Iran missile progress, US new bête noire

…by Dr. Amir Dabiri Mehr …with Press TV, Tehran

[ Editors Note: Veterans Today was right again with our long held prediction that Iran’s non-existent nuclear weapons program hoax would finally revealed for all to see. And when neither Israel or the US released any nuclear weapons Intel they certainly led the world to believe they had, we knew they would attempt to bury that memory be cranking up a new ‘replacement’ threat. Despite Israel’s frantic pleas for Iran to be allowed no nuclear program whatsoever, despite their being no proof of any subterfuge in their civilian one, the world has ignored the country with the largest WMD arsenal in the Mid East who has refused all international inspection…Israel. Personally I feel that the never ending false attacks by the Zionists to be what we all know was nothing more than a diversion from their own unmonitored program has lead to putting major wind in the sails of the boycott movement. The world is sick and tired of the Zio-Hustle. And by that I do not mean boycotting just the settlements, nor their WMD, but their own five warhead MIRV’d ICBMs they are building with India. Our phony corporate media of course hardly ever prints a word about any on this despite its being a major national security concern for all the rest of us. Crimes Against Humanity in Israel not only carries no social stigma,but is the national sport for some. The US and EU seem to be focusing on Neo-Colonialism and War as a salvation from their financial woes. And the carnage they have been willing to visit upon not only the people of Syria but now the Ukraine, that shows us the West prefers it’s victims to not have any serious defensive capabilities. Good gosh, what’s not to love about their phony spreading of freedom and democracy…the kind that requires everybody else to be unarmed?… Jim W. Dean ]

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– First published February 27th, 2014 –

Amid progress in the ongoing talks on Iran’s nuclear energy program, the United States is raising unreasonable demands about Iran’s missile achievements.



A senior US intelligence official has said that Iran will acquire inter-continental ballistic missiles by 2015.

“I think when the Chairman [of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Martin Dempsey] talked about our assessment being in the 2015 timeframe, given the development that we’ve seen, that’s accurate,” Defense Intelligence Agency Director Lieutenant General Michael Flynn recently told the Senate Armed Services Committee.

Based on these remarks, the US officials have said that Iran must dismantle its missile program. In reaction, Iranian officials have said that the talks between Iran and six world powers are exclusively focused on the nuclear issue and that Iran’s defense capabilities are non-negotiable.







The first question striking the mind is to know why the US officials are bringing up a new issue in the midst of the nuclear talks while they are well aware that Iran will never accept to negotiate about its missile program. This issue could be analyzed from two points of view.

The first standpoint is based on the US-Israeli view of Iran’s nuclear and military activities: Iran has made significant progress in three different but complementary sectors and therefore the US and its allies should keep Iran from completing a triangle. Progress in these three fields would maximize the Islamic Republic’s deterrence power against threats. Here are the three sides of the triangle:

1. Nuclear program: Iran can enrich uranium to generate nuclear energy. Iran enriches uranium up to 20-percent purity with its own 19,000 centrifuges. Iran’s achievements in this field are irreversible. Iran can only be convinced to voluntarily curb the level of its enrichment as it agreed to not enrich uranium above five percent purity.

2. Ballistic missile launch: The US military and strategic experts say Iran is capable of launching 5,000-kilometer-range missiles whose warheads weigh one ton. In their view, Iran, which is located 10,000 kilometers from the east of the United States, is close to developing missiles which could hit the US.

3. Navigation and aviation: By intercepting a US drone, Iran showed to the US officials that it has made significant achievements in the aviation sector. Therefore, US strategists say, Iran can mount nuclear warheads on ballistic missiles to strike any target.

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For US strategists, any country making achievements in these three sectors is a potential nuclear power upon which Washington could no longer impose its demands. Therefore, they say, Iran should not be allowed to upgrade the range of its missiles to above 10,000 kilometers.

They say Iran’s nuclear issue and missile development should be discussed together throughout Iran’s talks with world powers – the US, France, Britain, Russia, China and Germany.

The second standpoint stipulates that negotiations with Iran should not be limited to the nuclear issue and that Iran’s military achievements, gained particularly in the wake of the Iraqi imposed war (1980-1988), must be discussed. This standpoint is setting the stage for discussions about Iran’s ballistic missiles in the future round of talks.

The first standpoint is far from reality and is mainly promoted by anti-Iranian circles in the US and Israel. These circles claim that Iran is seeking to develop a nuclear bomb. Advocates of this view say holding talks with Iran will let Tehran buy enough time to reach its nuclear objectives.

But the fact is that Iran’s nuclear activities are fully under supervision of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) and reports by the UN nuclear monitoring body give a clean bill of health to the Islamic Republic. Furthermore, Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei has said in a fatwa that developing a nuclear bomb is religiously forbidden.

Regarding the second standpoint, it is important to know that Iran has never hidden its military and missile achievements. Iran says it is entitled to boost its military strength and the US cannot ask Iran to dismantle its missile program.

The world remembers well that the US, France, Britain, Germany, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait and the former Soviet Union supplied Iraq with weapons during its invasion of Iran in the 1980s. Iran was left alone and it had to manufacture its own weaponry.

Naturally, such a country must be equipped with the most advanced and most effective defense gear in order to spare any infringement upon its territorial integrity. S

uch a level of preparedness is a totally domestic issue and is the Iranian people’s most basic expectation from the Islamic Republic.

The Americans must have raised the issue of Iran’s ballistic missiles to appease extremist Americans and Zionists – seriously opposing Iran’s nuclear talks – in the short-term, and also to define the agenda for future talks between Iran and world powers.

Either way, Iran is unlikely to agree to negotiate with the world powers on its sovereign defensive right. Iran has also set redlines like suspension of nuclear research activities, closure of Arak heavy-water plant and limiting the number of centrifuges to 10,000.

One must wait and see what other issues the Americans are willing to raise throughout Iran’s nuclear talks with the world powers.

Editing: Jim W. Dean

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Read Full Complete Bio >>> Jim’s Latest Posts Jim W. Dean is Managing Editor of Veterans Today involved in operations, development, and writing, plus an active schedule of TV and radio interviews. He broke into television work doing Atlanta Public TV programs for variety of American heritage, historical,military, veterans and Intel topics and organizations since 2000. Jim’s only film appearance was in the PBS Looking for Lincoln documentary with Prof. Henry Lewis Gates, and he has guest lectured at the Army Command and General Staff School at Fort Gordon, GA.He is working to find time now to database his extensive video archive of Americana and interviews filmed during his public TV days so individual topic segments can be key word searched to quickly use in future multi-media projects.