Was Iran the Threat Trump Claims?

 

United States President Trump pulled the Americans out of the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) while offering the Iranians to sit down and work out a more restrictive treaty (see video below), which President Trump assured them would benefit the world. The reality is that should a better treaty be hammered out which truly would prevent Iran from ever attaining nuclear weapons capability with an inspection regime, which assured their compliance, then this would make the world a far better place. The reality is that Iran will simply continue as they have been by doubling down on ignoring their agreements of the deal, refusing the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) permission to inspect their military sites other than Fordow. That was simply the most glaring refusal of the Iranian regime.

 

 

When one adds the revelations made by Israel last week about the Iranian nuclear activities, divulging the treasure trove of records absconded with by Israeli intelligence agents (Mossad) over the period of a single night, President Trump had all the information he required to justify pulling out from the JCPOA. Still, we are amazed they could even move that many records within such a brief period of time without being challenged. The speech made by Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu revealing the information (see video below) was interesting in that he was not addressing the Israeli people, for that he speaks Hebrew, and was not, as many declared, speaking to President Trump; he was speaking for the benefit of the American public. President Trump, his Cabinet Members who were interested and the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) had already been granted full access to the information for reason of verification that they were indeed exactly as claimed and for their being informed. Prime Minister Netanyahu was making the preparation for the action taken by President Trump by revealing the full extent of the Iranian breaching of the treaty including the initial requirements for validating the treaty, thus the treaty was in reality an empty shell from the beginning. With that established and made by a credible source, President Trump could make his announcement without facing rejections of his statements claiming that he did not have actual information on whether Iran was complying or ignoring their obligations. That simply caused those who claim that President Trump cannot walk without assistance, as he is that unstable, from claiming that he was bringing the world to the brink once again. That as it may, the die is cast and President Trump gave Iran the offer to make a new deal, which they will reject instead making much bluster while continuing with their nuclear research and weapons manufacture, and now it is just a matter of time until President Trump places a time limit on his patience over Iran requesting negotiations for a new treaty. This will be where things could become quite serious including the possibility of Iran testing an actual nuclear weapon and declaring themselves a nuclear-armed power.

 

 

As far as the threat level that Iran poses, President Trump underestimated their threat levels. Much of what the Iranians are threatening across the Middle East goes well beyond Hezballah, Hamas, Syria, Yemen, Saudi Arabia, Israel and others within the MENA countries. Some of their threat stems from the Tri-Border Area (TBA) of Argentina, Brazil, and Paraguay (see image below), where criminal interests, terrorist training, and IRGC preparations for strikes within the Americas take place including the two attacks in Buenos Aires, the Asociación Mutual Israelita Argentina (AMIA; Argentine Israelite Mutual Association) bombing and the bombing of the Israeli Embassy. Iran has made threats to destroy Israel as well as the United States. There have also been rising levels of threat to Saudi Arabia and the other Gulf States as well as Jordan, Turkey, Egypt and beyond. These are the threats which President Trump referred.

 

Tri-Border Region of South America Terror training haven and Iranian proxy state in the Americas and Base of operations for the 17 March 1992 Israeli Embassy Bombing murdering 29 injuring 242 and the Asociación Mutual Israelita Argentina (AMIA) 18 July 1994 bombing murdered 85 injured over 800 and now we must add the murdered Argentine Prosecutor Alberto Nisman to AMIA fatalities

 

These threats are actually minimal compared to the entirety of the designs of the Ayatollahs. Their dreams and designs are a compilation of the desires of the Persian Empire to rule the known world, which has grown since their time, and the Shiite Islamic desire to spread Shia Islam to every person on Earth. This put in the most simple terms states that the Iranian leaders believe it will be their triumph in the end taking over the entirety of the Earth and converting every remaining person to Shia Islam. Their intent is to give people the choice of convert or die by beheading. They are serious about this just as they have been at enforcing their nightmarish rule over the people of Iran operating a torture operation at Evin Prison where those who protest the regime face if arrested. Despite these chilling possibilities, there have been large demonstrations against the Mullahs in 2009, which were brutally put down with numerous of the leaders simply disappearing. These demonstrations have been building once again. President Trump gave those who wish to replace their governance with something more attuned to the needs of the people and not so intent on military building and nuclear weapons development at the expense of the people and the national economy. President Trump stated that the people should be the first concern of their governance, not just an annoyance to be disregarded. This was a message that Washington D.C. will back their demonstrations this time should they decide to challenge the rule of the Mullahs. Should the Iranian people rise up, we can only hope the President is ready and willing to stand behind his encouraging words and not simply blowing smoke in their direction.

 

Iran, as dangerous as they likely currently are, could become far more of a world threat should they ever compile a nuclear weapons cache of thermos-nuclear weapons which are miniaturized making them useable as missile warheads with greater yields per unit size mountable on intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs) threatening the entirety of the globe from within hardened launch sites within Iran. Already it is suspected that Iranian ballistic missiles are capable of attaining four-thousand-kilometers with new plans reaching possibly over six-thousand-kilometers. Iran has also proven their ability at firing satellites into low-Earth orbit, which is the principle requirement for launching an EMP device that would be almost impossible to prevent should it reach deployment orbit and be set upon a reentry path. That aside, the weapon could be removed from orbit while it remains in its orbit by anti-satellite missiles which have been developed by Russia, China, Israel and the United States at a minimum. The Iranians went one-step further by placing a satellite in a trans-polar orbit where it crosses over the North Pole and South Pole. This also permits for an orbit which approaches the United States from a southerly direction over the Gulf of Mexico and through Texas to Louisiana passing over Kansas City and St Louis, the prime location for an EMP device to be deployed and approaching from the area where the anti-missile detection and interception capabilities are at their most limited. So, Iran is capable of orbiting satellites, firing continental ballistic missiles up to possibly five-thousand kilometers and is at the verge of producing solid fueled ICBMs and the thermonuclear warheads to place atop them, exactly how much more dangerous would make them an international concern? We would claim they already are an international concern of great weight.

 

Ranges of Iranian Missiles

 

The Iranians have been working on producing nuclear weapons since December 1984 when with the aid of China, Iran opened a nuclear research center in Isfahan. This was claimed to be for the peaceful use of nuclear power, a story we have heard before from every nation right before they test a nuclear device. The United States started from scratch with the Einstein letter in August of 1939 to plan for making a nuclear device and exploded a fully operational thermonuclear weapon at the start of November of 1952. That is from nothing to a thermonuclear device in less than fifteen years in complete secrecy. Iran was suspected of working towards nuclear weapons in late 1997 and this was stated with an earlier estimate in the 1990’s, probably in 1992. When one figures out that Iran had the advantage that in 1992 one could search the Internet for a design for a normal nuclear weapon giving them a head start towards weapons research, then the fifteen-year requirement should be considered even smaller. One can even find the basic design for a thermonuclear device on the Internet; so making such devices must be far less complicated in the current time with the available free information. So, we will stay with the fifteen-year period just to be fair. So, if we decide for the sake of fairness using 1995 as the start point for the Iranian nuclear research into weapons. That would mean that Iran should have been fully capable for the manufacture of thermonuclear warheads certainly by 2010. As the JCPOA was signed initially in November of 2013, three years after Iran should have already found a system for the production of a thermonuclear device, we can probably also assume that the JCPOA was signed closing the nuclear barn-house door well after the thermonuclear horses had escaped. Iran could have been building such weapons for three years before they entered an agreement which had little if any punitive measures and weak and limp investigatory abilities after which they could very easily have continued their manufacture of warheads. Assuming that Iranian physicists are competent and actually were working honestly on weapons development, the world should expect that Iran has at least fifty, if not several hundreds, of thermonuclear warheads sitting currently in the ground in hardened silos atop missiles capable of striking virtually anywhere in Europe and across the entirety of the MENA states. Add into the formula their capability to place a satellite capable of carrying a small thermonuclear device into polar low Earth orbit, Iran already could deliver a devastating device anywhere on the planet. But that is not the end of the threat.

 

Iran is known to have also researched EMP weapons, particularly it is suspected they have developed those with nuclear and thermonuclear devices as their trigger systems. These EMP devices could be capable of setting off a continent wide EMP pulse if detonated between thirty and three-hundred miles. It could effect anywhere from a closed area to a near open area including all of the United States (see image below). The outlines of the range of a strong device detonated at three-hundred miles altitude are purely frightening. Imagine turning off the electricity for up to as much as a decade across North America or Europe or almost fifteen-hundred mile radius effect anywhere on the globe. This is a threat that Iran may have already produced weapons with such capability as any nuclear device can be modified such that it has a stronger EMP pulse effect and a lower yield. This means if they choose less of an explosive shock, that they can maximize the EMP effects of their weapon crippling any nation which has not fortified their electrical distribution grids. The really scary item is that very few, if any, nations have bothered to spend the necessary funds to fortify their grids to protect them from an EMP device. This is despite this effect being known since the middle of the 1950’s.

 

The United States carried out a test of the EMP effect with a test in the early 1960’s finding that a moderate strength device exploded over the Pacific Ocean at an altitude of two-hundred-fifty miles and found the device affected electrical distribution in Hawaii approximately nine-hundred miles distant. This was beyond their expected range and this was a weapon not specifically set to maximize the EMP effect. The EMP Pulse has multiple ranges of effect which cause electrical devices an entire series of stresses which maximizes the numbers and types of electronic devices and how they are potentially destroyed. The more nations allow their electrical grids to remain susceptible to the adverse effects of EMP pulse attacks, the more expensive it becomes to protect their systems in the future. The advantage of hardening electrical grids as early as possible is that once they have been hardened, keeping the entirety of the grid hardened as time continues and the system grows, is that such hardening can be included in building regulations thus all upgrades and additions to the systems will retain the advantages made by the hardening of their electrical grids. The United States figured that it would have been implemented in three-to-five years at a cost of ten-to-twenty billion dollars back in 2008. This would have included hardening the entirety of the system. Even after this has been performed, devices plugged into the system could still be susceptible and should the Congress pass new standards today which required all future electronic devices which will be powered by the electrical grid to be made less susceptible to EMP pulses, it would need to give industry around three years in order for new power supplies to be designed and all the old power supplied to be sold or upgraded, perhaps a decade later devices would be made EMP immune. Even if they were only required to only build power supplies to be fifty percent less susceptible, within a decade almost all moderate quality devices would be near hundred percent protected simply because the public would demand such protection once EMP was raised by such that it became something sellers could use in their commercials in order to claim their protection was superior than their competitor. If you want proof, look at the many food cereals which claim to be healthy and their specific amounts of the different kinds of fats, triglycerides, omega-3 fatty acids, calories and you name what else, but they will each claim they have the magic combination which researchers claim will make the healthy eater drool.

 

EMP area by bursts at 30, 120 and 300 miles

 

Seatbelts were originally an option on vehicles and the commercials showed the great advantages to wearing them. Within a few years, virtually every car had seatbelts standard and then soon after the Congress made them mandatory. Then came the tree-point seatbelts and they were standard even in the sub-compacts and then Congress made them mandatory. Air quality and water quality has been cleaned up well beyond what the laws written half a decade later required by industry simply due to the pressure the people placed on cleaning up the environment and industry responded and there were even commercials which stated the advances the production of some products were using at their factories to reduce pollution. The upper limits on people-power on manufacturers are near beyond the ability for us to measure. You probably would like us to prove this point, and so we will. Back on April 23, 1985, the Coca-Cola Company decided to release their great new idea, “New Coke,” and it ended up being less exciting than hoped. The BIG problem was that they discontinued their old formula and discarded it once and for all betting the company on their new product. All their testing had proven this product to outperform Pepsi with Pepsi drinkers. There was a small problem with their research, they forgot to test Coke drinkers. As it turns out, Coke drinkers were quite pleased with the standard Coke product and were quite distressed when this new more Pepsi-ish formula replaced it. Well, within a rather short period, on July 11, 1985, seventy-eight days after New Coke’s introduction, Classic Coke was announced. It was the old formula making its return after a short hiatus. That is what the power of the people demanding their preference can do.

 

Congress will claim that their regulations have done so much to improve our lives, the reality is the people demanding companies meet their expectations has done so much and Congress, late as usual, has jumped on the bandwagon after the companies have already circled the wagons and put their ducks in a row meeting the people’s demands. The politicians have to have their talking points, and that is all they usually are and they are depending on the people not realizing that it was their power that got the changes and Congress just jumped in at the end and is attempting to steal all the credit. Yes, they are a bunch of over-pious, overly-righteous, self-promoting egomaniacs who believe that the people really are that easily fooled. We wish they were not so close to reality on that assumption and being informed is what makes people less susceptible to the politicians stroking them just to get their vote and then serve the moneyed interests who paid for the town hall meeting and barbeque that gained them the votes. When the people demand that their electrical providers harden their service system, that is when it will be performed. Once the entirety of the nations is hardened, then Congress will require it and put aside tons of money presumably to harden the electrical grid. The money will be given to the surviving providers to repay them for what the people forced them into action and performing. Congress, always is there with the money, just after the fact more often than not.

 

Beyond the Cusp

 

Iran Aims For All Middle East Oil

You might have heard that the leadership of Iran is reasonable, logical and will act reasonably and in a predictable manner. The root of this position appears to have begun with the Obama Administration or possibly from somebody out of the European Union. Where it started is not really as important as is the fact that it has entered the echo chamber and is now being treated as accepted wisdom. In truth, I would agree with this assessment but not in the way it is being implied. Iran is totally logical as long as one factors in their motivational sources, the factual basis they use as their filter in judgments, and how they define the terms which you and they are using, especially if these terms have different meanings to the Iranians as they do to those of us in the United States and the rest of Western Civilization. This becomes important as Iran may be on the cusp of a period of expansionism with the end result being the formation of a New Persian Empire initially controlling the oil regions of the near Middle East and eventually as the leader of the new Caliphate and finally the final Islamic World all with Tehran as its capital. I wish to discuss simply the initial aim of controlling all of the Middle East oil and what this will mean for the United States.

Iran’s Central News Agency reported about a letter sent to the head of the Security Council claiming Abu Musa, the Greater Tunbs and the Lesser Tunbs, three islands in the Persian Gulf just past the entrance to the Straits of Hormuz are historically part of Iran. This was committed on response to the recent letter of protest submitted to the Security Council by the United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia criticizing Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s visit to Abu Musa last week. This very well could reignite the smoldering conflict between Iran and the United Arab Emirates over to whom these islands belong and might easily expand to other islands inside the Straits of Hormuz which are claimed by both Iran and Oman. Iran has rattled their sabers over the alignment of these islands every so often but they have not visited them in quite some time. This may be an intentional instigation in order to push a confrontation though it is doubtful they would allow it to escalate into open warfare, at least not yet. This latest dust-up is most likely just serving as a little unfriendly reminder that Iran contests the ownership of these fairly strategic islands.

Where most will probably dismiss this as simply Iran making much noise and fury which in the end will signify nothing out of the ordinary, I have this feeling deep down that this time will prove different in the not too distant future. One has to remember that Iran has actually been on an expansionist bend since the 1979 Islamic Revolution and that they declared their intent from the very outset. Since then they have established deep ties with Syria turning Syria into what can only be described as a client state under the direction of Iran. With the assistance of Syria, Iran established Hezballah which now has established themselves as the power behind the governance in Lebanon. It is also becoming evident that as the United States and their NATO allies leave Iraq, Iran is steadily moving in and enforcing their will and influence there as well. Even the nemesis of the United States, Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr has reappeared on the Iraqi power scene and has been gaining more and more influence. Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki and Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad have traveled between Baghdad and Tehran exchanging friendly greetings in a series of meetings. The same has been true with Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan and President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad but that friendship has cooled slightly of late as Turkey does not appear ready to play second fiddle to Iran.

We need to also add the suspected Iranian influence of some of the uprisings which were part of last year’s Arab Spring. In particular, Iran was accused largely by Saudi Arabia of instigating Shiite uprisings in Bahrain which resulted in necessitating Saudi Arabia to militarily intervene to protect the reigning monarch, King Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa. This was subsequent to the mobilization of both military and police in force by the family Saud to impose obvious overwhelming force in order to prevent even the slightest beginning of a revolution during the Arab Spring. These forces were deployed throughout the northeastern areas of Saudi Arabia where the majority of Shiite Muslims reside. They concentrated them near the Shiite Mosques where their presence successfully intimidated anyone even considering starting unrest thus ending any revolt before it could begin. The potential of an uprising by the Shiite population in northeastern Saudi Arabia was presumably traced implying an Iranian influence according to the Saudi rulers. Iran, needless to say, denied having any connection to the unrest in Bahrain or the squelched plans in Saudi Arabia. The accusations died off once the unrest ended.

Still, it is no secret that Iran would dearly love to gain possession of the Shiite areas of Bahrain and Saudi Arabia and the oil fields located in these areas. There is one overriding problem with any Iranian strategies for taking control of these areas, the United States. The United States, despite recent apparent differences between President Obama and Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu, also stands in the way of any Iranian thoughts for destroying the Zionist Entity. In almost every avenue which the Iranian Ayatollahs seek to press an Iranian influence has this same problem, the probability of opposition by the United States. This just might be much of the reason that every Friday after religious services let out from the Mosques that they hold rallies where they chant “Death to America” along with “Death to Israel”. The order of this chant has some relevance to the order in which the Iranians will plan their attacks. The problem for Iran in every single one of their expansionist dreams as well as their genocidal intents towards Israel is the military and nuclear umbrellas proffered by the United States over almost all of these targets, especially Israel, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, and the rest of the GCC (Gulf Cooperation Council) members. This is the reason that the first target which will announce to the world that Iran has decided their time has arrived to strike out and take their proper and deserved place as the leaders of the new Islamic World will be an all-out attack on the United States, their main nemesis. Their plan will be a devastating knockout attack with their newly acquired nuclear weapons very likely in a combined EMP strike to destroy the power grid and as much of American technology as possible in parallel with nuclear attacks against at the very least New York and Washington DC in order to decapitate all of our governmental and business headquarters and most important people. Whether or not they also use nuclear weapons on other cities will depend on the number of such weapons in their arsenal. These attacks will be coordinated with their Hezballah agents who they will have already placed in tactical areas to implement further debilitating attacks in areas Iran will be unable to directly strike. What follows will be of little concern to the people of the United States; they will have much more serious problems to face. Most likely the next strike will be the oil fields of their neighbors as once they control the oil they will control the rest of the world’s economic health using oil as a means to their ends.

Beyond the Cusp