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Iran Makes First Nuclear Fuel Rods, Fires Mid-Range SAM In Retaliation For Full Blown US Financial Boycott
The political press has been abuzz over the much anticipated signing of the NDAA by Barack Obama on Saturday: this move was not surprising because Obama had already made it clear he would go ahead and enact the law, even though he added some 'stern' language that is supposed to legitimize what some say is a precursor to the establishment of martial law in the US. To wit: "The fact that I support this bill as a whole does not mean I agree with everything in it. In particular, I have signed this bill despite having serious reservations with certain provisions that regulate the detention, interrogation, and prosecution of suspected terrorists." And yet he signed it (full text of Obama's statement on the NDAA, sent while on vacation in Hawaii, can be found here). Perhaps the reason for that unpopular move were some of the more nuanced contents of the Bill, among which is the decision to fully boycott not only Iran, but any bank, including central bank, and other financial institution found to deal with Iran. Which incidentally means most of Russia and China, and probably half of Europe, as all petrodollars generated by the country's petroleum export industry first have to make their way via the international financial community back into the country. The history buffs out there will realize that this form of couched antagonism is nothing short of the US approach to Japan during World War II, which was essentially provoked into attacking Pearl Harbor - read the details of the October 7, 1940 McCollum Memo here, and especially bullet point 10. And unfortunately, it appears that within 24 hours or so, Iran may have already taken the bait. As Reuters and BBC report, Iran has both test-fired a medium-range SAM during the ongoing wargames exercise previously discussed here, as well as made a formal announcement it has made and tested domestically made nuclear fuel rods: precisely the event that the Israel or US-borne Stuxnet was designed to prevent. So as the tennis match of escalation keeps on growing the ball is now once again in the US' court.
Here are some details on the wholesale Iranian financial boycott via Reuters.
U.S. President Barack Obama signed into law on Saturday a defense funding bill that imposes sanctions on financial institutions dealing with Iran's central bank, while allowing for exemptions to avoid upsetting energy markets. The sanctions target both private and government-controlled banks - including central banks - and would take hold after a two- to six-month warning period, depending on the transactions, a senior Obama administration official said.
Under the law, the president can move to exempt institutions in a country that has significantly reduced its dealings with Iran and in situations where a waiver is in the U.S. national security interest or otherwise necessary for energy market stability. He would need to notify Congress and waivers would be temporary, but could be extended.
Sanctioned institutions would be frozen out of U.S. financial markets.
"Our intent is to implement this law in a timed and phased approach so that we avoid repercussions to the oil market and ensure that this damages Iran and not the rest of the world," the senior U.S. official told Reuters.
Iran's central bank is the main conduit for Tehran's oil revenues.
Obama signed the bill during his vacation in Hawaii, just hours after Tehran said it had delayed planned long-range missile tests in the Gulf and signaled it was ready for fresh talks on its disputed nuclear program.
Senior U.S. officials said Washington was consulting with its foreign partners to ensure the new sanctions can work without harming global energy markets. They stressed the U.S. strategy of both isolating and remaining open to engagement with Iran was unchanged.
Ah yes, the precious energy markets. We can't have some unprecedented volatility there, not now when it is now officially an election year. What however we can have, is control over the supply of one of the world's biggest oil exporters. Kind of what happened in Iraq a few years back to stunning success...
So what was Iran's response?
Iran has successfully produced and tested fuel rods for use in its nuclear power plants, state television reported on Sunday, in a snub to international demands that it halt sensitive nuclear work.
The rods, which contain natural uranium, were made in Iran and have been inserted into the core of Tehran's research nuclear reactor, the television reported.
Nuclear fuel rods contain small pellets of fuel, usually low-enriched uranium, patterned to give out heat produced by nuclear reaction without melting down.
"This great achievement will perplex the West, because the Western countries had counted on a possible failure of Iran to produce nuclear fuel plates," the Tehran Times newspaper said.
The development was announced at a time of growing tension between Western powers and Iran after the U.N. nuclear agency reported in November that Tehran appeared to have worked on designing a nuclear weapon. Secret research to that end may be continuing, it said.
The United States and its European allies have increased the sanctions pressure on Iran, one of the world's largest oil producers, to push Tehran to halt the enrichment.
U.S. President Barack Obama signed more sanctions against Iran into law on Saturday, shortly after Iran signalled it was ready for new talks with the West on its nuclear programme and said it had delayed long-range missile tests in the Gulf.
But wait, there's more. From the BBC:
Iran has successfully test-fired a medium-range surface-to-air missile during military exercises in the Gulf, the official Irna news agency reports.
Iranian naval commander, Mahmoud Mousavi, was quoted as saying the missile was equipped with the "latest technology" and "intelligent systems".
The test comes a day after he denied earlier state media reports that Iran had test-fired long-range missiles.
He said on Saturday missile launches would take place "in the coming days".
Iran's 10 days of naval exercises began last week and are taking place in international waters to the east of the strategic Strait of Hormuz.
They come at a time of increased tensions between the West and Iran over its nuclear ambitions.
Tehran reacted angrily last week to reports that Western nations were planning to impose further sanctions targeting Iran's oil and financial sectors.
So little by little the US will escalate pressure on Iran to commit increasingly more glaring acts of outright 'insanity', until finally it does the one thing that according to the US media, which will likely be needed to wash-rinse-spin cycle the newsflow, will push the American people, who are just not going to take such 'vile' proocations any more, over the edge. At least according to Santorum's Meet the Press interview from this morning which made precisely that point all too clear.
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So let the US boycot Iran, they can join the new Asian Union.
I think Iran stopped taking US $ for oil a long time ago anyway.
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/guest-post-new-asian-union-means-fall-dollar-0
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http://archive.wbai.org/
Sunday January 1 3:00am 1 hour 59 minArts
all mixed up
http://chistletoe.blogspot.com/2012/01/glass.html
Bagram airbase is under attack from taliban. Missiles fired, many casualities. http://www.presstv.ir/detail/218872.html
NO CASUALTIES, its a daily occurance, randomly fired rockets, muslim pieces of shit
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Bagram airbase is under attack from taliban. Missiles fired, many casualities. http://www.presstv.ir/detail/218872.html
Same rhetoric, same approach as FDR prior to Pearl Harbor. Difference now is, the attack will be an EMP over the Continental U.S. which will knock out power and maybe most electronic devices for 2 to 10 years. Since we're so reliant on electricity in the modern age, it's also our biggest weakness. We're nowhere near ready for it, and the large utility transformers aren't in ready supply. 3 years from order to shipment and we don't make them here. The Iranians aren't stupid and probably already have the weapons/delivery system to pull it off. http://www.futurescience.com/emp.html
Happy New Year, everybody!
clear as a sunny day. the hofjuden wont stop, even if billions of people should perish, until all CB's are under hofjuden control and run by shtadlans
"Let's just not care what Iran does." Repeat after me, "Let's just not care what Iran does."
This attitude would have worked very well with Vietnam, Iraq and Afghanistan, plus it is very simple and cheap to implement...
It wasn’t the signing of the National Defense Authorization Act by Obama signed in as much a shadow of media attention as possible (vacationing in Hawaii), as it was the way banker-controlled congresses now go to war. The sanctions on Iran contained in this legislation are not a declaration of war but for truth tellers like the Texas Congressman Ron Paul the sanctions against Iran amount to an act of war.
From Iowa this week, Paul said, "I think we're looking for trouble because we put these horrendous sanctions on Iran," adding that Iranians are "planning to be bombed" and understandably would like to have a nuclear weapon.
While the US warmongers and their American Zionists have constantly urged either Israel or the US to take out Iranian nuclear sites before they develop weapon capability, a “shift in the rationale for war" began in December.
M.J. Rosenberg says the biggest problem American Zionists have “is not Iran getting a nuclear weapon and testing it, it is Iran getting a nuclear weapon and not using it. Because the second that they have one and they don't do anything bad, all of the naysayers are going to come back and say, 'See, we told you Iran is a responsible power. We told you Iran wasn't getting nuclear weapons in order to use them immediately.' ... And they will eventually define Iran with nuclear weapons as not a problem.”
Writes Rosenberg in “American Enterprise Institute Admits the Problem with Iran Is Not That It Would Use Nukes”: Suddenly the struggle to stop Iran is not about saving Israel from nuclear annihilation. After a decade of scare-mongering about the second coming of Nazi Germany, the Iran hawks are admitting that they have other reasons for wanting to take out Iran...
The shift in the rationale was kicked off by prominent neoconservatives in the Washington-based American Enterprise Institute's (AEI) such as Danielle Pletka, Sen. Mark Kirk (R-IL) and Fred Kagan.
Rosenberg says this shift is very significant, for it was the AEI that began the almost endless series of events designed to instigate war with Iraq; war followed 14 months later.
http://politicalcorrection.org/fpmatters/201112020008
On second thought, if it takes America to be successfully invaded and occupied to get "American Idol" OFF THE AIR, it would, most definitely, be worth the cost....
The Iranian Schindler: How thousands of Iranian Jews in America owe their lives to Paris diplomatBy Daily Mail Reporter
Last updated at 4:16 AM on 24th December 2011
Oskar Schindler, the German industrialist who employed over a thousand Jews during the Holocaust in an effort to save them from concentration camps, was memorialized in a famous book and Academy Award winning movie.
His Iranian equivalent, Abdol-Hossein Sardari, is now getting some of his due press.
In a book that troves through archival material, the story of how Mr Sardari used his diplomatic position in Paris at the time of the Nazi occupation to get passports for Iranian Jews and wove tall tales of faux-scientific stories to help evade the German authorities.
Recognized: Abdol-Hossein Sardari, the 'Muslim Schindler' who risked life to save Iranian Jews in wartime Paris, recently received posthumous recognition for his deeds
Mr Sardari, who was Muslim, was posted to Paris in 1941 and served as the highest member of the small Iranian consulate at the time of the Nazi invasion.
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Because the Germans and Iranians had sizeable, and financially significant, trade contracts, the German considered the Iranians to be an Arayan race, and therefore an ally in their effort to rid Europe of what they viewed as lesser ethnicities.
An aristocratic ally: Abdol-Hossein Sardari used his position at the Iranian consulate in Paris during WWII to help thousands of Jews evade Nazi capture
Mr Sardari wrote numerous letters to Nazi officials telling elaborate stories about how Iranian Jews- who had been spared from Babylonian slavery by ancient Persian ruler Cyrus the Great- should be given the same status under Nazi rule as all other Iranians.
The book: A recently published book shows archival documents that prove the extent of Sardari's help
Another rationale that he used at one point was that Iranian Jews were not the same as the Jews that the Nazis so overtly despised since they were not blood-related to European Jewry.
Though some were initially hesitant to buy this version of events, the Nazis eventually relented and gave them the same status as the rest of their fellow Iranians. Before doing so, Nazi officials commissioned racial purity experts investigated the claim but it is thought that a lack of physical and financial resources forced them to cut it short and simply agree.
Another move that Mr Sardari used was to issue Paris-based Iranian Jews new passports: many of the Iranians in Paris at the time of the war had not renewed their passports after their home country went through a regime change, and so by falsifying those documents, Mr Sardari found a bureaucratic way to able to help Jews evade capture.
Exact numbers are not known, but the estimated headcount of people that Mr Sardari helped saved is in the thousands, many of whom ended up fleeing home to Iran or eventually ending up in America.
He was thought to have had 1,000 passports in his consulate safe at the beginning of the war- each of which could be used for more than one person- so experts put the number of lives saved between 2,000 and 3,000.
Well known: Oskar Schindler, shown here with his wife Emille, saved over 1,000 Jews by employing them in his industrial factors to avoid capture
Though he himself was not harmed during the war, the end of World War II did not end his troubles as he faced embezzlement charges in 1952 which related to his doling out of passports during the war.
The new book, In The Lions Shadow by Fariborz Mokhtari, is astonishing in the amount of detail it is able to shed on the situation because Mr Sardari was famously quiet about his actions after the war ended.
Honored several times by Jewish-American groups, his only known public remark before his 1981 death came as a humble comment to the Israeli National Holocaust Memorial.
'As you may know, I had the pleasure of being the Iranian Consul in Paris during the German occupation of France, and as such it was my duty to save all Iranians, including Iranian Jews,' Mr Sardari said.
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2078238/The-Iranian-Schindler-Ho...
2012 may well prove to be a Confuscian year - "interesting times" - a nuclear Iran has been Hollywooded into enough of a provocation that the world opinion would, at the very least, remain discomfortably neutral as long as the kinetics are quick and precise. Further, as Ahmadinejad has fallen out of favour with Khamenei, he is unlikely to steal the next election. This means that those who decide have a small window of opportunity to blame a proven villian - there is not enough moral sway in demonizing a past Prime Minister. Barak has shown himself to be more pliable than expected, and also potentially disposable if things go wrong. Can Iran close the Straits - yes and no - yes they can and likely for longer than many expect, but no - not indefinitely. Given the world oil supply / demand balance, a closure of more than 6 weeks should be enough of a black swan event to tip the economies of many financially endowed countries / regions into irrecoverable fiscal crisis (especially if the closure lasts longer than pundits predict). This will require quick action to stabilize the world financial system, at which time a previously prepared construct providing non transparent global centralized financial mechanics (perhaps, but not necessarily, including a world currency) can be floated and accepted without the time required for appropriate due diligence. The current men behind the curtain can only manage this transformation as long as the US currency retains global supremacy. Given the increasing transition of inter country trade from the USD to regional currencies - most recently the #2 and #3 economies of China and Japan, the opportunity window for the current manipulators to manage the effects of a global financial crisis is proving to be increasingly finite. Use it or lose it. All the pieces are now in place, the cast of players for the requisite Hollywood theatrics are in place, the patsy is still in power, the timeline to act is finite, and between Nostradamus and the Mayans, there is a perspecitive of inevitability present in the minds of the general populace in most democratic countries (which are the only ones where the populace needs to be swayed). Tighten your seatbelt, and your sphincter - we are in for a rough ride ...
Have I wandered into a Ron Paul forum? It gets worse by the day. If I could go back in time, many of these same posters would have been posting analogous anti-Israel, anti-US Military drivel on an Obummer pre-election site.
Get real! We have enemies within and without. We are surrounded and penetrated. Live Free, Die Free.
Whatever you've wandered into chum, you've wandered without your meds. And headquarters won't be happy with the gems you've let slip.
exhibit A: "We have enemies within and without. We are surrounded and penetrated"
Neocon blowhards with rape and penetration fantasies!>?.....who could have guessed? The naked truth of Amerikan foreign&domestic policies revealed at last! Dual-citizened bathhouse porn, delivered in a plain brown progressive wrapper.
exhibit B: "anti-Israel, anti-US Military"
ahh, now you've really gone n done it! Israel&USA military...an indivisible whole!?!?! To criticize the one is to criticize the other!
Increasingly, I get the feeling that there are elements of the US military who resent their status as "analagous" components of the ZOG machinery. Thank you for increasing their discomfiture. Every little bit helps!
Free neither to live nor die, the Zo[g]bie exists in a terrified netherworld of it's own making.
certainly anti israel as it deserves every bit of vitriol it receives. there are not many here that are anti usa military but there are alot us who are anti.gov that would send the usa's finest on missions benefiting the shitiest nation on earth. you, sir, are penetrated with your own head.
Go wander your sorry ass over to a Weekly Standard forum- where you can all engage in your mental masturbations while discussing the upcoming nuking of Iran - who cares about $10 a gallon gas? Small price to pay to keep our beloved Israel happy. Lloyd Blankfein and the bankster cartel will find a way to profit from the war, so all will be well.
Does the new law allow the US to default on Chinese debt? Can Obama announce that because China is trading with Iran, the US is freezing all payments on US debt held by China?
Well, why not? When Obama was inaugurated, Bloomberg designated him the “Banker in Chief.”
Right about now al Sadr and his army are getting ready to seize power from the installed USA puppet in Bagdad. He has been laying low for a few years now, just waiting for the right moment to strike. Being a fellow shitte {of his brotheren in Iran}, I can see how this would cause BIG PROBLEMS for the USA and it's few remaining allies. Now you not only have to be concerned with the Iranian oil, but Iraqi oil too. Now your easily talking $6-$7@gal gas at a minimum. Hows that for the economy? Once the 'mercun sheeple see those prices posted at their local pumps, They will rally behind this war. All illousions will be over. Screw fighting for middle east democracy, we want our "cheap oil" back!
they can't eat radioactive material.
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