“The General Staff of the Armed Forces of Iran…issued a statement vowing to ‘spare no effort’ in fighting the U.S. military…suggesting the potential of a planned attack against Washington.”
This jihadist country, according to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu last year, has been hiding a nuclear warehouse in Tehran, despite the 2015 Iran Nuclear Deal.
A couple months ago, Iranian officials boasted that Iran can now build nukes, and Ahmad Khatami, a senior member of Iran’s Assembly of Experts, claimed that having a nuclear missile “is vital for Iran to confront the U.S. and its allies.”
“Iran’s Military Vows to ‘Spare No Effort’ to Fight ‘Terrorist’ U.S. Army,” by Frances Martel, Breitbart, April 10, 2019:
The General Staff of the Armed Forces of Iran, the highest-ranking branch of the nation’s military, issued a statement vowing to “spare no effort” in fighting the U.S. military on Tuesday, suggesting the potential of a planned attack against Washington.
Like other branches of the Iranian government and military, the General Staff referred to U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM) as a “terrorist” group, a response to the declaration by the U.S. State Department on Monday that Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) would join the agency’s list of Foreign Terrorist Organizations (FTOs) for its decades of involvement in terrorist activity worldwide. The Iranian Islamic regime rapidly responded to the declaration – the first of its kind against a state actor – by reciprocally branding the U.S. military a terrorist group.
“The General Staff will spare no effort in supporting the IRGC’s counter-terrorism measures in fighting the terrorist CENTCOM,” a statement from the agency read, according to Iran’s state-run Press TV outlet. “A review of criminal and bloodthirsty America’s adventuristic actions in the region over the past several decades proves the fact that Washington wastes no effort towards destabilizing the West Asia region as a means of creating a comfort zone for the infanticidal Zionist regime [of Israel].”
The statement did not elaborate on how the Israeli government is “infanticidal,” though the accusation has become a recurring one in anti-semitic circles. It also did not specify what it meant by “fighting” – whether the IRGC would deploy in areas where the U.S. military operates and attack its locations.
The IRGC – which has extensive ties to the Shiite terrorist group Hezbollah and is believed to have operated on behalf of dictator Bashar al-Assad in Syria – has boasted of attacking and killing American soldiers in the past.
“America has suffered more losses from us than we have suffered losses from them,” Brig. Gen. Esmail Qaani, the deputy commander of the IRGC’s Quds Force, said in 2017.
Similarly to Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and President Hassan Rouhani, the General Staff also repeated on Tuesday the unsubstantiated claim that the United States created the Sunni Islamic State terrorist group, which Iran, as the world’s largest Shiite-majority country, opposes.
The military claimed to oppose Washington’s “support for terror groups, such as Daesh, al-Qaeda, and al-Nusra [Front], in whose creation and evolution it has, itself, played a central role.”
Labeling the U.S. military a “terrorist organization” was among the first moves the Iranian government made in response to the State Department’s FTO branding, a bizarre move given that the Iranian government does not typically keep a public list of terrorist groups the way the State Department does. Iranian lawmakers approved the move, opening a new session on Tuesday chanting “death to America” and wearing IRGC uniforms in solidarity.
Rouhani and Khamanei both responded to the declaration with belligerent remarks.
“You made another mistake and called the IRGC terrorist; nobody cares what you do,” Rouhani said on Tuesday. “Today, the global arrogance and the United States are venting their animosity and [making up for their ] defeats by calling terrorist a group whose main motto has been fighting terrorism.”
Speaking again n Wednesday, Rouhani called the designation a “foolish and unwise measure” and praised the IRGC as a “defender of freedom” in the Middle East….
11B40 says
Greetings:
Perhaps my favorite Iraq War story is about a Marine Corps pilot who was challenged by Iranian air traffic controllers as being in Iranian airspace. He told them that he was, in fact, in Iraqi airspace and refused to acquiesce to their demands. The Iranians then said that if he did not leave they would send up Iranian military aircraft. He replied, “Send them up. I’ll wait.”
Hugh Fitzgerald says
Very funny. We need cheering up at this website.
gravenimage says
Brilliant!
Frank Anderson says
If the truth ever becomes known, we will see that Iran has been making nuclear bombs with the cooperation of North Korea, where they were tested, so that Iran would have “plausible deniability” that it is already nuclear armed. It is beyond belief that all of the money, time and resources have been spent without having achieved the goal of having nuclear weapons. Look how long it took the US, Soviet Union, France, UK, Pakistan, South Africa, India and others to go from decision to ownership.
A fresh viewing of Kubrick’s Dr. Strangelove: Or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Live with the Bomb might be in order that we are reminded of the need to tell others about the possession and operation of a doomsday machine.
Herman Kahn postulated the construction of a doomsday machine in his book On Thermonuclear War. There is no upper limit on the size of a Hydrogen Bomb, only the means of moving it to a target. If the bomb is big enough, and its builder desires to commit suicide, it can be detonated in place and accomplish its intended result, rendering the entire planet dead. To a religion of death, and a cult that dreams of the end, that could be a problem for those of us who wish to live.
James Lincoln says
Pretty scary scenario, Frank.
The free world can no longer count on the doctrine of mutual assured destruction MAD when dealing with Islamic countries.
That is a very sad fact.
Frank Anderson says
James, any other scenario is delusional. There is no other reason or justification to have more than 19,000 of the most modern centrifuges operating 24/7/365, consuming the entire electrical output of a nuclear power plant, than to make Highly Enriched, Bomb Grade U-235. Iran has in its own territory Uranium ore. Any that it gets abroad is just a bonus. With Iran’s close cooperation with North Korea on nuclear and missile projects, and almost certain financing of those projects in a country where many people are starving, why should Iran accept the heat of publicizing that it has and has tested the same bombs and designs as NK already has?
According to the book Fat Man and Little Boy, which I read over 50 years ago in high school, the critical mass of Little Boy was used in a test exercise called Tickling the Dragon. It consisted of bringing 2 half-spheres of HEU (90+ percent U-235) together until the air between the spheres glowed blue from Cherenkov radiation as the chain reaction started. Those half-spheres together were about the size of a softball, about 10 kilograms. As the small size indicates it is easy to transport. Because of the long half-life it is not That Radioactive that it is hard to transport. It does give off enough Gamma radiation to be detectable, but not enough to endanger the people who might carry it on airliners from Iran to NK. With later technology, the amount needed for each bomb was cut in half. In fact a visit to the atomic bomb museum in Albuquerque will present the opportunity to view mock-up bombs ranging in size from basketballs to busses.
The following books from a variety of authors could be informative:
1. The Iran Threat: President Ahmadinejad and the Coming Nuclear Crisis, by Alireza Jafarzadeh
2. The Apocalypse of Ahmadinejad: The Revelation of Iran’s Nuclear Prophet, by Mark Hitchcock.
3. Why Israel Can’t Wait: The Coming War between Israel and Iran, by Jerome Corsi.
4. The Islamic AntiChrist: The Shocking Truth about the Real Nature of the Beast, by Joel Richardson.
I think there are reasons to doubt the currently accepted propaganda about Iran not having nuclear weapons.
Always with respect and best wishes.
James Lincoln says
Frank,
Much thanks for your detailed analysis. It is more likely than not that Iran already possesses nuclear weapons and the free world should accept this.
I believe at one time, you referenced the fact that you have an undergraduate degree in engineering as well as a doctorate degree in law. It shows, you are one smart cookie.
The depth and scope of my knowledge concerning ionizing radiation is fairly limited. I have taken basic courses in undergraduate physics as well as basic radiation health courses given by the US Navy in relation to their nuclear propulsion program.
Also, thanks for the book references.
Take good care and enjoy your day.
Frank Anderson says
James, if I were all that smart I would have avoided law school and taken many other paths. In addition to law and engineering, Mechanical degree, with 2 15 quarter hour sequences short of a double major in Electrical, I went to accounting school for a restart after the “world came to an end”. I completed all the undergraduate courses plus half of the Masters degree courses but quit the last undergraduate course because the professor was teaching a flatly illegal concept of non-existent accountant-client confidentiality in the face of ongoing client crime. If I had written what was required to pass the course and my bar had gotten access to the answer, I believe I could have been disbarred.
As I was going through the accounting program I wrote 2 legal research papers dealing with professionals challenging corporate corruption and their rights and duties. Both papers were blessed by my home bar. One was published by the Securities Exchange Commission as part of a rulemaking proceeding addressing the duty of corporate lawyers who know of ongoing criminal conduct.
The point I may or may not have made about the radiation of nuclear components is that transporting bomb sized components, which are not contaminated by more highly radioactive fission products (example spent reactor fuel), would be trivially easy between Iran and North Korea, and back. When a 1 kiloton bomb can fit into a 6 inch howitzer shell, and be carried like any other 95 pound round of ammunition, the actual nuclear pieces probably weigh in the order of 5 pounds and are the size of a hollow baseball. That also is about the size of the fission bomb needed to trigger the fusion part of a Hydrogen bomb. If you wrap an H-bomb with (inexpensive) natural or depleted Uranium instead of iron, the neutrons produced from the fusion reaction instantly transmute non-fissionable U-238 into U-239, which instantly give off an electron becoming fissionable Plutonium 239, which fissions, potentially doubling the energy released. The massive release of electrons would then, if exploded above the atmosphere, cause an enhanced Electromagnetic Pulse that generates comment recently.
All this information is available from public sources, including The Effects of Nuclear Weapons, published by the US Government Printing Office. My copy is dated 1977.
christianblood says
The Trump administration is obsessed demonizing Iran and its leaders while transferring US nuclear technology to Saudi Arabia which is the religious, the ideological and the financial source of the global islamic jihadist entities like Al-Qaeda, ISIS, Al-shabab, Boko-Haram, Abu-Sayaf, Al-Nusra, Hayat-Tarirul-Sham, Jayshal-Islam, Taliban and dozens of other Wahhabi/Takfiri jihadist groups. More of this below:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MQ_3VhASrms
christianblood says
Trump administration transferring nuclear technology to Saudi Arabia:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m2FKn4aMOoQ
gravenimage says
christianblood keeps posting this thing from far-leftist Tulsi Gabbard.
Given how much he hates gays and even spouts apologia for their murder by Shari’ah states, you’d think that he would melt down over someone who is pro gay marriage.
But he is always happy if he can get in a dig at America.
Buraq says
Empty threats from a bunch of nut case clerics dogging the footsteps of a self-appointed so-called prophet who was as a crazy, mad, insane, deranged, demented, unbalanced, unhinged, unstable, disturbed, distracted, stark staring mad paedophile!
Clowns!
christianblood says
Buraq
(..a self-appointed so-called prophet who was as a crazy, mad, insane, deranged, demented, unbalanced, unhinged, unstable, disturbed, distracted, stark staring mad paedophile..)
Well-said!
Mohamed, a Saudi Arabian, was also a mass-murderer and the founder of the hateful death-cult known as Islam! I have no doubt that if Mohamed was still alive today, US would be making deals with him, protecting him and giving him nukes! After all, isn’t that what the US is doing today in Saudi Arabia? US dealt with Osama Bin-Laden, arming him to the teeth and called him and his jihadist group ‘freedom fighters’. US lionizes and is still in bed with with the Saudi religious/political establishment like the MBS and the grand
mufti of Saudi Arabia.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H86B-7fbqD0
christianblood says
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f35TUFmCtYY
christianblood says
U$ is directly arming its Saudi and Al-Qaeda allies in Yemen:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DeIpNzJhuO0
gravenimage says
No, the US is not giving Saudi Arabia nuclear weapons, nor is it arming Al Qaeda–not even RT is saying this, as christianblood pretends.
This is just more of christianblood trying to distract from the horrors of the Mullahs in Iran–he has lauded Putin enabling an nuclear Iran–and his hatred of the West, America and Israel in particular.
christianblood says
gravenimage
Russia was part of the “Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action”
that prevented Iran from acquiring nuclear weapons for decades to come! The signatories of the (JCPOA) were America, Iran, China, France, Germany, Russia and the UK and only America, under the Trump administration withdrew from it but rest of the countries are still committed to it. Now, since America is directly giving nuclear
technology to Saudi Arabia, it would be totally understandable
if Russia helps Iran develop its own nuclear technology.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eBZUDGQteEQ&rel=0&modestbranding=1&controls=0
gravenimage says
christianblood wrote:
gravenimage
Russia was part of the “Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action”
that prevented Iran from acquiring nuclear weapons for decades to come! The signatories of the (JCPOA) were America, Iran, China, France, Germany, Russia and the UK and only America, under the Trump administration withdrew from it but rest of the countries are still committed to it. Now, since America is directly giving nuclear
technology to Saudi Arabia, it would be totally understandable
if Russia helps Iran develop its own nuclear technology.
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I have noted before that it is foolish for us to help Saudi Arabia develop nuclear power–there is too much that could go wrong. But no–this is not nuclear weapons.
But clearly christianblood is cheering Iran developing nuclear weapons–it would not make sense in this context if he was talking about anything else.
While he might be thrilled at the prospect of his pals the Mullahs “wiping Israel off the map” as they have vowed to do, is he *really* happy with Iran on Russia’s border with nukes?
I don’t want to see Russians fall victim to Jihad–but christianblood has said repeatedly that he does not care.
Frank Anderson says
GI, there could be 2 kinds of nuclear power to think about. Nuclear powered generation of electricity and nuclear weapons. I am pretty sure the Saudis can get all the bombs they want from Pakistan, possibly even delivered directly to Iran, whenever they want because the Saudis almost certainly financed the development and production of the Pakistani arsenal.
As for nuclear generation, The outrageous cost of building, operating, maintaining and then decommissioning plants when they become useless after 40 to 60 years is a scandal that is never addressed. The saving factor that may make nuclear generation attractive is that while the fuel is in the working reactor, Plutonium is produced that can be made either into more reactor fuel, or bombs. A fair estimate is that after 6 years of use a given fuel assembly that started with 3 percent fissionable U-235 contains about 1.8 percent U-235 and 1.2 percent Plutonium 239. A boiling water reactor averages replacing about 22 tons of spent fuel per year, with enough Plutonium in the spent fuel to make as many as 50 bombs or triggers for larger H-bombs. (about 500 pounds each year)
I have worked in several capacities for 3 nuclear utilities and participated in issues involving 4 nuclear plants. They are no bargain. Would you want 150 tons of highly radioactive fuel within reach of Iran’s nuclear attack? However much is built around a reactor for shielding, a bomb detonation can defeat it all and scatter the radioactive fuel long distances to contaminate millions. How bad would Chernobyl have been for all of Europe if it had been hit with a bomb instead of an operating accident?
gravenimage says
Frank, I think our giving a Muslim oil-rich Shari’ah state nuclear power information is *very* unwise–their general ineptitude is the least of it.
That they could be a target for other hostile Muslims is a real concern–as is the possibility that they may try to use some of that nuclear material for less peaceful purposes.
My only point was that this is still different from our giving the Saudis nuclear weapons, as christianblood pretends we are doing.
Frank Anderson says
GI, unlike the short period after WWII, nuclear information is all around us. I agree that passing it is unwise, both politically and economically. Nuclear power was supposed to be too cheap to meter when the fuel cost was the only cost being considered. But fuel cost is not even 10 percent of the total cost of owning. This genie has escaped the bottle, with Iran, Pakistan, India, North Korea, Brazil, South Africa and many others not only having the technical knowledge, but also the technical industry to do pretty well anything they want. As long as this is allowed to continue the only conclusion is “More Time = More Bombs”.
Frank Anderson says
GI, you might take note of the number of foreign students at US engineering colleges who will take back the same technology as US citizens learn. There are really very few nuclear secrets left. It is just a question of motivation and resources. If Pakistan and South Africa can develop and test nuclear weapons, who can’t. Iran is lying as usual about its “incomplete” bomb program, with its testing done in North Korea instead of its own territory. They not only have The Bomb, they have many of them and look forward to their use.
gravenimage says
I agree that this information is out there, Frank. I just don’t want us to make it any easier for Muslims to get their hands on it than it already is.
Frank Anderson says
We CERTAINLY agree on that issue. But having been in a nuclear engineering program for 3 weeks right after finishing law school I think it is really safe to say that foreign students go anywhere they want and study anything they want. Remember when Trump wanted to ban people from selected countries. WHO SCREAMED THE LOUDEST? Colleges because their foreign student assistants would be blocked. To Hell with US students who could have taken the positions; they wanted the foreign students. It is a safe bet that many people in the Iran nuclear project are educated in the US. This is grim reality.
gravenimage says
Grimly likely, Frank.
Mike Stevens says
Hilarious, because in reality Iran’s enemies and the biggest threat to its survival aren’t the wicked Americans, but OTHER MUSLIMS. Like Saudis. Shias and Sunnis have been fighting and killing each other for 1400 years and that will always be the case, the divide and depth of hatred are so great.
gravenimage says
Spot on, Mike.
Walter Sieruk says
This jihad article exposes that Iran “last year been hiding a nuclear warehouse in Tehran despite the 2015 Iran Nuclear Deal.”
This reveals that Obama and Kerry were such an unrealistic deluded fools if they actually, really, felt that there was any actual value of that “deal” with that tyrannical “mullah regime” of Iran .When ,Obama and Kerry in their folly attempted work out a compromise with those Muslim tyrants in power in Iran only had an awful results, This was outcome of foolishly trying to work out a compromise resulted that the hoax and farce of a “deal.” A former US President, Franklin D. Roosevelt , had well-spoken when he said “There has never been – there never can be – successful compromise between good and evil.”
jarmanray says
Walter, The Iran fiasco was Obumer’s attempt to justify the his Nobel gift. If he really believed in it, he would have submitted it to the Senate for ratification but he knew it was a sham.
gravenimage says
That’s assuming that Obama wasn’t deliberately enabling Iran’s nuclear endeavors.
Walter Sieruk says
This article reveals that “The General Staff of the Armed Forces of Iran, the highest-ranking branch of the nation’s military, issued a statement vowing to “spare no effort” in fighting the U.S. military on Tuesday, suggesting the potential of a planned attack against Washington.”
This should be of no surprise to any informant person, in fact , it figures ,for the the real legacy Ayatollah Khomeini who was the Imam who was so powerful that he played large role in the establishment of the current Islamic tyranny of Iran which has the official title of “ The Islamic Republic of Iran” Khomeini had declared “ Jihad or Holy War ,which is for the conquest of [other ] countries and kingdoms , becomes incumbent after the formation of the Islamic State in the presence of the Imam or in accordance with his command. Then Islam makes it incumbent on all males…to prepare themselves for the conquest of countries so that the writ of Islam is obeyed in every country in the world… those who study Islamic Holy War will understand why Islam wants to conquer the whole world. The goal of this conquest would be to establish the hegemony of Islamic law.” [1]
[1] THE HISTORY OF JIHAD by Robert Spencer , page 319.
James Lincoln says
“…the General Staff referred to U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM) as a “terrorist” group…”
Little did I know, I was once attached to CENTCOM during a Middle East deployment for the U.S. Navy…
Walter Sieruk says
The US sanction ban on oil exports from this the “mullah regime” of Iran is a grand and wise plan. The Trump administration has said that it aims to reduce those exports to zero.” For that Islamic tyranny is hostile against the United States, , the State of Israel and many other nations and the people who are citizens of those countries.
As for those current economic sanctions that are being held against that Islamic tyranny of Iran Is very good and appropriate. This Islamic rough state of Iran inappropriately has the word “Republic” in its title. America’s National Security Adviser, John Bolton, had said that goal of the sanctions is not to make a “regime chance” but to cause charge for the better in the actions and polices by the heads of state in Iran . For those mullahs and the others in power in Iran are so thoroughly deceitful, demonic, wicked, vicious and cruel that they will not change their malicious ways. As explain in the Bible “What is crooked cannot be straightened; which is lacking cannot be counted.” Ecclesiastes 1:15. [N.I.V.] Indeed, Those malice -filled and hateful Muslim clerics who have much power in Iran along with the other Islamic stooges who rule Iran “cannot be counted” to make any chances for the better . The ayatollahs and mullahs in their likeminded Muslim partners in total governmental control of Iran are very anti- female m as in extremely misogynistic and oppressive ruthless to both girls and woman as well as all of the Iranian people who are trapped in forced to existed in this diabolical Islamic regime. As it is written in Proverbs 15:15. “All the days of the oppressed are wretched.” Likewise, Ecclesiastes 4:1 reads “ I saw the tears of the oppressed – and they have no comforter; power was in the side of the oppressors …” Furthermore ,Proverbs 28:15 very well describes such wicked characters who rule Iran as president Rouhani and ayatollah Khamenei . For it reads “Like a roaring lion or a charging bear is a wicked ruler over a helpless people.” Furthermore, such a vicious mindset of heinous arrogance of Rouhani, Khamenei and the other hateful and spiteful Islamic clerics in this “mullah regime” of Iran is reflected in the words from the Bible describing tyrannical villains in power of an oppressive regime. For Psalm 73:6—9 read “Therefore pride is their necklace:: they clothe themselves with violence. From their callous hearts comes iniquity; their evil ;their evil imaginations have no limits. They scoff and speak with malice; with arrogance they threaten oppression. Their mouths lay claim to heaven, and their tongues take possession of the earth.”
gravenimage says
Islamic Republic of Iran says it will “spare no effort” to fight the “terrorist” US military
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Of course, christianblood agrees. He has said before that Iran is a free country, and it is actually America and the Jews waging Jihad…
infidel says
BRING IT ON!!