October 05, 2005

Army takes control of Iran nukes

Iran's new president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, has placed the military firmly in control of his nation's nuclear program, undercutting his government's claim that the program is intended for civilian use, according to a leading opposition group.
    
Leaders of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), the force created specifically to defend the 1979 Islamic revolution, now dominate Iran's Supreme National Security Council, the country's top foreign policy-making body under the constitution.

Mr. Ahmadinejad, a little-known former mayor of Tehran before his surprise election in July, is a former IRGC commander, as is new council Secretary-General Ali Larijani, who has taken the lead in negotiations about Iran's nuclear programs.
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The personnel changes "make it less and less credible that Iran is pursuing nuclear programs for peaceful uses," he said.
    
The report, which also tracks Iran's extensive nuclear infrastructure and technical programs, charges that Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamanei has turned to IRGC personnel in order to "eliminate all bureaucratic and political obstacles to obtaining nuclear weapons."
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The NCRI is the political arm of the People's Mujahadeen, a secular Iranian bloc that broke violently with the Islamic leaders of the revolution shortly after the ouster of the U.S.-backed Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi.
    
The opposition group has had a checkered and at times contradictory role. Branded a terrorist group by U.S. and European governments, it also has proven to be the single best intelligence source on Iran's clandestine nuclear programs, exposing in recent years massive research and testing sites inside Iran unknown to U.N. and Western monitors.
   
 But other analysts also have reported a wave of senior appointments for Iran's military, especially from within the more ideological forces under the direct control of the ruling Islamic clerics.

This is all very bad news, but then when has it been good coming out of Tehran for the last 25 years?
Of course, they have nukes and they don't plan to use nuclear power for power plants!
The big question is "What are we going to do about it?" and neither the Big EU 3 (France, Germany and the U.K.) nor the U.N. can handle it, so let's not kid ourselves about that.
Bless their hearts, the poor Israelis declared last week that if no one else would, they were prepared to take care of the problem.

Update: Look what else the Iranian revolutionary army (ICRG) has been up to:
Iran blamed for attacks on British troops

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He said it was believed that the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) had been responsible for supplying the explosives technology used in a series of deadly attacks on British troops over the summer.
"We think it has come from Lebanese Hizbollah via Iran," he said.
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Although Iran is Shia Muslim, the official said it now appeared that elements in Tehran were in contact with Sunni Muslim insurgent groups across the border in Iraq.

So, here's the big picture: the Muslims can stop fighting amongst themselves if its to fight, conquer or kill the Jewish and Christian infidels.
It's amazing that our soldiers have had as few deaths as they have...they have bad guys coming at them from both sides of Iraq--Iran and Syria, plus Paleostine and Saudi Arabia, not to mention the assorted "Mujihadeen" from the four corners of the earth.
But to focus, one of these days real soon, we're going to have to deal with Iran and Syria.
Islamofacism delendo est.