Iran Launches War Games Near Nuclear Sites

(CBS/AP)  Iran on Sunday began large-scale air defense war games aimed at protecting its nuclear facilities from attack, state TV reported, as an air force commander boasted the country could deter any military strike by Israel.

It said the five-day drill will cover an area a third of the size of Iran and spread across the central, western and southern parts of the country.

Gen. Ahmad Mighani, head of an air force unit in charge of responding to threats to Iran's air space, said Saturday the war games would cover regions where Iran's nuclear facilities are located.

CBS News Foreign Affairs Analyst Pamela Falk, who is based at the United Nations, said the war games are intended to show the United States and Israel that it would protect its nuclear facilities against a preemptive attack.

The drill involves Iran's elite Revolutionary Guard, the paramilitary Basij forces affiliated with the Guard as well as army units.

The United States and its European allies accuse Iran of embarking on a nuclear weapons program. Iran denies the charge and insists the program is only for peaceful purposes.

"Yet again, Iran appears to be running out the clock - in other words, stalling any agreement with the U.S. and the U.N., while they increase the possibility of having the ability to produce nuclear weapons," Falk said.

Falk said the U.S. and the U.N. have given Iran a 'make it or break it' deadline of the end of the year on the deal offered to Iran to export uranium before it will attempt to impose new sanctions.

"The core of the issue for Americans is whether or not the Obama administration's diplomatic efforts will be able to bring the Iranians around, to limiting their nuclear program," Falk said. "The U.S., Western nations, and the International Atomic Energy Agency are all losing patience."

Israel has not ruled out military action to stop Iran from obtaining nuclear weapons.

The commander of the Guard's air force, Gen. Amir Ali Hajizadeh, meanwhile sought on Sunday to play down the significance of Israel's threats against his country, saying they amounted to psychological warfare.

"We are sure they are not able to do anything against us since they cannot predict our reaction," Hajizadeh was quoted as saying by the Guard's official Web site, Sephahnews.

"If their fighter planes could escape from Iran's air defense system, their bases will be hit by our devastating surface-to-surface missiles before they land," he said.

Also on Sunday, Iran's defense minister, Gen. Ahmad Vahidi, said Iran planned to pursue designing and producing its own air defense missiles, according to the official IRNA news agency.

His comments were apparently in response to the delay in the delivery from Russia of S-300 anti-aircraft missiles, meant to be a key component of Iran's air defense.

Iran complains that the delay is apparently the result of Israeli and U.S. pressure.

Israel and the United States have opposed the missile deal out of fear Iran could use the system to significantly boost air defenses at its nuclear sites - including its main uranium enrichment plant at Natanz.

"President Obama may have encouraged Russia to delay the delivery of advanced air defense missiles to Iran but neither his Asia trip nor back-channel negotiations appear to have gotten China or Russia to support a new round of punishing sanctions at the U.N., leaving the option of a preemptive strike by the U.S. or Israel on the table," Falk said.

Commenting on this week's war games, a senior Obama administration official urged Iran to engage with the international community.

"We would prefer that the Iranian regime follow through on their offer to engage," said Ellen Tauscher, the U.S. undersecretary of state for arms control and international security.

"It is more important for them to build confidence with the international community," she said at a news conference Sunday at the Halifax International Security Forum in Nova Scotia.

[U_S_Drug_Addict]

Shimoan perez is on his World Appology tour
and thousands are expected to demonstrate agains his crime regime,
in Brazil hundreds show up with pictures of him as hitler and swastikas, in Argentina he is having beefed up security
for fears of thousands will show up to voice anger and opposition
... how many people show up to protest Ajmedinejad in Brazil?

500........

[jessdnld]

I don't think that will ever happen. Our military is spread all over the world,we don't have the man power right now. We have the weapons for sure but not the troops.

http://ezinearticles.com/?Absolute-Acai-Berry-Review---Does-Absolute-Acai-Berry-Make-You-Lose-Weight?&id=3041392

[exusmc8541]

Now that folks are starting to wake the heck up are you all sure you would like to see the USA take our second amendment from us.
They all ready stole the pledge of allegiance from us.
Our wonderful and so friendly muslim friends who spread love joy and peace to the world have all but taken over europe and have not even fired a shot in doing so.
Infiltration slow and steady. Then once you have the majority you run the goverment and the country.
Wake up smell the coffie learn to stand your ground or pray at a mosques. God does not kill people. People do this.
Your second amendment just gives you the right and ability to defend your self. And yes they will take this away if you let them.
As for nuclear weapons we can kill the world 40 times over and we hope the ones with these weapons are smart enough to keep them under control. There is no amendment that protects the right of any country to have such a powerful weapon and there should not be one.
Look at the history of the country who is trying to produce this weapon and see what they have done so far with out it.
Still think it is a good idea???
Come on America wake up and do not wait around like we always do before we get off our butt and take a stand.
Good luck to all and GOD bless

[50BMS13]

exusmc8541
EXCELLENT POST! We must remember that a muslim that dies to defend or promote his fath is a happy muslim! Christians DO NOT SUICIDE BOMB AND ATTACK! MUSLIMS DO! You want them to have the bomb folks? They would GLADLY USE IT AND BLESS ALLAH AS THEY DIE DETONATING IT!

[50BMS13]

Iran is saber rattling. What will Obama do? "Yes we can? Change we can count on?" NOPE! A few more eloquent speeches infront of teleprompters. He wants Iran nuclear armed! The end result will be a mushroom cloud in Jerusalem or New York City. Anyone with a brain can see where it is heading. OBAMA = HUGE NATIONAL SECURITY RISK!!!

[nextgenman09]

Hep! Hep! We Conservitarded are afraid of everything Hep! Hep!

[nokia3210c]

you surely are warmonger. i think only you can tell the rest of us where this is heading, according to your brains.

[thegoldminer]

they posted this in the wrong order, the last comment is the first part then the second and the last the end of his letter.

[50BMS13]

thegoldminer
Lot's of words.....A+! It is exactly what is happening in the world. Muslims are growing by number immensely. They have LARGE FAMILIES ALL OF THEM. We westerners have few if any kids. They are trying to take over the world. Once they outnumber us in all areas they can form government and do what they wish...genocide if they so desire. They are a peaceful bunch with the exception of a few. But their peace is misleading and a guise. They are waiting for the opportune moment for Jihad! We have a CIC that is muslim and that is down right scary. America will be lost to them strictly by being outbred and immigration. Then the world will be>>>>You're muslim or you're dead!

[nextgenman09]

50, "Hep! Hep! America is going to be defeated by a few thousand tribal level men with turbans! They's gonna take my Bible and NASCAR program away! Hep! Hep!"

Sheesh!

[thegoldminer]

Sorry his letter was so long I had to post it in three parts.

[thegoldminer]

Now, if Mohammed had been a man of peace, let us say like Ghandi and Mother Theresa wrapped in one, there would be no problem. But Mohammed was a warlord, a mass murderer, a pedophile, and had several marriages - at the same time. Islamic tradition tells us how he fought in battles, how he had his enemies murdered and even had prisoners of war executed. Mohammed himself slaughtered the Jewish tribe of Banu Qurayza. If it is good for Islam, it is good. If it is bad for Islam, it is bad.Let no one fool you about Islam being a religion. Sure, it has a god, and a here-after, and 72 virgins. But in its essence Islam is a political ideology. It is a system that lays down detailed rules for society and the life of every person. Islam wants to dictate every aspect of life. Islam means 'submission'. Islam is not compatible with freedom and democracy, because what it strives for is sharia. If you want to compare Islam to anything, compare it to communism or national-socialism, these are all totalitarian ideologies. Now you know why Winston Churchill called Islam 'the most retrograde force in the world', and why he compared Mein Kampf to the Quran. The public has wholeheartedly accepted the Palestinian narrative, and sees Israel as the aggressor. I have lived in this country and visited it dozens of times. I support Israel. First, because it is the Jewish homeland after two thousand years of exile up to and including Auschwitz, second because it is a democracy, and third because Israel is our first line of defense.This tiny country is situated on the fault line of jihad, frustrating Islam's territorial advance. Israel is facing the front lines of jihad, like Kashmir, Kosovo, the Philippines, Southern Thailand, Darfur in Sudan, Lebanon, and Aceh in Indonesia. Israel is simply in the way. The same way West-Berlin was during the Cold War. The war against Israel is not a war against Israel. It is a war against the West. It is jihad. Israel is simply receiving the blows that are meant for all of us. If there would have been no Israel, Islamic imperialism would have found other venues to release its energy and its desire for conquest. Thanks to Israeli parents who send their children to the army and lay awake at night, parents in Europe and America can sleep well and dream, unaware of the dangers looming.Many in Europe argue in favor of abandoning Israel in order to address the grievances of our Muslim minorities. But if Israel were, God forbid, to go down, it would not bring any solace to the West It would not mean our Muslim minorities would all of a sudden change their behavior, and accept our values. On the contrary, the end of Israel would give enormous encouragement to the forces of Islam. They would, and rightly so, see the demise of Israel as proof that the West is weak, and doomed. The end of Israel would not mean the end of our problems with Islam, but only the beginning. It would mean the start of the final battle for world domination. If they can get Israel, they can get everything. So-called journalists volunteer to label any and all critics of Islamization as a 'right-wing extremists' or 'racists'. In my country, the Netherlands, 60 percent of the population now sees the mass immigration of Muslims as the number one policy mistake since World War II. And another 60 percent sees Islam as the biggest threat. Yet there is a danger greater danger than terrorist attacks, the scenario of America as the last man standing. The lights may go out in Europe faster than you can imagine. An Islamic Europe means a Europe without freedom and democracy, an economic wasteland, an intellectual nightmare, and a loss of military might for America - as its allies will turn into enemies, enemies with atomic bombs. With an Islamic Europe, it would be up to America alone to preserve the heritage of Rome, Athens and Jerusalem. Dear friends, liberty is the most precious of gifts. My generation never had to fight for this freedom, it was offered to us on a silver platter, by people who fought for it with their lives. All throughout Europe, American cemeteries remind us of the young boys who never made it home, and whose memory we cherish. My generation does not own this freedom; we are merely its custodians. We can only hand over this hard won liberty to Europe's children in the same state in which it was offered to us. We cannot strike a deal with mullahs and imams. Future generations would never forgive us. We cannot squander our liberties. We simply do not have the right to do so.We have to take the necessary action now to stop this Islamic stupidity from destroying the free world that we know.

[thegoldminer]

In England sharia courts are now officially part of the British legal system. Many neighborhoods in France are no-go areas for women without head scarves. Last week a man almost died after being beaten up by Muslims in Brussels, because he was drinking during the Ramadan.
Jews are fleeing France in record numbers, on the run for the worst wave of anti-Semitism since World War II. French is now commonly spoken on the streets of Tel Aviv and Netanya, Israel. I could go on forever with stories like this. Stories about Islamization. A total of fifty-four million Muslims now live in Europe. San Diego University recently calculated that a staggering 25 percent of the population in Europe will be Muslim just 12 years from now. Bernhard Lewis has predicted a Muslim majority by the end of this century.Now these are just numbers. And the numbers would not be threatening if the Muslim-immigrants had a strong desire to assimilate. But there are few signs of that. The Pew Research Center reported that half of French Muslims see their loyalty to Islam as greater than their loyalty to France. One-third of French Muslims do not object to suicide attacks. The British Centre for Social Cohesion reported that one-third of British Muslim students are in favor of a worldwide caliphate. Muslims demand what they call 'respect'. And this is how we give them respect. We have Muslim official state holidays.The Christian-Democratic attorney general is willing to accept sharia in the Netherlands if there is a Muslim majority. We have cabinet members with passports from Morocco and Turkey.Muslim demands are supported by unlawful behavior, ranging from petty crimes and random violence, for example against ambulance workers and bus drivers, to small-scale riots. Paris has seen its uprising in the low-income suburbs, the banlieus. I call the perpetrators 'settlers'. Because that is what they are. They do not come to integrate into our societies; they come to integrate our society into their Dar-al-Islam. Therefore, they are settlers.Much of this street violence I mentioned is directed exclusively against non-Muslims, forcing many native people to leave their neighborhoods, their cities, their countries. Moreover, Muslims are now a swing vote not to be ignored. The second thing you need to know is the importance of Mohammed the prophet. His behavior is an example to all Muslims and cannot be criticized.

[thegoldminer]

This was sent to me by a friend. It is quite revealing about what is going in the world. I think we are all in trouble. Make Jerusalem the first international capital in the world for all faiths. So simple.

Geert Wilders is a Member of the Dutch Parliament.
America as the last man standing
'In a generation or two, the US will ask itself: who lost Europe?'
Here is the speech of Geert Wilders, Chairman, Party for Freedom, the Netherlands, at the Four Seasons, New York, introducing an Alliance of Patriots and announcing the Facing Jihad Conference in Jerusalem.

Dear friends,

Thank you very much for inviting me.

I come to America with a mission. All is not well in the old world. There is a tremendous danger looming, and it is very difficult to be optimistic. We might be in the final stages of the Islamization of Europe. This not only is a clear and present danger to the future of Europe itself, it is a threat to America and the sheer survival of the West. The United States as the last bastion of Western civilization, facing an Islamic Europe. First I will describe the situation on the ground in Europe. Then, I will say a few things about Islam. To close I will tell you about a meeting in Jerusalem.The Europe you know is changing.You have probably seen the landmarks. But in all of these cities, sometimes a few blocks away from your tourist destination, there is another world. It is the world of the parallel society created by Muslim mass-migration.All throughout Europe a new reality is rising: entire Muslim neighborhoods where very few indigenous people reside or are even seen. And if they are, they might regret it. This goes for the police as well.. It's the world of head scarves, where women walk around in figureless tents, with baby strollers and a group of children. Their husbands, or slaveholders if you prefer, walk three steps ahead. With mosques on many street corners. The shops have signs you and I cannot read. You will be hard-pressed to find any economic activity. These are Muslim ghettos controlled by religious fanatics. These are Muslim neighborhoods, and they are mushrooming in every city across Europe. These are the building-blocks for territorial control of increasingly larger portions of Europe, street by street, neighborhood by neighborhood, city by city.There are now thousands of mosques throughout Europe. With larger congregations than there are in churches. And in every European city there are plans to build super-mosques that will dwarf every church in the region. Clearly, the signal is: we rule.Many European cities are already one-quarter Muslim: just take Amsterdam, Marseille and Malmo in Sweden. In many cities the majority of the under-18 population is Muslim. Paris is now surrounded by a ring of Muslim neighborhoods. Mohammed is the most popular name among boys in many cities.In some elementary schools in Amsterdam the farm can no longer be mentioned, because that would also mean mentioning the pig, and that would be an insult to Muslims.Many state schools in Belgium and Denmark only serve halal food to all pupils. In once-tolerant Amsterdam gays are beaten up almost exclusively by Muslims. Non-Muslim women routinely hear '*****, *****'.. Satellite dishes are not pointed to local TV stations, but to stations in the country of origin.In France school teachers are advised to avoid authors deemed offensive to Muslims, including Voltaire and Diderot; the same is increasingly true of Darwin. The history of the Holocaust can no longer be taught because of Muslim sensitivity.

[nokia3210c]

TO the goldminer:
you are right-wing jew, spreading those ilks of yours against the person of Muhammad, the prophet of islam. this is typical of all jews.

to start with, you seem to have a fervent hatred against Muhammad, the prophet of islam, and also the muslims.
what has he, Muhammad, done to you that you could call him all those abuses. do you know him really. you will never find any muslim call abusive names against any of the prophets, mentioned in the Bible or Qur'an. why, you in particular, do that. you have so much fear in islam.
all those accusations you put against muslims, are your in-born hatred towards muslim. i think you should realise that we are now living in a global village. whatever happens anywhere is reflected into the media. so whatever you are spuking about the growth and dormination of islam in the worlf arena, should send some signals to your attitude towards islam.
lastly, you claim to leave in netherlands, i can understand y you are so angry on the population of muslim families in europe is grawing. netherlands in particular, is one of the european countries that has allowed homosexuaity. the way seem to lean on the pretext of "protecting our liberties and freedom", to me you are just one of the "free wolrd", if you know what i mean.
so again, as much as would want the rest of the world to believe your side of the story, also put in mind that everything nowadays is in black and white. spare your breadth and be continue to be in the "free world"

[50BMS13]

It is time to bomb these nuclear sites in Iran. We can use B1 bombers with GPS guided smart-bombs. No need to have a ground war. Our Airforce is vastly superior. The people do not back their government. We would be saviors! Obama won't bomb a fellow muslim nation though. He is hoping eloquent words will work instead. Meanwhile, Ahmadinejad has promised Hugo Chavez the technology to enrich his own uranium. Ahmadinejad has said that Israel should be wiped off the map. Takes nukes to do that not war. We have been warned. If WW3 starts cause we don't stop Iran from getting a nuke who cares whose fault it is.

[50BMS13]

nokia3210c
UHHHHH.....let's see....Do I want to use billion dollar B1's with GPS guided smart bombs? OR>>>>>>> Do I want to sit on my camel and raise a sword to the Bombers yelling "cowards!" I think I will take sides with technology....hell we put men on the moon! Did you know that? Imagine cowards going to the moon? You keep praying to Allah with your a** in the air. Next time you bend over to Allah just wonder if that bomb is coming. They come in faster than the speed of sound so you won't hear it until you have 72 virgins on top of you.