"President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad could boost his sagging political standing at home by wrapping himself in the mantle of the Iran nuclear program, which is popular with Iranians. He is set to unveil new facilities Wednesday. Irans President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad plans to unveil several new nuclear facilities Wednesday during ceremonies aimed at boosting his sagging domestic political fortunes, but the move is likely to further intensify international tensions over Irans nuclear program. The facilities could include a line of uranium-enriching centrifuges at the new underground Fardo nuclear site, according to international nuclear experts. New facilities that suggest Iran is accelerating the rate at which it is building up its stockpile of enriched uranium could increase tensions in a number of ways, experts say. World powers hoping to restart talks with Iran over its nuclear program may conclude that Iran has opted for enrichment over negotiations, and Israel could conclude that its window for attacking Iran before it has stockpiled enough fuel to build a bomb is closing faster than it thought. The Fardo plant, built deep inside a mountain near the city of Qom, is of concern to Israeli officials who warn that Iran's nuclear program could be nearing a point of invulnerability. Such expressions of concern have led to speculation that Israel is preparing to strike Irans nuclear facilities. RECOMMENDED: Iran nuclear program: 5 key sites If Wednesdays ceremonies include a formal ribbon-cutting at the Fardo facility, it would come just as Iran and Israel are waging a heated retaliatory battle over recent small-scale bombings aimed at Israeli diplomatic personnel. Israel accuses Iran of carrying out the bombings, in India, Georgia, and Wednesday in Bangkok. Iran countercharges that Israel itself carried out the ultimately failed attacks, so as to have something to pin on Iran. The Iranian accusation strains credulity even further after Wednesdays Bangkok bombing, for which two Iranian suspects were detained one after he accidentally blew off his own legs with a hand grenade. The spate of bombings which so far have killed no one occurs about a month after the most recent in a string of killings of Iranian nuclear scientists. Iran accuses Israel of carrying out those assassinations and vowed in January to avenge them. Israel has said nothing about the Iranian nuclear scientists. Iranian officials have charged that operatives of a radical Iranian dissident group, which they say were trained by Mossad, the Israeli intelligence service, carried out the killings. Some US officials have privately confirmed a close working relationship between the Israelis and the Peoples Mojahedin Organization of Iran, but representatives of the Iranian exile group insist there is no truth to the Iranian governments accusations. Despite the intensifying standoff over Irans nuclear program, any nuclear-facility ribbon-cuttings like those Mr. Ahmadinejad plans for Wednesday are aimed less at a nervous world and more at the Iranian public, say most Iran experts. Iranians go to the polls in parliamentary elections March 2. Ahmadinejad has lost so much favor with Iranians that even his efforts to associate himself with the countrys broadly supported nuclear program arent likely to make a difference, some experts insist. Ahmadinejad has no chance; his political life is over, says Mehdi Khalaji, an expert on Iranian politics and Shiite Islam at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy Studies. But others say Ahmadinejad, who is in his second term and is ineligible to stand for another, is nonetheless campaigning for a good showing by his backers in the March parliamentary elections, with the hope of presenting a pro-Ahmadinejad candidate in next years presidential elections. Ahmadinejad's aim is to tap into the pride that many Iranians feel about the countrys nuclear program. In announcing Wednesdays events, Iran's official government website said the new nuclear facilities would show the world the extraordinary capability and knowledge of Iranians. Q&A: What's with the war talk surrounding Iran? http://news.yahoo.com/why-ahmadinejad-eager-show-off-iran-nuclear-facilities-212409971.html Hmmmmmmmm................
"S&P report says Iran will disrupt Strait of Hormuz, pushing oil to $150 Paul Joseph Watson Infowars.com Tuesday, February 14, 2012 Chief of the General Staff of the Russian Armed Forces Nikolai Makarov says that a decision by the U.S. and Israel on whether or not to launch a military attack on Iran will be taken before the summer. Iran, of cause, is a sore spot. Some kind of decision should be taken, probably nearer to summer, Makarov told RIA Novosti. He added that Russia has created a new crisis center that receives information regarding Iran in real time. Discord between the Obama administration and Israeli leaders over the timing of a planned strike on Irans nuclear facilities has characterized the build-up to war. Newsweek reported yesterday that Mossad boss Tamir Pardo made a secret visit to officials in the United States earlier this month to determine what the consequences would be if Israel bombed Irans nuclear facilities without first receiving the green light from Washington. Pardo had a number of questions, including: What is our posture on Iran? Are we ready to bomb? Would we [do so later]? What does it mean if [Israel] does it anyway? Meanwhile, the ratings agency Standard & Poors has issued three reports that predict Iran will engage in low-level provocation in response to sanctions by disrupting shipping in the Strait of Hormuz, a critical oil choke point that Tehran has repeatedly threatened to close. Iranian authorities could disrupt supplies of oil from the Persian Gulf by imposing tanker inspections or boarding merchant ships in its territorial waters, supporting oil prices because markets would increasingly view armed conflict as a real, if remote, possibility, the report stated. A d v e r t i s e m e n t This would be beneficial for oil-producing states in the region such as Saudi Arabia, U.A.E., Qatar, Kuwait, Oman, and Bahrain, notes the report, because such tension would push the price of oil to $150 a barrel. Israel blamed Iran for two attacks yesterday targeting cars belonging to the Israeli embassies in New Delhi, India and Tbilisi, Georgia. Iran has denied having any involvement in the attempted bombings in which the wife of Israels defense attache was injured, saying they were false flag attacks launched by Israel itself to tarnish Irans friendly ties with the host countries. A man thought to be an Iranian national was also maimed by his own bomb today after throwing a grenade at a taxi in Bangkok. When police attempted to apprehend him, he then threw another grenade which bounced off a tree and blew both of his legs off. A senior Israeli official says Thai police believe incident was botched terror attack, reports Haaretz, though why the man chose an unknown Bangkok taxi driver as the target of his terror attack and what this has to do with Israel has not been properly explained." http://www.infowars.com/russian-army-chief-decision-on-iran-attack-to-be-made-by-summer/ Hmmmmmmm...............
No redlines gives Iran a greenlight... Expert: US rejection of red lines on Iran disturbing 9/18/2012: Senior Israeli arms control expert Landau tells 'Post' Obama has set red lines effectively already.
A president of a nation trumping the political issue of self-defence in the context of a Zionist neighbour that continually threatens his country with an attack, utiliizing the political sphere in an attempt to get re-elected....Well, I never....Shock, horror!
Granny says dem Jews oughta bomb Ammerjabberjob to smithereens... Will this be the year that Israel goes to war with Iran? January 3, 2013 - Israel did not bomb Iran last year. Why should it happen this year? See also: Next 9/11: Iran's death squad is here 12/11/2012 - Team infiltrated, assigned to attack from within next year
Is there a practice of suicide bombings among muslims? Hm... Now, it is hard to imagine the man of such an opulent lifestyle as president of a country strap on a suicide belt, but to strap on a nuclear bomb and kill two birds with it - destroy Israel and please Allah... may be an enticement enough... is it conceivable? What'd yea say, Moon?
Grey tufted? Don't dat describe Mahmoud's beard?... Iran says it successfully sent a monkey into space Jan 28,`13: -- A gray-tufted monkey strapped in a pod resembling an infant's car seat rode an Iranian rocket into space and returned safely, officials said Monday in what was described as a step toward Tehran's goal of a manned space flight.
