NUCLEAR SAUDI ARABIA - THE RESULT OF APPEASING IRAN

By Mark Urban, BBC

 

Saudi nuclear weapons 'on order' from Pakistan.

 

Since 2009, when King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia warned visiting US special envoy to the Middle East Dennis Ross that if Iran crossed the threshold, "we will get nuclear weapons", the kingdom has sent the Americans numerous signals of its intentions.

 

Saudi Arabia has invested in Pakistani nuclear weapons projects, and believes it could obtain atomic bombs at will, a variety of sources have told BBC Newsnight.

 

While the kingdom's quest has often been set in the context of countering Iran's atomic programme, it is now possible that the Saudis might be able to deploy such devices more quickly than the Islamic republic.

 

Earlier this year, a senior Nato decision maker told me that he had seen intelligence reporting that nuclear weapons made in Pakistan on behalf of Saudi Arabia are now sitting ready for delivery.

 

Gary Samore, until March 2013 President Barack Obama's counter-proliferation adviser, has told Newsnight:  "I do think that the Saudis believe that they have some understanding with Pakistan that, in extremis, they would have claim to acquire nuclear weapons from Pakistan."

 

Read more  - http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-24823846

 

 

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Appeasement won't reduce risk of nuclear Iran

 

By Mark Kirk, The Telegraph

US senator Mark Kirk, a key author of sanctions against Tehran, urges David Cameron to follow Churchill’s example and demand that the regime abandons its illicit nuclear programme.

 

Ayatollah Khamenei wants to build and maintain a nuclear weapons capability – not to construct an atomic device immediately, but to have the technical ability to do so at a moment of his choosing.

 

Such a capability might include the ability to produce weapons-grade uranium, the ability to produce plutonium, and the ability to launch missiles capable of travelling long distances with heavy payloads.

 

If it possessed this, the Islamic Republic would gain enormous leverage over the West – further emboldening the world’s leading state sponsor of terrorism to expand its sphere of influence.

 

Read more - http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/iran/10376354/Appeasement-wont-reduce-the-peril-of-a-nuclear-Iran.html

 

 

AS IN 1938 - APPEASEMENT CAN LEAD TO WAR

 

 

by Michael Curtis, The American Thinker

 

The democratic countries of the world today may be heading towards a possible recurrence of a policy of appeasement, concessions made to an enemy or potential enemy in order to avoid a conflict or a resort to hostilities.

 

The image of the supine pessimistic British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain needs to be remembered. It was he who submitted to and acquiesced in a policy that turned out to be disastrous, bringing war not peace.

 

The historic date was September 29, 1938 in Munich when Chamberlain accepted Adolf Hitler's demand that Nazi Germany would occupy the Sudetenland, part of the independent state of Czechoslovakia.

 

The insatiable Hitler followed this in March 1939 by taking over all of the country, which then ceased to exist.

 

The British appeasement policy may have been popular in Britain and France, countries whose populations were not eager to go to war, but the end result was war in increasingly unfavorable circumstances and with greater casualties. Appeasement had made the world less safe.

 

Read more - http://www.americanthinker.com/2013/10/no_appeasement_of_iran.html

 INFOGRAPHICS

A picture is worth a thousand words.  See infographics showing what Iran gets out of the deal
 
IRAN  GETS 7 BILLION DOLLARS
 
Enough for:
 
6 months to enrich uranium
35 years of funding for terror group Hizbullah
21 months funding for space military program
9 months funding for war budget
6 months to forge ahead on plutonium
 
See graphic here - http://www.thetower.org/iran-bad-deal/

 

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