Israel/U.S/Iran: build up to war: Updates!!

[zhuangzi]

Has them Iran War broken out yet? It been imminent/teetering on the absolute brink for about ten year now.

[jackblack666]

Originally Posted by aejor_mn

The biggest terrorist threat is the Rothchilds and friends banking monopoly throughout your histories as the main cause for your wars...
Israel is nothing but the Pimp for the Rothchilds to whore out America.
PNAC was the organization behind their plan for the Twin Towers, while APAIC whores the american government.

I say you pretty much nailed it, America is definitely the whore of little Israel. At the latest AIPAC conference, Satanyahoo was applauded over and over by hundreds of groveling elected reps of the USA.

You make a distinction that it is the German Jews. I disagree, it is all those who follow the Torah and Talmud, which is extremist supremacy and racist literature written by power mad Rabbis.

Think about it, isn't war mongering, apartheid Israel the only logical expression of the Jewish holy books?

[msmoorad]

Originally Posted by jackblack666

I say you pretty much nailed it, America is definitely the whore of little Israel. At the latest AIPAC conference, Satanyahoo was applauded over and over by hundreds of groveling elected reps of the USA.

You make a distinction that it is the German Jews. I disagree, it is all those who follow the Torah and Talmud, which is extremist supremacy and racist literature written by power mad Rabbis.

Think about it, isn't war mongering, apartheid Israel the only logical expression of the Jewish holy books?

with all due respect- the Torah is a divine book
its accepted as such even by us muslims
our only concern is that is has been tampered with
-too much chopping &changing
but it still contains lots of valuable & good advice

as for the talmud-its just filthy!

theres actually 2 versions of it
one for the Zionist Jews & another "Kosher" version to fool the Gentiles/Goyim:
"look for yourself, see, theres no hate speech or any filthy teachings in this book whatsoever"

theres even some Jews who practice no religion-but still apparently dont like the actions of Zionist israel

[wakeup2nwo]

Israel gets fourth German submarine




JERUSALEM
Israel on Thursday received its fourth German-made submarine capable of launching nuclear warheads, expanding a fleet that experts say could be used in an attack on Iran.
Defense Minister Ehud Barak said that the submarine would increase Israel's capabilities and strength "in the face of the growing regional challenges."
The Dolphin-type military submarine is one of six Israel has ordered from Germany, which subsidizes the submarines. Each submarine costs half a billion dollars. The sub was presented to Israeli officials in Hamburg, Germany, on Thursday and is expected to arrive in Israel in 2013, following final tests.
Israel is already in possession of three other German-made Dolphin-class submarines capable of carrying nuclear-tipped missiles. However, there is no evidence that Israel has armed them with such weapons and the country has never confirmed reports that it possesses a nuclear arsenal.
Israel believes Iran is developing nuclear weapons and has hinted that it is ready to strike Iranian nuclear facilities to prevent Tehran from making an atomic bomb. Iran insists its nuclear program is for peaceful purposes.
Iran and the international community are to resume negotiations about Tehran's nuclear program later this month in Baghdad. Israel has welcomed the diplomatic effort but refuses to rule out the use of force, saying often that all options remain on the table. Military experts say the Dolphins could be deployed to the Gulf as part of an Israeli strike on Iran.
The sale of the submarines sparked criticism from German Nobel-winning author Guenter Grass, who in a recent poem blasted Israel's alleged nuclear program. Alluding to the sale, Grass said the submarines were capable of firing "all-destroying" nuclear missiles into Iran.
Since Germany and Israel established diplomatic ties in 1965, Germany has become perhaps Israel's strongest ally in Europe.


http://www.businessweek.com/ap/2012-05/D9UHASP00.htm

[realy]

Originally Posted by jackblack666

I say you pretty much nailed it, America is definitely the whore of little Israel. At the latest AIPAC conference, Satanyahoo was applauded over and over by hundreds of groveling elected reps of the USA.

You make a distinction that it is the German Jews. I disagree, it is all those who follow the Torah and Talmud, which is extremist supremacy and racist literature written by power mad Rabbis.

Think about it, isn't war mongering, apartheid Israel the only logical expression of the Jewish holy books?

dont forget the kabala and the zohar for the occultted/sage rebbis.

[wake_up_bomb]

http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.p...t=va&aid=30585

The Empire versus Iran and Syria: A New World War for a New World Order?

Confronted with a declining World Order it can no longer control, does the West want to re-assert its will through a new world war, which this time would be really global?

A terrifying scenario emerges from the ceaseless escalation of pressures and threats against Syria and Iran, pitting, for the first time since the NATO-OECD Empire won the Cold War two decades ago, the Western trio of the UN veto club (U.S., U.K., France) against its non-Western duo (Russia and China).

These two latter superpowers, key players of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) spanning the Eurasian mega continent, have blocked the trio's plans to carry out a Libya-II in Syria, and to choke Iran with an array of sanctions that include cutting off its oil exports -- while keeping the military strike option "on the table."

This is the first time the Russians and Chinese have, together, raised obstacles in the way of the apparently unstoppable march of the victors of the Cold War -- and the destroyers of the former Soviet Empire.

But the march of the NATO-OECD Empire is becoming less and less triumphal. With support from most of the non-Western countries of the Non Aligned Movement and the G77, Russia and China are reasserting the primacy of international law and UN diplomacy in tackling the Syria and Iran issues, hobbling further the Western propensity to drown every "crisis," real or fabricated, under a carpet of bombs, missiles and boots on the ground -- with dire unintended consequences for all!

From Euphoria to Quagmire and Decline

Still basking in its victory over the ex-Soviet Empire, the NATO-OECD Empire dismembered the former Yugoslavia in the 1990s and extended NATO to the European limits of Russia -- which did not react militarily. Moscow reacted only when NATO tried to take hold in the Caucasus, through Georgia and Azerbaijan.

Despite the French "lone wolf" episode in Rwanda, the Empire also reinforced its hegemony over the Great Lakes region of Africa -- as compensation for the fall of Apartheid in the South of the continent. Neither Russia nor China budged. And China coolly swallowed the repeated provocations of the Empire along its borders -- through Tibet, Xinjiang, Burma, Taiwan, North Korea.

But as the 21st century set in, the Empire began to falter. The attacks of September 11, 2001 precipitated implementation of a New World Order according to George W. Bush's PNAC (Project for a New American Century): "You are either with us or against us."

For the first time in its history, NATO invoked Article 5 of its Charter to attack and occupy Afghanistan -- bypassing the UN. Two years later, again without UN approval, the Empire attacked and occupied Iraq.

But very soon it hit a quagmire. By 2012, these wars will have cost $4 trillion, according to the Oakland Institute -- while OECD economies stagnate or decline. Throughout the West, crises won't stop, unemployment is up, debt is ballooning -- while the weight and influence of the "Rest" (China, India, Brazil, Iran, South Africa, et al.) keep growing globally.

The Empire saps the UN and Boosts NATO

This shifting balance of power has compelled the old G7 to turn to the G20 to manage the world economy. But the G7 keeps stalling much called-for UN reform and Security Council enlargement, as it clings to its waning political supremacy.

More resolutely, the G7 continues to boost its military superiority: 21 of the 34 States of the OECD are members of NATO, which has pushed the limits of the "North Atlantic" to the Indian Ocean, Central Asia and Africa (with Africom) -- while also targeting Australasia and the Pacific.

As real productivity migrates away from the West, the unsteady economies of the NATO-OECD Empire depend more than ever on the "Military-Industrial Complex" that Dwight Eisenhower warned us against. According to the Swedish SIPRI Institute, NATO countries devoted more than $1 trillion (1,000 billion) last year to military expenditure.

With allies like Saudi Arabia ($42 billion, 11 per cent of GDP, 8th place), Australia ($20 billion, 1.9 per cent, 14th) and Israel ($13 billion, 6.3 per cent, 18th), NATO and its friends accounted for more than two-thirds of a global military expenditure of $1.6 trillion in 2011. With $698 billion (4.8 per cent of GDP, 1st place), the U.S. alone accounted for 43 per cent of world defence spending. Canada ($22.8 billion, 1.5 per cent) came 13th.

In comparison, China spent $120 billion (2.1 per cent of GDP, 2nd place), Russia $58 billion (4 per cent, 5th), India $41 billion (2.7 per cent, 10th), Brazil $30 billion (1.6 per cent, 11th) -- with $7.7 billion for Iran (1.8 per cent, 25th) and $2.2 billion for Syria (4 per cent, 53rd)!

The Empire and the Israel-Oil-Emirates-Turkey axis

This is the backdrop to the incessant roll of NATO-OECD drums of war over Syria and Iran. The twin crises are inseparably linked: through Syria, its key Arab ally, and its bridge to the (Shiite) Lebanese Hezbollah and the (Sunni) Palestinian Hamas, it's Iran which is the target, Iran which broke free of the Empire more than 30 years ago.

Motives abound:

1. The Syria-Hezbollah-Hamas-Iran axis holds Israel in check;

2. The Shiite awakening, Arab and Persian, and unambiguously republican, threatens the feudal Sunni monarchies of the Gulf, beginning with Saudi Arabia and its puritan wahhabi brand of Islamic fundamentalism;

3. After destroying Saddam Hussein's secular and anti-monarchist Baath regime (and Iraq along with it), the Empire, backed by the Oil Emirates, Israel and Turkey, is frantically trying to steer, even hijack, the Arab Spring;

4. Turkey, a member of both NATO and the OECD, sees itself as a Sunni republican rival of Iran -- drawing on its new "moderate" Islamist regime and on its Ottoman past as ruler of the Arabs for nearly 700 years;

5. Syria has its own secular Baath regime, which has been pressured by the Arab Spring and by its allies to open up to pluralism and hold general elections on May 7 -- but the Empire keeps battering it ruthlessly, because what it wants is "regime change";

6. Meanwhile the Empire is doing all it can to maintain the status quo in Yemen, and in Bahrain, home of the U.S. 5th Fleet in the Gulf, where a Sunni royal family rules over a Shiite majority;

7. The Sunni oil emirate of Qatar continues the propaganda war for the Empire via Al Jazeera TV, even though key journalists are leaving and accusing the network of fabricating false video reports on Libya and Syria. Qatar shares with the atoll of Diego Garcia, in the Indian Ocean, the HQ of the U.S. Central Command (Centcom).

A military victory for a New World Order?

The campaign in the U.S. leading to the November presidential and Congressional elections, now pitting Mitt Romney against Barack Obama, is an additional factor that heightens the threat of a new world war, in the context of the inexorable decline of the NATO-OECD Empire.

Romney and his Republican rivals have publicly called for "doing everything, covertly and deniably, to isolate, choke and destabilize Iran, to kill its nuclear scientists, to destroy its facilities, and to bring down the regime." Short of declaring war on Iran, Obama the Democrat is doing all that, but Romney believes, with Israel and the hawkish camp in Washington, that only war will work.

Some hawks are Evangelical Zionists who pontificate on U.S. TV about biblical prophecies, and call for U.S. support for the "King of the North" (Israel) in the necessary Armageddon against the "King of the South" (Iran) -- although my reading of the map points to Saudi Arabia as "King of the South"! For them, this war is absolutely essential to the Second Coming of Christ.

These hawks think that a victorious war against the Iran-Syria axis will provide the West with the opportunity to impose a (divinely sanctioned) New World Order tailored to the interests of the NATO-OECD Empire.

The opposite camp fears another costly quagmire, like in Afghanistan-Iraq-Pakistan, and further decline of Empire. But the U.S., Britain and France also find the war option tempting, as they recall how they imposed their own global dispensation after World Wars I and II. They won the Cold War, but they do not have the means other than a "Hot War" to establish a Diktat which is universally scorned.

After demonstrating its military superiority and getting a real stranglehold over Arab and Persian oil, the Empire would force countries like China, India, Japan, Indonesia, and South Africa, among others, to depend on its benevolence for stable and secure supplies for their crucial energy needs. The UN could then be reformed and the Security Council enlarged, but in a way that would allow the Empire to keep its decisive political power within the architecture of the world system.

As it continues moving away from a uni-polar to a multi-polar world, the "Rest" obviously sees things differently. The Empire "just doesn't get it" and keeps reaching for the caveman's club, says the Rest. But the West keeps doing all it can to provoke a larger, global showdown, which the Rest has no appetite for and is determined to avoid.

Talks, Freeze, Sanctions and Terrorist Wars

Such are the dark schemes hovering on the Iran-Syria crisis. Iran just met with the P5+1 (the five UN Security Council "permanents," plus Germany) in Istanbul to explain and defend its nuclear program, once again. Iran was quick to reassert its peaceful nuclear rights under the Non Proliferation Treaty (NPT), and countered its inquisitors by calling for global nuclear disarmament. The P3 trio deemed the meeting "positive." Discussions will resume in Baghdad in May.

But on the ground inside Iran, where the eight-year war waged by Saddam Hussein on behalf of the Empire ended in 1988, terrorists groups linked to the West continue to operate relentlessly. They are, in the main, the MeK (Moujahidine-e-khalq), the Kurdish Komoleh and PJAK, and the Sunni Jundallah, based in Pakistan. Nuclear scientists are being assassinated. Neighbouring Azerbaijan also has an eye on the territory of 16 million Azeris living in Iran.

Iran's assets and accounts are frozen and the West refuses to sell it all kinds of goods, including spare parts critical to the safety of its civilian airlines. A campaign is now on to obtain a worldwide boycott of its oil exports. Iran has preemptively cut off oil supplies to some European countries, triggering a rise in prices and in unemployment.

But India and China continue to purchase Iranian oil. They refuse to bow to what they call "internal U.S. rules," and argue that Iranian oil is essential for their development. The Empire is playing India against China by giving New Delhi access to its nuclear technology -- and squeezing Pakistan, which seems to value its friendship with China more than its old dependence on the West. India, looking out for its own interest, has signed a deal with Iran to settle their bilateral trade in riyals and rupees. However, India may not resist the siren song of the West if the NATO-OECD Empire were to take over or disable Pakistan's nuclear arsenal in the fog of war.

War Preparations, from Syria to the Caucasus

India and Iran, together with Pakistan and Afghanistan, enjoy observer status in the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO), which is prepared to upgrade them to full membership. And the SCO is lined up solidly behind Iran, together with Latin America, where Uncle Sam is in retreat, and with many African and other Asian countries. The entry of both India and Pakistan, together with Iran, as full-fledged members of the SCO, an emerging powerhouse of neighbourly co-operation, trade and security under the joint leadership of Russia and China, is too much of a nightmare for the declining NATO-OECD Empire to contemplate.

Russian troop movements have been reported in the Caucasus along the Georgia and Azerbaijan borders. Georgian opposition members say new hospitals built in the country with U.S. help are part of war contingencies. Azerbaijan has purchased arms worth $1.6 billion from Israel, which imports one-third of its oil needs from Baku. The risks of a generalized conflagration are high, and will only rise with the approach of the U.S. elections -- as most eyes will be on the U.S. "withdrawal" from Afghanistan.

On Syria, the Empire says it supports the mediation efforts of Kofi Annan as Special Envoy for the UN, and the Arab League, which is itself in deep transition. But the Empire has declared in the same breath that it is financing and arming the forces that are carrying out war operations inside Syria from nearby Lebanon and Turkey. The Empire is feeding a civil war in Syria and shows it will countenance no compromise.

Propaganda and Police State Measures

The option of an outright military strike against Iran and Syria has been frenziedly promoted by Israel, itself a nuclear power, though undeclared, which refuses to sign the NPT and submit its nuclear facilities to IAEA inspection. The U.S. repeats that the military option against Iran "remains on the table" -- hanging as a Damocles sword over the Middle East, and the world.

With Al Jazeera and Al Arabiyya, the Western media keeps on demonizing Iran and Syria for a coming overt war led by NATO and its allies -- "this sounds just like the propaganda we heard before the attack on Iraq," said Ron Paul, the black sheep of the Republican hopefuls.

These same media meanwhile are silent on the growing trend within the Empire towards measures typical of police states -- the assaults on rights and freedoms, and on citizen privacy, the militarization of police as seen in the brutal repression of the 99 per cent, the authority to arrest, torture, detain, and even kill, citizens on "suspicion of terrorism" -- all in the name of "national security."

German writer and Nobel laureate Günther Grass was hit by widespread censorship in the West for his poem What Must Be Said, which criticizes nuclear Israel for clamouring for war against Iran "where the existence/Of a single atomic bomb is unproven," and for endangering "the already fragile world peace." Israel quickly declared him persona non grata. As the Rest refuses to rise to the bait of the West over Iran, we may yet avoid war. But if the new, dreaded war does come to pass, those who will oppose it within the very NATO-OECD Empire know what treatment to expect.

[wake_up_bomb]

http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.p...t=va&aid=30581

Preparing for an Attack on Iran? US-Israel Military Exercises in Persian Gulf

Pressuring Tehran ahead of May Diplomatic Negotiations

Israeli intelligence news confirms the holding of US-Israel military exercises in the Persian Gulf, simulating an attack on Iran, as well as a counterattack. by the Islamic Republic.

Deafening silence of the Western media. There are no corroborating reports in the US and European media regarding these war games.

According to Israel's DebkaFile, these exercises were ordered by President Obama. They involve the US and Israeli Air Force, naval forces, as well as intelligence and ground forces.

The exercises are intended "to simulate [Iran's] reactions to a potential US-Israel strike on Iran’s nuclear facilities." (DEBKAfile April 28, 2012)

"Sunday, April 22, the US also transferred a number of advanced stealth F-22 fighter bombers, believed to be from the 302nd Fighter Squadron 302, from the joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson in Alaska to the Al Dhafra Air Base in the United Arab Emirates. According to our sources, the F-22 jets will join the F-15s of the Massachusetts Air National Guard’s 104th Fighter Wing which were transferred to the Al Udeid base a month ago.

Their mission will be to destroy the Iranian air force and air defense batteries so as to clear the way for US and Israeli bombers to go into action against Iran’s nuclear sites and the strategic infrastructure of its army and Revolutionary Guards Corps. This unprecedented US buildup of air might - supplementing the aircraft on the decks of the USS Abraham Lincoln and USS Enterprise, to be joined by a third carrier as soon as the offensive gets underway – shows Tehran that the Obama administration is serious about using military means as extra pressure on Iran to give way in diplomatic negotiations – both with the six powers and with the US through clandestine channels." (Ibid)

These military drills were timed to take place prior to the second round of negotiations with Tehran regarding its nuclear program scheduled for May. (For further details on the Debka report click here)

This aggressive military initiative by the US and Israel simulates an attack on Iran's nuclear facilities as well as Iran's simulated counter-attack. In a bitter irony, it is carried out in the wake of clear statements both by the US and Israel to the effect that Iran does not constitute a nuclear threat and that Iran is not developing nuclear weapons:

"Israel’s intelligence service Mossad has acknowledged, just like their American counterparts, there is no proof Tehran is carrying out a nuclear weapons program, a source in US intelligence told the New York Times. ­An unnamed former senior US intelligence official told the paper “Mossad does not disagree with the US on the [Iranian] weapons program.” (See Mossad and CIA concur: Iran is not seeking nukes)

In January, following US Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta`s candid statement to the effect that Iran does not have a nuclear weapons program, Israel Defense Minister Ehud Barack also confirmed that Iran does not constitute a nuclear threat.

The war games are not acknowledged in the Western media. US military sources quoted by the Western media have, nonetheless, confirmed the deployment of F-22 fighter planes to the Persian Gulf. The reports, however, deny that this deployment "is meant as a show of force against Iran or or that it is in some way related to a potential strike on Iran's nuclear facilities". It's described as part of a "routine deployment and "security cooperation with regional partners." (US deploys F-22s to base near Iran, Fox News, April 27, 2012)

The Air Force won't say how many jets were sent or exactly where they are stationed, but privately, U.S. officials have told Fox News the jets are in hangars at the United Arab Emirates' Al Dafra Air Base, a fact first reported by Aviation Week.

The F-22 has not yet seen combat. The jets were not used in Iraq, Afghanistan or Libya. They are stealth, and they specialize in air-to-air combat, but can also strike air-to-ground if needed. As one Air Force official put it, "this is America's premier fighter jet. It has no rival."

These "routine operations" are also meant to pressure Iran ahead of the May negotiations which Fox New cryptically describes as "the country's last diplomatic opportunity".

While Western reports casually acknowledge the sending of F-22 fighters to the Al Dhafra air base in the United Arab Emirates, the broader issue of war games and war threats is not mentioned. (See U.S. sends fighter jets to Gulf in massive 'show of force against Iran, Daily Mail, April 28, 2012).

[wakeup2nwo]

U.S., Jordan to participate in 17-nation war games

The United States, its ally Jordan and 15 other countries will next month participate in military exercises to be held in the kingdom, Jordan’s military said in a statement on Sunday


U.S. Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, General Martin Dempsey, and his Jordanian counterpart Meshaal Zaben discussed the preparations for the land, sea and air exercises, the statement added.

A separate statement on the U.S. Department of Defense website said that the war games ─ Exercise Eager Lion 12 ─ will be held from May 7 to May 28.

http://www.alarabiya.net/articles/20...23/209716.html

[wakeup2nwo]

Israel warns Hizbollah over Iran

Any Hizbollah retaliation to an attack on Iran's nuclear facilities would prompt Israel to launch a war in Lebanon so ferocious that it would take a decade to rebuild the villages it destroys, a senior Israeli military officer has warned.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worl...over-Iran.html

[wakeup2nwo]

Originally Posted by wake_up_bomb

http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.p...t=va&aid=30585

The Empire versus Iran and Syria: A New World War for a New World Order?

Originally Posted by wake_up_bomb

http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.p...t=va&aid=30581

Preparing for an Attack on Iran? US-Israel Military Exercises in Persian Gulf

Thanks for the links WUB!

[wakeup2nwo]

Tel Aviv spreads falsehood, deceptions against Iran: Israeli daily



Israeli Premier Benjamin Netanyahu
Mon May 7, 2012 9:8AM GMT

An editorial in the Israeli daily Ha’aretz says Israeli Premier Benjamin Netanyahu and Minister for Military Affairs Ehud Barak are creating "falsehoods and deceptions on the Iranian issue.”


The article, published on Sunday, said while former Israeli premiers such as Ariel Sharon and Ehud Olmert did not allow war rhetoric against Iran “to reach apocalyptic proportions,” Netanyahu has baselessly turned the Iranian issue into the be-all and end-all.

According to the editorial, while there is a consensus among experts that Iran's nuclear energy program “is being conducted methodically” and does not pursue a military capability, Netanyahu and Barak are creating "falsehoods and deceptions" on the issue.

“Many people, among them [Israel’s] Chief of Staff [Lieutenant General] Benny Gantz” believe that Iran will not produce a nuclear weapon, the article adds.

Gantz said on April 25 that he does not believe Iran will pursue nuclear weapons after years of efforts made by Tel Aviv and its allies to convince the world otherwise. He described Iran's leadership as “very rational,” who would not make such a decision.

Tel Aviv has recently been subjected to harsh criticisms by the regime’s military-intelligence officials over its stance towards Iran.

On April 27, former Shin Bet (Israel Security Agency) director Yuval Diskin said Netanyahu and Minister for Military Affairs Ehud Barak were not fit to stand at helm of the Israeli regime.

“I will tell you things that might be harsh. I cannot trust Netanyahu and Barak at the wheel in confronting Iran. They are infected with messianic feelings over Iran,” Diskin said.

Pointing to the recent wave of criticisms targeting the Israeli policies on Iran, senior Iranian author and Middle East expert Dr. Ismail Salami said, “A rift the size of a potential coup is taking shape between the Israeli government and the military-intelligence men over Iran, a fact which threatens the ruling Israeli political apparat on the one hand and exonerates Iran of all years-long groundless allegations on the other.”

The US, Israel and some of their allies have repeatedly accused Iran of pursuing military objectives in its nuclear energy program.

Washington and Tel Aviv have time and again threatened Tehran with a military strike against its civilian nuclear facilities.

Iran argues that as a signatory to the Non-proliferation Treaty (NPT) and a member of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), it has the right to develop and acquire nuclear technology for peaceful purposes.

http://www.presstv.ir/detail/239981.html

[entrangermercenary]

Originally Posted by wake_up_bomb

http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.p...t=va&aid=30581

Preparing for an Attack on Iran? US-Israel Military Exercises in Persian Gulf

Pressuring Tehran ahead of May Diplomatic Negotiations

Israeli intelligence news confirms the holding of US-Israel military exercises in the Persian Gulf, simulating an attack on Iran, as well as a counterattack. by the Islamic Republic.

Deafening silence of the Western media. There are no corroborating reports in the US and European media regarding these war games.

According to Israel's DebkaFile, these exercises were ordered by President Obama. They involve the US and Israeli Air Force, naval forces, as well as intelligence and ground forces.


The exercises are intended "to simulate [Iran's] reactions to a potential US-Israel strike on Iran’s nuclear facilities." (DEBKAfile April 28, 2012)

"Sunday, April 22, the US also transferred a number of advanced stealth F-22 fighter bombers, believed to be from the 302nd Fighter Squadron 302, from the joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson in Alaska to the Al Dhafra Air Base in the United Arab Emirates. According to our sources, the F-22 jets will join the F-15s of the Massachusetts Air National Guard’s 104th Fighter Wing which were transferred to the Al Udeid base a month ago.

Their mission will be to destroy the Iranian air force and air defense batteries so as to clear the way for US and Israeli bombers to go into action against Iran’s nuclear sites and the strategic infrastructure of its army and Revolutionary Guards Corps. This unprecedented US buildup of air might - supplementing the aircraft on the decks of the USS Abraham Lincoln and USS Enterprise, to be joined by a third carrier as soon as the offensive gets underway – shows Tehran that the Obama administration is serious about using military means as extra pressure on Iran to give way in diplomatic negotiations – both with the six powers and with the US through clandestine channels." (Ibid)

These military drills were timed to take place prior to the second round of negotiations with Tehran regarding its nuclear program scheduled for May. (For further details on the Debka report click here)

This aggressive military initiative by the US and Israel simulates an attack on Iran's nuclear facilities as well as Iran's simulated counter-attack. In a bitter irony, it is carried out in the wake of clear statements both by the US and Israel to the effect that Iran does not constitute a nuclear threat and that Iran is not developing nuclear weapons:

"Israel’s intelligence service Mossad has acknowledged, just like their American counterparts, there is no proof Tehran is carrying out a nuclear weapons program, a source in US intelligence told the New York Times. ­An unnamed former senior US intelligence official told the paper “Mossad does not disagree with the US on the [Iranian] weapons program.” (See Mossad and CIA concur: Iran is not seeking nukes)

In January, following US Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta`s candid statement to the effect that Iran does not have a nuclear weapons program, Israel Defense Minister Ehud Barack also confirmed that Iran does not constitute a nuclear threat.

The war games are not acknowledged in the Western media. US military sources quoted by the Western media have, nonetheless, confirmed the deployment of F-22 fighter planes to the Persian Gulf. The reports, however, deny that this deployment "is meant as a show of force against Iran or or that it is in some way related to a potential strike on Iran's nuclear facilities". It's described as part of a "routine deployment and "security cooperation with regional partners." (US deploys F-22s to base near Iran, Fox News, April 27, 2012)

The Air Force won't say how many jets were sent or exactly where they are stationed, but privately, U.S. officials have told Fox News the jets are in hangars at the United Arab Emirates' Al Dafra Air Base, a fact first reported by Aviation Week.

The F-22 has not yet seen combat. The jets were not used in Iraq, Afghanistan or Libya. They are stealth, and they specialize in air-to-air combat, but can also strike air-to-ground if needed. As one Air Force official put it, "this is America's premier fighter jet. It has no rival."

These "routine operations" are also meant to pressure Iran ahead of the May negotiations which Fox New cryptically describes as "the country's last diplomatic opportunity".

While Western reports casually acknowledge the sending of F-22 fighters to the Al Dhafra air base in the United Arab Emirates, the broader issue of war games and war threats is not mentioned. (See U.S. sends fighter jets to Gulf in massive 'show of force against Iran, Daily Mail, April 28, 2012).

PMSL IS this the same Persian gulf the Iranians said that all military shipping must have there permission to be there of face the consequences

[wakeup2nwo]

Has Israel’s Leadership Come Down with Mad-Lie Disease


Monday, 07 May 2012 10:15

'This is what’s been going down in the last few days alone:
1. The Prime Minister says that sanctions against Iran aren’t working and the Defense Minister claims that Iran is irrational and then the Prime Minister stipulates that the Iranians want to make a bomb and then the IDF Chief of Staff flatly contradicts them and says that Iran is rational, sanctions are working and the Iranians won’t really make a bomb after all. And the Prime Minister and the Defense Minister go on saying what they were saying before, as if nothing’s happened.'


Read more: Has Israel’s Leadership Come Down with Mad-Lie Disease

[wake_up_bomb]

http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.p...t=va&aid=30502

Former US President Jimmy Carter warns against a possible war with Iran

Former US President Jimmy Carter warned against a possible war with Iran Monday as he decried his nation’s involvement in unjust conflicts at a summit of Nobel Peace Prize laureates in Chicago.

Carter, a naval veteran who served as Democratic president from 1977 to 1981, said that while he is “not against conflict when necessary,” the criteria for a just war are often not met.

War is only just when it is a “last resort” after “every other possible peaceful resolution” is exhausted, when all efforts are made to protect civilians, when the purpose of the conflict is to make the situation better, not worse, when society in general agrees it is just and when the level of violence is “proportional to the injury received,” he said.

“That would obviously exclude our recent policy of preemptive war,” Carter said in a keynote address.

The United States has been “almost constantly at war” in the past 60 years — in Korea, Vietnam, Cambodia, El Salvador, Libya, Panama, Haiti, Yugoslavia, Iraq, Afghanistan and many others.

“And now we are contemplating going to war again perhaps in Iran,” said the 2002 Nobel Peace Prize winner.

Most of those wars fail to meet the criteria for a just war and “some of them were completely unnecessary.”

Carter said he wished the United States could be seen as a champion of peace, an environmental leader, and the world’s most generous nation when it comes to feeding the hungry and opposing human rights abuses.

“That’s not a hopeless dream,” Carter said.

“Maybe for my generation, yes, maybe for my children’s generation yes, but not for my grandchildren and students who are looking at Nobel laureates and saying what can I do to make this world more peaceful and make sure that all aspects of human rights prevail.”

Carter, who suffered from a perception of weakness that culminated in the botched 1980 operation to resolve the Iranian hostage crisis, is among 20 laureates gathered in Chicago for a world summit of Nobel Peace Prize winners.

[wake_up_bomb]

THREATENING IRAN: US deploys F-22 fighter jets in Persian Gulf

The Pentagon has dispatched F-22 Raptors, the most advanced American warplanes, to the United Arab Emirates in a provocative escalation of US war threats against Iran.

The deployment of the stealth fighter-bombers to the UAE’s Al-Dhafra air base was first reported by the journal Aviation Week. The Pentagon’s official announcement mentioned only that the “United States Air Force has deployed F-22s to Southwest Asia” and that the action was intended to “strengthen military-to-military relationships, promote sovereign and regional security, improve combined tactical air operations, and enhance interoperability of forces ….”

On Monday, however, US military officials, speaking on condition of anonymity, confirmed to the French news agency AFP that the deployment was to the air base in the UAE.

The dispatch of these advanced weapons systems to the UAE marks a further buildup toward war against Iran under conditions in which Washington has already dispatched two aircraft carrier battle groups to the region.

It takes place in the midst of a ratcheting up of tensions between the UAE and Iran, egged on by Washington, over three small islands located at the mouth of the Strait of Hormuz—Abu Musa and the Greater and Lesser Tunb. The islands, often described in the Iranian press as “Iran’s aircraft carriers” are of strategic importance in the preparations for war with Iran. One of the major concerns in Washington is that Iran would respond to attack by blocking the Strait of Hormuz, through which some 40 percent of world’s sea-borne oil passes, with devastating effects on the global economy.

The deployment of the stealth fighter jets to the UAE drew an angry response from Iranian officials. Iran’s defense minister, Gen. Ahmad Vahidi, called it “a harmful action that damages regional security.” Vahidi described the US action as a form of “psychological warfare” that “will bear no fruit except insecurity and complications.”

The arrival of the US warplanes coincides with joint military maneuvers conducted by the Gulf Cooperation Council’s Peninsula Shield Force, the military arm of the Saudi-led alliance of monarchical dictatorships that line the opposite shore of the Persian Gulf from Iran. The GCC dubbed the war games “Islands of Loyalty”, referring to the three Iranian islands that the emirs of the UAE are claiming as their own.

The Peninsula Shield Force has been called into action only three times in its existence. The first instance was in 1990, when it took part in the first US war against Iraq; the second was in 2003, when it was deployed in Kuwait in support of the second US war on Iraq; and the third was in March 2011, when Saudi Arabia and the UAE sent some 2,000 troops and tanks into Bahrain to help the ruling Sunni monarchy suppress a mass protest movement of the Shia majority for equality and democratic rights.

Washington has overseen a major military buildup of the reactionary monarchical dictatorships in the Gulf, pouring in some $100 billion worth of weapons purchases. Just last December, Washington announced a $3.4 billion sale to the UAE of missile defense batteries and radar. The US and NATO have provided Saudi Arabia and the UAE with a sizable force of advanced US, British and French warplanes.

Iran’s historic claims to the three islands are firmly founded. Seized from Iran by Britain 1903, when British imperialism sought to assert its control over the Persian Gulf, they were retaken by Iran after London was forced by imperial decline and economic crisis to withdraw all of its forces east of the Suez.

At the time, Washington was perfectly content with the reassertion of control over the islands by Iran, which was then ruled by the CIA-backed torture regime of the Shah, who functioned as US imperialism’s gendarme in the Gulf region. In the six years after Iran’s repossession of Abu Musa and the two other islets, Washington funneled some $16.2 billion in military hardware to the Shah’s regime, at the time an unprecedented amount of arms sales between two countries.

Iran has dismissed the claims to the island made by the UAE—over 80 percent of whose population, virtually its entire workforce, is made up of foreign workers and their families—as “baseless”.

The sudden resurrection of the dispute over the islands after 41 years of Iranian control is clearly a provocation that appears to have been concocted jointly with Washington.

“The emirates are not acting independently in this matter,” Sadollah Zarei, a columnist for the pro-government Iranian newspaper Kayhan told the New York Times. “Bigger powers are behind this.” He said that the timing was no accident, coming in advance of a second round of talks between Iran and the P5+1 (the five permanent members of the United Nations Security Council—Britain, China, France, Russia and the United States—plus Germany) to be held in Baghdad later this month.

“By driving up tensions in the Persian Gulf, the US and their allies are trying to send a message to Iran: back down, or face pressure on other fronts.”

While the round of talks held last month in Istanbul was followed by optimistic press reports that the danger of war with Iran was receding, the latest provocative and reckless US military deployment in the region suggests quite the opposite.

The fundamental issue driving Washington’s aggression is not concern over an Iranian nuclear weapons program—which US intelligence agencies have repeatedly affirmed does not exist—but rather US imperialism’s determination to exert uncontested hegemony over the oil-rich and strategically vital regions of the Persian Gulf and Central Asia. Having failed to secure this aim in the course of the last decade of war in Afghanistan and Iraq, Washington is preparing to conduct a third war against the major regional power that lies between these two countries, Iran.

To the extent there is a “threat” that tensions will decrease over the Iranian nuclear program, new pretexts must be found for sustaining the military buildup against Iran. Thus, the 41-year-old dispute over three tiny islands becomes a major flashpoint.

With ever greater US military forces being deployed in the Persian Gulf, the possibility grows of a clash that could lead to—or be used as a pretext for—a US war against Iran. As in the case of the Gulf of Tonkin incident that set the stage for full-scale US war in Vietnam, should such a clash fail to take place, it can always be manufactured.

[joho]

IAEA expert killed in car accident in Iran
http://irna.ir/News/Politic/IAEA-exp...-Iran/80120833

[wakeup2nwo]

Originally Posted by joho

IAEA expert killed in car accident in Iran
http://irna.ir/News/Politic/IAEA-exp...-Iran/80120833

Although accidents do happen, this looks highly suspicious.

Three scenarios

1. It was an accident.

2. The experts killed wouldn't tow the US/Israel Line in fabricating fear so where killed. Or

3. Iran killed them before they could release evidence against Iran facility's.

I kinda lean towards number 2 due to their mad-lie disease

[joho]

Originally Posted by wakeup2nwo

Although accidents do happen, this looks highly suspicious.

Three scenarios

1. It was an accident.

2. The experts killed wouldn't tow the US/Israel Line in fabricating fear so where killed. Or

3. Iran killed them before they could release evidence against Iran facility's.

I kinda lean towards number 2 due to their mad-lie disease

yep i had a 4th to us/israel killed him then use it claiming number 3

[wakeup2nwo]

Originally Posted by joho

yep i had a 4th to us/israel killed him then use it claiming number 3

I think you nailed it mate!

[zhuangzi]

Has them WAR started yet???

Or is that the sound of another day of HYSTERIA?

every turkey that posts another war rumour is pure turkey

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