The Mullahgarchy's Nuclear Shadow Grows

The Twelfth Imam is no respecter of hopeandchange (via Newsmax Insider):

Iran’s launch of a satellite into orbit indicates that the Islamic Republic has the missile technology to target Western Europe once it acquires a nuclear weapon, a top Israeli official warns.

The satellite, called Omid or “Hope,” was launched early in the week using an Iranian-made Safir-2 rocket, the Islamic Republic News Agency reported. A [Obam]agon official confirmed the launch.

“You need specific and added energy when firing a satellite that weighs between thirty and fifty kilograms [sixty-six and one hundred ten pounds],” Major General. Isaac Ben-Israel, former head of the Israel Space Agency, told the Jerusalem Post.

“If they succeeded, then the equivalent within the atmosphere is firing a ballistic missile with a nuclear warhead that weighs one ton all the way to Western Europe.”

[Obam]agon spokesman Geoff Morrell echoed that fear, the Boston Globe reported.

“The technology that is used to get this satellite into orbit . . . is one that could also be used to propel long-range ballistic missiles,” he said.

And Uzi Rubin, a former Israeli defense official, said in an interview, “Once someone has the ability to launch something into space, it can in fact reach every place on the face of...[E]arth.”

The Iranian media stated that Omid is a telecommunications research satellite that will transmit data while orbiting [E]arth fifteen times a day. Tehran insists the satellite technology is only for peaceful purposes, such as the gathering of environmental data.

But U.S. State Department spokesman Robert Wood called the satellite launch “a matter of great concern.”

Ben-Israel said Israel has only a one-year window in which to launch a pre-emptive strike on Iran’s nuclear facilities.

Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barack urged the U.N. Security Council to tighten sanctions on Iran because “time is running out.”

Britain, meanwhile, is prepared to impose unilateral sanctions against Iran, Foreign Office Minister of State Bill Rammell told a parliament committee on Wednesday.

According to Reuters, Rammell also said London has been sending a “very strong message” to British banks and companies about the “undesirability of investing in Iran.”

I wonder, assuming there's enough of us left to look back on it and there's a Western civilization from which to look, if the clarity of hindsight will lay bare just how thoroughly and completely the USSSA, Europe, and even Israel deluded themselves about the Iranian mullahgarchy's true nuclear intentions and what it would take to pre-empt them.  I read stories like the aforequoted and it couldn't be any clearer that Tehran is building nuclear weapons and the means to deliver them on Israeli, European, and American targets.  And I keep reading the lame-assed responses of Foggy Bottom and its feckless EU and Israeli counterparts - expressions of "great concern," impotent appeals to the Islamist-dominated, Jew-hating, America-bashing United Nations, "strong messages" utterly unbacked by the only kind of strength the mullahs will ever take seriously.

The fact of the matter is that we had a window of opportunity to "disarm" the mullahs after Operation Iraqi Freedom.  That window started closing after 2006 and it slammed shut last November.  Now there is no chance - none - to avoid a nuclear war with Iran, and whichever other of their rogue friends want to join the atomic party.  Only question is when and how.

Well, okay, and will the EUnuchs start getting serious about pre-emption now that they are within the mullahgarchy's nuclear reach?

I wish I could see the expression on Red Barry's face when he gets the Ayahtollahs' ulimatum.  It'll probably be the first time in his misbegotten, mongrel life that he'll be rendered speechless.