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Nuclear Weapons Used Against Iran?

Comment by Larry Ross, December 22, 2004

Given Iran's defences (below), and that US forces are already over extended in the Iraq and Afghanistan wars, it follows that the US may find an excuse to use nuclear weapons if it decides, or Israel decides, to go to war against Iran. The US may believe that the pre-emptive use of nuclear weapons will immediately change the situation beyond the capacity of Iran to defend itself and give the US a quick victory. By demonising Iran, and perhaps blaming it for some new terrorist incident, which they can also use as an excuse to suppress US dissent, it will attempt to get the acceptance of the US population and the rest of the world for this first use of nuclear weapons since the bombing of Japan in 1945. Some would say that the Bush Administration would never do such a dastardly thing. However this regime has already committed fraud to gain the US presidency twice - in 2000 and 2004, and many think they somehow arranged the 9/11 incidents to justify their pre-planned oil war against Iraq and further expansion into the Middle East.

Without the 9/11 attacks, Bush would not have been able to wage 2 wars and get whatever he wants from Congress and the Senate such as raiding the US treasury for wars and more arms. 9/11 has been an essential factor in allowing the Bush to flourish as a war-making President. Having already committed major war crimes in Iraq alone, it follows that the 60 years training for a nuclear war may be applied to begin an actual nuclear war. Bush has already established new doctrines that allow both the normalisation of the use of nuclear weapons, and also the pre-emptive use of such weapons against non-nuclear countries. Bush has proven with the Iraq war, that whatever justification he may invent he can do as he pleases with sufficient public approval.

So under the new nuclear doctrines which Bush has decreed, Iran could become a nuclear target.
Once Bush is inaugurated as President on Jan 20, 2005, the worst scenario is possible.
Under the Fundamentalist beliefs that Bush claims to espouse, whatever he does is considered by his followers to be inspired by God, and therefor acceptable. Even a nuclear Armageddon would be considered in Fundamentalist theology, to be evidence of the final battle between good and evil, before the chosen faithful are raptured to heaven. Thus nuclear war, or Armageddon to the Fundamentalists, would not be history's greatest and most evil crime. It would be "End Times" as prophesied in the Fundamentalist Bible, and therefor something to be welcomed.

I hope this analysis is wrong. But we can only try and prevent it by effective action. If the crimes of the Bush Administration were exposed and Kerry was declared US President because of Bush's electoral fraud, and Bush was impeached before he could begin a nuclear war, there might be hope for human survival in a sustainable world. Otherwise Bush may proceed to set in action a series of escalations and reactions that can kill millions of people and perhaps destroy the world.

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How Iran will fight back

By Kaveh L Afrasiabi, Asia Times, December 16, 2004

TEHRAN - The United States and Israel may be contemplating military operations against Iran, as per recent media reports, yet Iran is not wasting any time in preparing its own counter-operations in the event an attack materializes.

A week-long combined air and ground maneuver has just concluded in five of the southern and western provinces of Iran, mesmerizing foreign observers, who have described as "spectacular" the massive display of high-tech, mobile operations, including rapid-deployment forces relying on squadrons of helicopters, air lifts, missiles, as well as hundreds of tanks and tens of thousands of well-coordinated personnel using live munition. Simultaneously, some 25,000 volunteers have so far signed up at newly established draft centers for "suicide attacks" against any potential intruders in what is commonly termed "asymmetrical warfare".

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