U.S., Israel preparing for Iran war?
By Jerome R. Corsi
Posted: March 26, 2005
1:00 a.m. Eastern
2005 WorldNetDaily.com
Beginning on March 10, units of the U.S. Army's European Command
stationed in Germany have been in Israel to conduct joint exercises
with the Israeli Defense Forces designed to test their combined
ability to down an attack of Shahab-3 missiles launched from Iran
against Israel.
Code-named "Juniper Cobra," these exercises test the linking of U.S.
Patriot missile systems with Israel's Arrow-2 missile-defense systems.
The Arrow-2 system is designed to intercept incoming missiles at high
altitudes to reduce the fallout damage from nuclear warheads. The
Patriot systems are a second line of defense, designed to intercept
missiles at lower altitudes. Also involved in the exercises is a U.S.
missile ship carrying Aegis anti-missile systems.
U.S. military authorities deny that the exercises have anything to do
with the current tensions over Iran's apparently determined drive to
develop nuclear weapons secretly. Still, the scenario being tested
involves missiles launched against Israel from a "red" whose identity
is supposed "unknown," even though the aggressors just happen to speak
Farsi. The last Juniper Cobra operation was reportedly conducted in
2001, just before the start of the war in Iraq against Saddam Hussein.
The point of this combined exercise has not gone unnoticed in Tehran.
Iran retaliated by announcing this week that tests of the Shahab-3
missile conducted in September of last year proved they had made
breakthroughs in the development of the intermediate-range missile.
The mullahs stressed that the September test fulfilled all technical
expectations, proving fast and accurate at a range of 1,700
kilometers, more than enough to reach Tel Aviv.
In other words, the mullahs want to be sure we all know they have an
improved version, a weapon maybe more sophisticated than Operation
Juniper Cobra is testing against.
This Operation Juniper Cobra is not expected to end until mid-April.
Put this together with what appears to be a convergence of U.S.
carrier battle groups in the region, and the preparations for war are
hard to miss.
No wonder we have had a barrage of war denials in recent days from
President Bush, as well as Prime Ministers Ariel Sharon of Israel and
Tony Blair of the UK. With U.S. military bases now surrounding Iran
and approximately 150,000 seasoned U.S. Marines and Army forces in the
region, speaking softly hardly conceals the reality of the big stick.
How credible could the mullahs pledge not to develop weapons be when
almost every day another lie comes to light? This week there are new
charges that Iran is still enriching uranium at a secret underground
facility in the Parchin military complex outside Tehran.
Maybe President Bush has just decided to play the mullahs' own game.
The president sounds very reasonable when he insists he prefers a
diplomatic solution – a little too reasonable to be completely
consistent with his second inaugural address or his State of the Union
speech.
Terrorists like to talk to buy time, but this president is cagey, too.
As the dance drags on, the internal dissent within Iran has a chance
to grow, especially if senators like Rick Santorum, R-Pa., and Sam
Brownback, R-Kan., and Representatives like Steve King, R-Iowa,
succeed in building a congressional consensus that reaches in
solidarity across to the opposition groups within Iran. Is it possible
that we could see a protest in the streets of Tehran like the ones we
just witnessed in Beirut?
Stalled talks can't last forever. What happens if the mullahs refuse
to take active steps to destroy their centrifuge farms and dismantle
their heavy-water facilities? Well, there is always the military
option. That option is very obviously left on the table, even if the
president doesn't talk about it very much.
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The US and Israel would never have planned this war if Iran
would admit it already has 11 to 14 nuclear devides, purchased from
former Soviet officers after collapse of the USSR. Several
former Soviet Republics border Iran, could have been driven
across the border in a Pizza delivery truck.
Iran signed the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, and has
had numerous inspections by the International Atomic Energy
Commission, and by the UN.
Iarael refused to ever sign the Nuclear Non-Proliferation
Treaty, and has never allowed inspections of its nuclear
facilities by anyone, though it is well known they have produced
themselves, over 250 nuclear warheads, and the missiles to send
them as far away as northern Europe, which they've hinted they
would do if they saw fit.
Iran must admit now, that they already have the warheads they
purchased on the black market. They have been telling the truth
about their nuclear energy program, but would have been smarter
to simply lie and say "sure, it's for weapons development."
Nothing short of standing up the the US of Israel with
a demonstration of a nuclear capability, will deter a massive
strike this summer to overthrow Iran's government to make it safe
for "Democracy (ie, submit to US operated Oil Company management).
Iran has a long history, like China, a proud history. They don't
need lessons in Democracy. They had free and widely monitored
elections in 1952, that put Prime Minister Mosadekh and a
Parliament into power. The US CIA put the Reza Pahlavi (Shah
of Iran) into power via a CIA riven coup, in 1953. The Pahlavi's
were strong allies of the Nazix in WWII, which didn't bother
the CIA at all, given that 1/3rd of the CIA's ranks were made
up atr the time of former SS officers and non-commissioned
officer.
Iran has continously been threatened by the US, since they kicked
the US's ***** out of Iran in 1979, ending 26 years of imperialism,
FBI trained torturers and assassins and the executions of hundreds
of thousands of students and trade-unionists - Ie, Fascist,
fanchised by the US.
If the US of Israel is planning to "Defend" itself, it's only
a ruse to use some 9/11'like event, which will be blamed on
iran, to start the cruise missiles and heavy bombers pulverizing
Iran, so that Halliburton/KBR can "Rebuild the Iranian Oil
Infrastructure
We've all seen this US ***** movie before, and it stinks
to high-heaven.
itwill@happen.com wrote in message news:<1111845266.9b1e9005473967c6c900b48bf625d3d6@teranews>...
U.S., Israel preparing for Iran war?
By Jerome R. Corsi
Posted: March 26, 2005
1:00 a.m. Eastern
2005 WorldNetDaily.com
Beginning on March 10, units of the U.S. Army's European Command
stationed in Germany have been in Israel to conduct joint exercises
with the Israeli Defense Forces designed to test their combined
ability to down an attack of Shahab-3 missiles launched from Iran
against Israel.
Code-named "Juniper Cobra," these exercises test the linking of U.S.
Patriot missile systems with Israel's Arrow-2 missile-defense systems.
The Arrow-2 system is designed to intercept incoming missiles at high
altitudes to reduce the fallout damage from nuclear warheads. The
Patriot systems are a second line of defense, designed to intercept
missiles at lower altitudes. Also involved in the exercises is a U.S.
missile ship carrying Aegis anti-missile systems.
U.S. military authorities deny that the exercises have anything to do
with the current tensions over Iran's apparently determined drive to
develop nuclear weapons secretly. Still, the scenario being tested
involves missiles launched against Israel from a "red" whose identity
is supposed "unknown," even though the aggressors just happen to speak
Farsi. The last Juniper Cobra operation was reportedly conducted in
2001, just before the start of the war in Iraq against Saddam Hussein.
The point of this combined exercise has not gone unnoticed in Tehran.
Iran retaliated by announcing this week that tests of the Shahab-3
missile conducted in September of last year proved they had made
breakthroughs in the development of the intermediate-range missile.
The mullahs stressed that the September test fulfilled all technical
expectations, proving fast and accurate at a range of 1,700
kilometers, more than enough to reach Tel Aviv.
In other words, the mullahs want to be sure we all know they have an
improved version, a weapon maybe more sophisticated than Operation
Juniper Cobra is testing against.
This Operation Juniper Cobra is not expected to end until mid-April.
Put this together with what appears to be a convergence of U.S.
carrier battle groups in the region, and the preparations for war are
hard to miss.
No wonder we have had a barrage of war denials in recent days from
President Bush, as well as Prime Ministers Ariel Sharon of Israel and
Tony Blair of the UK. With U.S. military bases now surrounding Iran
and approximately 150,000 seasoned U.S. Marines and Army forces in the
region, speaking softly hardly conceals the reality of the big stick.
How credible could the mullahs pledge not to develop weapons be when
almost every day another lie comes to light? This week there are new
charges that Iran is still enriching uranium at a secret underground
facility in the Parchin military complex outside Tehran.
Maybe President Bush has just decided to play the mullahs' own game.
The president sounds very reasonable when he insists he prefers a
diplomatic solution ? a little too reasonable to be completely
consistent with his second inaugural address or his State of the Union
speech.
Terrorists like to talk to buy time, but this president is cagey, too.
As the dance drags on, the internal dissent within Iran has a chance
to grow, especially if senators like Rick Santorum, R-Pa., and Sam
Brownback, R-Kan., and Representatives like Steve King, R-Iowa,
succeed in building a congressional consensus that reaches in
solidarity across to the opposition groups within Iran. Is it possible
that we could see a protest in the streets of Tehran like the ones we
just witnessed in Beirut?
Stalled talks can't last forever. What happens if the mullahs refuse
to take active steps to destroy their centrifuge farms and dismantle
their heavy-water facilities? Well, there is always the military
option. That option is very obviously left on the table, even if the
president doesn't talk about it very much.
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