Iran is running a secret uanium enrichment site, an exiled opposition group said on Wednesday, AFP reported.
Alireza Jafarzadeh, deputy director of the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI), said that there is a site hidden north east of Tehran.
“Despite the Iranian regime’s claims that all of its enrichment activities are transparent … it has in fact been engaged in research and development with advanced centrifuges at a secret nuclear site called Lavizan-3,” he said.
He reportedly showed reporters satellite images corresponding to his claims.
“Since 2008, the Iranian regime has secretly engaged in research and uranium enrichment with advanced… centrifuge machines at this site,” Jafarzadeh said.
ArnoldHarris Said:
Russia has the largest Muslim population in absolute numbers in all of Europe. The number of Muslims in Russia is projected to increase from about 16.4 million in 2010 to about 18.6 million in 2030. The Muslim share of the country’s population is expected to increase from 11.7% in 2010 to 14.4% in 2030.
The growth rate for the Muslim population in the Russian Federation is projected to be 0.6% annually over the next two decades. By contrast, Russia’s non-Muslim population is expected to shrink by an average of 0.6% annually over the same 20-year period.
Several factors contribute to the projected growth of Russia’s Muslim population. For instance, Muslim women generally have more children than other women in Russia (an estimated 2.3 children per woman, compared with a national average of fewer than 1.5 children per woman).1 Higher Muslim fertility is directly related to the fact that Muslim women marry in larger numbers and divorce less often than other women in Russia. This means they spend longer periods of their lives in unions where childbearing is more likely. And although the abortion rate in Russia is still among the highest in the world, research suggests that Muslim women have fewer abortions on average than other women in Russia.
Another reason the Muslim population in Russia is expected to increase is that nearly half of the country’s Muslims are under age 30, according to an analysis of data from Russia’s 2002 census. By comparison, about 40% of ethnic Russians are in this age group. Nearly a quarter of Russia’sMuslims (22.8%) are under age 15, compared with roughly one-in-six ethnic Russians (15.9%). On the older end of the age spectrum, about 27% of Russia’s Muslims are age 45 and older, compared with about 38% of ethnic Russians. And 13.1% of Muslims in Russia are age 60 and older, compared with nearly a fifth of the ethnic Russian population (19.1%).
Moscow has become a migration magnet for people from elsewhere in Russia, as well as beyond Russia. More than 600,000 Muslims reside in Moscow (3.7% of all Muslims in Russia) and an additional 517,000 live in the oil-rich Tyumen region (3.0%), which borders Kazakhstan to the south.
Above based on PEW Research Center Polling and Analysis January 27, 2011
The Future of the Global Muslim Population…. Looks like your RusKies are not living up to your expectations of them 🙁
mar55 Said:
Take care of yourself, we need you.
@ honeybee:
Do not worry HB. I have a key board that needs changing. As soon as the weather gets warmer I’ll take care of it. In March, I have schedule a second cataract operation. I can’t see very well either. It dos not matter we enjoy your postings.
About nukes. If you have some targets that will attack you first, and others that will follow, I would go for the secondary first and the primary after. Everything would happen very fast and the radiation will last for years. That is if we survive. I’m a contrarian even when investing. I do not like nukes but as a last resort it might be necessary. All I know is Israel has to survive.
@ ArnoldHarris:
Do you really think we can do anything at all? Any of the suggestions to equalize the populations would require force.
I’m against forcing anything on anybody. We have to wait and see. Faith and knowing G-d will protect us. Right now they have thousands of them killing one another.
Sterilization is a crime. We have to let things in G-d’s hands and keep protecting ourselves the best we can.
The Chinese have their own problems with their Muslim population. The Japanese do not allow Muslims to emigrate to their country. The Europeans I do not know. If everyone’s patient ends, it will get violent. Russia has its problems with their Muslims.
They do not care about having a violent death. Their reproduction level is so high they do not care about loosing some followers.
As you said, they crave power and would not stop at anything to get it.
Miracles do happen.
5@ mar55:
Mar55:
Indeed an impressive video. What would you suggest as an answer? Enforced mass reproductive sterilization selected by religion, which nobody ever will do? Selective immigration based on religion or nationality, which nobody presently does, but could in fact do before it is too late. Because nobody in the West seems willing to abandon democracy, an abandonment that I strongly advocate.
I suspect the Chinese will never allow large Moslem populations to enter their country, and the Japanese allow almost no immigration at all. But then again, the Chinese are sufficiently ruthless to control the culture of their vast population, which includes a relatively small number of Moslem Uyghurs, numbering about 10 million.
Among the white European populations, only the Russians are also sufficiently ruthless to do the same. As a matter of fact, their national experience for some 500 years has been that of imposing Russian culture on Islamic populations in what became southern Russia. Now that Russia is firmly back under the leadership of the Eastern Orthodox Church, I am certain that Russian national policy will continue, and possibly intensify — especially among the more troublesome Moslems such as the Chechens.
Remember that the stronger cultures always overwhelm the weaker ones. That is true for every living organism, and not just human societies.
But remember too that the Moslems always fractionalize, in an endlessly-changing kaleidoscope of competing doctrines, and war among themselves against each other. That is their particular national Achilles heel. However, the time may come when all peoples, slowly but surely, begin doubting all forms of religion.
But that will not stop the wars, either small or large. Because aggression, the will to power, and the territorial imperative rules all biotic matter, and most certainly so for the human race.
Arnold Harris
Mount Horeb WI
@ yamit82:
Yamit:
Raytheon Company has a US patent on a rocket with a deployable net designed to capture an incoming missile, including one as small as an RPG, which, presumably, is destroyed in-flight along with its captured target. See link below.
http://www.google.com/patents/US8205537
Arnold Harris
Mount Horeb WI
@ mar55:
mar55 Said:
Yes I did, I need to clean my glasses. I mean once nukes are used in warfare there is no controlling the outcome, even if they are used in a limited basis.
@ ArnoldHarris:
@ SHmuel HaLevi 2:
Iron Dome Operator: God Moved Missile We Couldn’t Hit
An earlier, unconfirmed report floating around the Internet had a Gaza resident attributing the lack of Hamas accuracy to Israel’s God moving the rockets off-course to protect His people.
“We do aim [our rockets], but their God changes their path in mid-air,” a Hamas commander was said to have told someone who wondered why Gaza-based militants can’t seem to hit their targets.
Whether or not that report is accurate, an Iron Dome operator whose battery failed three times to down an incoming missile headed toward Tel Aviv last week said the overall assessment is.
In remarks relayed to an Israeli news site (Hebrew), the Iron Dome battery commander recalled:
Target: Azrieli towers
@ SHmuel HaLevi 2:
@ ArnoldHarris:
Israel Miracle? Gaza Strip Hamas Complain, ‘Their God Changes The Paths Of Our Rockets In Mid-Air’
See Headline Here!!!
@ honeybee:
Did you mean exponentially?
Rather than eating ore than we can chew. I did not explain myself very well. You have to start somewhere. Some targets are more important than other since, by destroying
some of the targets that by responding could cause more damage to us. Take out those first. Anyway, it is a very complicated situation. There are more pieces on the chess board that we can move. Let’s wait and see. We need a miracle.
@ honeybee:
Dedicate 7.5 minutes to watch this eye-opening video!
WOW – what a video!
http://www.youtube.com/embed/6-3X5hIFXYU
mar55 Said:
Using a limited amount of nukes is like being a little bit pregnant. It is bound to grow experientially.
@ yamit82:
Yamit:
I think Israel lacks both the national will and the non-nuclear military means of destroying either or both the uranium stockpiles of Iran or their now-widely scattered system of centrifuges for rendering their uranium unusable for destructive military purposes. As for attempting to destroy them with a nuclear pre-emptive strike, I think that is mere talk. I think such an attack would take place only as a response to an attack upon the cities of Israel with weapons of mass destruction. And by then, action would be too late. I could be fully wrong about these assumptions, but that’s what I conclude from what is available to me to read.
If such assumptions are true, then Israel has no military or political option other than some means of effectuating regime change in Iran. And, admittedly, any such action has unpredictable outcomes — as the Obama administration ought to have learned from the coup they pulled off in Kiev that got rid of the Russian-oriented president of Ukraine.
I understand from published reports that Prime Minister Netanyahu, shortly after his address to the US Congress early next week, will visit with Russian President V V Putin. If he looks for anything other than some sort of deal regarding Iran and Russia’s imperial interests elsewhere in the Middle East, I would honestly have to regard him as a fool. Because any reliance whatsoever expected from the USA, in regard to the Iranian threat, would be foundationless.
I have been endlessly warned by you and other commenters on Israpundit that the Russians and Chinese are ruthless, and that may be undeniable. But from all measurable considerations, the Eurasian Union shall in fact dominate southern Asia and the Middle East, as the national power of the United States decays around the world in company with the obvious decay of the structure of the society of this country. Therefore, Israel and the Jewish nation may have no choice other than to find means to ally Israel on the side of the newest imperial power structure to prevail in the international neighborhood of the Jewish state. History shows that no imperial power anywhere is permanent, but for relatively small nations such as the Jews, we should have learned long ago that it is politically wise to come to understandings with such imperial powers during their eras of rise and expansion.
Perhaps you have some better ideas, based on factors about which I know nothing and you know much. If so, the tennis ball is in your court.
Arnold Harris
Mount Horeb WI
@ yamit82:
At this point what do you suggest can be done short of using nukes perhaps in a limited way? Can it be done?
@ yamit82:
Israel does not necessarily, in fact it does not mean, the present elements in government and military.
Ya’alon today came out opposing cutting back electricity to his buddies in Gaza and Y & S.
Sham kavur ha’kelev.
Done must be, but not under the present command and doctrine.
ArnoldHarris Said:
A- what makes you think regime change will be better than the one that now exists???
B-Regime change would still leave their nuclear project intact and still elevate Shia Iran no matter the nature of the government with a growing nuke arsenal. According to all internal polls in Iran the vast majority of the Iranian people support the nuke program and it’s stated unofficial aims, that being the elevation of Iran into a regional if not world hegemony.
Using cold blooded unemotional logic I submit that the primary target of Iran’s Nukes is the Great Satan the USA but before the USA all Sunni regional oil producers will be first on their menu. Israel is not even in the top 3-4 on Iran’s list of targets. They are not developing ICBM’s for Israels’ benefit but yours. What nukes will do is to defend against Attacks by Israel and America such as was performed against Gadaffi and tried against Syria.
The Growing Threat From an EMP Attack – Wall Street Journal
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vn6OVLK0MBI
@ SHmuel HaLevi 2:
BB and the IDF are afraid of defeating Hamas and are cowed by Hezbollah, do you really believe they have the Cahjones to take Iran on???? In your dreams!!!!
SHmuel HaLevi 2 Said:
I very much agree, but now one seems to have either the moral or political will to do so. just you and I so far.
@ honeybee:
Israel and using all the weapons systems we have that can do the job.
The present US administration is an ally of Iran and part of Islam. Will never do a thing to stop Iran from making nuclear bombs.In fact right now the administration has ordered the advanced training of Iranian nuclear scientists at UMASS, at Amherst. I was during my long work with the US Department of Defense associated on work performed at the Sandia National Labs and trained at China Lake Naval Weapons Center. Iran is weeks away from being a nuclear state.
Iran must be stopped. Now.
SHmuel HaLevi 2 Said:
Who and how ?
@ ArnoldHarris:
Great idea. I suggest that to get that job done the best way is to aim at and destroy every government and associated office and home and hideaway.
Change of government is then a sure thing.
Elections are not it.
I am beginning to think that inducing a change of regimes in Iran would prove more achievable and efficient than attempting to locate and destroy what could prove to be thousands of scattered nuclear enrichment centrifuges located under mountains in one of the largest countries of southern Asia.
In any case, the present ayatollah, Khameini, is 75 years old. And because each of such people think they have their own private blackberry connection to Allah, one can never tell when one of them may choose to change course from that of their predecessor. And from what I read, there is wide popular discontent around Iran, and especially its capital city of Teheran, which is held in check largely by the Basij gangs employed for that specific purpose by the regime.
Such a shift in strategic thinking could help Israel avoid a nuclear war, which, assuming both sides possess, deploy, and detonate nuclear weapons, would result in the end of the Jewish state, which is tool small to survive such a catastrophe.
As a mater of fact, a case could be made that nothing other than regime change, or induced regime policy re-orientation — could defuse this particular threat.
The time has come to make policy based as much on cold-blooded logic as on raw passion.
Arnold Harris
Mount Horeb WI
If the Mosad confirms the report, Mr. Netanyahu must be very much unbending in Washington. We must destroy that mortal threat. Now!