to block serious sanctions or any other enforcement action with teeth, Tehran’s brutal dictators have no reason to expect they’ll be called to account. Certainly not by the Obama administration.
The scorn that drips from every comment to or about the U.S. by Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and his regime’s thugs has been earned. U.S. refusal to acknowledge the state of war declared against us by the Ayatollah Khomeini over 30 years ago, refusal to stand up to the rampant export of Islamic jihadist terrorism across the globe, refusal to impose regime-threatening consequences for failure to end the nuclear weapons program, refusal to stand with brave Iranians who dare to stand for their own liberty, and above all, refusal to confront Tehran’s 2-decade-long alliance with al-Qaeda, have thoroughly convinced the mullahs that they can get away with literally anything.
Even though Tehran has tried to hide its nuclear weapons program under bunkers, mountains, and population centers, given the revelations about it over the years from the Israelis, the Mujahedeen-e Khalq (MEK), and every other Western intelligence service but ours, and despite the thoroughly discredited 2007 U.S. National Intelligence Estimate which said Iran ended its nuclear program in 2003, there’s not much doubt anymore (even at the International Atomic Energy Agency—IAEA) that Iran is moving methodically towards acknowledged status as a nuclear weapons power.
The Iranian-North Korean joint venture on missile development has been coming along nicely with steady advances in technology (such as the use of solid rocket propellant fuel) and range capability (southern Europe by now). Iranian centrifuges spinning at the Natanz show site seem to multiply by the week (what goes on at the covert enrichment sites is anybody’s guess). An obvious nuclear triggering device test program and blueprints for fashioning the hemispherical pits of a nuclear weapon elicit little more than yawns from the U.S. intelligence community, even after both the MEK and IAEA revealed the details.
All that’s really left at this point is the buzzer -- or more specifically, an Islamic Revolutionary Guard commander’s finger on the button.
Change is coming to Iran, whether from a new generation of Greens determined to be free, or the gathering internal implosion of a revolution that’s run its course. But the time clock on Iran’s nuclear weapons program is ticking faster than either one of those now. Absent action from the outside, from the U.S., Israel, and/or the international community, Iran will be a nuclear weapons power in the very near future. Whether it chooses to demonstrate that status with a test launch, like India and Pakistan, an out-of-the-blue genocidal bolt against Israel, or a life-altering electro-magnetic pulse attack over the U.S., will soon be out of any of our hands unless somebody stops the mullahs soon and forcibly.
The courageous Dutch politician, Geert Wilders (currently on trial in Amsterdam for daring to speak the truth about Islamic jihad), has called America “The Last Man Standing.” The question is: are we? Are we really?
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A CLARION CALL AGAINST THE ATOMIC HEL
Dated: 29-6-1982
By Allama Muhammad Yousuf Gabriel
The circumstances reveal now that to mankind is left no alternative but either to vanish under the hails of atomic bombs, suddenly, deservedly, or to perish slowly, lingeringly, painfully under the stings of the radiations of atomic energy, also deservedly. Neither the idea of atomic deterrence through stock-piles will for-ever work, nor there ought to be any reason for satisfaction in the thought of a generation or a few generations escaping away from the atomic ruin, for, the accumulated debt will ultimately have to be paid by some generation, the sons or grand-sons of this very mankind. It is a process that must reach its completeness. The number of atomic bombs and atomic reactors will gradually increase, and along with it will increase universal unrest and anarchy, till the heat has reached a point where the explosion will occur. And inspite of all prevailing optimism, no defence is possible against the atomic bomb. And no defence against atomic radiation is probable. Atomic bomb leaves any living thing neither over the earth nor beneath it. And who could furnish every one among the masses with means of protection against radiations, while designing a leak-proof or explosion-proof reactor is not in sight. Nor is there any control over radiations. If therefore this mankind is not blasted out of existence by atomic bombs, the radiations of atomic energy will change this mankind into miserable, cancer-ridden chimeras, before the complete extinction of life on earth. Humanity thus will disappear in a universal nuclear suicide helplessly.
The mission of warning this mankind against atomic ruin was assigned to me in 1942, in my 25th year when I had but negligible knowledge. Without a school or a teacher and in circumstances inexpressibly adverse I studied languages, literatures, philosophies, sciences and scriptures. In 1972 I sat to writing, day and night till in 1982 I completed my work, namely, “Gabriel's Extinguishing the Atomic Hell Series", in 12 volumes, in english. Therein philosophy, atomic science and scriptures have been treated.
Allow me to say that it is the ark of Noah for the deluge of atomic fire. Here, I have no mind to indulge in the narrative of my painful ordeal, or the degree of intellectual achievements. Where is a Bunyan to trace my pilgrimage and where is a Freud to analyse the method of my intellectual pursuit. And Alas Einstein, Russel and Sir James Jeans are all dead, that would have evaluated and appreciated the worth of my work. And If Ronald Knox, the author of "God and Atom" still lives, let him know that he who has fought the battle royal for forty years, now stands with the key of the future destiny of mankind in his hand, helplessly groping in the dark for the publication of the truth which he has discovered. The world moved about him hypnotized by the influence of a grievous doom. Following is the list of my books all unpublished:- (List in early pages of the book)
See whichever of the following hints applies to you:-
1.Your answer will be anxiously awaited, for the margin now left appears to be too narrow.2. A lecture on the topic may be useful. Invite me therefore.3.Your audience is earnestly sought.4. Would you like to publish any book/books given in the above list. 5. Could you provide me some financial assistance for the publication of these volumes and correspondence with other countries which is very expensive now days.
Thanks,
Yours sincerely,
YOUSUF GABRIEL
Allama Muhammad Yousuf Gabriel
Quaid e Azam Street Nawababad Wah Cantt Distt Rawalpindi Pakistan
Www.oqasa.org
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Wake up America!!! Wake up EU!!!
Did I read it right?
"Despite a U.S. naval build-up in the Persian Gulf that includes stationing two ships armed with anti-missile missiles and providing additional defensive missiles to Sunni regimes in the area, the Iranians remain unimpressed."
So Iran should have felt secure / threatened and have done nothing ?? I am confused - what Iran is doing is EXACTLY what they would do in case of increased US presence.
Again for
"The courageous Dutch politician, Geert Wilders (currently on trial in Amsterdam for daring to speak the truth about Islamic jihad), has called America “The Last Man Standing.” The question is: are we? Are we really?"
I cant remember anything specific being done by USA to oppose Islamic Terrorist - hell they cant even say the term openly. Have you watched 'the third Jihad' it shows how low America has stooped to Radical Islam.
I recall Iranian government expressing support for our currend president during the campaign season. That merely confirmed my strong suspicion he's got as much spine as a bowl of cornmeal mush when it comes to actually making a stand.
Read Winston Churchill's book, The Gathering Storm". the account of his observations of Germany in the inter-war period last century. Point by point, Germany had scorned the terms of the Treaty of Versailles, refusing to submit to them and instead gearing up for war once more. It has been well documented that Hitler, as they made plans to invade and conquer nation after nation in Europe, was confronted with the idea that the international community would take aggressive steps to halt their invasion. Hitler's response was along the lines "oh, no, they won't do anything... maybe mutter some threats, but they won't DO anything. Just watch....". Who was proven right? This present situation is the closest parallel to that I've seen. Iran will continue to rattle their sabres and nukes until they are ready to DO something..... the whiles, the West will sit idly by, making spineless threats, appeals, entreaties, fully aware of Iran's scorn of us all.
The question is, WILL someone find enough spine, who also has the strength to back up that spine? Thus far, Israel have waited patiently, biding their time as they've done in the past when confronted by such threats to their existence. Do they yet possess the fortitude to ACT, as they've also done in the past? If so, they will act sufficiently in advance of the danger point as to thward Iran's intent. Thus, once more, the tiny nation of Isreal may well be the key to what must, for now, pass for peace, and life as it is now known in that region. While the "big dogs" sleep, or worry, or play.
Pitiful, that.