United Nations: Worried Iran Is Working On Nuclear War Head
Earlier today the IAEA released a report stating that the agency is worried that contrary to U.S. Intelligence reports that concluded that Iran had stopped their nuclear weapons program in 2003, that Iran is indeed working on producing a nuclear warhead.
This is a very big concern not only for Israel who has been threatened openly by the Islamic State but the entire region. Iran’s vast majority of the Muslims are Shia and Sunni neighbors may feel it is important for them to acquire nuclear weapons in order to have a balance in the region.
U.S. intelligence reponded that in 2007 when their assessment was released that they had concluded that Iran had ceased their nuclear weapons program but added that it does not mean that since 2007 Iran did not at some point resume it.
If the United Nations Nuclear Agency is correct in their fear of the course that Iran has taken it will send off an alarm that will have the entire region in a state of heightened tensions. Israel may feel it has it’s back against the wall and attempt to set Iran’s nuclear program back by attacking key components of the program. An Israel attack would shake up the entire region and possibly spread as tension between Israel and Iran ally Syria has ratched up in recent months.
Syria has been a regular meddler in Lebanon politics. Hizballah the terrorist militant group fought a short war with Israel in 2006. Syria is a major supporter of Hizballah and according to statements in recent weeks from Lebanese prime minister Saad Hariri that their would not be division in Lebanon over a new war between Israel and Hizballa. Lebanon would give support to Hizballah in a war with Israel. In the past Hizballah has been viewed as a separate entity to the Lebanon Government and more aligned with neighbor Syria as a way to have influence in Beirut than as a Lebanon Military Wing.
It this tension that is always on the cusp of overflowing that has kept these three countries in a state of possible conflict. Syria’s tight friendship with Iran creates a multi front war for Israel and in the end devastation in the region. There is a very high liklihood that Hizballah would send rockets into Israel as the group has it’s roots from the support that Iran provides to the terrorist group.
It us very easy to see the possibility of a wider war in the Middle East if and when Israel attacks Iran. The 2006 war that Israel fought would pale in comparison to an all out conflict that would occur between Israel and Iran.
Listing suspect activities known to it, the IAEA said it is interest in information on high-precision detonator and other explosives experiments; studies on setting off explosions high in the atmosphere; “whether the engineering design and computer modeling studies aimed at producing a new design for the payload chamber of a missile were for a nuclear payload,” and other nuclear activities with a possible military link.
Iran’s behavior of not fully disclosing nuclear facilities creates a need for serious questioning of Iran’s true intentions in regard to it’s self proclaimed “peaceful nuclear program”.
The world will have to continie to hold it’s breathe as this crisis rides it’s course.
