Posted on 12/01/2011 10:25:04 AM PST by JohnKinAK
UPDATE: December 1, 2011; 10:00AM
Amid the tensions in Iran and the destruction of a second nuclear facility (which is detailed in the original story below), we find it necessary to present our readers with an update made available via The Daily Crux and Zero Hedge, in which Major General Zhang Zhaozhong, a professor from the Chinese National Defense University, said China “will not hesitate to protect Iran even with a third World War.”
Trillions of dollars in debt and regional energy resources are at play here. Perhaps this is the reason Iran is publicly downplaying the threat and the U.S. is overtly ignoring the latest bombing/explosion at a second Iranian nuclear facility. Not a single news report of the incident is present on the homepages of major media outlets like CNN, NBC, ABC or Fox. For their part, Iran completely denies the explosion took place and national media agencies have reportedly pulled all references to the story, even though satellite images (detailed below) confirm it happened.
Don’t miss this Chinese news report. Like the U.S., China has its own propaganda machine and this is what their populace is being fed:
(In Chinese with English subtitles):
ORIGINAL REPORT: Covert Op Suspected as Second Iranian Nuke Site Goes Up In Flames
Either Iran’s nuclear and military programs are headed by imbeciles or their country is under attack.
Though Iran completely denied the incident yesterday, The Australian reports that satellite images confirm another Iranian military site has exploded:
Satellite imagery seen by The Times confirmed that a blast that rocked the city of Isfahan on Monday struck the uranium enrichment facility there, despite denials by Tehran.
The images clearly showed billowing smoke and destruction, negating Iranian claims yesterday that no such explosion had taken place. Israeli intelligence officials told The Times that there was “no doubt” that the blast struck the nuclear facilities at Isfahan and that it was “no accident”.
The explosion at Iran’s third-largest city came as satellite images emerged of the damage caused by one at a military base outside Tehran two weeks ago that killed about 30 members of the Revolutionary Guard, including General Hassan Moghaddam, the head of the Iranian missile defence program.
Iran claimed that the Tehran explosion occurred during testing on a new weapons system designed to strike at Israel. But several Israeli officials have confirmed that the blast was intentional and part of an effort to target Iran’s nuclear weapons program.
On Monday, Isfahan residents reported a blast that shook tower blocks in the city at about 2.40pm and seeing a cloud of smoke rising over the nuclear facility on the edge of the city.
“This caused damage to the facilities in Isfahan, particularly to the elements we believe were involved in storage of raw materials,” said one military intelligence source.
He would not confirm or deny Israel’s involvement in the blast, instead saying that there were “many different parties looking to sabotage, stop or coerce Iran into stopping its nuclear weapons program”.
Iran went into frantic denial yesterday as news of the explosion at Isfahan emerged. Alireza Zaker-Isfahani, the city’s governor, claimed that the blast had been caused by a military exercise in the area but state-owned agencies in Tehran soon removed this story and issued a government denial that any explosion had taken place at all.
A government cover up? Say it ain’t so.
There’s a war on. This was no accident.
The real question is, how, if at all, will Iran respond? Are they biding their time because they are finalizing a nuclear weapon that they intend to deploy against Israel or Western targets, or has all the machisimo displayed by Iranian President Ahmadinejad in recent years been nothing but talk?
We may soon find out.
Actually, the radiation was detected over the Czech Republic (where I am).
Came from Hungary, apparently. The Hungarians deny it, of course, but the IAEA traced it back to a Hungarian source....a reactor at some university, I believe.
BINGO!
gonna be a little tough to get the container ships to WalMart with WW III going on...
The only way the chinks could wipe out 300 Mill Americans is by tricking us into eating their poison dog treats. They may have nukes, but they sure don’t have thsat much delivery other than MARCHING over here carrying 1000 nukes on their back.
But of cource with our dear leader nobama, he might give them free cruise ship passage.
BINGO 2
WWIII began 9/11/01. We have been in an intermediate period since then. The obvious shooting war cannot be too far out from here.
Amen brother, but the toughest of times between now and then.
True enough....the Chinese are woefully lacking in ICBM capability.
But of course, all it takes is one SRBM or MRBM launched from some coast with a megatonnage yield weapon detonated 400 kilometers up over Oklahoma (IIRC) would pretty much be all she wrote for the US electric power grid.....as someone put, it would instantly blow us back to the mid 19th Century.
Mind you, the NorKs could pull that off as well. Well, if they had viable nukes, that is.
But for the above, I’d say China is pretty well equipped. But like you said, maybe Obama will give them free cruise ship passage to carry out their mission.
The spice must always flow.
The Chinese are more worried about an overt war breaking out. Covert war, not so much. With the covert war, when the Iranians come whining to them, the Chinese can say, “Well, maybe you shouldn’t be such a bunch of butterfingers over there. Nuclear materials are dangerous, after all.”
It affords them the opportunity of looking the other way.
Of course, I also wonder if all the talk out of Israel lately is designed to simply keep the Iranians expecting an overt assault that never comes. It forces them to divert (mostly intelligence) resources to detecting the first sign of an airborne assault. While the Iranians are out there keeping an eye on their Western horizon, the Israelis (or Iranian agents in the Israelis employ) are blowing things up while Iranian intel is distracted.
It’s a good diversionary strategy, and because Israel lacks geographical depth, it’s evolved and adapted to take on it’s foes asymmetrically.
Thanks for the radiation update.
Can you get around the Czech Republic knowing just english or german?
You’re giving Obama too much credit. Brits maybe ? Isrealis have a space program too.
Obama's got nothing to do with it. It's up there doing something!
That looks like a heck of a rocket launch cruise missle or one hellofa ride 2 man shuttle.
I get the feeling that if obama sat on his hands, there is a contingency in-place for DOD C&C to launch.
Not sure how they would get so far in as over Oklahoma, but again I fall back on first paragraph scenario.
They might smoke Taiwan, but the Chinese have 5000 years of capitalism and only 60 years of communism, am thinking sales win over protecting the squirrels in Iran or starting WW3 for any reason short of a really massive strike incoming.
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