More saber rattling from the Islamic Republic of Iran as they test fired short range missiles that could conceivably hit Israel as well as U.S. interests in the Gulf region. Iran test fired the Shahab 3 missile which has a reported range of 2,000 km.
Iran seemingly loves the media spotlight; one day after Mahmoud Ahmadinejad gave his speech to the U.N. General Assembly, it was determined that Iran had a second nuclear facility in operation that had not been approved by the IAEA. Of course Iran says the facility and their nuclear ambitions are for electricity.
There has been speculation of a possible Israeli attack on the known Iranian nuclear facility prompting hand wringing by those opposed to Israel defending itself. Even former NSA to Carter, Zbigniew Brezinski said that the United States should shoot down Israeli jets that cross over Iraqi airspace on their way to Iran.
Now with the revelation of a second nuclear facility, short range missiles that could strike Israel, and continued defiance of U.N. mandates, Iran is clearly pushing the free world to make a move. The Iranian revolutionary guard conducted war games as well, at the same time the missiles were being tested.
The Iranians are about to begin talks with the U.N. Security Council 5 member nations as well as Germany concerning their nuclear ambitions. The missile tests come at an inopportune time for the United States as well as the other nations dealing with the hostile Iranian regime.
Barack Obama warned Iran that tougher sanctions could be on the way (seeing that the others have worked so well) if Iran doesn’t comply with U.N. resolutions. Obama still seems to believe that Iran can be negotiated with, it’s obvious they can’t.
Iran has been dishonest concerning its nuclear ambitions from the beginning. When Barack Obama decided to scrap a missile defense shield in Poland, the Iranian Regime seemed to be emboldened. They have been acting up ever since the announcement came of the defense systems demise.
Iran, as usual, is trying to turn the conversation back on anyone who would oppose their desire to have nuclear power. They warn ahead of the nuclear talks that the U.S. and Israel as well as the western world’s uproar over the missile tests and illegal nuclear facility would negatively affect the talks.
Meaning they have no intentions of a positive outcome outside of the six nations completely giving in to their demands and desires for a functional nuclear facility. Iran is a very dangerous, ticking time bomb.
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September 27th, 2009 at 6:37 pm
If you just think about the 8 years of full time experience in fighting in similar terrain as iran with the iraq and afghanistan wars, the western armies have, like the US, UK, France, Germany, and so forth, and the total lack of real fighting experience of any kind for the iranians, they have a totallly inexperienced military, a joke of an airforce, a minimal navy mostly composed of harrassing speed boats that can be incapacitated with sound cannons, some sunfire crusie missles(dangerous) and thats about it. plus mostly inferior weopons, and really no way to produce petrol outside of their one refinery. They are incredibly weak actually from any strategic or tactical point of view. no wonder why they want nukes. Its really just a question of whether and when the vastly superior western forces will strike since the iranian government is megalomaniacal. Video of Ahmaddinajad lieing showed him blinking his eyes rapidly while his words were not connected with his eyes, the mark of a psychopath with no shame. The only real weopon iran has are its terror proxys hezbollah and hamas and elements of its quods force in other countries. The west should simply locate them and systematically take them out dissapating their effectiveness and be prepared to take them down. Outside of that there is little to fear compared to this iranian regieme haveing a handful of nukes atop missles and in delivery trucks across the world.
September 27th, 2009 at 6:43 pm
President Obama: “Hey Iran, stop doing that or else!”
Iran: “Or else what?”
President Obama: “Or else we’ll be really angry with you and we will write you a letter telling you how angry we are with you.”
(Shamelessly stolen from “Team America World Police”)
September 27th, 2009 at 7:39 pm
You know right now Iran is on the verge of blowing up Israel and us, but all he wants to do is talk about healthcare. I mean the economy is important, but these are our lives all of our lives and I think dealing with Iran is more important right now than anything else. Now obama chooses to handle Iran like everything else he does and that’s lay out a good outline for a building that will never be made.
September 27th, 2009 at 7:40 pm
Also I wonder how the Jewish people who always vote Democratic feel about this.
September 27th, 2009 at 8:01 pm
that is why we have domestic policy as well as foriegn policy. domestically we are slowly going broke and we got to fix our steam turbines to keep this ship of state a going. foreign policy demands are just that, foriegn to our domestic situation. they don’t care, they don’t wait. we have to address both.
September 27th, 2009 at 9:52 pm
Sorry Brian your comment is wrong “They are incredibly weak actually from any strategic or tactical point of view”
Think about the world economy if the Straight of Hormuz was closed even for a couple of months. $ 300 barrel of oil ? I would suggest America would fall into a Depression along with the rest of the world.
September 27th, 2009 at 10:17 pm
I don’t think they could close the straight of hormuz with the US and Nato and Arab navy presence there. THey could harrass it or sink a few of their ships there, the only thing really dangerous they have is the soviet sunfiree crusie missle. For that matter we could sink their navy, occupy the gulf of hormuz, including the iranian side if we had to. no doubt oil speculators would drive up the price of oil, but we have efficiencys coming down the line in our auto fleets and use of oil.
September 28th, 2009 at 5:17 am
Yes, that lover of Israel would shoot down Israeli aircraft if they flew over Iraqi airspace. I do not doubt that President Obama would do the same.
Nice to have allies that you can depend upon when the shooting starts.