Political Frenzy

President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is refusing to give up Iran’s growing nuclear capabilities, in spite of the UN’s resolution and the US’s diplomatic assault. Iran has been developing a uranium enrichment center just outside of Shiraz in Natanz with uranium mined in Iran’s Yazd province. The Natanz center houses 300 centrifuges, with plans to install 3,000 more.

Iranian officials maintain that the uranium enrichment is for nuclear power, not nuclear weapons. This would be much less worrisome if it wasn’t for the recently announced Shahab-3D, a missile with an enormous range and accuracy, which experts say could soon be capable of reaching European cities as far away as Paris. Attach a nuclear warhead to the Shahab’s rocket, and Iran suddenly becomes a major military power.

Shahab means “Falling Star” in Farsi, and Hoot means “Whale” - but the Hoot is only cetacean in its enormity. The Hoot torpedo, which is installed on the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps’ naval attack vessels, is the fastest torpedo in the world. Again, if installed with a nuclear warhead, this would make them extremely dangerous.

In order to protect the European nations who are within the Shahab’s range, the US has begun offering missile defense systems to Eastern European nations like Poland and the Czech Republic. England and France have also expressed interest in purchasing the defense systems, which would be based on the now outdated “Star Wars” system made popular by the Reagan White House.

Russia has been adamantly opposed to European countries purchasing such a defense system from Americans. Russian Generals have managed to bring up the fact that the Czech Republic and Poland could be targeted by Russia’s own rockets if they so chose. These comments have been taken as a threat, but most political observers agree that Russia is unlikely to take action, only blow hot air.

But why on Earth would Russia be so opposed to the purchase of a defense system? Some analysts say that Russia is upset at no longer being a superpower, and feels that they should be the ones supplying defense systems to European nations. One commenter brought up the fact that NATO has begun spreading to Russia’s borders and they feel boxed in by the member nations, which this reporter thinks has nothing to do with Russia’s opposition seeing as this is not a NATO plan; the NATO missile defense plan has been in development for decades without a single prototype.

The trail of breadcrumbs starts in Moscow, and trails back to that source of American distress: the Natanz facility in Iran, where the Iranians are enriching uranium. The facility has been under construction for years, originating from a building agreement between Iran and Russia.

That’s right, Russia is building the enrichment facility that has the United States crawling up its own poopshoot. Not only that but before Iran began mining for uranium in Yazd Province, Russia was their number one supplier of uranium. Iran has been enriching uranium for years, it’s just the volume at which they’re producing now that has American officials asking questions. Before the Natanz facility, Iran was using a series of centrifuges supplied by the United States and installed underneath Tehran University.

Russian diplomats to the UN have stated that if the US installs missile defense systems in Eastern Europe, it will be the beginning of another Cold War. They still have access to the technology to make atomic bombs measured by the tens of megatons, and since Agent Hanssen was arrested for selling American military secrets to the Russians, we can be sure that they’re still conducting spy operations.

Now the Kremlin seems to be prepping and grooming Iran as the next nuclear power, selecting a nation who has an axe to grind against the US. Everyone except the average American knows how the CIA, according to files released thanks to the Freedom of Information Act, sent in Agent Kermit Roosevelt to Operation Ajax during the 1950s. Roosevelt snuck in Tehran to topple Mohammed Mossadegh, the first elected leader of Iran, and replace him with the brutal dictator Shah Pahlavi. Roosevelt succeeded, and escaped. Mossadegh had to be removed because of his nationalization of Iranian oil, which many took to be a sign of Communism, but was really the only way to escape from the imperialist rape of his nation by English and American interests.

Iran has never forgiven the US, and is now seeking to pick a fight with its newly acquired weapons and powers, like the nerd who just took karate lessons saying “no” to the bully who took his lunch money. And Russia is the karate teacher.

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