The First Line of Defence
Ever so proudly the anticipated pronouncement was made. Another first, another brilliant move forward on the nuclear scale for Iran. Said so, didn't they? Uranium enrichment of 20%, just a tad under what's required for nuclear weaponry production. And that's on the way, since the bomb-inaccessible Fordo Plant is the destination for further enrichment. Iranians must be in awe of their government at this amazing success story; their scientists more than equal to the task.
Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad watches from a control room as nuclear fuel rods are loaded into the Tehran Research Reactor in Tehran, in this still image taken from video Wednesday. Iran trumpeted advances in nuclear technology on Wednesday, citing new uranium enrichment centrifuges and domestically made reactor fuel. IRIB Iranian TV via Reuters TV/REUTERS
The attacks against Israeli embassies abroad in India, Georgia and Thailand simply fair game, tit for tat. But so awkwardly and poorly undertaken, utter failures as undercover suicide bombing attempts. Lacking the finesse of those trained by al-Qaeda to perform faultlessly and undetected until after the fact. It's just so difficult to get good help nowadays. Iran pushing back against its tormentors, against crippling sanctions.
Iran has a double purpose in acquiring nuclear weapons, only one of which is meant to threaten Israel. The other is its deterrent effect; being able to possess such weapons generally creates a huge degree of separation. It takes the example of Pakistan and particularly of North Korea, which uses its ownership of nuclear warheads to neurotically alternately challenge and to mollify its critics. Offering on the one hand to rejoin the bargaining table, on the other to threaten.
But handling with kid gloves is the order of the day, since no one actually knows whether the nation will indulge in one of its psychotic violent attacks, and how deeply its neighbours will be affected, nor how widespread the aftereffects. South Korea has been attacked with conventional weapons, and Japan has had a ballistic missile aimed at it. Next time, perhaps, with nuclear-tipped missiles?
That's the thing about such regimes headed by fanatic ideologues and theocracies mired deep in the neuroses of their fundamentalist fantasies of empowerment and triumph over the adversity that they themselves have created.
So the world watches, and waits, and so does Israel, representing the first line of defense against the madness of the Iranian mullahs. The chessboard of sinister moves, where Israel/United States intervene with computer viruses like Stuxnet, and with targeted assassinations to forestall the eventual success of Iran's search for nuclear weaponry and the resulting capability to bully the Middle East into submission to its plans of achieving the exalted status of First Nation continues.
Complicated somewhat more than slightly by the obvious reality that the Islamic Republic of Iran is governed by fiercely fanatical believers in the ultimate, the return of the spiritual presence that will bring Apocalypse, and then nothing else really matters, does it not? Whether by nuclear destruction reciprocated or by supernatural forces the end result the same.
Iran would feel elevated at the thought that they were capable of engineering the long-awaited peace and justice that would enfold the world, thereby they characterize their actions as peace-loving and just. Precipitating the return of the 12th Imam for the greater purpose of achieving the end of days. And peace and contentment for the believers, and they only, for this is just.
Contradicting in no uncertain terms their dedication to terrorism, to spreading fear and horror, to achieving nuclear supremacy. But perhaps not, since infidels and Jews are beyond contempt, and they have no just cause to live.
Completely delusional.
Can a religion do that?
Labels: Iran, Islamism, Israel, Technology, Terrorism, Traditions
posted by Pieface @ Wednesday, February 15, 2012
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