Iran, not Israel, will start the war
By: Elias Bejjani*
April 27/10
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said yesterday:
"There is no truth to insinuations that Israel is allegedly planning a move
against Syria. I estimate that this is an attempt made by Iran and Hezbollah to
distract the international community from the sanctions planned against Iran."
Mr. Netanyahu's short but decisive statement actually unveils the ongoing
vicious Iranian scheme that is in the works. The mullahs in Iran are cunningly
working day and night on the last details of a devastating war that they are
planning to ignite against Israel from Lebanon through their militant terrorist
proxy, Hezbollah, when the time is appropriate for them, exactly as was the case
in 2006.
Meanwhile, Iran's intentions to annihilate the Jewish state are becoming bolder
and more aggressive. On 18/04/2010, Iran’s President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said
that Israel was on its way to collapse, as Iran's military displayed a range of
home-built drones and missiles at the annual Army Day parade. In a speech
marking the event, Ahmadinejad also reiterated his view that the presence of
foreign forces is causing conflict in the region. "The Zionist regime is on its
way to collapse. This regime is the main instigator of sedition and conflict in
the region," the Iranian president added. "This is the will of the regional
nations that after 60 odd years, the root of this corrupt microbe and the main
reason for insecurity in the region be pulled out... Its supporters and
creators ought to stop backing it and allow the regional nations and the
Palestinians to settle things with them," he said.
In 2006 Iran was under tremendous pressure from Western countries to halt its
nuclear program or face very tough sanctions. To distract the entire world away
from their program they gave orders to their Hezbollah army in Lebanon to engage
the Jewish State in a war that they did without any hesitation. The war lasted
for 33 days and shifted all the heat away from Iran and its suspicious nuclear
activities.
In fact, Syria under President Bashar Al Assad has become an Iranian puppet and
has no say in what Hezbollah in Lebanon does or does not do. Meanwhile, the
current relationship between Syria's president Bashar Al Assad and Iran's
president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is a replicate of the master-slave one that
existed during World War II between Hitler and Mussolini where the first was in
full control of the decision making process and the second just a puppet who
carried out his orders with no say whatsoever.
Retired Lebanese army officer, and renowned worldwide expert on Hezbollah and
terrorism, Colonel Charbel Barakat, wrote yesterday for our site, the LCCC, an
analysis with the title, "Who is beating the war drums this time?" In this
article he addresses the Scud missile crisis that has led to a war of rhetoric
between Iran, Syria and Hezbollah on one side, and Israel and the USA on the
other.
Barakat, based on his extensive first hand military and anti-terrorism
expertise, strongly believes that Iran, and not Syria, is in full control all
the Middle East Axis of Evil and Islamic fundamentalist terror groups’ (Syria,
Hamas, Hezbollah, Jihad, etc.) activities, finances, plans, leadership, cadres
and decision making processes, while Hezbollah is a mere militant Iranian
brigade.
In contrast to many Western analysts who have claimed that Hezbollah does not
strategically need the Scud missiles due to its self defense military resistance
status, Barakat said: "these claims would have been true if Hezbollah was
actually Lebanese and in an actual self defense status, but it is not, and it is
totally affiliated to the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC)”.
Barakat concluded that Iran desperately wants Hezbollah to pile these Scud missiles in its arsenal because their longest range is 700 km and thus they are a must for its scheme that aims to reach Israel's nuclear plant in Demona, the Israeli Nagave airports and other vital military and civil institutions.
He added that "The Iranian improved M 600 missiles that are
currently in Hezbollah's possession have a range that does not go beyond Tel
Aviv, and here comes the importance of the Scud missiles that can reach
locations all over Israel. The M 600 missile and the Scud both can carry a load
of up to 500 kg”.
Were the Scud missiles actually transferred from Syria to Hezbollah's military
bases in Lebanon or not yet? Barakat played down the importance of such futile,
time wasting and camouflaging rhetoric because he believes that Syria's rulers
have merely become Iranian puppets and accordingly they will without a shred of
a doubt transfer these missiles or any other weapons in their arsenal to
Hezbollah whenever the Iranian leadership orders them to do so.
What is actually very striking and scary in Barakat's in depth analysis is his
strong conviction that Iran is the one which will soon launch through its
militant proxy, Hezbollah, a preemptive war against Israel's nuclear plants,
before the Israelis or the US attack Iran's nuclear facilities.
Barakat stressed the pivotal role of the Scud missiles in such an Iranian war scenario and urged the Free World to take such an impending possibility into consideration and act swiftly in a bid to abort it.
He reminded all those concerned in the Middle East,US, and
Europe of a possible repeat by Iran of the surprise tactics that Israel used in
1976 in which its air force attacked all of Egypt's military airports and won
the war before it started. He therefore thinks the issue of the Scud missiles
should be taken seriously and dealt with accordingly.
Barakat considered that all the Lebanese officials' statements with regard to
the Scud smuggling crisis to be baseless and have no credibility because of
Hezbollah’s hegemony over the whole country including its military institutions.
*Elias Bejjani
Canadian-Lebanese Human Rights activist, journalist and political commentator
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Here to read the above Barakat's complete analysis in
Arabic
http://www.10452lccc.com/barakat/barakat26.4.10.htm
Colonel Charbel Barakat's two testimonies before the USA
Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Near Eastern & South Asian Affairs
Subcommittee in 1977 & 2000
*Colonel
Charbel Baraket's full English written text testimony
before the
Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Near Eastern & South Asian Affairs
Subcommittee/14/6/2000/Click
Here
http://www.10452lccc.com/special%20studies/barakatjune2000.htm
2-Colonel
Charbel Baraket's testimony
before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Near Eastern & South Asian
Affairs Subcommittee
June 7/1997/
Click Here
http://www.10452lccc.com/barakat/barakat.june.97.teste.htm
3-Scud
ballistic missiles/Click
here to know all about these Russian ballistic weapons
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scud#Scud-D