By Jim W. Dean, Managing Editor on January 2, 2016
Iran,
of course, will not stop improving its military defenses, particularly its
retaliation capability, as it is surrounded by America’s proxies’ large weapons
stockpiles
… by Press
TV, Tehran
Obama
creates some year in fireworks
for his own Iran nuclear settlement
[ Editor’s
Note: The White House has blinked on the new sanctions
dual with Iran. Bush stay-behinds in the Treasury Department continue to crank
out sanctions trip wires, which then are stovepiped into the White House to a
plant they must have on Obama’s staff, and who gets them in play before
opposition can emerge to stop it.
This
case was beyond stupid, as after all that was done to defeat the Israelis and
neoCons from blocking Congressional passage of the nuclear agreement, here
Obama pops up with a last minute deal wrecker, just after Iran finishes quickly
turning over all of its required reprocessed uranium stockpiles to Russia in
return for yellow cake.
But
it appears that some US internal (and P5+1) opposition has emerged, because the
Iranian reaction was quite expected… they were pissed. Tehran has announced
that, with any new sanctions by the US, it will expand their missile program
even faster. Iran knows it has to make a firm stand here, or the
“Sanctionistas” in Washington would just keep new ones coming.
After
all the work to get an agreement done, we see this silliness of Obama having
been caught up playing a game of chicken with Tehran, risking the deal at the
last minute. The Leader has always said he was not interested in negotiating
anything with Washington after the nuclear settlement, because it could never
be trusted to live up to any agreement, which is basically correct.
Iran
has responded that it will speed up its ballistic missile defenses, and
increase their range to 5000-kms if the US proceeds with new sanctions. Once
again we see the West wanting to eliminate any retaliatory response capability
to a US-Western-Israeli-Gulf State preemptive strike, so it can negotiate by
holding a gun to the heads of targeted countries.
The
US used terrorism all through the Cold War,
and has continued afterward
Iran
has good reason to feel this way, as after all, we did steal their country away
from them via the 1953 coup and install a puppet simply on the grounds that we
viewed it in our interests to do so.
Another
example is the US State Dept. still has Iran listed as a state sponsor of
terror, when Iran has 12,000 victims of MEK terrorists who have been backed by
the US and Israel.
Add
to it that the US has multiple allies in the Gulf, plus Turkey and
Israel, that we know have been up to their eyeballs using proxy terrorists for
regime change in the Mideast.
And
last, only one country has the most aggressive preemptive strike doctrine of
any “democracy”… which basically says “we reserve the right to attack you for
any reason that we choose”. Its name is the USA.
Americans
never opposed this doctrine when it came out. There were no marches that I can
think off, no major pushback from any of America’s institutions at all, so they
have relegated themselves to being along for the ride and to chasing after as
many government contracts as possible.
Our
Founding Fathers I suspect would be ashamed of us. We could have done better,
but decided it was too big a hassle, and there is some justification for that.
Taxpayers support a government that now has a myriad of tools to block popular
opposition to policies, where they spend our money to push policy, and we have
to come up with more to beat them back… Jim W. Dean ]
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– First published …
December 31, 2015 –
Rouhani
– pissed at Obama
Iranian
President Hassan Rouhani has issued an order calling on the country’s
Defense Ministry to expedite efforts for boosting the country’s missile power
as reports emerge of US plans for imposing fresh sanctions on Tehran over the
issue.
In
a decree to Iran’s Defense Minister Brigadier General Hossein Dehqan on
Thursday, Rouhani ordered an acceleration in Iran’s program for production of
“various types of missile” needed to improve the country’s defense
capabilities.
The
decree came a day after a report by The Wall Street Journal that
Washington is preparing sanctions against firms and individuals in Iran, Hong
Kong and the United Arab Emirates over alleged links to Iran’s ballistic
missile program.
The
planned new sanctions come as the US is obligated under a recent nuclear deal
between Iran and the P5+1 group of countries, known as the Joint
Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), to lift the sanctions on Iran
over its nuclear program.
The
lifting of the bans is expected to come in January as Iran is swiftly
moving to carry out its commitment under the deal, namely curbing its
nuclear program.
Rouhani,
in his decree to Dehqan, called the purported plan by the White House a measure
in line with hostile US policies to “illegally interfere in the Islamic Republic
of Iran’s programs for boosting the defense power.”
“In
line with the [country’s] ratified defense policies, it is necessary that the
program for the production of various types of missiles needed for (Iranian)
Armed Forces continue with more speed and seriousness,” Rouhani said.
The
Iranian president also warned that in case the US repeats such “wrong and
interventionist” measures, the Iranian Defense Ministry must develop a new
plan for expanding the country’s missile capabilities.
Rouhani
said that Iran’s missile power, which he described as a means to protect the
country’s sovereignty and a major deterrence against terrorism in the Middle
East and the world, has never been up for negotiations, including in the
nuclear talks with the P5+1 group – the five permanent members of the UN
Security Council plus Germany – which resulted in the JCPOA in
Austria on July 14.
He
once again rejected claims that Iran is planning to produce missiles
capable of carrying nuclear warheads, saying that Iran will continue to produce
and test ballistic missiles as a “conventional and important” instrument for
defending the country.
“It
is clear that Iran’s missile program has never been part of the JCPOA, as
[already] acknowledged by US officials,” said Rouhani, stressing that “nuclear
weapons have no place in Iran’s defense doctrine; therefore, Iran’s ballistic
missiles have not been designed to carry nuclear warheads.”
The
Iranian chief executive further said the Islamic Republic would not accept any
restrictions on its legitimate right to promote its defense might.
Earlier
in the day, Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman, Hossein Jaberi Ansari, also
warned the US against imposing any fresh sanctions on Iran over the country’s
ballistic missile program, saying Tehran will respond to such meddlesome
measures.
“The
Islamic Republic will respond to any meddlesome action against its defense
program by strengthening its defense might,” Jaberi Ansari said, adding, “No
measure can deny the Islamic Republic of Iran its legitimate and legal rights
to boost its defense might and national security.”
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