Cya to another IslamoNazi trying to get nukes in the hands of fanatics

[Christians4LessGvt]

Senior Natanz executive slain in Tehran,
US Navy, Air Force on Hormuz readiness

DEBKAfile Special Report

January 11, 2012, 12:09 PM (GMT+02:00)


Prof. Ahmadi Roshan's car

Forty-eight hours after Iran began advanced uranium enrichment in the fortified Fordo bunker near Tehran, Prof. Mostafa Ahmadi-Roshan, deputy director of the first uranium enrichment facility at Natanz, was killed early Wednesday, Jan. 11 by a sticky bomb planted on his car by two motorcyclists. It exploded near the Sharif technological university in northern Tehran.
The pair made their escape. Prof. Ahmadi-Roshan was the fourth Iranian nuclear scientist to be mysteriously assassinated in Tehran in two years. The same method of operation was used in a similar operation last year. Iran has blamed them all on Israel.

Tuesday, President Barack Obama received the Saudi foreign minister Saud al-Faisal. Their conversation was shrouded in secrecy, although no one doubts it focused on the conflict with Iran and the urgency of keeping open the main export outlet for the world's biggest oil suppliers, Saudi Arabia and the Gulf, through the Strait of Hormuz. The crisis in Syria must also have featured in their talks.

Shortly before the Saudi minister's arrival, US Navy and Air Force chiefs shed some light on preparations for an imminent operation to keep the Strait of Hormuz open to international shipping.

debkafile's Washington sources report that the White House is bending over backwards to convince the skeptical Saudis that the president is wiling to use military force to keep the vital waterway open, safeguard Gulf oil installations and exports and also prevent Iran from acquiring a nuclear weapon.

The armed forces chiefs' disclosures were integral to the White House effort.

US Navy Commander Adm. Jonathan Greenert said preparations for a clash in the Strait of Hormuz (between the US and Iran) were keeping him up at night. The US Admiral added: ?If you?re asking me why I?m not sleeping at night, it?s because of the Strait of Hormuz and what?s happening in the Arabian (Persian) Gulf. I?m an organizer, a trainer and equipper. I?d make sure that our people have the right equipment to do the right thing. Our folks that transit in and around that area, I want to make sure that they?re able to (deal) with the things that they need to deal with, basically self-protection, counter-swarm, ASW-anti-submarine warfare.?

Air Force Commander General Norton Schwartz said that the US air force will obviously play a role in keeping the Strait of Hormuz open.

A few days earlier, on Jan. 8, Gen. Martin Dempsey, Chairman of the Joint US Chiefs of Staff, acknowledged that Iran could close the Strait of Hormuz for a period of time, but that if it did so the US would take action to reopen the Strait.

The US has therefore made clear that it is resolved to bring all its naval and air power to bear on ensuring that the Strait of Hormuz remains open.

Riyadh, for its part, has promised to make up any shortfalls in oil sales generated by Western sanctions against Iran as its contribution to Washington's campaign to convince Asian buyers such as India, Japan, China and South Korea to cut down on their purchases from Iran.

This pledge is not entirely plain sailing. It raises the question of how quickly Saudi Arabia can up its oil production. The expert assessment is six to nine months at least. Then there is the counter-threat from Tehran: If the US continues to lean on European and Asian governments for an embargo on Iranian oil, "not a single drop" of Saudi or Gulf oil will pass through the Strait of Hormuz, say Iranian officials, thus pitting an Iranian blockade against a Western-led oil embargo.

Many Western experts treat Tehran's threat as empty rhetoric arguing that closure of the vital strait would above all impact Iran's own oil exports and slash its main source of revenue.

But debkafile?s Iranian sources report that Tehran is thinking in terms of a partial and selective closure of the Strait of Hormuz ? rather than full-blown military action - in the certainty that the US and West will not attack Iranian oil tankers or even detain them. Partial action, the Iranians believe, will be enough to trigger a major spike in world oil prices, send insurance rates for oil tankers sky high and bring the world's energy markets under intolerable pressure.

Two years ago, a Revolutionary Guards speedboat from the island of Abu Musa in the northern outlet of Hormuz damaged the Japanese oil tanker Star M carrying oil from Saudi Arabia by firing a single missile.

Washington opted to keep the findings of its inquiry under wraps so as to keep down tensions around the Gulf export route, avoid exacerbating relations with Tehran and keep a cap on oil prices.

[Christians4LessGvt]

Do Unconventional Tactics
Mark Start Of War On Iran?

Jan 11, 2012

Conflict: As Iran's despot clowned with Latin dictators, someone was playing hardball back home, taking out another nuclear scientist. At the same time, the U.S. Navy won Iranian hearts and minds with two sea rescues. A war is on.
 
We would've loved to see the look on Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's face when, fresh from cracking nuclear bomb jokes with Venezuela's Hugo Chavez, he was informed that another nuclear scientist, Mostafa Ahmadi Roshan, a chemist who ran the Natanz nuclear enrichment center in central Iran, had met his end the same way as three other bomb-making Iranian nuclear scientists with a motorcycle team slapping a magnetic bomb onto his car and speeding off as it blew up.
 
Ahmadinejad had just sought to convince the world that Iran was no threat just another buffoon-state like Chavez's Venezuela, and thus its nuclear ambitions posed no threat.
 
His mocking statements with the Marxist Chavez that they had a nuclear bomb buried under Venezuela's Miraflores presidential palace were meant to build support for the idea that there is no Iranian threat.
 
But reality intruded as someone possibly Israeli intelligence forces dispensed with Roshan in a dead-serious move rooted in the self-defense of a nation under existential threat.
 
That wasn't the only reality check to Ahmadinejad's dictator happy hour in the Americas.
 
On Tuesday, as he cavorted with Nicaragua's dictator, Daniel Ortega, the U.S. Navy was making its second rescue of Iranian nationals at sea in the course of a week.
 
Saved were six mariners whose boat, known as a dhow and resembling a floating junk heap had capsized. The Naval ship Monomoy rescued the men and gave them blankets, water and hot halal meals before turning them over to the Iranian Coast Guard.

"Without your help, we were dead," admitted the owner of the stricken vessel, Hakim Hamid-Awi.
 
That act followed a daring U.S. Navy raid in the Gulf of Oman last Thursday on an Iranian cargo ship that had been captured by Somali pirates and its Iranian crew held hostage for more than a month.
 
The U.S. aircraft carrier John Stennis executed the rescue with textbook precision, and the rescued Iranians once again offered profuse thanks.
 
You can bet such humanitarian acts make Ahmadinejad just as nervous as the motorcycle attacks on the scientists. They build deep reservoirs of goodwill for America among Iranians already discontented with his regime, as the 2009 "green revolution" proved.

All these incidents, though radically different in character, represent a new kind of warfare already under way. Ahmadinejad's visit to Latin America was propagandistic, essentially appealing to the gullible left to support Iran by dismissing it as a threat.
 
The Navy's actions also amounted to psychological warfare. Not only did they follow the globally recognized law of the sea ? for ships to rescue boats in distress ? thus showing the U.S. is a nation that adheres to international standards.
 
They also were a startlingly vivid humanitarian act on behalf of nationals whose government is threatening to go to war with us. As word of that spreads, the less likely Iranians will be to support their government and more likely to support the U.S. as the showdown continues.
 
The assassination of the scientist and the U.S. has explicitly denied involvement amounts to the third element of warfare. Was it retaliation perhaps for Iran's threats to shut down shipping in the Strait of Hormuz? Its announcement of a new nuclear enrichment facility in defiance of international law? Its threat to execute an American as a spy? It's not known.
 
It is a sign, however, that some kind of conflict has started, maybe not a conventional war as in Iraq or Afghanistan but as a fairly hot cold war. As these maneuvers add up, the great hope will be that the U.S. and its allies succeed in overthrowing Iran's mullahs before they can launch a hot war through a nuclear strike.

http://news.investors.com/Article/597524/201201111855/new-kind-of-war-declared-on-iran.htm?ibdbot=1

[Xavier_Onassis]

This is not the start of a new war, It is just dirty tricks as usual.

We blow up their scientists, they arrest Americans who might just be tourists.