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2012-01-19 Syria-Lebanon-Iran

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Posted by Fred 2012-01-19 00:00|| || Front Page|| [8 views ] Top
File under: Govt of Iran

#1 Its a [popcorn] quandry.

Moscow + Beijing are on Washington's side as per Iran ever developing Nucweaps, which Tehran officially denies intending but covertly needs to do so, + M-U-S-T do so, iff it hopes to become a true major world power on par wid NATO-EU + Nuke Club. THE SO-CALLED OWG "ISLAMIST/
JIHADIST CALIPHATE" ALSO WILL NEED NUKES IFF IT HOPES TO ACHIEVE DE FACTO PARIY, IFF NOT SUPERIORITY OR DOMINANCE, VEE NON-ISLAMIC WORLD.

IOW, Iran is publicly denying it needs the very thingy it does need [NucWeaps] to become more than just a another regional power. DITTO RADICLA CLERICS WHOM PROCLAIM TO WISH TO SEE THE US + WHITE HOUSE "REMOVED" FROM THE WORLD SCENE.

Posted by JosephMendiola 2012-01-19 00:37|| 2012-01-19 00:37|| Front Page Top

#2 Yeah, former Assistant Secretary of the Treasury , he's qualified in strategic war gaming.

Another self-promoting contributor drawn out of obscurity by MSM.

Posted by Skidmark 2012-01-19 09:30|| 2012-01-19 09:30|| Front Page Top

#3 Seems to post a lot on Lewrockwell.com...

Posted by Fred 2012-01-19 10:05|| 2012-01-19 10:05|| Front Page Top

#4 I think I remember when he was sane and writing for Reason.

Posted by Thing From Snowy Mountain 2012-01-19 10:40|| 2012-01-19 10:40|| Front Page Top

#5 Cue Snidely Whiplash, chortling and twirling his moustache...

Posted by mojo 2012-01-19 11:08|| 2012-01-19 11:08|| Front Page Top

#6 One properly placed EMP is enough to halt Iran. Followed that with strategic conventional strikes on key infrastructure points, such as power, water, transportation and communication points to permanently destroy them.

Iran very quickly drops to medieval at best. Without 20th century technology, it is capable of supporting perhaps 50 percent of its current population. Few will be left in major cities like Tehran after the loss of power, sanitation, modern medicine, clean water, modern transportation. Cholera based disease epidemic would do most of the decimation and most survivors would face starvation. Tehran, Qom and other large metropolis would become open graveyards. Tamerlane would be proud.

Israel could do this.

Posted by Tamir Pardo 2012-01-19 11:41|| 2012-01-19 11:41|| Front Page Top

#7 Two claims.
(1) United States wants to blame Israel for.
(2) War that can end life on Earth.

Now if you replace #2 with
(a) Failure in Iraq; and (b) possible interruption of ME oil flow.
What can you say?

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2012-01-19 12:32|| 2012-01-19 12:32|| Front Page Top

#8 Assuming the US tried the EMP route could we protect our own assets in the region? Would turning off power protect the electronics?

Posted by rjschwarz 2012-01-19 14:42|| 2012-01-19 14:42|| Front Page Top

#9 rj, no. Turning off power would not prevent frying by an emp burst.

Posted by Deacon Blues 2012-01-19 19:43|| 2012-01-19 19:43|| Front Page Top

#10 It is possible to control the footprint via altitude and yield. Looking at the geography, if Israel (or the US) wanted to they could basically wipe most of Iran's major cities clean of electronics with one popped over Qom and higher yield over Esfahan (Tehran in that footprint), low altitude and yield over Bandar Abba so as not to fry the Emirates - only Tabriz escapes (which has lots and lots of Kurds, so maybe not a bad thing).

I've always advocated a full return to the 6th century for Iran if we do get into it with them, but never considered an EMP strike as the first hit. That would be a crippling blow, if one is determine to destroy Iran and the pople in it - combein that with conventional strategic strikes on a few bridges, power plants and power distribution centers, water plants, and tv/radio and telepnone exchanges, and they will be in the dark with no way to talk and no refrigeration or medicines or food or water.

*IF* it becomes neccesary, such a sever striek would need to be very carefully considered - you're talking about creating an unstoppable wave of refugees, and deaths in the millions to tens of millions if cholera and so on set in.

Its not the sort of thing I think Israel would do except in extremis.

EMP with leadership decapitation would probably be enough to demolish Iran as anything other than a third would country.

Posted by OldSpook 2012-01-19 20:20|| 2012-01-19 20:20|| Front Page Top

#11 Ah, my Iran Press TV batshit crazy sources theory is still looking good...

Posted by tu3031 2012-01-19 21:19|| 2012-01-19 21:19|| Front Page Top

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