Allah's Judgment, High Above Our Heads

The Iranian march toward nuclear armageddon marches on, unimpeded.

Last week came the news from an anti-mullahgarchy dissident that Tehran has constructed over four thousand centrifuges, which seems a bit excessive if the intention of their nuclear program is the peaceful generation of electricity:

Iran has manufactured about 4,000 centrifuges capable of enriching uranium to weapons grade, an exiled Iranian dissident who helped uncover nearly two decades of covert nuclear activity in 2002 said Tuesday.

Alireza Jafarzadeh told The Associated Press the centrifuges — which he said are unknown to the U.N. nuclear watchdog agency — are ready to be installed at Iran's nuclear facility in Natanz.

Jafarzadeh, who runs Strategic Policy Consulting, a Washington-based think tank focusing on Iran and Iraq, said the information — which he described as "very recent" — came from sources within the Tehran regime who have proven accurate in the past.

The International Atomic Energy Agency officially knows of only 164 centrifuges, and that appears to be all they want to know about, since acknowledging the full scope of the Iranians' illicit nuclear program would compel them to do more than just the diplomatic five-knuckle-shuffling they've been doing for years. Accordingly, the IAEA has no intention of passing on this information to the Security Council, which wouldn't resolve anything but would give the matter a notably higher profile. The echoes of the UN's last major Middle East enterprise, the Oily Food program, and its cahoots-edness between Turtle Bay and the Arab dictator they were supposed to be sanctioning, are deafening.

A few days later, the IAEA offered a consolation prize - endorsing a weak-assed hand-wringing statement issued by the EU-3 (Britain, France, Germany) regarding Iran's already-resumed uranium processing, which is a breach of the nuclear non-proliferation treaty:

Britain and its European allies won a diplomatic victory over Iran yesterday when the international community unanimously backed their resolution demanding that Tehran halt work at all its nuclear sites.

After three days of intense negotiations, the thirty-five member states of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) supported a text proposed by Britain, France and Germany that expressed “serious concern” over Iran’s attempts to restart uranium processing.

The resolution called on Iran to halt uranium conversion work at its site near Isfahan, which was resumed this week. It also urged Tehran to maintain its freeze at other sites involved in the nuclear fuel cycle and asked Mohamad ElBaradei, the IAEA director, to report back on Iran’s compliance on September 3.

The EUnuchs have expressed "serious concern"? Oooooooh, I bet that's put a tremble in the mullahs' turbans. You'll also note that this is in harmony with the IAEA not passing this latest Iranian breach onto the Security Council. At the very best, this gives Tehran three additional weeks to produce as much weapons-grade nuclear fuel as they can before they call another (temporary) halt in order to keep this massive scam rolling.

The mullahgarchy's chortling response didn't suggest anywhere near that level of optimism:

The decision appeared to wrong-foot Iranian officials, who pledged to continue co- operating with the agency but also vowed to defy the demands made in the new resolution. “It is evident that the motive is to apply pressure,” said Cyrus Nasseri, Iran’s delegate to the IAEA. “Fortunately, Iran will not bend. Iran will be a nuclear fuel producer and supplier within a decade.” [emphases added]

Given that Tehran is terrorism central, one might give some thought to just exactly whom Iran will be supplying this nuclear fuel. But clearly that does not include the IAEA's head honcho:

Dr. El Baradei said that “the jury is still out” on whether the Iranian authorities would comply.

El-Baradei is either a fool or an accomplice. No wonder the Bush Administration wanted him reassigned.

Stepping back to the big picture, here's a modest attempt at dot-connection:

Iran recently tested a new missile the European Union dubbed 'a failure' because it 'unexpectedly' detonated 200 miles above the earth. I set off both 'failure' and 'unexpected' in quotes because the detonation wasn't unexpected and the test wasn't a failure.

For more than 40 years, the Pentagon has known that a nuclear weapon detonated high over the United States could knock out much of the nation's electrical and electronic infrastructure.

An electromagnetic pulse (EMP) from the nuclear explosion could shut down power plants, silence telecommunications, cut off radio and TV broadcasts, and fry the computer chips that control everything from financial transactions to water systems to airliners in flight....[and] "threaten the viability of the United States," a congressional commission warned last year....

According to Congressional reports, a nuclear warhead detonated at an altitude of 200 miles (the height of the Iranian missile's 'accidental' detonation) would generate an EMP burst that would instantly destroy enough of the US technological infrastructure to throw the US back into the 1890's - before cars, before airplanes, before telephones....

We will be blinded, but our enemies will enjoy the full advantages of technology while we will be using candles to light our homes at night. In the event of physical attack from Islamic infiltrators, or even invading terrorists, most Americans have been disarmed as the result of the steady progression of gun control laws that have already made some US states virtually gun-free.

And that assumes that the rest of the world - like France, Russia or China, for example, doesn't exploit our weakened condition to attack us outright and eliminate, as Jacques Chirac is fond of saying, the dangerous threat posed by a 'unipolar power' - a code for the United States.

I think that's sufficient for the time being. The point has been made. Iran is developing nuclear weapons which they intend to use to destroy Jewish Israel and "Crusader" America. And the "international community" is perfectly content to allow them to do it.

Think that's "right-wing paranoia"? Try closing your mouth and listening to radical Islam. And pay more attention to what the mullahs do and not what they (officially) say.

If the Bush Administration starts taking this advice, we may yet prevail.

But time is running out.

[HT's: Captain's Quarters]

UPDATE 8/15: The President is sounding the right notes - particularly in this particular comment:

President Bush said on Israeli television he could consider using force as a last resort to press Iran to give up its nuclear programme.

"All options are on the table," Bush, speaking at his ranch in Crawford, Texas, said in the interview broadcast on Saturday.

Asked if that included the use of force, Bush replied: "As I say, all options are on the table. The use of force is the last option for any president and you know, we've used force in the recent past to secure our country." [emphasis added]

This is a huge, and rarely-if-ever mentioned, reason why we invaded Iraq - it gave Dubya foreign policy "street cred". Because he said he was going to take out the Taliban and Saddam Hussein and then did so, it gives his words heft now in the looming showdown with the mullahs.

Eleven months ago I predicted:

Operation Iranian Freedom. Coming to TV screens in 2005. Bank on it.

Looks like another prophecy that is moving toward fulfillment.

And it can't come a moment too soon.

[HT: B4B]