Iranian leader wants nuke in 4 months

[BEER980]

I guess they wern't totally truthfull when they said the nuke plants were for generating power only. What are they planing in January? This is going to get real ugly real soon.

Iranian leader wants nuke in 4 months
'We must have two bombs ready to go in January or you are not Muslims'
Posted: October 2, 2004
1:00 a.m. Eastern

Iranian leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has urged his country's weapons developers to step up work on making a nuclear bomb, a U.S. official said, according to Geostrategy-Direct, the global intelligence news service. According to the official, an authoritative source in the Iranian exile community has stated that Khamenei met recently with senior government and military leaders on the nuclear weapons program.

Khamenei told the gathering, "We must have two bombs ready to go in January or you are not Muslims," the official said. Jafari-Jalali, a member of the National Security and Foreign Policy Committee of the Majles, stated in an Iranian press interview last week that the recent International Atomic Energy Agency resolution calling on Iran to halt uranium enrichment could lead to Tehran withdrawing from the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty.

Iran's military announced earlier this month that it would test-fire a "strategic" missile during the Ashura 5 military exercises of the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps. Brig. Gen. Hossein Salami announced the missile test on Sept. 18. "The climax of this stage of the exercises is the actual missile operations and the testing of a series of missiles with different ranges," he said.

Iranian Defense Minister Ali Shamkhani said earlier this month that "given that an effective deterrent policy does not halt at a certain point, the Islamic Republic of Iran continues upgrading its defensive capability."
Shamkhani said Iran has acquired an effective deterrent power to confront its enemies in the region.

Iran test-fired a Shihab-3 on Sept. 18 and had also tested one in August.

Meanwhile, British intelligence, working with Iraqi security, has uncovered a cell within the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps that is working to destabilize Iraq. The Iranians had paid insurgents to conduct attacks in southern Iraq. "I don't think there's any doubt that the Iranians are involved and are providing support" to the Iraqi insurgents, Secretary of State Colin Powell said last week.
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[streetsoldier]

And a box of "Allahu Akbars" (the only candy that proclaims your faith with every bite!) to BEER980 for this gem of information.

[coriolis]

How about a box of alka seltzers for the rest of us?

[vbhoutex]

Agree with that Ed!!! And unfortunately none of that information is at all surprising imo. Iran will always be Iran and will always be going agains the rest of the world.

[BEER980]

streetsoldier I find those "Allahu Akbars" a little on the dry side. It must be the sand content. I am interested in what the importance of January is. Why must they have two bombs ready to go. Something is going on and we need to find the dots. Israel will be paying them a visit I think before too long. The recent sale of F16's and bunker busters to them say something.

How about a box of alka seltzers for the rest of us?

Once this starts to unravel we may need more then that.