For this article, I want to present the newest article from a great writer, Dr. Lasha Darkmoon, that comes here courtesy of the website: The Occidental Observer, at www.theoccidentalobserver.net. It is entitled: "Armageddon Approaches" and gives a very factual report on what will happen if, or more likely when, the United States and the other puppet states of Israel actually launch their attack on the peaceful nation of Iran. I do, of course, have several of my own comments to follow:
Armageddon Approaches
Dr. Lasha Darkmoon
“An Israeli attack on Iran would create a disaster.” — Zbigniew Brzezinski
“The entire lake will become a killing field…the Gulf will run red with American blood.” — Military specialist Mark Gaffney.
Bombing Iran could be the final nail in the coffin of America—a
decaying and morally bankrupt superpower where torture has been
normalized and where the President is now free to kill anyone he
chooses, anywhere in the world, who he happens to suspect is a
terrorist.
Iran is perfectly capable of shutting down the Strait of Hormuz if it
wishes, doing immense damage to the US navy in the process. It
possesses a vast array of anti-ship weapons called Sunburn missiles,
which it has procured from Russia and China over the last decade. These
are state-of-the-art weapons developed by the Russians as a low-cost
challenge to the expensive, tech-heavy weaponry of the US. Specifically,
they are designed to sink ships, including America’s titanic aircraft
carriers.
The imminent conflict, which now belongs in the high probability spectrum,
is a conflict into which Russia and China cannot fail to be drawn.
Their interests are inextricably linked with those of Iran. You could
say that Iran is their semi-independent protectorate and ally.
If Iran were attacked and if Russia and China stood by and did
nothing, they would lose face forever. They would be signaling to the
world that they are weaklings, only too ready to cower at the feet of
the American superbully. Indeed, they would then be next on America’s
hit list.
Russia has a new 100-ton monster of a ballistic missile in the pipeline. It is aptly named Satan. And it will be used to devastating effect against America if America gets too big for its boots and gets overly aggressive.
Chinese Major General Zhang Zhaozhong recently stated that if America
or Israel attacked Iran, “China will not hesitate to protect Iran—even
with a third world war.”
* * *
A few points need to be clarified.
The US Navy is an efficient and professional organization, at the
cutting edge of modern warfare, but the Strait of Hormuz is not the kind
of environment in which the American navy would be invulnerable.
The Iranians can be expected to have a field day in the narrow
confines of the Persian Gulf, virtually drawing American ships into a
series of ambushes.
If one samples the technical literature on various military websites,
one finds there is a lively debate going on about American ship defense
systems. Nobody claims that any such system offers full protection
against ship missile strikes. Right now, most ships remain vulnerable to
such strikes, including America’s leviathan aircraft carriers.
These impressive Nimitz-class
aircraft carriers each come with a full complement of 7–8 supporting
ships, 70 or more assorted aircraft, and up to 6000 marines on board. In
a 2004 article, military specialist Mark Gaffney, author of Dimona: The Third Temple?
(1989), opines: “The US Navy’s largest ships, the massive carriers,
have now become floating death traps….In the Gulf’s shallow and confined
waters evasive maneuvers will be difficult, at best, and escape
impossible….The Gulf will run red with American blood.”
As for oil tankers, these are even more vulnerable than aircraft
carriers. If attacked, these will sink easily, clogging up vital sea
lanes and doing immense environmental damage to the entire Persian Gulf
region.
It is of interest to note that the US is busy working on a new
generation of laser defense to counter the sophisticated anti-ship
missiles possessed by Iran. However, these are still in process of
development. This gives Iran a relative advantage if it is attacked now
rather than later. Ironically, the longer America and Israel delay in
attacking Iran, the better their chances of successfully countering the
retaliatory measures they can expect from Iran.
Both America and Israel are unfortunately just not ready to wage the
type of warfare they prefer to wage and at which they so excel: shooting fish in a barrel.
Unlike Iraq, which the warmonger neoconservatives told us would be a “cakewalk”—easily
conquered in six weeks—Iran is unlikely to offer its American and
Israeli antagonists easy opportunities to indulge in their
fish-in-a-barrel fantasies.
Our courageous remote control warriors, hunched over their keyboards
far from the din of battle, may be able to rain down death and
destruction on innocent civilians in Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Yemen
and Somalia, meanwhile salving their consciences by calling their
victims “terrorists”, but there is nothing they can do with their drones
to stop Iran’s deadly missiles from blowing up American aircraft
carriers or sinking oil tankers in the Persian Gulf.
* * *
The Sunburn is perhaps the most lethal anti-ship missile in the world (see also here),
designed to fly as low as nine feet above groundwater level and at more
than 1,500 miles per hour. The missile uses a jerky pop-up maneuver for
its terminal approach. This enables it in effect to dodge, or jump out
of the way, of the Phalanx and other anti-missile defense systems: in
short, to hit its target bang-on without being intercepted en route.
Given their low cost, these ship missiles are perfectly suited for
close quarter naval conflict in the pond like environment of the Persian
Gulf.
The Sunburn is versatile and easy to use. It can be fired from
practically any platform, including the back of a flatbed truck. It has a
100-mile range, which is all that is necessary in the narrow Persian
Gulf, with its 40-mile width round the Strait of Hormuz.
Fired from shore, the Sunburn will punch a room-sized hole through any ship in the Strait of Hormuz in a fraction of a second.
These missiles therefore present a serious threat to the US Navy.
Their power to inflict horrendous damage on hostile intruders simply
cannot be exaggerated.
Developed by the Russians, and made fully available to China and
Iran, the SS-N-22 Sunburn, a supersonic anti-ship missile, has been
described as “the most lethal missile in the world today.” (See also here for other anti-ship missiles designed, built, or operated by Iran. See here for a discussion of anti-ship missiles and US capability to defend against them.)
Compared to the Exocet, the Sunburn is a much larger and faster
missile. It possesses a far greater range. Its guidance system is
spot-on. The Sunburn can deliver a 200-kiloton nuclear payload (a
750-pound conventional warhead) within a range of 100 miles, more than
twice the range of the Exocet. It seems the missile was specifically designed to defeat the US Aegis radar defense system.
The Sunburn’s astonishing accuracy was demonstrated recently in a
live test staged at sea by the Chinese and observed by US spy planes.
Not only did the Sunburn missile destroy the dummy target ship, it
scored a perfect bull’s eye. It succeeded in hitting the crosshairs of a large “X” mounted on the ship’s bridge.
Unlike America’s drones, the Sunburn is not in the business of
creating “collateral damage.” It does not kill innocent civilians by the
score. It kills only the enemy.
In a 2004 article, Mark Gaffney writes:
US ships in the Gulf will already have come within range of the Sunburn missiles and the even more advanced SS-NX-26 Yakhont missiles, also Russian-made (speed: Mach 2.9; range: 180 miles) deployed by the Iranians along the Gulf’s northern shore. Every US ship will be exposed and vulnerable. When the Iranians spring the trap, the entire lake will become a killing field.
The Sunburn’s payload hit, with its 750-pound conventional warhead,
is apparently insufficient to sink an aircraft carrier, but it is enough
to sink most other ships and their crews. So it is generally opined in
the technical literature.
No conclusive studies, however, have been carried out to determine the effect of a swarm
of missiles attacking an aircraft carrier simultaneously. Perhaps there
is no need for such a study. Common sense will tell you that a swarm of
killer bees is much more dangerous than a single bee. One bee you can
easily swat; a swarm of bees you cannot.
An astute observer of the military situation has offered this comment:
Aegis and RAM systems do not stop Sunburn missiles. Those systems were designed to stop subsonic not supersonic anti-ship cruise missiles. Even then they were unsuccessful in stopping an Iraqi (subsonic) Exocet when it struck the American warship Stark during the Iran-Iraq war.
Supersonic anti-ship cruise missiles travel faster than a rifle bullet and it would take no more than three of them to sink an aircraft carrier. In fact, any surface ship is a floating coffin.
If anyone out there knows of a technology that can stop a rifle bullet in full flight, please let me know what it is.
“You don’t have to be Hannibal preparing for the Battle of Cannae,”
military observer Russ Winter writes, “to see that the Strait is a
potential “shooting gallery”.
The Strait of Hormuz is in fact an ideal ambush location for large
and cumbersome ships that offer such easy targets you would have to be
blind to miss them.
Without a doubt, the Iranians have marked out every firing spot along
the Persian Gulf coast. Locating these hiding holes with low-flying
attack helicopters will not be easy. Helicopters can be shot down.
Equally impressive is Iran’s missile range:
1500 miles and growing. Hostile Bahrain and Qatar can easily be hit by
the longer-range versions of the Sunburn or Onyx. So can the Saudi
oilfields.
Indeed Israel itself, though further away, could suddenly find itself
under a shower of deadly missiles, not only from distant Iran, but from
Hezbollah just across the Lebanese border.
“This is going to be the Big One,” says Justin Raimondo, “a war that will make the invasion of Iraq look like a dress rehearsal for Armageddon.”
* * *
It is commonly acknowledged that Israel cannot go it alone in
fighting Iran. To wage a successful war against Iran, Israel needs
American help. Israel would naturally prefer America to do its dirty
work for it.
Should Israel act alone, it would face the extraordinary problem of
needing to refuel its bombers en route to targets about 1,000 miles away
and refueling them again on the way back.
It has been suggested that the United States should provide Israel
with three KC-135 refueling tankers.
Some of these Israeli supporters in
America claim they do not themselves advocate an Israeli attack on
Iran, but they are kindly disposed to Israel and wish to see it supplied
with tankers that would “extend the effective range of Israeli
aircraft” and “improve Israeli credibility.” (See here)
Israel has of course achieved a modest success in destroying the
nuclear facilities of two other relatively primitive countries in the
region: Iraq and Syria. These two past Israeli successes are not overly
impressive. As achievements, they are small beer. That is, compared to
the massive challenges Israel would have to face in Iran.
When Israel destroyed Iraq’s Osirak nuclear reactor in June 1981, it
was one ground-level building it destroyed. That simple operation
required 14 Israeli aircraft. Israel’s other success, demolishing a
partially constructed Syrian facility in September 2007, involved
targeting a rudimentary warehouse-like structure built on a single
floor—an exceptionally easy ground-level target.
The potential targets in Iran are not only far more numerous: they
are widely dispersed and buried deep underground. Many of them are
probably secret facilities whose very existence is unknown.
There is the fuel-enrichment plant at Natanz, a collection of
below-ground facilities used to produce enriched uranium. Then there is
the newer Fordow fuel-enrichment plant near Qom, built into the side of a
mountain and buried deep underground under several layers of reinforced
concrete. It is generally acknowledged that to crack open Fordow, and
destroy its alleged nuclear weaponry, would be a task beyond Israel’s
modest capacity. At a pinch, America could do it, maybe; but certainly
not Israel acting on its own.
There are two other Iranian nuclear sites Israel would need to
attack: the heavy-water reactor at Arak and the yellowcake-conversion
plant at Isfahan.
There are three possible routes to Iran: north over Turkey, south
over Saudi Arabia, or a central route across Jordan and Iraq. The US,
having officially withdrawn from Iraq in December, is no longer under
obligation to defend Iraqi skies from Israeli planes. The Iraqis
themselves are of course unable to do so. (See here.)
The recent Robb-Wald Report
tells us that Israel has enough GBU-28 bunker-busting bombs to
“severely damage, though likely not completely destroy, Iran’s known
underground nuclear sites in a single well-executed operation.”
Perhaps even this is no more than wishful thinking. Note the loaded phrase: “known underground nuclear sites.” Best not to mention the unknown ones.
To achieve victory in Iran, Israel would be stretched to the limit.
It would have to deploy several B-2 stealth and B-52 bombers,
fighter-bombers and helicopters, along with ship-launched cruise
missiles. It would not only need to take out Iran’s underground nuclear
facilities—an impossible task—but it would have to destroy Iran’s
communications systems, air defense and missile sites, Revolutionary
Guard Corps living quarters, munitions storage depots, airfields, and
ship and port facilities—not to mention missile boats, minelayers and
midget submarines.
Given that Israel, for all its vaunted might, was unable to defeat
valiant little Hezbollah in 20o6, the chances of it stealing an easy
victory from Iran would seem to belong in the realms of fantasy.
Not all Americans are in favor of aiding and abetting Israel in yet another rampage of wanton destruction—not after the crimes of Gaza which have left an indelible stain on Israel’s already dubious reputation.
Destroying Iran’s infrastructure may make sense to some callous
Americans, but to many others it would seem a cruel and vicious
enterprise. To poison a population of 74 million people, most of them
women and children, with tons of depleted uranium, while putting
thousands of other innocents into wheelchairs, is not an achievement
likely to bring honor or prestige to Israel.
Not all of us have forgotten the lessons of history. We are cognizant
of the fact that Iran has not started a war for 30o years. That it
simply wishes to be left alone. And that it is Israel, rather than Iran,
that seems to suffer from a serious pathological problem—a “collective madness”—with more than enough blood on its hands.
Speaking on behalf of Israel’s countless critics, one political pundit writes:
The US cannot eradicate the Iran regime. It cannot bring Iran under its control, that is, not without creating a disaster for itself and the entire world….Doing that entails huge costs and risks to the US, all the countries in that region, and the many other countries that would be affected by it, including Russia, China, India, Pakistan and Afghanistan….Right now, Obama must stop Israel from attacking Iran. (Emphasis in original). He must do so in the strongest ways available to him, like denying airspace to Israel for refueling its bombers. … The US [should] prevent Israel…from flying over Iraq and refueling.
Sound advice, it seems to me. Why support Israel? Cui bono? Iran has much more to offer America than Israel does.
Iran has oil in abundance, Israel has none. Iran does not hold
America’s political class to ransom. Iran does not try to browbeat
successive American administrations into putting Iranian interests
before American ones.
Iran’s dual citizens do not spy on America or sell
American military secrets to Russia and China—there are no Iranian
Rosenbergs or Jonathan Pollards. Iran does not coerce Americans into
fighting and dying for it in foreign wars. Iran does not expect $3
billion a year in handouts, and even more in loan guarantees that never
get repaid.
Iran would be a far greater asset to America than Israel could ever be. Israel is a liability and a burden.
More fool America for cuddling up to a “friend” who has stabbed it in
the back in the past—the Lavon affair, the USS Liberty incident, the
Jonathan Pollard betrayal—and is more than likely to stab it in the back
again at some time in the foreseeable future.
Dump Israel. That’s my advice. Before Israel sets the world on fire, taking America with it.
* * *
Obama has in recent months begun to make it clear to Israel that the
United States would not get involved in a war started by Benjamin
Netanyahu without preliminary US approval.
Indeed, on January 20, the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff,
Gen. Martin Dempsey, informed Netanyahu that the US would not defend
Israel if it launched an attack on Iran that had not been coordinated in
advance with the US.
In May 2008, Netanyahu’s predecessor, Ehud Olmert, had requested the
approval of George W Bush for an air attack on Iran. To his credit, Bush
had refused to countenance any such move.
Netanyahu has since defied the US administration by refusing to
assure Washington that he would consult them before making a decision to
attack Iran.
Other US officials have apparently made it clear to Netanyahu that
the US, unless fully consulted, would refuse to come to Israel’s aid in
the event of Israel declaring war on Iran unilaterally.
If Israel did that, it would be on its own.
It would be a mistake for Israel to assume that America is under
obligation to protect it from the consequences of its own folly. (For
more details, see here.)
Writing in the Huffington Post, political commentator MJ
Rosenberg advances the audacious theory that Israel has no wish to go to
war right now, but is more interested in flexing its muscles and
playing cat-and-mouse games with America. It wants to show everyone that
Israel is now the Cat and America the Mouse: “Netanyahu and his camp
followers do not really want a war now. They just want it understood
that they can dictate whether there is one or not. And when. In other
words, they want to show who is boss.”
It’s time for a showdown.
The capital of America needs to be moved back to Washington. Tel Aviv is too far away.
* * *
When Zbigniew Brzezinski says, “An Israeli attack on Iran would create a disaster”, he must be taken seriously.
An old hand, and an expert on Russia, Brzezinski is the acclaimed author of The Grand Chessboard:
American Primacy and Its Geostrategic Imperatives. One cannot help wondering what Brzezinski thinks of the controversial statement made by Leonid Ivashov, former member of the Russian Joint Chiefs of Staff, which aired on Russia Today TV on February 1, 2012:
Russia does not want any military operations to be waged against Iran or Syria. These two countries are allies, and both are considered guaranteed partners of Russia. A strike against Syria or Iran is an indirect strike against Russia and its interests.
Later he adds, significantly, striking a chord with people like me
who believe that America is now a crypto-fascist state masquerading as a
democracy:
Everybody should acknowledge that Fascism is making great strides on our planet. What they did in Libya is nearly identical to what Hitler and his armies did against Poland and then Russia. Today, therefore, Russia is defending the entire world from Fascism.
No need to ask who the New Fascists are.
Just turn on your television sets and you will see their smiling
faces, telling you how much they love and cherish you—as long as you
vote for them—and as long as you die for them in foreign wars for the
aggrandizement of Israel.
* * *
It certainly needs to be asked: How much longer will America continue
to fight Israel’s wars? What hold does Israel have over America? Is
America prepared to sustain immense damage to its vital interests on
behalf of an unstable and insolent ally that remains, if numerous polls
are to be believed, the world’s most hated nation?
There are some indications that not all American operatives,
especially in the armed forces and the CIA, are overly impressed with
Israel’s increasingly irresponsible behavior. A significant rift in the
friendship appears to be developing, a rift that will hopefully grow in
time as America finally comes to its senses.
Relations could once again reach rockbottom, as when former US
Secretary of State James Baker uttered his infamous remark about
Israel’s Jewish American supporters: “Fuck the Jews, they don’t even vote for us.”
Former Centcom chief and retired Gen. Joe Hoar recently complained of
a certain shady Israeli operation involving the terrorist group
Jundullah, in which Mossad thugs had the impudence to masquerade as CIA
agents: “Israel is playing with fire. It gets us involved in their covert war, whether we want to be involved or not.”
The tension between longsuffering Iran and an insufferable Israel, goading it to frenzy, is now at fever pitch.
Here is part of an interview between journalist Eleanor Hall and Iran
specialist Geneive Abdo who is director of the Iran program at the
National Security Network in Washington. I have compressed drastically
in the interests of economy, but the full version can be read here:
ELEANOR HALL: Iran’s leadership
says it’s sheer lies that it’s behind the [recent] attacks [on Iranian
embassies in India and elsewhere] and that the Israelis have planted the
bombs themselves to discredit Iran?
GENEIVE ABDO: Well I think that’s
entirely possible. I mean, if you consider what the Israelis did for
many years in Lebanon and other parts of the Middle East, that theory is
not so farfetched.
ELEANOR HALL: How incendiary is
the relationship between Iran and Israel right now? Are we looking at an
Israeli strike on Iranian nuclear facilities…?
GENEIVE ABDO: I think it’s certainly a decision Israel is taking very seriously.
ELEANOR HALL: So how dangerous do you think the situation is right now?
GENEIVE ABDO: I think it’s very dangerous. Far more dangerous than any escalation tension we’ve seen in 30 years.
ELEANOR HALL: So, how dangerous could it become if the Israelis do strike?
GENEIVE ABDO:
It’s an extremely dangerous situation. The Iranians will not take this
lightly, and they will use all the resources at their disposal to
attack. They will cause chaos in the region, because their whole
survival is on the line….You know, they could launch attacks on Latin
America. They’ve even said that they would launch attacks on American
soil. They will send missiles to Tel Aviv….If you consider what the
Israelis have done in Lebanon…I don’t think that gives us much hope…
If Israel decides to launch an all-out attack on Iran, we can be sure
of one thing: the towers of Tel Aviv will come toppling down. Not
necessarily now, but one day in the distant future, when it is decided
that vengeance is a dish best served cold.
The nuclear complex at Dimona could well be destroyed—if not now,
later on, in the fullness of time—making Israel an uninhabitable
wasteland.
Given its miniscule size, Israel could be destroyed in a single day, if not by Iran, then almost certainly by Russia or China.
Only a week ago, Alireza Forghani, head of the Supreme Leader
Ayatollah Ali Khamenei’s strategic team, was quoted as saying: “It would
only take nine minutes to wipe out Israel.”
No one seriously expects to see the annihilation of Israel right now,
but Israel will have to take the consequences of its actions one day.
Israel will reap what it sows as Armageddon approaches.
The clock is ticking…
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Dr Lasha Darkmoon (email her) is an academic with higher degrees in Classics. She is also a poet and translator. Her articles can be sampled here, her poems here.NTS Notes: I have long said that the real wild cards in this entire sick scenario are the nuclear armed nations of Russia, China, and now even Pakistan, that have all said that if Iran is attacked, they will throw their full support behind the nation of Iran, even if it means global thermonuclear war!
The problem has always been the total control over the United States government by criminal Jewish interests... These insane criminals care not about the American public, but show their undying love and devotion for the criminal and terrorist state of Israel first and foremost. They would even consider setting the entire world on fire, if it means that once the ashes and the rubble is cleared away, by some great miracle their cherished nation is the sole survivor!
This should be another in a long list of important articles for everyone to see... And a definite wake up call for the American public. These insane criminals are still pushing for their insane war on Iran, and the countdown clock is definitely ticking...
More to come
NTS
1 comment:
Iran is only one part of the Western cabbale strategy. But as you show us - an important part, that switch on China and Russia, but that only the visible. Ther more than 100 countries ready to help them against the West.
I have had a vision more times through the past half a year, that these big carriers are lopsided.
Another vision is that "City of three", Israel and Malta,will in first hand be destroyed.
Already last year was a plan written on the web, that China takes the westcoast in the pacific and Russia takes the Eastcoast in the Atlantic.
A third fact is that any US military, but also other missilestates with nukes are controlled and not able to be shut off. This is a secret fact, that the US has kept hidden for more decades.
Actually there exists technique that can stop bullets og more heavy things by magnetic device.
The Israeles are not able to make a war themselves, because they always put the play to others.
At the moment the US military is in a change of mentality, where there is a build up resistance going on - not to act in war any more.
All in all something is showing that the war will never start, never be won by anybody and mostly consists of mediahoax - "The empty war" - that changes the World.
Because everybody are aware that importent changes are around and war is the tool to stop changes. That means that evelution will win - not war.
Sorry - I'm not perfect in english!
The Visionaire
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