Iran Successfully Tests Nuclear Missiles
The commander of the Revolutionary Guards’ Aerospace Force, Brigadier General Amir Ali Hajizadeh, told reporters on Saturday, July 9 that the Guards tested their long-range ballistic missiles with much success earlier this year.
He revealed that during the Iranian month of Bahman (January 21- February 20), two ballistic missiles with a range of about 1200 miles, both capable of carrying a nuclear warhead, were fired from a region in Semnan province at specified targets near the entrance of the Indian Ocean. The commander explained that the tests were conducted at a time when American forces were also present in the region.
This revelation by the commander verifies the concern of UK Foreign Secretary William Hague, who recently told the House of Commons that Iran had conducted secret nuclear missile tests. The Iranian officials denied such claims at first, but Hajizadeh’s statement now confirms the tests did take place.
The Iranian commander also crowed about the recent missile war games held by Iran. To create an element of surprise against the enemy, he declared, Iran would fire missiles from underground silos and hide and scatter missile stocks. Iranian officials have openly said that these missiles, ready to be launched at a moment’s notice, are set with predetermined targets aimed at U.S. bases in the region and sensitive sites in Israel.
The Iranian missile advances have long been coming. Last year, I revealed that Iran was currently in possession of missiles not previously known to the West. Several months later the WikiLeaks releases about Iran revealed that the Revolutionary Guards had obtained a cache of advanced missiles from North Korea capable of carrying nuclear warheads. With a range of 2000 miles, these missiles give Iran the capacity to strike the capitals of Western Europe.
I also exposed that Iran has now obtained two nuclear warheads, with eight more scheduled to be delivered to the Guards within the next ten months. They expect to arm at least two warheads with a nuclear payload within the current Iranian calendar year (which ends in March of 2012). Other reports by the IAEA confirm that Iran has built and tested all the elements of a nuclear weapon design and that Iran has conducted “full scale experiments” of the complex high-explosive detonation component of the bomb.
Iran, in collaboration with North Korea, is also actively working on intercontinental ballistic missiles under the guise of their space program. The Iranians have successfully launched a small satellite into space. They have also announced that they have successfully developed the necessary technology to build and launch satellites designed to travel in an orbit 21,750 miles above the earth’s equator — and that, in the next few months, they will launch another rocket into space, this time carrying a monkey with a 330 kilogram payload. This is evidence that they have developed a rocket capable of delivering a nuclear warhead to any point on the planet.
According to nuclear weapons expert Dr. Peter Vincent Pry, who has served in the CIA, the EMP Commission, and is now president of EMPact America, Iran’s space program certainly is relevant to their efforts to develop an ICBM. Historically, if a nation could put a large payload (hundreds of kilograms) into orbit, a milestone had been reached signifying a military ICBM capability. Perhaps not coincidentally, had it been a warhead, the April 2009 satellite could, along part of its trajectory, have put an electromagnetic pulse (EMP) field down on the entire contiguous 48 states.
Also alarming is the Guards’ successful test of a Shahab ballistic missile from a ship, and its testing of a remote control detonation while in high altitude. Does Iran intend to use nuclear bombs for an electromagnetic attack? A missile launch from a ship, with a range of 2000 miles, would make it easy for any vessel to get within striking distance of launching a successful EMP attack on America.
Of course the Iranian Hitler and the fanatical mullahs intend to destroy the entire west, first Israel and then the US. In fact, an EMP is just the ticket and they are planning their paces.
Meanwhile, Hussein Obama gives them the breathing room to do so and that is NO coincidence.What better way to ‘transform’ America, destroy its exceptional status, cease the ‘humiliation of the Arab/Muslim world than letting Iran get the bomb?
From where I sit-in the bulls eye of the region-there is NO contest.Strike NOW before it is too late!!
Two reasons why the Ubama Administration won’t do anything:
1. For all intents and purposes, Obama is a Muslim,
2. There is a Muslim Brotherhood mole in the office AND bedroom of the Secretary of State.
The situation as it now exists is due to the policies put in place during the Clinton administration. Super computers and multi-payload launchers, formerly the responsibility of the State Dept, and never sold to even allies, were switched to Commerce Dept oversight and sold to the Chinese. This advanced the Chinese nuclear program by 40 yrs. They are now providing that tech to the N Koreans, who are also sharing it with the Iranians.
We need to visit a humiliation on the Arab/Muslim World, the likes of which they have not yet seen. What better place to start with than Iran?
I can’t remember, but how many nuclear missles do we have on board submarines and ships and/or land based in other countries or based on planes outside the continental U.S. Probably you don’t know and I doubt the Iranians know. They can’t disarm us totally, they’ve got to know that.
Is the Iranian government so crazed and delusional that they think we will just sit back and chuckle if they hit us with an EMP or a nuke for that matter. Or are there threats just that and there goal is to keep us out of the way as they create their Iranian Middle East Caliphate.
Until proven otherwise, I am with you, I believe the threat exists as I tend to believe what people say when they keep saying it over and over and from different sectors of their government.
How long do you think Iran can withstand an all out nuclear attack from Israel and the U.S. (and probably our allies) if they decide to go ahead with their threats?
We would have no choice. Even Obama would have to do something in the event of an EMP or a nuclear launch on Israel as chatter and holding hands will have proven to be not quite what he cracks it up to be.
P.S. All the more reason to get Fracking, Get drilling, Get mining, cover Connecticut with solar panels and cover California with wind mills.
One fully armed Ohio Class SSBN has 192 450 kT thermonuclear warheads. We have fourteen Ohio Class SSBN’s.
Well then that ought to get things going in the event My brotherinlAw spent a lot of time on the Ohio class wiring them up properly. Thanks for the info.
You’re a pathetic piece of crap. Let’s all pray to God/hope someone will stop people like you
Yes. Obama is our hope. May God be with us. Oh crap.
GOOD COMEBACK DEX !! Well reasoned and to the point . You know,…. the one matching your head.
And they keep us busy wasting time arguing about the debt ceiling. 2012 can’t come soon enough. We darn well better do our research on every single candidate.
Iran’s nuclear efforts are accelerating.
Iran’s management sees Iran as the unifying force behind a ‘United States of The Middle East/North Africa’, becoming the central supplier of nukes to put all of these nations on a defensive/offensive par with the west. Once that is accomplished, they will move to incorporate all 47 nations with a Muslim majority, including Turkey, Malaysia and Indonesia.
This is not a wild conspiracy theory; it is an appropriate agenda and reasonable plan if viewed from the perspective of Iran, Syria, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Egypt, etc.
…and that is the scary part!
I urge all of you to read William Forstchen’s novel One Second After, regarding the effects of an EMP attack on the US. Not pretty. Pretty scary.
An excellent read.
Yes, that is a scary book, and a good one. It is, however, somewhat exaggerated. While an EMP attack would be devastating, it would not knock out all semiconductor electronics or most vehicles – Sandia Labs has been testing these scenarios. It probably would knock out a sizeable chunk of the power grid in a way that could only be repaired by building new equipment (huge transformers) in some foreign country and then installing it in the US.
A satellite based attack as described by the author is indeed possible. The level of damage is somewhat related to the weapon yield, however, and Iran does not have the capability of building a high yield weapon. At best, they might achieve 40 kT. This would be enough to destroy almost all satellites in orbit, and hence would be an attack on many nations. It would kill all astronauts in orbit within an hour (even if they are on the far side of the earth – the high energy beta radiation (electrons) would be captured by the earth’s magnetic field and would orbit for a very long time, subjecting everything in its reach to devastating radiation.
They would also commit national suicide with such an attack, because it strongly crosses the US nuclear war threshold. If such an attack were made, Iran would cease to exist within hours.
Nevertheless, it represents a doomsday threat that the regime could use as a form of MAD balance.
Iran will target Israel first.
Obama will get off on it, watching it happen on TV, his thumb in his mouth, while Valerie Jarrett, Samantha Powers, Susan Rice, and Hillary Clinton, take turns wiping his chin and changing his diapers.
Tell Me, have the people of Iran signed off on the mad mullahs plans? Do they really know that an attack from iran with nukes will bring a response that will kill them all off? Not to mention that the mosque built for the return of the hidden imam will be reduced to radioactive dust? Or do the mad mullahs think that that the hidden imam will protect iran? The russians were at least pragmatic, these idiots are like children playing with gasoline and matches.
Tell Me, have the people of Iran signed off on the mad mullahs plans?
You say that as if the mullahs and Ahmedinijad have even a remote interest in what the people want. I see no sign that this is the case. Ahmedinijad and the mullahs have their agenda and it is, I’m sure, “for the glory of Iran, the Iranian people, and all good Muslims everywhere”. I’m sure that is all they care about. Finding out if their citizens actually want to nuke Israel or the West and risk being nuked in return is not something the leadership wants to know.
We have plenty of AEGIS cruisers around. Why not shoot them down next time they test a missile.
Call their bluff.
I like that approach! It shows them that we are serious without actually nuking any civilians. Perhaps this would be enough to deter any use of the missiles or at least make them think very hard.
I would hope they are not foolish enough to believe they’ve got a usable weapon without testing it fairly thoroughly first. If their tests can be thoroughly disrupted, maybe they will stop looking at it as a credible option.
And if that fails, there is always the option of America or Israel nuking a demonstration target, like Mecca. Personally, I’d prefer to see Israel do it because it would humiliate the Iranian leadership much more. Besides, I don’t see Obama having the intestinal fortitude to do any such thing.
Reportedly Obama won’t allow Israel to fly over Iraq (or send missiles over it, either) in order to reach and strike Iran. What an evil thing to disallow!
“Obama won’t allow…”? Not really his call, is it? If Israel decides to get her retaliation in first, so to speak, what’s Obama going to do about it?
Israel still has one nuclear armed submarine in the sea close to Iran. It alone has the ability to pretty much stop Iran in its tracks. Also we don’t know how many land based missiles are aim at Iran or even their Hezbollah cronies. The closer Iran gets to having its bomb and delivery method, the closer it gets to an Israeli preemptive attack.
How will the U.S. respond, you ask? They won’t. In fact, I haven’t seen this anywhere on the news. Had it not been for PajamasMedia, I wouldn’t have even known. And we all KNOW that BO isn’t going to respond. He’s too busy campaigning, golfing, vacationing — a perpetual holiday for him and his family! He makes me sick!
I think that you are being too tough on B HO.
Well lets see now, Iran has told the world it wants to destroy Israel and America. So what do you think our present administration will do to elevate the problem. Obama will write a really nasty letter crying to Iran and one letter to the UN, calling for more sanctions on Iran . Then he will promptly crawl under neath his desk and soil himself. It is time to take care of this problem once and for all, but nobody in Washington including our Pentagon has the ba-ls to do what must be done. Nuke Iran and forget about them!
Does Camelbreath know that one Trident-class sub could glass his whole damn country if he pulled a stunt like that?
A ship-launched missile can probably be defeated by US anti-missile systems. Even 6 or 8 such missiles. This means Iran can’t trust that method very well. The more cargo ships it loads with missiles to be launched from off-shore, the less secrecy they have.
And the only way Iran can be sure of their nuclear warhead design is to test. The test would be the event that launches our response.
BUT: If Iran got technical help from China or Russia on the warhead, they could be sure, without a test.
Generally, without help from Russia and China, Iran has no nuclear weapons ability. So why are Russia and China helping Iran? It isn’t oil: Russia is an exporter, China an importer. Solve the Russia/China part of the puzzle and you solve Iran.
If Iran is able to create an EMP over the US, the presumably the US, or Israel is able to create one over Iran. That would be an effective method to set back their nuclear program for a few years. It would also be a good stimulus for their horse and buggy industry!