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This article is interesting. However it misses the recent idea that there will be a false flag attack on an American ship (possibly by Israel as happened with the USS Liberty) which could be blamed on Iran.
That aside, plenty to chew over here:
Oh - btw - Happy St David's Day for yesterday for all our Welsh readers and supporters.
From the
Alexander Higgins blog.
ISRAEL, ARMAGEDDON AND THE STRENGTH OF IRAN
The most important thing I’ve read these last few days is the
excellent article ‘Armageddon Approaches’ written by Dr Lasha
Darkmoon , a cautionary piece which points the reader towards some very scary
background information.
For example, according to Russ Winter of The Wall Street Examiner ,
Iran’s Sunburn missiles, acquired from Russia and China over the last 10
years, have the capability of creating “a world of hurt” for the US
Navy’s 5th Fleet.
“The Sunburn is perhaps the most lethal anti-ship missile in the
world, designed to fly as low as 9 feet above ground/water at more than 1,500
miles per hour (mach 2+). The missile uses a violent pop-up maneuver for its
terminal approach to throw off Phalanx and other US anti-missile defense
systems. Given their low cost, they’re perfectly suited for close quarter
naval conflict in the bathtub-like Persian Gulf.”
With its 90-mile range, the Sunburn can be fired from practically any
platform, including a flat bed truck, and could hit a ship in the Strait in
less than a minute.
Adding this warning, Mark Gaffney says , “The US Navy has never faced
anything in combat as formidable as the Sunburn missile.”
He mentions the even more-advanced SS-NX-26 Yakhonts missiles, also
Russian-made (speed: Mach 2.9; range: 180 miles) deployed by the Iranians along
the Persian Gulf’s northern shore.
“Every US ship will be exposed and vulnerable. When the Iranians
spring the trap, the entire lake will become a killing field,”
“In the Gulf’s shallow and confined waters evasive manoeuvres
will be difficult, at best, and escape impossible. Even if US planes control of
the skies over the battlefield, the sailors caught in the net below will be
hard-pressed to survive. The Gulf will run red with American blood.”
As both writers point out, the Iranians will have mapped every firing angle
along their Gulf coastline. And the rugged terrain will not make detection
easy.
“Shooting fish in a barrel”, but who are the fish this time?
Britain recently announced the deployment of HMS Daring, a new Type 45
destroyer, to the Persian Gulf in order to send a significant message to the
Iranians because of the firepower and world-beating technology carried by this
warship. A Daily Telegraph report says she has been fitted with new technology
that will give it the ability to “shoot down any missile in Iran’s
armory. The £1 billion destroyer also carries the world’s most
sophisticated naval radar, capable of tracking multiple incoming threats from
missiles to fighter jets.” Her 48 Sea Vipers can shoot down fighters as
well as sea skimming missiles.
Apart from HMS Daring, Britain is believed to have at least 3 other vessels
in the Persian Gulf, and more can be sent. Are they all equipped with the same
world-beating technology?
Dr Darkmoon observes, “Both America and Israel are unfortunately just
not ready to wage the type of warfare they prefer to wage and at which they so
excel: shooting fish in a barrel. Unlike Iraq, which the warmonger
neoconservatives told us would be a ‘cakewalk’ – easily
conquered in six weeks – Iran is unlikely to offer its American and
Israeli antagonists easy opportunities to indulge in their fish-in-a-barrel
fantasies.”
The spectacle of the world’s school-yard bully, the United States,
flanked by hooligan helpmates Britain, France and Canada all menacing Iran is
building up to a chilling climax. If what I’m reading is correct, British
ships in the bathtub of the Persian Gulf will be among the fish in the barrel
on this occasion, with Iran doing the shooting. Britain’s chief
hooligans, William Hague and David Cameron, could be courting disaster for the
much-vaunted HMS Daring. Why are they getting us involved anyway? It’s
obviously not for Britain, whose best interests are served by making friends and
doing business with Iran.
No, they suffer the same delusions as their erstwhile partner in crime, the
disgraced former Defence Secretary Liam Fox and the many others in our
Parliamentary establishment who have swallowed the daft idea that
Israel’s enemies are Britain’s enemies. How much sense can you
expect from people who are signed-up Friends of Israel – in Hague’s
case since the tender age of 15?Diplomacy? What diplomacy?
As the whole world surely knows by now, the US-British track record in Iran
doesn’t bear examination. And when they get on their high horse and spout
about democracy everyone falls about laughing. Who overthrew Iran’s
fledgling democracy in 1953? Who trashed Palestine’s democracy in 2006?
Who keeps banging on about Israel being the “only democracy in the Middle
East” when, actually, it’s a racist ethnocracy?
For over 30 years Britain has had no high-level diplomatic contact with Iran
except for Jack Straw’s visits a decade ago. Hague won’t answer
questions about the diplomatic efforts he has made, if any. In a fit of lunacy
he shut down the embassy in Tehran last year and chucked the Iranians out of
London, and he’s now straining at the bit to get our young men needlessly
embroiled in what is essentially a nuke-bristling US/Israel quarrel with
non-nuke Iran… the ulterior motive and ultimate prize being Iran’s
oil.
The US hasn’t had a proper embassy in Tehran since 1979. But a few
months ago it set up a virtual embassy with this sick-making address to the
Iranian people .
“We have created Virtual Embassy Tehran to offer you another
perspective and another source of information, so you can make up your own
minds about the US, our concerns about the Iranian government’s
activities at home and abroad, and our serious efforts to achieve a resolution to
those concerns,”
“This website is not a formal diplomatic mission, nor does it
represent or describe a real US Embassy accredited to the Iranian Government.
But, in the absence of direct contact, it can work as a bridge between the
American and Iranian people.”
As President Obama said earlier this year and Secretary of State Hillary
Clinton affirmed in her recent VOA and BBC appearances, “You – the
young people of Iran – carry within you both the ancient greatness of
Persian civilization, and the power to forge a country that is responsive to
your aspirations. Your talent, your hopes, and your choices will shape the
future of Iran, and help light the world. And though times may seem dark, I
want you to know that I am with you,”
“It is in that spirit that we launch our Virtual US Embassy Tehran. It
is our Mission to the Iranian people.”
Yeah, a US mission that’s accompanied by vicious sanctions imposed
with the help of gullible friends like Britain and the EU and calculated to
cripple Iran’s economy and make the lives of its young people hell. The
consequences for us are damaging too.
Britain’s defence chief Philip Hammond, who replaced Fox after the
scandal that exposed his ‘special friend’ Adam Werritty and
behind-scenes plotting with Israel against Iran, has publicly warned Iran that
any blockade of the Strait of Hormuz would be “illegal and
unsuccessful”.
But why escalate matters to the point where a blockade becomes likely? And
why, asks Dr Darkmoon, do it for Israel anyway? “Cui bono? Iran has much
more to offer America than Israel does,”
“Iran has oil in abundance, Israel has none. Iran does not hold
America’s political class to ransom. Iran does not try to browbeat
successive American administrations into putting Iranian interests before
American ones. Iran’s dual citizens do not spy on America or sell
American military secrets to Russia and China-there are no Iranian Rosenbergs
or Jonathan Pollards. Iran does not coerce Americans into fighting and dying
for it in foreign wars. Iran does not expect $3 billion a year in handouts, and
even more in loan guarantees that never get repaid,”
“Iran would be a far greater asset to America than Israel could ever
be. Israel is a liability and a burden,”
“More fool America for cuddling up to a ‘friend’ who has
stabbed it in the back in the past – the Lavon affair, the USS Liberty
incident, the Jonathan Pollard betrayal – and is more than likely to stab
it in the back again at some time in the foreseeable future,”
“Dump Israel. That’s my advice. Before Israel sets the world on
fire, taking America with it.”
The question certainly needs to be asked, she says, “What hold does
Israel have over America? Is America prepared to sustain immense damage to its
vital interests on behalf of an unstable and insolent ally that remains, if numerous
polls are to be believed, the world’s most hated nation?”
Ask it here too. What hold does Israel have over Britain? The only people
impressed by Israel are MPs and ministers whom the pro-Israel lobby has
‘groomed’ and funded, the Jewish community (though by no means all
of them) and a rabble of Christian Zionists; no-one else. And no-one else wants
to fight Israel’s unjust wars or help America do Israel’s dirty
work.
So if Hague, Hammond and Cameron love Israel so much let them and the
regime’s other admirers don uniform and flak-jacket and go play
battleships in the Persian Gulf’s “bathtub” themselves. Who
in their right mind would volunteer to be that trio’s cannon-fodder?
