US officials have reportedly shown Israel a demonstration of their new “bunker buster” bombs, with advanced burrowing capabilities, in hopes of convincing them that the US is capable of destroy Iran’s civilian nuclear program.
The new Massive Ordinance Penetrator (MOP) is said to weigh 30,000 pounds and is an upgrade from previous models. Officials say it would be capable of destroying the Fordow site, which is under a mountain.
The upgrade appears designed to convince Israel that the capability to destroy Iran’s program at any given time is going to remain in place, and hopefully get Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to back off deadlines to start a war.
The Fordow facility operates legally under Iran’s safeguards agreement with the IAEA, as a site for the civilian enrichment of uranium. US officials have contended that the site’s difficulty to destroy proves Iran is up to no good, while Iran insists that if the US and Israel weren’t constantly threatening to destroy anything and everything in the country they’d never have gone to the trouble of making it inconvenient to bomb in the first place.
How's about if Iran didn't constantly state Israel must and will be wiped off the map, then Iran would not be threatened – Israel presumaly has the bomb yet, has never threaten to wipe anyone oof the map
Morton, you really are in dire need of a brain transplant if you continue to believe and pedddle the disproved quote about wiping Israel off the face of the earth. Iran (i.e. Ahmedinejad) never said that – he said the zionist regime should vanish from the pages of time – in the same way that Ronald Reagan once said the USSR should be outlawed out of existence, or GWB stating that the regime of Saddam Hussein must fall. Besides, I don't see how threatening a state (Israel) is a worse crime than actually destroying / disposessing an entire people (Palestinians). Keep watching FUX news and all the attendant BS that goes with it if you are happy to see your IQ become smaller than your shoe size.
Vulture capitalism can destroy the world in less then 5 minutes……., as the system already have started, as the system poisoning the world, as the system at war with the world.
Oh good! But in the process of destroying Iran's civilian nuclear program, they also start WWIII. http://www.alibertarianvent.com/2012/10/grand-the…
Israel's Mideast malevolence is a sideshow. It enables the ever increasing Israeli/Jewish control of America's government, finances and military-industrial complex. The Jewish state has occupied not just Palestine, but America too. Our democracy is being methodically destroyed from within and transformed into a world dominating racist ultrapower, the JEWISH STATE OF AMERICA.
Everything that threatens Israel must die. But increasingly, everything threatens Israel.
I wonder how long it will take before some Israel-Firster Congresscritter attempts to "give" Israel one of these new improved MOPs. Cantor?
Blowing up a nuclear plant would be one of the worst act's of terror ever .
Nuclear contamination would be blown around the world . Is the united states government crazy?????
Hmmm
Destroying Iran's civilian nuclear program is completely illegal under both US and international law. To date there has been ZERO proof of any attempt by Iran to weaponize their nuclear program. The only allegations to date (unfounded) have come from israel. Naturally israel lies about Iran just as israel lied about Iraq, and the rest of its enemies in the Middle East.
Why is there a constant drumbeat about Iran and its totally benign and completely legal nuclear program and yet never a word, not even a whisper about israel's massive decades old nuclear weapons program. Never a word about israel's massive stock pile of nuclear weapons. Never a word about the 5 submarines given to israel by Germany that were specifically designed and built to provide OFFENSIVE NUCLEAR WEAPONS DELIVERY SYSTEMS. Now why is that? Simply put zionists control over 90% of the US media and a good portion of the rest of the so called free world.
media isn't supposed to be truth and insight and investigating.
media is controlled. It's about 'reporting journalism not investigative journalism.. It's for the general public to get the report. The public gets the propaganda and advertising and it is mildly entertaining.
people are a lot more animalistic than we like propagandize. Aggression, greed, fear. As a gov't we set the example for our citizens that killing is the answer to problems, that terrorism and massive destruction is the answer to problems. We are addicted to power and go about it aggressively, covertly, actively, passively…