And the Doomsday Clock creeps closer to midnight

Sooner or later the world is going to have to deal with Iran besides sanctions, strongly worded letters and stern finger-wagging. Iran's nuclear program, despite the best lies and spin by our own leftists and Islamic apologists is on track to have a working nuclear weapon in no more than 18 months. With enough enriched uranium to build four warheads and more in the pipeline, coupled with their ability to build and launch a rocket powerful enough to reach Tel-Aviv we have, without a doubt the makings of the Shia apocalypse to bring about the coming of the mahdi and the creation of the 12th caliphate.

Many here in the US believe Iran is no threat and that their nuclear program is for peaceful energy generation only, a mindset which will cause much consternation and gnashing of teeth when we wake up one morning to see a mushroom cloud over the desert of Iran, coupled with their warning that the next one will go to Israel.

Destroying Iran's capability to wage nuclear war is a tough job; Iran has been burying their facilities under hundreds of feet of sand, making conventional bombs ineffective, even the large bunker-buster bombs of the early years of the Afghan/Iraq wars. To completely neutralize Iran's ability there will have to be nuclear bombs used. I know, a scary scenario with implications far beyond the simple defeat of an enemy. No one has used a nuke in anger since 1945 and no one wants to be the first to release that genie again. Except Iran and the Shia theology driving it.

I do not envy anyone involved in the decision to give the go-ahead to bomb the nuclear facilities in Iran, I hope that the casualties are low and the destruction is high when it finally happens.

The US and Britain are weighing their options and looking at time frames. Couched in the terminology of politi-speak they say all options are on the table, letting Iran know that, as if it was not obvious already, we will not hesitate to use force if needed. The amount of force is the key sticking point and the area of most disagreement. It ultimately is up to Israel how to respond, and the US and UK will ultimately decide to look away at the appropriate moment, for the appropriate length of time until the job is done and Iran's capability to do nuclear research will have been reduced to a few very large shiny black glassy stains marking the desert.

We are going to witness a historic moment that will reverberate for decades, tens of thousands will be killed and the world will change forever. The clash of civilizations is upon us and nothing will stop the inevitable. I believe Iran will be attacked before next years Presidential election in November. June seems the best month to invade, from a historical perspective so expect to see something happen by then.

I hope to God I am wrong.

From the Mail Online November 2 by Ian Drury

UK and U.S. 'draw up joint plan to attack Iran': Evidence of nuclear programme raises tension in Middle East

The UK and U.S. are drawing up plans to attack Iran amid growing tensions in the Middle East, it was claimed last night.

Barack Obama and David Cameron are preparing for war after reports that Iran now has enough enriched uranium for four nuclear weapons.

President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s hardline regime in Tehran has been linked to three assassination plots on foreign soil, according to senior officials in Whitehall.

Iran has come sharply back into focus following the end of the Libya conflict.

And the unrest has been inflamed by sabre-rattling from top politicians in Israel.

President Obama said Iran's nuclear programme continues to pose a threat and that he and French president Nicolas Sarkozy want the international community to maintain pressure on the country to admit its intentions.

The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) is preparing to reveal intelligence on Iran's alleged nuclear arms experiments.

Iran has consistently denied that it is trying to build nuclear weapons and insists the programme is for peaceful purposes.

The U.S., Britain and France want the IAEA to share its intelligence, but Russia and China are pressing for the report to be delayed or scrapped entirely.

Who's our buddy?

Yesterday it was revealed that Tel Aviv had successfully test-fired a rocket capable of carrying a nuclear warhead which could strike Iran.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Defence Minister Ehud Barak are reportedly agitating for a pre-emptive attack against the Islamic state.

The UK would be likely to agree to any U.S. decision to invade, even though the Ministry of Defence are stretched to breaking point by swingeing budget cuts and wars in Afghanistan and Libya.

An MoD spokesman said: ‘The British government believes that a dual track strategy of pressure and engagement is the best approach to address the threat from Iran’s nuclear programme and avoid regional conflict.

‘We want a negotiated solution – but all options should be kept on the table.’

A special unit at the MoD has been instructed to work out the UK's strategy if the Army should invade Iran.

War planners will look at potential deployments of Royal Navy ships and submarines equipped with Tomahawk cruise missiles and RAF fighter jets armed with precision-guided Paveway IV and Brimstone bombs and missiles, surveillance planes and air-to-air refuelling.

Senior Whitehall figures have expressed alarm that Iran appeared ‘newly aggressive – and we are not quite sure why’.

Western intelligence has also suggested that Iran is hiding the material for a covert nuclear weapons programme in fortified bunkers which cannot be reached by conventional missiles.

Barack Obama is understood to have no wish to attack Iran in the run-up to the White House elections next year. But Washington may be pressured by Israel if Iran’s nuclear programme is not curtailed.

Mr Netanyahu is apparently also lobbying Cabinet members for a military strike, despite the likelihood it would draw a retaliation from Iran.

An Israeli defence official said the rocket launched by the military had merely been a long-planned test for a 'propulsion system'.

Further information about the rocket was censored by the military, but foreign reports said it was a long-range Jericho missile - capable of carrying a nuclear warhead and striking Iran.

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