To BE OR NOT TO BE, That Is The Question Of Bombing Iran

 Nadene Goldfoot                                                         

Netanyahu tried to warn everyone when he spoke (though so many walked out from the Democratic Party of the USA of his speech) at the UN.   One particularly notable speech was on September 27, 2012. In this speech, Netanyahu displayed a diagram of a bomb and drew a "red line" to illustrate his point, warning that Iran was nearing the ability to enrich uranium to weapons-grade levels. He urged the international community to establish a clear red line to prevent Iran from completing the second stage of nuclear enrichment necessary for a bomb. That warning was 13 years ago.     

Rafael Grossi, the Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), is from Argentina. He was born in Argentina in 1961. Grossi has a long career in the Argentinian foreign service, including as Head of Embassy in Belgium and Luxemburg and as Argentine Representative to NATO. He became the Director General of the IAEA in 2019 and is the first Latin American to hold that position.  

Now the fact of the matter is that they already have enough for 9 atomic bombs!  According to a confidential report by the IAEA at the weekend, Iran has enough uranium enriched to that level for nine nuclear weapons if refined further, by an agency yardstick. No other country has enriched uranium to such a high level without producing weapons, the watchdog added.                                                 

The big question hanging over our heads is this:  Will Israel bomb the nuclear sites in Iran or not?  First of all,  is there a good reason why they might?  

Iran has not been shy about telling the world that they hate Jews and Israel through the Ayatollas, especially today's  Khamenei.  There is not lost love there.  Iran is busily making atomic power for the rockets they will have on hand that are meant for the "Little Satan" as they refer to Israel and then perhaps the "Big" Satan as they think about the USA.  They've been working on this project for the past 10 years and no one has had the guts to stop them in any form of laws or oversight.  

In the early 1980s and again in 2007, Israel carried out airstrikes on suspected nuclear facilities in Iraq and Syria. In 1981, Israel destroyed Iraq's Osirak nuclear reactor. In 2007, Israel destroyed a suspected nuclear reactor in Syria, known as the Al Kibar reactor, or Dair Alzour, in the Deir ez-Zor region. 

Osirak (Iraq): In 1981, Israel's Operation Opera, aimed at destroying the Osirak reactor, was carried out because Israel believed Iraq was using the facility to produce plutonium for nuclear weapons. The reactor was located in Tuwaitha, Iraq, and the attack was successful in destroying it.  

Kibar (Syria): In 2007, Israel launched Operation Orchard, targeting a suspected nuclear reactor in Deir ez-Zor, Syria. The reactor, known as the Al Kibar or Dair Alzour facility, was believed to be a part of Syria's nuclear program. While Israel initially didn't acknowledge the strike, later evidence and the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) confirmed it was a nuclear reactor.                                         

The Bushehr nuclear power station, a 915-MWe facility, came on line in 2013. It is Iran’s only operating nuclear power plant, so they say.... (Photo: Bushehr NPP)

A ceremonial ground-breaking event took place last week at the site where the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran (AEOI) says four new nuclear reactors will be built over the next 20 years.

The IAEA report said that Iran, as of May 17, had amassed 408.6 kilograms (900.8 pounds) of uranium enriched up to 60%. That is an increase of almost 50% since the IAEA’s last report in February. The 60% enriched material is a short, technical step away from weapons-grade levels of 90%. Iran’s leadership has said it believes the IAEA report is politically motivated by Grossi’s hopes of becoming the next U.N. secretary-general.Grossi who is attempting to attract the votes of several members of the U.N. Security Council with the report.  The head of Iran’s Atomic Energy Organization, Mohammad Eslami,  who  is the Vice President and Head of the Atomic Energy Organization in the government of President Raisi and was the Minister of Roads and Urban development and the Governor of Mazandaran in the government of Hassan Rouhani,  told the official IRNA news agency late Sunday. 

 Eslami   is the Vice President and Head of the Atomic Energy Organization in the government of President Raisi and was the Minister of Roads and Urban development and the Governor of Mazandaran in the government of Hassan Rouhani.  

Hassan Rouhani is an Iranian politician who served as the seventh president of Iran from 2013 to 2021. He is also a sharia lawyer ("Wakil"), academic, former diplomat and Islamic cleric. He served as a member of Iran's Assembly of Experts from 1999 to 2024.  Sayyid Ebrahim Rаisi (14 December 1960 – 19 May 2024), better known as Ebrahim Raisi, was an Iranian politician who served as the eighth president of Iran from 2021 until his death in a helicopter crash in 2024. He was a Twelver Shia Muslim jurist and part of the Principlist group.  "They are stacked up against Israel and USA."                                                     

After World War II, Argentina became a haven for Nazi war criminals seeking to evade prosecution. Fueled by financial and strategic reasons, as well as a desire to avoid communism, Argentina welcomed thousands of Nazis and collaborators, including high-ranking officials like Josef Mengele and Adolf Eichmann,.                                               

Resource:

https://www.google.com/search?q=Was+is+Syria+and+Iraq+that+Israel+bombed

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Goliath Against David's Story With Iran and Israel

 Nadene Goldfoot                                                

If you look very hard, you will spot Israel on the left, south of Syria and to the West of Jordan.  Iran is huge, to the East of Iraq.  Iran's population in 2011 was 76,923,300 and is an Islamic State with 98% Muslims. Iran is one of about 48 Muslim majority countries in the world.  In fact, they are 6th largest of Muslim populations.  Indonesia has 228, 582, 000 Muslims.   Israel is the only Jewish state in the world.  The total area of the State of Israel is 22,145 sq.km (8,630 sq. miles), of which 21,671 sq. km is land area.  Population of Israel in 2021 was 9.364 million. 

 Not all are Jews though it's a Jewish state.  About 20% are Mostly Muslims and there are some Christians, too.  Drop a nuclear bomb on Israel and Jordan and other Middle Easterners will also suffer from the effects.  Needless to say, Iran is not a popular state with Israel's neighbors.  

Are we ready to face a world with Iran who has enough  enriched uranium to produce 5 nuclear bombs right now?   Why do they want to produce such bombs?  

§  General Hossein Salami, the chief of Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) has made the Iranian regime’s plans vehemently clear: 

“Our strategy is to erase Israel from the global political map,” he stated on Iran’s state-controlled Channel 2 TV in 2019. Khamenei has also published a 416-page guidebook about destroying Israel — which Iran’s former “moderate” President Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, basically referred to as a tiny one-bomb country.

In March 2023, Under Secretary of Defense for Policy Colin Kahl told the House Armed Services Committee that Iran's nuclear program had made "remarkable" progress and that it would take Iran 12 days to build a nuclear bomb. Ever since the Biden Administration assumed office, the Iranian regime has been accelerating its enrichment of uranium to "near weapons grade" and declining to cooperate with the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA). 

The 2nd Supreme Leader,  Ayatollah Ali Khamenei,  attends a meeting with thousands of students in Tehran, Iran, November 3, 2019. (Office of the Iranian Supreme Leader via AP)

What is it with this "mad on" with Iran being against Israel?  That's the $64 question.  Iran has been in competition with Saudi Arabia as chief of Islam because of the depth of Islam they each follow.  Iran is a Shi'a country and Arabia is Sunni country.  

Iran fought an 8 year war against Iraq (Shi'a/Sunni Secular country  from September 22, 1980 – August 20, 1988.  My husband and I made Aliyah from September 1980 but returned to the states at the end of 1985, and I can tell you;   that was a very long war that they fought. They about wiped out all their males !  Their Ayatollah's have just not wanted or allowed Jews in their Muslim lands, that's all. Up until the ayatollah's appearance in Iran, Ruhollah Khomeini, Israel was getting along with Iran's king Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, very well.  They had a good relationship.  The Ayatollah ousted him.   

Iran regularly threatens to annihilate Israel, viewing the country as a powerful enemy allied with the United States and Sunni countries in the region against Tehran and its nuclear ambitions.  Contrary to Khamenei’s claims, those threats commonly refer to the physical destruction of Israeli cities, rather than of just the regime. This Ayatollah hates the USA, Netanyahu, and says he doesn't hate Jews but he's willing to hit all of them in Israel with a nuclear bomb and other Muslims, too if it means carrying out his goal.  He's all for sacrificing his own followers as long as they're far enough away from him.   His reasoning is not my reasoning at all, nor other rational people, either.  He must be stopped from carrying out his sick goals.  

Resource:

Victor Sharpe:  Thanks for sending me the gatestone article...

https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/19654/iran-nuclear-bombs

https://embassies.gov.il/MFA/AboutIsrael/Maps/Pages/Israel-Size-and-Dimension.aspx#:~:text=The%20total%20area%20of%20the,km%20is%20land%20area.

Drone Attack on Second Uranium Enrichment Plant in Iran: Parchin

 Nadene Goldfoot                                                

Iran is known to develop missile, nuclear and drone technology at Parchin. IAEA inspectors are routinely denied access to the site which lies about 50km southeast of Tehran.

Quadcopter suicide drones launched from inside Iran this week attacked the key Parchin military and nuclear complex, according to anonymous Iranian and US sources cited by the New York Times and on May 28, 2022.  The attack in which an engineer was killed was officially described by Iran’s defense ministry as an “incident.” The statement said one of the ministry’s research units in the Parchin area was hit and the engineer was a “martyr.”

According to reports published in Russia, apparently based on information developed by the Russian Federal Security Service, Parchin, 30 kilometers south-west of Tehran, was the site for the implementation of a variety of defense projects. Parchin was the center of the Defense Industries Organization's (DIO) chemical industry (production of explosives, fuel, etc.), and, possibly, the home of the main producers of the Oghab and Nazeat missiles.

The International Atomic Energy Agency's (IAEA) quarterly report also says "extensive activities" -- a reference to suspected sanitization efforts -- at Iran's Parchin military complex will hamper its investigation of possible past nuclear weapons development work there, if inspectors are granted access. 

The IAEA reported in 2011 that Iran placed "a large explosives containment vessel" in Parchin in 2000 and constructed a building around it. The facilities were designed to contain the detonation of up to 70 kilograms of high explosives -- something the IAEA called "relevant to the development of an explosive nuclear device." 

Strident deal opponents have raised fears about the IAEA’s “side agreements” with Iran in general. Senator Lindsey Graham (R-SC) is threatening to block funding for the IAEA in the Senate until the details of those side agreements are revealed to Congress, despite the fact that the details of deals between the IAEA and individual states are routinely kept confidential. 

The implication that the IAEA would risk its own international standing and funding in order to cut a sweetheart deal with Iran is a bizarre one, particularly given the 2010 Wikileaks revelation that IAEA head Yukiya Amano,  a Japanese diplomat and the Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) (July 2009 – 2019). Amano previously served as an international civil servant for the United Nations and its subdivisions. has been “solidly in the U.S. court on every key strategic decision” with respect to the Iran talks.He died on 18 July 2019 at the age of 72. Associated Press reported the cause of death as cancer.

Since that report, the IAEA has sought to send inspectors to the site of the suspected building but have been denied access by Iran to that part of the military base. In recent months, the agency also obtained information that indicates Iran has been busy cleaning up the suspected site, including tearing down some buildings and removing soil. The last effort by the IAEA to convince Iran to let inspectors visit the site -- where Iran denies clean-up activities are taking place -- broke down in June 2012 when Tehran accused the agency of acting like an "intelligence organization."  That was 10 years ago.  

"It was on September 27, 2018:  UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Thursday described what he said was a secret atomic warehouse in Tehran and accused Europe of appeasing Iran as he sought to rally support for U.S. sanctions against the Islamic Republic.  - Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu drew his “red line” for Iran’s nuclear program on Thursday despite a U.S. refusal to set an ultimatum, saying Tehran will be on the brink of a nuclear weapon in less than a year." Not only that, but the Democrats walked out of the auditorium when Netanyahu delivered this information, having lunch appointments.  Iran has had almost 4 years since then to continue developing towards their goal.  They have made constant threats against Israel, which is why Netanyahu felt he needed to warn the world of their hatred and aims.  

Addressing the United Nations General Assembly, Netanyahu showed an aerial photograph of the Iranian capital marked with a red arrow and pointed to what he said was a previously secret warehouse holding nuclear-related material. He argued this showed Iran still sought to obtain nuclear weapons, despite its 2015 agreement with world powers to curb its program in exchange for loosening of sanctions.

Netanyahu spoke 4-1/2 months after U.S. President Donald Trump withdrew from the accord, arguing it did too little to rein in Tehran’s nuclear ambitions and triggering the resumption of U.S. economic sanctions on Iran.

Netanyahu said the site contained some 15 kg (33 pounds) of radioactive material that has since been moved, and he called on the U.N. atomic agency to inspect the location immediately with Geiger counters.  

“I am disclosing for the first time that Iran has another secret facility in Tehran, a secret atomic warehouse for storing massive amounts of equipment and materiel from Iran’s secret nuclear program,” Netanyahu said.  Using a magic marker to literally draw a red line on a diagram of a bomb, Netanyahu said Iran was 70 percent of the way towards developing a bomb. He said the international community must stop Iran before it could complete another 20 percent, a process of creating medium enriched uranium.

The final 10 percent could be completed in a few short weeks, he said. Once the uranium enrichment was completed, he said, Iran could easily assemble the necessary fuse in a secret location no bigger than a classroom. He said that location would be difficult to find in a country that is half the size of Europe.

Since then, reported on April 13, 2021, Iran's nuclear facilities have had a blackout, blamed on Israel, on a Sunday. It housed centrifuges used for uranium enrichment. It was a key Natanz facility, a  nuclear facility in Iran  hit by "sabotage" a day after it unveiled new uranium enrichment equipment, the country's top nuclear official says. Ali Akbar .This attack on Iranian nuclear site damaged their centrifuge production facility.  Despite Tehran’s claims to the contrary, opposition sources say attempted sabotage reported earlier in the day was successful, hitting complex previous sanctioned by the US, UN.  

Remember the problems the nuclear facility had with their computers?  Iran: Computer Malware Sabotaged Uranium Centrifuges.  In what appears to be the first confirmation that the Stuxnet malware hit Iran’s Natanz nuclear facility, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said Monday that malicious computer code launched by “enemies” of the state had sabotaged centrifuges used in Iran’s nuclear-enrichment program. The surprise announcement at a press conference coincided with news that two of Iran’s […]

Members of a special IRGC force attend a rally marking the annual Quds Day, or Jerusalem Day, on the last Friday of the holy month of Ramadan in Tehran, Iran April 29, 2022. IRGC stands for Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps or the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC). The US government standard is Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, while the United Nations uses Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps.(photo credit: MAJID ASGARIPOUR/WANA (WEST ASIA NEWS AGENCY) VIA REUTERS)

Just 6 days ago, Assailants on a motorcycle shot and killed the Quds Force member in front of his home in the Iranian capital. 

A targeted assassination this week killed Colonel Hassan Sayad Khodayari, a high-ranking officer in the Iranian Revolutionary Guards Corps, who had overseen terror operations against Yidden and Israelis, including one foiled plot to attack a Chabad shliach.

He was the IRGC officer,  who planned attacks against Jews, Israelis worldwide and killed in Tehran.  The IRGC called the assassination a “criminal terrorist act of the counter-revolution and elements related to global arrogance,” a term often used to refer to the US and Israel.  The Iranian Nour News Agency called the assassination a redline, saying it “changes many equations” and that those responsible would “pay a heavy price.” 

According to reports, Khodayari was eliminated for preemptive reasons as he was actively planning attacks against Israel abroad in retaliation for the death of Iranian nuclear scientist Mohsen Fakhrizadeh, Iran International in London reported on Monday. Khodayari was also behind a number of terror plots against Israelis in the past in Europe, Africa and Asia, including the car bomb targeting an Israeli diplomat in New Delhi, India in 2012, which wounded the diplomat’s wife.  One of his attempts involved a plot to assassinate Rabbi Schneur Segal, the Chabad shaliach in Baku, as well as the Israeli ambassador r”l.

 I would say that Colonel Khodayari just paid a heavy price for his actions.  Iran is feeling the pain of their plans against Jews everywhere,   Iran, it doesn't have to be just Israel who acts.  We have Jews who are fed up with being your hunted -down prey.  

As far as that goes, Israel has been fighting against the attacks by Iran on 4 fronts:  spies, terrorist attacks, Proxies of Iran in surrounding states like Syria, Cyber attacks, and Israel has been on top of it all.  James Bond has nothing on Israel. Israel is an adversary that you can't topple.   

Resource:

https://www.debka.com/mivzak/nyt-irans-parchin-nuclear-site-was-hit-by-suicide-drones/

https://www.globalsecurity.org/wmd/world/iran/parchin.htm

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https://www.timesofisrael.com/attack-on-iranian-nuclear-site-damaged-centrifuge-production-facility-reports/

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https://anash.org/assassinated-iranian-officer-had-plotted-attacks-against-shliach/

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https://www.jpost.com/breaking-news/article-707380

https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/18584/biden-israel

Obama Administration Broke the Law According to House of Representatives Over Iran Deal

Nadene Goldfoot                                                                                 

The USA House of Representatives is not asleep!  They just voted and won the vote by 245 to 186 to declare that the Obama administration has broken the United States laws by not giving Congress access to the side agreements between the IAEA and Iran.
                                                                           

Susan Rice (November 17, 1964)Rice is a former U.S. diplomat, former Brookings Institution fellow, and former United States Ambassador to the United Nations. Rice served on the staff of the National Security Council, and as Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs during President Bill Clinton's second term. Rice was confirmed as UN ambassador by the U.S. Senate by unanimous consent on January 22, 2009.

An article came out on  July 22, 2015 that National security adviser Susan Rice acknowledged the existence of side agreements between Iran and the International Atomic Energy Agency and said that the deals involved Iran accounting for past military uses of its nuclear program, but rejected GOP (Republican) assertions that this represented "secret" side deals to the Iranian nuclear agreement.
                                                                         

Any deal made with Iran and not shared with Congress has been held as secret.  That's the problem.

This is a requirement under the Iran Nuclear Agreement Review Act of 2015.  The House of Representatives are taking the necessary action against the Obama administration for failing to provide the texts of the side agreements between the IAEA and Iran.

Two hours after the Senate moved to block a resolution of disapproval of the Iran nuclear deal which was being solicited by people like myself in asking our Senators to vote for cloture to allow the Senate to vote on the resolution of disapproval of the Iranian nuclear deal,  the House passed Resolution 411 by a vote of 245 to 186.                                                            

Congress members said that they haven't been allowed to see the text of the agreements between the IAEA and Iran governing the protocols for nuclear inspections. Congress is made of 2 parts, the Senate and the House of Representatives.  We have 2 Senators from each of our 50 states, making 100 people.  The Representatives number 435, at least 1 from each state and more depending on the population of each state.  None had seen this imperative piece of information vitally needed to make an intelligent decision on this life or death deal concerning the USA's security.

The media feels the Obama administration has not read these agreements, either, and one wonders if John Kerry has even read them besides just being only aware of their general content.  Shocking details have emerged, such as that :
                                                                             

Parchin questionable contamination box testing??? What's going on here?  

1. Iran will be responsible for collecting their own soil samples for testing by the IAEA.  
2. Iran leaders are emphatic that they will not give inspectors access to conventional military sites where nuclear activity is suspected of already taking place.  
                                                                     

         

Why hasn't the Obama administration been making these facts public?  This causes the fear that other elements may also be secret so that the public cannot see them, said Senator Tom Cotton, Republican from Arkansas?  That causes me to ask why the Democrats are so afraid to think freely about such things?  Why has it become a political hot potato?   Are Democrats going to be protected in case of being attacked on USA soil and the Republicans not?  What is going on in the minds of our government?  Do ALL Democrats decide with blind faith only without checking on important matters?  Almost.
                                                                       

Bushehr Nuclear PlantThe Bushehr Nuclear Power Plant is a nuclear power plant in Iran 17 kilometres southeast of the city of Bushehr, between the fishing villages of Halileh and Bandargeh along the Persian Gulf.

Congress is supposed to review the Iran nuclear deal which lifts sanctions on Tehran in exchange for its concessions on its nuclear program.  Obama has hailed the deal as a major win for the USA that will keep Tehran from getting nuclear weapons, yet Tehran is also claiming a big win for its side.  How can this be a big Win Win? Obama thinks this will make the Middle Eastern states are planning on having to do the same thing, go nuclear to defend themselves from Iran, which is not an Arab country, but is a different line of Islam, being Shi'a and not Sunni, like the Middle East. The USA debaters led by John Kerry  feel it was worth the exchange for its concessions on Iran's nuclear program.  
                                                                           

Critics are arguing that it does too little to prevent Iranian aggression and that it will leave Israel and the USA exposed to nuclear attacks, especially since that's what Iran keeps on threatening to do.

Rice is not happy hearing these comments.  She's now afraid the deal can be undermined.  She said it has not been a secret that Iran and the IAEA were negotiating an agreement on military and nuclear activities, and that's it's an old issue between them and a sticking point in the talks.  WELL, I GUESS!!! EXTREMELY STICKY!!!  Are we allowing them to have nuclear weapons to use on Israel as they keep announcing?  This is why Netanyahu has been so worried.  Besides, that, the $150 billion given to them will be used to buy weapons to use by terrorists, you can bet your bottom dollar on that!
                                                                           

Obama's top national security adviser who took office on October 8th, 2010, Susan Rice, said that all components of the deal negotiated have been shared with Congress.  Now they learn there have been secrets.  That is not being transparent as promised.

Iran agreed to talk about their military parts of their nuclear program and which should include facts about doing Israel in with their threats, including their statements of the USA being the BIG SATAN and Israel being THE LITTLE SATAN.
                                                                                   

Iran made a deal with the IAEA on inspections at the PARCHIN MILITARY BASE, ONE OF THE MOST SENSITIVE SITES DISCUSSED IN THE INTERNATIONAL TALKS. WHAT WAS THIS DEAL?  

Bob Corker, Republican from Tennessee and Ben Cardin, Democrat from Maryland, wrote a letter to John Kerry and asked for documents related to the deals to be given to Congressmen.  Lawmakers have 60 days to review the agreement before voting on whether to approve or reject the Iran deal which should be coming up on September 17th.
                                                                       

Where is John Kerry?  He's with Treasurer Secretary Jack Lew and Ernest Moniz on Capitol Hill Wednesday holding classified briefings for members, most likely still pushing to accept the deal.  .

Resource:  http://unitedwithisrael.org/us-congress-declares-obama-broke-us-law-on-iran-deal/?utm_source=MadMimi&utm_medium=email&utm_content=Congress+Declares+Obama+Broke+Law+on+Iran%3B+Hamas+Summer+Camp+%28Unreal+Footage+Inside%29&utm_campaign=20150911_m127329952_Congress+Declares+Obama+Broke+Law+on+Iran%3B+Hamas+Summer+Camp+%28Footage+Inside%29&utm_term=US+Congress+Declares+Obama+Broke+US+Law+on+Iran+Nuclear+Deal

http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/248856-white-house-acknowledges-side-deals-between-iran-iaea
http://kids.clerk.house.gov/young-learners/lesson.html?intID=29
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Susan_Rice