Iran Has Potential WMD Capabilities, Reports Say

Canada Free Press ^ | Oct. 31, 2008

[FocusNexus]

Iran's growing industrial and medical capabilities could enable the country to produce chemical or biological weapons if it chose to do so, security expert Anthony Cordesman said in two draft reports released this month (see GSN, Feb. 26).

"Iran's technology base is advanced enough ... so that Iran retains some capability to make chemical weapons, and it may have inactive or mothballed facilities. While there have been no public reports of active production, this is possible and such efforts can occur at low levels and be easy to conceal," Cordesman, an analyst for the Center for Strategic and International Studies, wrote in a draft report on Iran's potential chemical-weapon capabilities.

[FocusNexus]

Who will be better at realistically assessing the threat and taking appropriate action -- McCain or Obama, who will sit down for tea with Ahmadinejad, demonstrating a dangerous naivite.

[forYourChildrenVote4Bush]

NOt to worry...Call Obama, he’ll disarm them mullahs....

[Rudder]

Time to saddle up them diplomats.

[lt.america]

Too funny. Seriously though, they are going to try and pull off something that will increase the price of oil here shortly. I read where the government in Iran is almost at the point of implosion due to the loss of oil revenues. So obvious yet so many look past the national security issues we have waiting for us and instead put there faith in a no military experience/foreign policy having Johnny come lately. God help us if Mac doesn't pull this out.

[SatinDoll]

This is so damn serious and most Americans are oblivious to the danger.

Saddam Hussein paid $2million for a suitcase of weaponized smallpox stolen by a Russian defector who had worked on bioweapons projects. She was paid the money and then disappeared to South America.

This was independently verified by two defectors who did not know one another: one Russian and one Iraqi. No one knows where the weaponized smallpox is now - is it in Syria? Or is it in Iran?

The above information became known in the 1990s and is the reason the U.S. has stockpiled smallpox vaccinae.

For anyone wanting specific details go read the book, “Demon in the Freezer”, by Richard Preston.

[Rudder]

Yeah Iran, and Russia, surely don't want oil prices low and they're deadly serious---hell, desperate---about making sure oil is their money-maker. Socialist or not, Obama is way too green for all this real-life, scary shit. I can't think of a better man for this than McCain, at anytime.

I've done a fair amount of research on bio-warfare and our health care systems' ability to handle attacks...we got some serious up-grading to do, to put it mildly.

[M. Espinola]

Whatever weapons the Iranian dictatorship comes up with, thank the Kremlin. The same is applicable for Syria and Libya.

[Joe Boucher]

In other related news,
Both Israel and the United States are poised to melt the sands of Iran to glass upon and W.M.D.s attack from Iran.

[Joe Boucher]

So does our military.
Have you ever seen the pathetic attempt to keep our soldiers safe in case of gas or biological attack?
Sorely lacking.

[SunkenCiv]

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