Israel readies forces for strike on nuclear Iran

[MrRight]

Uzi Mahnaimi, Tel Aviv, and Sarah Baxter, Washington
ISRAEL’S armed forces have been ordered by Ariel Sharon, the prime minister, to be ready by the end of March for possible strikes on secret uranium enrichment sites in Iran, military sources have revealed.

The order came after Israeli intelligence warned the government that Iran was operating enrichment facilities, believed to be small and concealed in civilian locations.

Full Article:

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article...920074,00.html

Is this some sort of conspiracy or have some truth in it, because after what Iran's president said about Israel the whole world should be on high alert.

[genghis_tom]

To me it seems as if this is a warning, and that Israel will not now go through with the bombing. If Israel really wanted to strike, they would have popped out of nowhere, like Begin on the nuclear facilities in Iraq.
I agree that the world should be on high alert, and I am happy that Israel has issued this "warning". It, a real threat, will do more than any UN "condemnations" will ever do.

[AraV]

The reason this story was linked to the press was a warning to Iran.

The last thing Israel needs right now is to get the Persians unified behind the Mullahs, since right now the Mullahs have almost no popularity, and there is a strong possibility of an imminent rebellion. An outside attack on Iran would change that.

[minusthejihad]

I'm still waiting for the day I wake up, turn on the news and see a smoldering crator in what used to be Pajamijihad's office, then shots of burning fields and buildings where nuclear laboratories in Iran used to be located. And seens of happy Persian women in Western garb happy that the Arab mullahs have been driven out of their country.

[KSO]

I'm still waiting for the day I wake up, turn on the news and see a smoldering crator in what used to be Pajamijihad's office, then shots of burning fields and buildings where nuclear laboratories in Iran used to be located. And seens of happy Persian women in Western garb happy that the Arab mullahs have been driven out of their country.

Boy you have a boring life...

[minusthejihad]

Boy you have a boring life...

there's only room for one funny guy

[Cyrus the Great]

The reason this story was linked to the press was a warning to Iran.

The last thing Israel needs right now is to get the Persians unified behind the Mullahs, since right now the Mullahs have almost no popularity, and there is a strong possibility of an imminent rebellion. An outside attack on Iran would change that.

Nicely said. You're right on!!

[Cyrus the Great]

I'm still waiting for the day I wake up, turn on the news and see a smoldering crator in what used to be Pajamijihad's office, then shots of burning fields and buildings where nuclear laboratories in Iran used to be located. And seens of happy Persian women in Western garb happy that the Arab mullahs have been driven out of their country.

That's my one and only wish in life. I am willing to sacrifise everything in my life to see Iran liberated. If I see the liberation of Iran before I die then I will have died a happy man!

[MrRight]

is Iran's president for real??? Now he says that the Holocaust was a myth and that what happened to the Jews were the fault of the European powers and it is their responsibility to give part of their land to Jews. I mean only an uncivilized and uneducated leader would say such stupid and extreeme statements.

Full story:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20051214/...an_holocaust_2

[Mediocrates]

here's what I think


http://www.israelforum.com/board/sho...28&postcount=6

[MrRight]

Is this guy serious, now he bans all Western music:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20051219/...iran_music_ban

[KettleWhistle]

This topic was already discussed. It came out of British Sunday Times, a paper that is known to make up assorted nonsense about Israel. If there is going to be an attack on Iran's nuclear infrastructure, it will likely to be sabotage. A nuclear meltdown or three will make them think twice about having the nuclear technology. After all, their population supports it mostly for the reason of some sort of national pride, the pride that most developed countries have lost a long time ago.

As for his ban of Western music, that's not bad. It will likely to antagonize the population, and will only make him less popular.

[Cellis]

the greatest great middle east plan. but israel can't get 100% success on Iran (by itself)

[KettleWhistle]

And here's how some other 3rd World nuclear nations run their nuclear power plants:

http://www.suntimes.com/output/news/16russ.html
Explosion in Russian nuclear plant kills one



December 16, 2005

BY IRINA TITOVA ASSOCIATED PRESS

ST. PETERSBURG, Russia-- An explosion at a Russian nuclear power plant complex killed one worker and badly hurt two others, but Russia's nuclear agency said Friday no reactors were affected.

The Rosenergoatom agency said radiation levels remained normal as the reactor in that part of the Leningrad nuclear plant was undergoing repairs and was not in operation. But Thursday's blast threw a spotlight on what environmentalists called uncontrolled operations at Russian nuclear sites.

The blast happened in a smelter at the plant in the closed nuclear town of Sosnovy Bor, 50 miles west of the northern city of St. Petersburg. The smelter is operated by Ekomet-S, a company reprocessing scrap metal.

"The enterprise ... functions illegally because there was no mandatory (state) environmental impact assessment on its construction," Dmitry Artamonov, head of the St. Petersburg branch of Greenpeace, told The Associated Press.

He said Greenpeace had complained against Ekomet-S to the Sosnovy Bor prosecutors' office but it took no action.

The nuclear plant has four units, or reactors, in all. Rosenergoatom said that the smelter was on the grounds of the plant's second unit, and plant spokesman Sergei Averyanov said it was about half a mile from the reactor.

Oleg Bodrov, a physicist who heads the Green World ecological group in Sosnovy Bor, said that the reactor was only some 700 yards from the smelter, which is about 50 yards from a liquid radioactive waste pond.

A 33-year-old worker died of his injuries Friday morning, and two others were injured, Yuri Lameko, chief doctor of the Sosnovy Bor hospital, told the AP.

"There were no violations of safety levels and operating conditions of the energy units of the Leningrad nuclear plant," Rosenergoatom said in a statement.

The second unit had been shut down for planned major repairs in July, it said.

The plant spokesman, Averyanov, said that the blast had caused molten metal to spurt out of the smelter. Usually Ekomet-S reprocesses scrap with low levels of radioactivity, but on Thursday the metal was clear of radiation, Averyanov said.

He blamed the blast on violations of technical and production rules.

Bodrov said Ekomet-S began operating two years ago and was in violation of the law since it had undergone no state environmental impact assessment. When the firm was founded, the only environmental monitoring laboratory in the town of 65,000 was shut down for lack of funding, he said.

"There is no independent environmental monitoring in the nuclear city of Sosnovy Bor," Bodrov said.

He said this was the second accident to occur at Ekomet-S. The first happened in summer 2003, injuring some workers.


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[Mira]

That's my one and only wish in life. I am willing to sacrifise everything in my life to see Iran liberated. If I see the liberation of Iran before I die then I will have died a happy man!

I am so sorry Cyrus for what is happening in your native country. Such a beautiful culture and such beautiful people. I am very worried about where this is all heading.