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Iran Secret Document Decoded: Iran Developing Nuclear EMP Bomb 2 Send U.S. 2 Stone Age! – Video


Iran Secret Document Decoded: Iran Developing Nuclear EMP Bomb 2 Send U.S. 2 Stone Age!
WARNING***While the antichrist barack Obama negotiates a nuclear deal with iran, who hates our guts. They are busy developing a nuclear EMP Bomb to detonate above obamaland, formerly America ...

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War with Iran is probably our best option – The Washington …

By Joshua Muravchik March 13

Joshua Muravchik is a fellow at the Foreign Policy Institute of Johns Hopkins Universitys School of Advanced International Studies.

The logical flaw in the indictment of a looming very bad nuclear deal with Iran that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu delivered before Congress this month was his claim that we could secure a good deal by calling Irans bluff and imposing tougher sanctions. The Iranian regime that Netanyahu described so vividly violent, rapacious, devious and redolent with hatred for Israel and the United States is bound to continue its quest for nuclear weapons by refusing any good deal or by cheating.

This gives force to the Obama administrations taunting rejoinder: What is Netanyahus alternative? War? But the administrations position also contains a glaring contradiction. National security adviser Susan Rice declared at an American Israel Public Affairs Committee conference before Netanyahus speech that a bad deal is worse than no deal. So if Iran will accept only a bad deal, what is President Obamas alternative? War?

Obamas stance implies that we have no choice but to accept Irans best offer whatever is, to use Rices term, achievable because the alternative is unthinkable.

But should it be? What if force is the only way to block Iran from gaining nuclear weapons? That, in fact, is probably the reality. Ideology is the raison detre of Irans regime, legitimating its rule and inspiring its leaders and their supporters. In this sense, it is akin to communist, fascist and Nazi regimes that set out to transform the world. Iran aims to carry its Islamic revolution across the Middle East and beyond. A nuclear arsenal, even if it is only brandished, would vastly enhance Irans power to achieve that goal.

Such visionary regimes do not trade power for a mess of foreign goods. Materialism is not their priority: They often sacrifice prosperity to adhere to ideology. Of course, they need some wealth to underwrite their power, but only a limited amount. North Korea has remained dirt poor practicing its ideology of juche, or self-reliance, but it still found the resources to build nuclear weapons.

Sanctions may have induced Iran to enter negotiations, but they have not persuaded it to abandon its quest for nuclear weapons. Nor would the stiffer sanctions that Netanyahu advocates bring a different result. Sanctions could succeed if they caused the regime to fall; the end of communism in Ukraine and Kazakhstan, and of apartheid in South Africa, led to the abandonment of nuclear weapons in those states. But since 2009, there have been few signs of rebellion in Tehran.

Otherwise, only military actions by Israel against Iraq and Syria, and through the specter of U.S. force against Libya have halted nuclear programs. Sanctions have never stopped a nuclear drive anywhere.

Does this mean that our only option is war? Yes, although an air campaign targeting Irans nuclear infrastructure would entail less need for boots on the ground than the war Obama is waging against the Islamic State, which poses far smaller a threat than Iran does.

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What You Should Know About the Iran Nuclear Negotiations

As the U.S. approaches a deadline for a nuclear deal with Iran, here are some basic facts about the negotiations to keep in mind:

The deadline for a deal between Iran and the P5+1 (U.S., U.K., Russia, China, France + Germany) on a broad technical framework for Irans nuclear program is March 31, as established by Secretary of State John Kerry in November when he announced a four-month extension of negotiations. The specific technical guidelines within that deal would need to be decided by June 30. Implementation of the agreement would begin after that date.

A deal would require Iran to halt production of all weapons-grade nuclear material for another 10 years -- as it has already done under an interim agreement -- and to submit to an intense inspection and verification process. In exchange, the international community and the U.S. would gradually lift heavy economic sanctions. Reports about the latest negotiations say the agreement would force Iran to cut the hardware it could use to make a bomb by about 40 percent. That would mean Iran would be allowed to keep 6,000 of the 10,000 centrifuges it has used to enrich uranium. Current estimates are that Iran could put together enough nuclear material for an atomic bomb in about two to three months, what is known as a breakout time. The U.S. believes a deal would push Irans breakout time to one year during the course of the 10-year moratorium.

Iran wants an economic recovery ... and fast. Irans leaders expect a deal will provide the country an immediate economic bump. But if that doesnt happen, some analysts fear resentment towards Iranian President Hassan Rouhani could grow and eventually lead to a breakdown of the agreement. Analysts also say Irans economic problems run far deeper than the sanctions, so theyre skeptical that lifting sanctions alone will turn things around. Others hope that the mere announcement of a deal will boost public confidence and encourage European businesses to engage with Iran, giving Iran the bump it needs.

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PHOTO: Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif leaves the hotel Beau-Rivage Palace after 5 days of bilateral meetings during a new round of Nuclear Iran Talks, in Lausanne, Switzerland, March 20, 2015.

President Obama could lift some of the U.S. sanctions immediately but others would be lifted over time pending verification that Iran is complying with the agreement. Eventually, Congress will have to approve lifting some of the final sanctions, which could be problematic.

The P5+1 wants time. It wants to avoid the possibility that Irans nuclear pursuits could lead to a regional conflict. A 10-year nuclear moratorium, while not a permanent solution, gives the P5=1 countries that time. They want to avoid a nuclear arms race in the Gulf region. More specifically, they want to ensure that Irans most hardened nuclear facilities are no longer producing nuclear material.

The deal hinges, in large part, on the deep buried enrichment facility at Fordow. Iran wants to keep running hundreds of the centrifuges there for scientific research, but the U.S. wants Iran to completely repurpose the facility, fearing the centrifuges could be easily retooled for a quick, secret breakout. The U.S. is focusing on the Fordow facility because it is buried deep underground, possibly beyond the reach of the worlds most powerful bunker-buster bombs. So if Iran breaks the agreement, Fordow would be its most hardened and likely choice to begin producing the material.

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A look at the main focus of Iran nuclear talks: Iran's uranium enrichment program

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry, center, walks outside the hotel during a break from a bilateral meeting with Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif for a new round of Nuclear Talks, in Lausanne, Switzerland, Thursday, March 19, 2015. (AP Photo/Keystone,Laurent Gillieron)(The Associated Press)

LAUSANNE, Switzerland Want to understand what nuclear talks with Iran are about but don't know uranium from plutonium, or a centrifuge from a fuel cycle?

Here is a primer for the technical talks in Switzerland as U.S. and Iranian negotiators try to seal a framework agreement before the end of March, scaling back Iranian programs that can lead to nuclear weapons and easing crippling sanctions. The deadline for a final accord is end of June.

The United States' primary concern is Iran's ability to enrich uranium. Iran says its aims are for peaceful energy, medical and scientific purposes, but many governments believe it has nuclear weapons ambitions.

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WHY THE FOCUS ON URANIUM?

Uranium is a metal found in the ground around the world, most commonly in Australia, Kazakhstan, Canada and Ukraine, that can be used as an energy source. Much works goes into transforming uranium extracted at mills into fuel for a nuclear reactor or material for a weapon. Less than 1 percent of any piece of uranium pulled from the earth is the good stuff the uranium-235 isotope. For fuel, the level of that isotope must be increased to between 3.5 percent and 5 percent. To produce isotopes for cancer treatment, 20 percent is required. For weapons, the concentration must reach 90 percent. This is what nuclear experts talk about when they speak of enrichment levels. Although plutonium can also be used in bombs, the focus is on enrichment because Iran's uranium program is far more advanced.

HOW DOES ENRICHMENT WORK?

There are different methods to enrich. All concern isolating the good stuff from the less useful. For Iran's purposes, the process starts at the mill, where the uranium is separated from other metals and pounded into a fine yellow powder called yellowcake. At a conversion facility it is then transformed into gas that can be put in centrifuges. Inside the centrifuge, a rotor spins gas around the tube at thousands of times per second. That pushes the heavier uranium-238 out off to the side of the tube, and more of the slightly lighter uranium-235 to the inside. Physicists connect many of these centrifuges together, enriching the material a bit more as it goes through each machine. Such a setup is called a cascade.

WHAT DOES IRAN HAVE?

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