On Ground Updates: Iran - March 08, 2009

On Ground Updates: Iran
Sunday, March 08, 2009
. Iran Map by DoD-CENTCOM
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* Haaretz.com brings us the following report this Sunday morning and it goes in part like this. …"Iran test fires new long range missile," Press TV, Iran's English-language television station, said in a scrolling headline without giving details… Military Intelligence chief Amos Yadlin said Sunday at the weekly cabinet meeting that "Iran has crossed the technological threshold" in its quest for nuclear arms…
Read the full report at link below…
Iran TV: We've test-fired new long-range missile
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….More related articles from the Haaretz.com website below:
>Iran military chief: Our missiles can hit Israeli nuclear sites
>Report: Iran seeking Russian missiles to repel Israeli assault
>Iran test fires missiles said to be capable of hitting Israel
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* JPOST.com reports it this way…
Iranian news agencies were divided over the range and purpose of a missile fired by the Islamic republic on Sunday…
Read the report at link below…
Iran reportedly test-fires new missile
Above link also has a short IBA News Video Report
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….Also on the Jerusalem Post website today is this report…
Iran had "crossed the technological threshold" and its attainment of nuclear military capability is now a matter of "incorporating the goal of producing an atomic bomb into its strategy," OC Military Intelligence Maj.-Gen. Amos Yadlin told the cabinet on Sunday…
Read the full report at link below…
Yadlin: Iran has crossed nuclear technological threshold
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* YNETNews.com brings us this report today…
Military Intelligence chief Major-General Amos Yadlin told the cabinet meeting on Sunday that "Iran has crossed the technological threshold, so that reaching a military nuclear ability is only a matter of matching the strategy to the goal of creating a nuclear bomb."… According to Yadlin, "Iran continues to accumulate hundreds of kilograms of enriched uranium of poor quality, and hopes to take advantage of its dialogue with the West and the government in Washington in order to advance towards creating a nuclear bomb."…
Read the rest at link below…
MI chief: Iran capable of creating bomb

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* Here’s a past post I posted on my website back on March 5th…Iran Can Make A Nuclear Weapon Within Year - Can Get Enough Material To Produce Up To 50 Nuclear Bombs - Israel Seriously Considering Iran Military Op
DoE file Photo

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My take is this:
It’s now or never!
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If there is ever going to be any kind of military action taken in preventing a nuclear-armed Iran, it is going to have to be taken very soon now and definitely before Russia begins delivering its sophisticated S-300 Missile Interceptors to Tehran.
(Read more about this deal HERE & HERE)
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Even though some folks out there in the know say the Russian-Iran S-300 Missile Deal has yet to be finalized… I say it’s not if the deal happens -- but when.
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Bottom line is this… Once the deal IS finalized and these Interceptors are installed, it will become almost impossible for Israel, or the U.S. for that matter, to attack any of the Iranian Nuclear Sites.
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Yes… It could still be done afterwards… but at a much, MUCH Higher Cost in life and machinery. Not to mention the likelihood of only achieving less successful missions thereafter too.

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AubreyJ………
Sunday, March 08, 2009