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Israel, US, UK Nuclear Collusion, ‘Intelligence’ and Blowback
by Eileen Fleming
Last week Israel successfully test-fired a new long-range ballistic missile, capable of striking military targets deep inside Iran.
In remarks to Israel’s Knesset, Prime Minister Netanyahu said, “A nuclear Iran will pose a serious threat to the Middle East and the entire world, and it of course poses a direct and heavy threat to us.”
On September 3rd, Gen. Hasan Firouzabadi, supreme commander of Iran’s military and Revolutionary Guards armed forces, said, “Iran hopes there won’t be a need to target the nuclear facility of the Zionist regime, but if there is, Israel would receive dreadful retribution. Our developed weapons can hit any part of the Zionist regime.” [1]
Israeli ambassador in Washington Michael Oren, claims Hezbollah in South Lebanon has 16,000 rockets ranged to cover every part of Israel with enhanced precision and that includes the Dimona WMD facility- which has never allowed International Atomic Energy Agency inspectors into.
The Associated Press reported last Friday that unnamed Diplomats said the UN atomic agency plans to reveal intelligence this week suggesting Iran made computer models of a nuclear warhead and will share with its 35 board members satellite imagery of what the IAEA believes is a large steel container used for nuclear arms-related high explosives tests.
“Israeli President Shimon Peres said Friday that the international community is closer to pursuing a military solution to the standoff over Iran’s nuclear program than a diplomatic one. The comments, from a known dove, assumed added significance because they followed unsubstantiated reports that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was seeking his government’s support for a strike against Tehran.” [2]
Almost all of the oil output of Saudi Arabia, the Gulf States, Iraq and Iran run through the Strait of Hormuz. Iran is well equipped with missile boats and land-based missiles. It doesn’t require much intelligence to comprehend that Iran would close off the Strait of Hormuz as soon as the first Israeli plane entered Iranian airspace. The blowback to the world’s economy with the elimination of nearly a fifth of the industrial nations’ supply of oil would lead to the end of the world as we now know it.
What we do know is what Mordechai Vanunu, Israel’s nuclear whistleblower said: “Everyone knows Israel has 200 bombs-hydrogen, nitrogen…No one wants atomic weapons in the Middle East….No one wants Israel or the Middle East to have atomic weapons, because if Israel has the bomb Iran will have the bomb.”
In 2009, Vanunu wrote:
“I am asking the committee to remove my name from the nominations. I cannot be part of a list of laureates that includes Simon Peres.
“Peres established and developed the atomic weapon program in Dimona in Israel.
“Peres was the man who ordered my kidnapping [and] he continues to oppose my freedom and release.”
We also know about President Shimon Peres’ “secret” offer to sell nuclear warheads to the South African Apartheid regime in 1975 and that PW Botha, South Africa’s defense minister asked Peres [who was then Israel’s defense minister] for nuclear warheads.
Peres offered them “in three sizes” which are understood as conventional, chemical and nuclear weapons.
The two signed a broad-ranging agreement governing military ties between the two countries that included a clause declaring that “the very existence of this agreement” was to remain a secret.
However, while researching for a book on the close relationship between the two regimes, Sasha Polakow-Suransky an American academic unearthed the evidence and published it in “The Unspoken Alliance: Israel’s secret alliance with apartheid South Africa.”
Sasha also documents that Israeli officials “formally offered to sell South Africa some of the nuclear-capable Jericho missiles in its arsenal.”
After a March 1975 meeting attended by South African military chief of staff, Lieutenant General RF Armstrong, wrote a “top secret” memo laying out the benefits to South Africa in obtaining the Jericho missiles if they were fitted with nuclear weapons.
On 4 June 1975, Peres and Botha met in Zurich and by then, the Jericho project had been renamed Chalet.
The top-secret minutes of that meeting recorded that, “Minister Botha expressed interest in a limited number of units of Chalet subject to the correct payload being available…Minister Peres said the correct payload was available in three sizes. Minister Botha expressed his appreciation.” [3]
Botha did not go ahead with the deal because of the cost and the fact that final approval was dependent on Israel’s prime minister.
South Africa did build its own nuclear bombs and also provided much of the yellowcake uranium that Israel required to develop its nuclear arsenal.
The documents also confirm that former South African naval commander, Dieter Gerhardt admitted there was an agreement between Israel and South Africa called Chalet that involved an offer by Israel to arm eight Jericho missiles with “special warheads” understood as atomic bombs.
“Some weeks before Peres made his offer of nuclear warheads to Botha, the two defence ministers signed a covert agreement governing the military alliance known as Secment. It was so secret that it included a denial of its own existence: ‘It is hereby expressly agreed that the very existence of this agreement… shall be secret and shall not be disclosed by either party.’” [Ibid]
No secret that British officials are reportedly working on a plan to assist U.S. forces in a pre-emptive attack on Iranian military facilities:
What else we know is that what is often claimed as Intelligence is not necessarily so:
1. DEBKAfile, Political Analysis, Espionage, Terrorism, Security
2. UN report to reveal evidence of Iran’s nuclear weapons program
3. Israel South Africa Nuclear Weapons
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Posted by Eileen Fleming on Nov 7 2011, With 0 Reads, Filed under Americas, Iran, Israel, Middle East, World. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0. Both comments and pings are currently closed.
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Today IMEMC & Agencies reported:
“Even though Israel owns 300 nuclear missiles, the fact wouldn’t benefit it; Israel is going to be wiped off the map,” Ahmadinejad to the Egyptian Al-Akhbar Newspaper.
He added that the US and the West are concerned about Iran because it is more sophisticated and developed than they are, denying Iran’s claimed intention of developing weapons of mass destruction, and confirming that Israel is ongoing with developing nuclear heads.
Meanwhile, Russia warned of what it has described as “destructive consequences” that could result should Iran be attacked. “Attacking Iran would be a destructive mistake that may deepen the crisis in the region,” the Russian Minister of Foreign Affairs, Sergei Lavrov, stated.
Lavrov added that there is no military solution for the Iranian nuclear crisis, pointing out that any military option, similar to the one NATO operations in Afghanistan, will only lead to further risks and deterioration.
-http://www.imemc.org/article/62459
In 2006, Virginia Tilley, Professor of political science explained:
“In his October 2005 speech, Mr. Ahmadinejad never used the word ‘map’ or the term ‘wiped off.’ According to Farsi-language experts like Juan Cole and even right-wing services like MEMRI, what he actually said was ‘this regime that is occupying Jerusalem must vanish from the page of time.’
“In this speech to an annual anti-Zionist conference, Mr. Ahmadinejad was being prophetic, not threatening. He was citing Imam Khomeini, who said this line in the 1980s-a period when Israel was actually selling arms to Iran, so apparently it was not viewed as so ghastly then.
“Mr. Ahmadinejad had just reminded his audience that the Shah’s regime, the Soviet Union, and Saddam Hussein had all seemed enormously powerful and immovable, yet the first two had vanished almost beyond recall and the third now languished in prison.
“So, too, the ‘occupying regime’ in Jerusalem would someday be gone. His message was, in essence: ‘This too shall pass.’”.
What has yet to pass are international atomic agency inspectors into Israel’s WMD facility!
In 2005, Vanunu told me:
“Did you know that President Kennedy tried to stop Israel from building atomic weapons? In 1963, he forced Prime Minister Ben Guirion to admit the Dimona was not a textile plant, as the sign outside proclaimed, but a nuclear plant. The Prime Minister said, ‘The nuclear reactor is only for peace.’.
“Kennedy insisted on an open internal inspection. He wrote letters demanding that Ben Guirion open up the Dimona for inspection.
“The French were responsible for the actual building of the Dimona. The Germans gave the money; they were feeling guilty for the Holocaust, and tried to pay their way out. Everything inside was written in French, when I was there, almost twenty years ago. Back then, the Dimona descended seven floors underground.
“In 1955, Perez and Guirion met with the French to agree they would get a nuclear reactor if they fought against Egypt to control the Sinai and Suez Canal. That was the war of 1956. Eisenhower demanded that Israel leave the Sinai, but the reactor plant deal continued on.
“When Johnson became president, he made an agreement with Israel that two senators would come every year to inspect. Before the senators would visit, the Israelis would build a wall to block the underground elevators and stairways. From 1963 to ’69, the senators came, but they never knew about the wall that hid the rest of the Dimona from them.
“Nixon stopped the inspections and agreed to ignore the situation. As a result, Israel increased production. In 1986, there were over two hundred bombs. Today, they may have enough plutonium for ten bombs a year.” -BEYOND NUCLEAR: Mordechai Vanunu’s FREEDOM of SPEECH Trial and My Life as a Muckraker: 2005-2010
http://www.wearewideawake.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1969&Itemid=242