What might happen in Iran if America or Israel bombed the nuclear sites?
What would happen inside Iran if America or Israel bombed its nuclear sites? That intriguing question is rarely broached, in part because many in Washington recoil from any speculation that might make such a military contingency a more concrete exercise. Iran’s atomic program keeps advancing, and the odds of any new nuclear deals seriously constraining it seem low, but neither Israel nor America appears keen on striking.
The Iranian regime has lately been taking more European hostages — the direct result of the EU’s appeasement policies to the ruling mullahs of Iran.
The Iranian authorities announced on July 30 that they had arrested another Swedish citizen. The Tehran regime normally detains European citizens on vague security-related charges such as having “suspicious behavior and contacts”. Iran’s hardline state-controlled newspaper, Kayhan, has also urged the government to take more European hostages.
Dog shelter workers are protesting President Ebrahim Raisi’s regime in Iran after authorities allegedly stormed their compound and slaughtered up to 1,700 dogs.
Heart-wrenching footage shared on social media showed one volunteer in floods of tears as she clasped one of the dead hounds in her arms.
‘This was the most vulnerable and obedient one,’ she cried, before the camera panned to show several canine corpses strewn across the roadside and a nearby valley.
“It is not just the government that reminds me of the Islamic Republic. The current state of the legacy media, paid for by Justin Trudeau, is just as bad as anything I saw in Iran, arguably worse.”
“If I hadn’t seen the truth with my own eyes while on the ground here in Ottawa I would not be able to believe the level of lies and fake news being spread.”
The organization of cemeteries for Tehran Province said 98 gravestones with images of women with “improper hijab” were removed from graves.
Saeed Ghazanfari, the head of Behesht-e Zahra, the largest cemetery in Iran, said that 98 gravestones that had images of women without a hijab or improper hijab on them were ‘corrected’.
Upon announcing the news, Ghazanfari warned the “offending” stonemasons and gravestone installers that Behesht Zahra Cemetary would stop cooperating with them.
The video declared Iran’s regime can move its “peaceful nuclear program to a nuclear weapons program” at a fast pace.
#BREAKING–#Iran #IRGC Telegram channel threatens to produce atomic war head for missiles: "Iran can immediately return to Emad project and build an #ATOM bomb, if Natanz facilities are attacked". pic.twitter.com/4ug4Jd9k18
— BenSabti (@BeniSabti) July 30, 2022
“How can one help the Iranian people restore their normal life?”
This was the question that a Japanese friend put to me in 2019 in what at the time seemed to be a casual chat in a Persian restaurant in London. Three years later, I have just learned that the question had been something more than a dinner-table note to prolong the conversation. The friend in question had been sounding out a few people about the tactics that then Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe should pursue during a visit to Tehran to persuade the ruling mullahs to lead Iran back into “normal life.”
Thanks to the EU’s complete appeasement policy towards the Islamist mullahs, the Iranian regime is now capable of building a nuclear bomb.
Kamal Kharrazi, a senior official and adviser to Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, in a rare statement, revealed to Al-Jazeera TV:
“In a few days we were able to enrich uranium up to 60 percent and we can easily produce 90 percent enriched uranium…. Iran has [now] the technical means to produce a nuclear bomb.”
The current capability of the mullahs to manufacture a nuclear bomb is most likely a culmination of the EU’s appeasement policy towards the Islamic Republic, particularly since 2015.
Iran’s deepening involvement in supporting the Russian war effort against Ukraine should serve as a wake up call to Western leaders that Iran’s military threat is no longer solely confined to the Middle East.
Ever since the ayatollahs seized control of the country more than 40 years ago, Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), the regime’s standard bearers, have mostly confined their military activities to the Middle East region, whether it is waging war against neighbouring countries like Iraq or threatening Israel through its proxies in Lebanon and Syria.
Russia will use its new axis of evil with Iran to exert massive pressure on the world’s democracies
It is two decades since George W Bush coined the phrase “axis of evil” to describe the rogue states that threatened the well-being of the West. And, to judge by this week’s Russo-Iranian summit, an equally deadly alliance is being formed between two states determined to undermine Western values.
The White House claims that President Vladimir Putin has been forced to embrace the ayatollahs because he finds himself totally isolated on the global stage following the invasion of Ukraine. The countries that have so far remained loyal to Moscow – North Korea, Eritrea, Belarus and Syria – can hardly be said to uphold the principles of democratic rule.
“He looks at me with his innocent and beautiful eyes. He is asking me to take him out for a walk, but I don’t dare. We will get arrested.”
Mahsa, who has a dog, is referring to a new wave of arrests of pet owners and seizures of their animals in the Iranian capital, Tehran.
Police there recently announced that walking dogs in parks was a crime. The ban was justified as a measure to “protect the safety of the public”.
h/t DM
Both Russia and Iran are under massive international sanctions, both are ruled over by men with near-unlimited powers — and both view the West as an evil, corrupting force. President Putin will find much that is familiar when he arrives in Tehran tomorrow for talks aimed at boosting ties between the two amid the war in Ukraine.
Prior to the Biden administration, since the ruling mullahs came to power in 1979, two US administrations — the Obama and Carter administrations — appeared soft on the Iranian regime. Now, the Biden administration seems to have perfected the skill of appeasing the ruling mullahs of Iran.
Even they probably cannot believe that they have gotten away with so many violations since the Biden administration assumed office.
“According to the intelligence report, Iran has identified former President Donald Trump, former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, and other officials as ‘priority targets’ for their role in overseeing the January 2020 US drone strike that killed Soleimani as he visited Iraq. Iran has long openly made bombastic threats to take revenge for Soleimani’s death, but the new report offers further confirmation that US officials are taking the threats seriously,” Yahoo News reported.
And the FBI/DHS would help.
Israeli Prime Minister Yair Lapid on Thursday lectured U.S. President Biden on the growing threat of a nuclear-armed Iran, warning that “diplomacy will not stop them.”
“The only thing that will stop Iran is knowing that if they continue to develop their nuclear program, the free world will use force,” Mr. Lapid said. “The only way to stop them is to put a credible military threat on the table.”
