U.S. Plans Military Buildup To Warn Iran
The Pentagon is planning to bolster its presence in the Persian Gulf as a warning to Iran's continuously defiant government, CBS News reports.
CBS News national security correspondent David Martin says the U.S. military build-up, which would include adding a second aircraft carrier to the one already in the Gulf, is being proposed as a response to what U.S. officials view as an increasingly provocative Iranian leadership.
Recent Iranian naval exercises, support for Shiite militias in Iraq, and Tehran's allegedly peaceful nuclear enrichment program — which U.S. intelligence believes is designed to produce a bomb — have all lead to the planned changes, Martin reports.
Military officers say the build-up would take place after the first of the year, not with the aim of actually attacking Iran, but strictly as a deterent.
Meanwhile, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said Tuesday that U.N. sanctions would not stop the Islamic republic from enriching uranium.
The United States and its European allies are seeking sanctions against Iran because of its refusal to stop uranium enrichment, a technology that can be used to produce nuclear fuel for civilian purposes or fuel for a nuclear bomb.
A draft U.N. resolution would order all countries to ban the supply of specified materials and technology to Iran that could contribute to Iran's nuclear and missile programs. It also would impose a travel ban and asset freeze on key companies and individuals in the country's nuclear and missile programs who are named on a U.N. list.
"A nation whose youth have been able to achieve the nuclear fuel cycle with empty hands — rest assured that it will be able to capture other peaks of (progress)," Ahmadinejad told a large crowd in the western city of Kermanshah.
The hardline president spoke a day after election results indicated his allies suffered an embarrassing defeat in last week's local council elections, an apparent sign of voter discontent with his policies.
Ahmadinejad, however, has had success in gaining support among Iranian citizens by emphasizing the struggle with the West over the country's nuclear program, a source of Iranian pride.
© 2009 CBS Interactive Inc. All Rights Reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed. The Associated Press contributed to this report. CBS News national security correspondent David Martin says the U.S. military build-up, which would include adding a second aircraft carrier to the one already in the Gulf, is being proposed as a response to what U.S. officials view as an increasingly provocative Iranian leadership.
Recent Iranian naval exercises, support for Shiite militias in Iraq, and Tehran's allegedly peaceful nuclear enrichment program — which U.S. intelligence believes is designed to produce a bomb — have all lead to the planned changes, Martin reports.
Military officers say the build-up would take place after the first of the year, not with the aim of actually attacking Iran, but strictly as a deterent.
Meanwhile, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said Tuesday that U.N. sanctions would not stop the Islamic republic from enriching uranium.
The United States and its European allies are seeking sanctions against Iran because of its refusal to stop uranium enrichment, a technology that can be used to produce nuclear fuel for civilian purposes or fuel for a nuclear bomb.
A draft U.N. resolution would order all countries to ban the supply of specified materials and technology to Iran that could contribute to Iran's nuclear and missile programs. It also would impose a travel ban and asset freeze on key companies and individuals in the country's nuclear and missile programs who are named on a U.N. list.
"A nation whose youth have been able to achieve the nuclear fuel cycle with empty hands — rest assured that it will be able to capture other peaks of (progress)," Ahmadinejad told a large crowd in the western city of Kermanshah.
The hardline president spoke a day after election results indicated his allies suffered an embarrassing defeat in last week's local council elections, an apparent sign of voter discontent with his policies.
Ahmadinejad, however, has had success in gaining support among Iranian citizens by emphasizing the struggle with the West over the country's nuclear program, a source of Iranian pride.
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Posted by gorph001 at 04:09 PM : Dec 20, 2006
Well of course they do, all Iranians want to die and have their country wiped out, the sooner the better. They are just crazy that way. I am sure there will very soon be solid evidence of weapons of mass destruction, I also know it is very easy to smuggle a few atomic bombs to U.S.A
the United States will declare an unconditional surrender.
This is bad, and I find this totally unexceptable.
And still there is nothing we can do about it.
Posted by sim828524s at 02:14 PM : Dec 20, 2006
You don't understand, the abilities of the USA NAVY
they will have to
TAKE OUT EVERY USA SUBMARINE
and the only way that will happen is someone
INSIDE HELPS THEM...
What is it they (US Submarine Captains) say...?
What do you call anything above the water???
They are called TARGETS...
The N BOMBS these ship have are big enough not only to destroy a city,
they can BLOW A HUGE HOLE in the ATMOSPHERE
the sea's will boil...not from heat , but from vacuum..
IMHO
to heart.
Don't bother replying, I will not be here.
The biggest threat that Iran has is the United States. Soon they will have enough urainium to build four very powerful nuclear bombs. Each of them will be enough to wipe out a very large city, say the size of Paris.
They will give each suicide bomber an assigned task. The terrorist will set out and make their way to Washington DC, New York, Chicago,
and Los Angeles. There, they will be given a chance to piece them together, and detonate these bombs.
They will not carry the urainium in their back packs, luggage, or anything ridicules as such.
During that time while the United States is licking it's wounds trying to survive, the Iranians will have made two more bombs to be delivered to the U.S., and detonate each in Atlanta, and Dallas.
Finally, just when Iran completes an additional nuclear bomb, the United States will declare an unconditional surrender.
This is bad, and I find this totally unexceptable.
And still there is nothing we can do about it.
The conflict is about petrodollar vs petroeuro.
We simply cannot conceive that any country would have the audacity to attack us in this manner. But there is a new kind of enemy, and America sure as hell better wake up to that fact.