Iran: The Primary Threat

Nearly thirty years after the 1979 revolution, Iran remains the State Department’s most active and latent state sponsor of terrorism. Iran’s firm and non-negotiable position to oppose Israel’s existence continues to enrich its label as the primary threat to the region and to world peace. The ambition for proliferation of nuclear capabilities that goes beyond energy use but to nuclear armament superiority is developing a sense of uncertainty in the region. The United States and its allies cannot shut down the conversations with the regime of Mahmoud Ahmedinejed in regard to pushing for internal inspections by independent sources with the authority and knowledge to evaluate the possible threat. The trick is to know how to talk to a regime that opposes feverously to the State of Israel in search for answers and cooperation through the inspection. No other American administration has made severe efforts to counter Iranian regional influence and weaken its government than President George W. Bush’s government. The period of the Obama administration has been the moment needed by the Iranian government to recoup the strength needed to remain as a global threat.
Immediate conversations must take place and effective responses should be the result of these conversations to ensure effective communication. The Islamic Republic is not on the verge of collapse and no internal revolution will take place. The nation is concise and strongly tied to Islamic principles that any abrupt political upheaval or military intervention could generate even worse results. Political strategists must identify if the Iranian policies and position is because the way the West behaves towards Iran or it simply is the way they do business with nations that support and stand by the State of Israel. After the identification of policy basics, the research of negotiation alternatives must take place with strong consideration of economic sanctions and strong, imminent, and consistent pressure to allow independent nuclear committee to evaluate every site, every corner, and every plan of the Iranian nuclear proliferation. Unfortunately, this will not be done during the current administration of Barak Hussein Obama, who has shown poor interest to this massive threat to the region, little concern about the future of the sovereignty of the State of Israel, and no interest or knowledge in regard to the continuous support from the Iranian government to terrorist organizations in the region.
The United Nations’ nuclear chief, Yukiya Amano has made public a report indicating that Iran is trying to develop nuclear technologies for arms, something that the government of Ahmedinejed has denied and labeled as political-motivated conspiracy with Washington. Members of the Iranian government and nuclear department have rejected any intervention of any organization directed to evaluate their nuclear potential and inventory. The Iranian people is not ready for a change as it was demonstrated in Egypt, Tunisia, Libya, and Yemen; the Iranian government shut all talks when it comes to the State of Israel, its recognition, acceptance, and respect as a legally established nation; the Iranian government feeds constantly the evil veins of the terrorist organizations Hamas and Hezbollah, which are the cancer that spreads and threats the stabilization of nations and peace in the region.
In the eyes of the Iranian regime, there is a clear and real believe that Washington sought to install a pro-American puppet government in Iraq, protected by US troops for many years along with the dissemination of democratic and Western ideologies to be sympathetic to Israel and hostile to Iran, something that the Iranians also believe is happening with the government of Karzai in Afghanistan but they will not look back or sideways, they are committed to their evil doctrine that has the foundations of radical Islam, which translates into just one word: Terrorism.
Then, what are the options if all the doors for diplomatic talks are closed? What are the options to evaluate the proliferation of nuclear technologies in the country if the Iranian government does not welcome any organization to do so? What are the options if atomic research goes on between all five daily prayers? The answer is narrowing down to military intervention.

Radical Islam behind Tensions in the Region

Although no official sources have declared this assertion, Radical Islam may be celebrating the disruption of peace in Egypt, and bringing the region to its everlasting melody of uprisings and violence. Since the victory of Hamas in 2006 in the Gaza Strip, strange things had to be taken place in the boundaries of Egypt and Israel beside the armament smuggling and secret tunnels, which has always been Israel’s main concern. The inadequate restriction and control of traffic between these two lands has been criticized by many scholars and the Israeli government. Thirty years of diplomacy and built relations between the United States and Egypt brought some peace in the region, at least between Egypt and Israel as a result of the acceptance and recognition of the Israeli State by the Arab nation of Egypt. Uncle Sam has injected billions of dollars per year to the Egyptian government and its military forces to preserve stability in the region. Multi-national forces in assignment as observers have also maintained an open eye from the Sinai to ensure peaceful living in the region. It seems that financial support from Washington blinded the American governments from the Carter administration to the Obama’s by feeding dollars in exchange for good relations with Israel. Let’s not forget that Egypt is an Arab nation and as such its population has exploded into an unbelievable uprising demanding the resignation of Hosni Mubarak. People on the streets are shouting for big changes, food, and attention to their needs and they are done in seeing their government with ties to the United States and both nations protection to the State of Israel. Very simple, Arab nations are meant for the destruction of the Israeli nation and prosecution of Jewish communities. What happened in November of 1977, when Egyptian President Anwar Sadat made a stunning trip to Jerusalem as result of the Carter administration efforts to negotiate with Israel is backfiring now to the region, and to the United States. The return of the Sinai Desert to Egypt was a disgrace to the 7,000 Jewish people whom resettled themselves someplace else as part of the peace agreement plus the injection of billions of dollars to Egypt to stay away from Jewish land and to stop participating in the Arab League to boycott Israel. Maybe this will be the same scenario we confronted during the Persian Gulf War. America injected billions of dollars and armaments to Iraq to confront Iran and to position Baghdad on a victorious stand. Years later we fought them and confront them aiming at us with our own M-16 rifles. Are we ready to face the same scenario if Mubarak steps down from government? Besides the accusations of corruption that most likely great percentage of the injected money to Egypt had to be secluded somewhere else but Cairo, the faith of the peace processes is important and unpredictable at this point. Israel is at danger with the spread of the cancerous violence of Radical Islam as well as the United States. What Anwar Sadat agreed in 1977 paid with his own life in 1981 when he was assassinated by the Egyptian Islamic Jihad, which opposed any sort of reconciliation with Israel. It is time for Mubarak to step-down, he has no choice. The Egyptian people are determined to put an end to thirty years of nothing but recession, unemployment, and hunger. We must be aware that Radical Islam is already in the veins of the nation system by birth and that diplomacy may not be the route to take when dealing with this Arab nation that sooner or later will rejoin its position to boycott Israel. A characteristic that shall not be overlooked is that it didn’t matter all the diplomatic relations, peace treaties, and good-faith promises between Egypt and Israel seasoned with promotion of tourism, trade, and agricultural benefits between these two nations when in fact anti-Israel propaganda pervades the Egyptian media as well as their educational system. The future of stability in the region is very unpredictable at this time. We wish for the prevalence of peace but we cannot overlook the decisive move of a corrosive Radical Islam in the region.

HAMAS: Jihad Remains Alive

Already known for being an unpredictable and ruthless terrorist organization, the Harakat al Muqawana al Islamiyyah –HAMAS has been responsible for numerous attacks on Israeli soldiers and innocent people.
The essence of its existence is to carry on with the destruction of the Israeli government, the eradication of the Jewish people and the reinforcement and establishment of Islam in the region. Its essence is similar to the Palestine Liberation Organization terrorist organization and it also rejects politics and diplomacy between Washington and the Palestinian Authority in regards to the acceptance of the Jewish State, its people safety and security, land demarcation and control over settlements, and the frustration of continuing with the existence of a Jewish world.
Hamas has been very inpatient with the prolonged efforts of the PLO to free the occupied territories by diplomatic means generating a coalition between Hamas and the Iranian government of Almadinejhad opposing to any peace treaty agreement between Israel and the PLO.
Hamas should not only be seen as a terrorist organization trying to destabilize peace in the region and should not be underestimated as a threat to the United States of America. Instead, Hamas should be given the necessary attention for its members’ commitment to self-immolation and its member’s sense of belonging to a large socio-religious movement, and its massive grass-roots support in the region. Its military body preserves the young life of its members for self-immolation, a very respected and glorified act to become a martyr. The Iranian monetary support for the families of the martyrs is essential to gain acceptance and more recruitment to include the expenses for resettlement of all suicide bomber families who lose their homes as a result of Israeli retribution.
The United States of America not only deal with Iraq and Afghanistan in the war against terrorism but with the constant Arab unification in their desperation to destroy Israel. After the PLO elections, Hamas was empowered itself by assuming high control of the PLO and has established better relations with Iran. Isn’t this a radical religious coalition we must give the necessary attention?
While we are fighting a war in Baghdad and Kabul trying to establish democracy we are lacking attention to terrorist organizations such as PLO and Hamas plus the Iranian aggression dressed diplomatically to avoid detection. The war in Iraq has benefit Iran in many aspects, leaving it as the only regional power that was endowed with both a large population and plentiful natural resources, and increased state power and control over minor states breathing radical and fanatical oxygen. With the assassination of Benazir Bhutto in Pakistan by the extremists of Al Q’aeda, as pointed out, and with the terrible outcome of the war against terrorism in Iraqi soil, the United States of America is far from winning this war and it is provoking the regrouping of not only Al Q’aeda but other terrorist organizations in Pakistan, Afghanistan, Iran, Yemen, and Sudan, for example, to minimize its vulnerabilities and somehow upgrade their underground operations, all as part of a well organized military body.
Allahu Akbar, and Mawt lil-Yahud greeted all the speakers in a 1995 Hamas rally in Gaza. It means: “God is Great, Death to the Jews”, as reported by Steven Emerson to the US House of Representatives early 1996. Their jihad spirit has not died; it still vivid and we must do something about it. We have to dismantle terrorist organizations from its roots, every single one, every single terrorist, every single organization committed to interrupt or threat world peace. In other words, have a real war against terrorism without taking in consideration any type of interests. There is a new era of Palestinian self-rule with the addition of Hamas influence, this injection of venom is prepared to deliver the most outrageous and sanguinary terrorist attacks in the promised-land and abroad, and the increment in proliferation of weapons, explosives, and terrorist training is backing up their commitments. Hamas was hungry for power and right after its political triumph in 2006, less than a year after Israel’s withdrawal from this coastal enclave, the terrorist organization has been meticulously observing Israeli security to obstruct peace and continue with their bloody agenda. It doesn’t matter if Sunnis and Shiites are not in agreement with everything, but be sure that they both agree in wiping out Israel from the face of the world.
Hundreds of treaties, pacts and diplomatic conversations were delivered during the Arafat era. Have those been any good? He always tried to keep the Israeli-Palestinian relations at a “manageable level” as expressed by Steve Emerson in his report, but there was never a real commitment to stop PLO aggression, or to condemn Hamas death squads operations in the region. Internal PLO corruption entertains its members when they don’t think in attacking Israel, which it tell us that some kind of weak foundation brick is about to collapse if not completely, but at least sporadically. The tinted spirit of the organization is tarnished a little bit if not a lot of the new Hamas majority, source of full commitment to eradicate Israel and recuperate land in the region. They are so involved and determined to do so that they are currently looking foreign contributors to compensate for any cutoff of Western donor funds. So lets pay attention to Iran, Saudi Arabia, and other Arab state in the Gulf region.

HAMAS: Against Israel and Fatah

Between the State of Israel, The Palestinian Authority, and Hamas relies the complicated formula for peace in the region. As easy as it may sound, it is not. Mr. Abbas, the leader of the PA and head of the Fatah political has been trying to negotiate more with Israel to obtain better treatment, more opportunities, and less hectic measurements to avoid crippling the PA finances.
The West Bank, for example, has demonstrated more progress, if this is the right word, than in Gaza Strip. Productive Israeli-Palestinian meetings may have been the reason for it as well as less firm checkpoints and roadblocks that cripple the economy. Abbas has full control of the West Bank but cannot impose the same in Gaza Strip; the main reason is Hamas. International aid agencies put Gaza’s poverty rate at 80 percent, and most Gazans survive on United Nations handouts and aid from Hamas’ patrons, such as Iran (Foreign Affairs, Volume 89, No. 5, page 50).
Hamas still broadcasting to the Palestinians in Gaza that the Fatah political strategy is too open to communication with Israel even though Israeli rockets damaged their soil. Hamas try to disintegrate all diplomatic relations between Palestine and Israel but encounter Abbas in the middle. Hamas obtained more power since they are the majority in congress after the 2006 victory and are always pushing for the continuance of violence against Israel as well as maintaining vivid the desire of the complete destruction of the Jewish state.
The alternatives for peace include more effective communication and diplomatic resolutions between Hamas and Israel’s National Security Council, retake Gaza before Hamas get any stronger, or increase economic pressure and military operations to preempt terrorist attacks from Gaza into Israel. The most desirable event is to turn Hamas to be more cooperative with the PA and support Abbas rather than be against him. However, as the days pass by, Israelis still fear that Hamas continue building its capabilities, obtaining more economic support from other Arab nations, and deal with the reality that in Gaza Strip other minor terrorist organizations start to flourish, like the Salafi jihadist terrorist group. In the meantime, Washington will continue to broker peace talks and diplomatic encounters, a well-known melody nobody is willing to dance. President Obama will continue pressing Israel to ease the blockade, elimination of some of the restrictions, and to trust the United States for help when needed. History can show us that Hamas does not welcome diplomatic negotiations. They are willing to die for the cause and for the destruction of the State of Israel. One thing is for sure, Hamas is growing militarily and in members committed without hesitation to destroy Israel, and if possible, any Palestinian not focused on the same objective. Iran is behind the curtains shuffling money, armament, and providing training to its members. Hamas has diminished and almost stopped attacking Israel not because it is abiding by any diplomatic agreement but because the benefits overweight the cost, at least for now. Hamas also admits that hitting more Israeli civilians, especially with the longer-range Katyusha rockets it will give Israel an excuse to hit Gaza and kill 2,000 people according to Hamas top leaders.

The False Religion of Peace

In the year 610 A.C., a commerce man called Mahoma misinterpret the sacred books of Christians and Jews and self-proclaimed as the Prophet from God (Apoc.216:13). He claimed that Jesus was a simple prophet and that even Jesus announced him as the Savior. This is how Islam was born and along with it, the Quran, a triturated version of the Bible and the Torah.
History has witnessed the numerous Christian populations and settlements that fell under Muslim governance, torturing their political and religious representatives, executing all those who oppose to conversion, slavering children, and demolishing religious infrastructures other than Muslim, and building more Mosques to establish a well settlement in place.
Islam contains political and religious ingredients in its foundation with the purpose of disseminating terror around the world by executing threats and paramilitary activities “in the name of Allah.” With the fall of the Ottoman Empire after WWII, Islam suffered a huge impact that weakened its political and religious structure, but the promise against the Christian and Jewish worlds remained pending and never forgotten. From the Islam perspective, the Occident needs to be annihilated at whatever cost. The promise to regroup and be a strong force in Europe was part of the strategy that today we can see it as an accomplished goal. Muslim cleric Qaradawi from Egypt affirmed that the regain of Europe was a victory for Islam.
If we pay attention to the spread of Islam in the world we can easily determine that it hasn’t been peaceful but a bloody corrosion. In Africa, for example Jihad has expanded tremendously raping non-Muslim women, destroying nom-Muslim houses of worship, imposing fear, threatening and killing people, and forcing entire communities to conversion into Islam. On October 6, 2006 in Ethiopia suffered hundreds of assassinations during a confrontation between Christians and Muslims. A group of Muslims opposed to the Christian celebration of Meskel, a religious party of the Orthodox Church. On December 18, 2007 thirteen businesses were destroyed by the evil hands of pro-Muslim forces. In the city of Copto it was prohibited to build or even repair churches of non-Muslim nomenclature, and higher taxes were imposed by the government for being a non-Muslim population. In Asia, for example Jihad has also expanded tremendously. On October 24, 2005 three Indonesian teen girls, Theresia Morangke, Yarni Samubue, and Alfita Poliwo were decapitated for resisting to converting into Islam. On September 22, 2006 three Indonesian Christian men executed for plotting attacks against Muslims. In Philippines, Islamic guerrillas decapitated many Christian preachers in the city of Jolo. In Oriental Timor, the orphanage Juan Bautista was attacked by Muslim militants and many of the female students were sexually abused. Also, 15 Christian preachers were assassinated in the cities of Dili and Boucau. Thousands of Christians have left the Middle East due to the constant threat of Muslims such as in Lebanon, where Christians represent now half of the population.
The future of the world is critical. Europe is already “Eurabia” with over 50 million of Muslims responding to the predictions of Ayatollah Ali Jamenei of Iraq, who saw this occupation coming without the guns and swords.
We don’t have to go too far to experience the spread of Islam. Both of our borders are sensible and exposed to the smell and dark cloud extremists usually possess; Canada population of Muslims have increased tremendously in the last decade, and Mexican cities are already tasting the conversion of its citizens into Islam. Are we ready to confront the reality of a corrosive spread of Islam?

Radical Islam: A Growing Cancer

Without a doubt, the events of September 11, 2001 marked the initiation of the efforts to fight terrorism. We did not know the enemy’s nature, short and long term capabilities, vested commitment to destroy our nation, and what strategy to use to neutralize, control, and eliminate the threat of the enemy.
The good thing is that we were conscious enough to understand that terrorists meant business and that their commitment goes beyond seriousness and extremism. The bad thing is that after more than 10 years of war shifted from Iraqi to Afghani territory, the leader of Al Q’aeda, Osama bin Laden still is at large. The war has affected also our allies and their compromise to team up in the fight against terrorism. By the time America understood the significance and popularity of the growth and danger of Radical Islam, European nations’ power has long since faded due to the expansion of the cancerous virus called Radical Islam. An ongoing mistake America embraces from one administration to the next is to see the Middle East as cleanly divided between two arenas: a moderate, pro-American that ought to be bolstered and a militant, pro-Iranian one that needs to be contained. That conception is not the reality and we must not continue seeing this as such because it does not allow intelligence strategists to counter attack the threat efficiently. America still ignores the role of new prominent elements at the door of terror such as Turkey as a clear sign of not realizing the changes in the composition of the Middle East. If we ignore those changes, we are making it more complicated to understand the political changes in the region. How are we going to assess Saudi Arabia’s resumed dialogue with the terrorist organization Hamas? How are we going to assess the Saudi ties with Syria? How are we going to asses Damascus’ regime involved in the shipment of armament and explosives to the terrorist organization Hezbollah? How are going to assess the strength and rapid alliance of Iran with Syria, Yemen, and Damascus? And, how are we going to assess the relations with Turkey when this nation has developed strong ties with Syria, mediating a nuclear deal with Iran, and proven to have strong ties with the terrorist organization Hamas?
We started the war on terror by invading the wrong country; that’s a fact. However, the capture of Saddam Hussein created the curtain to disregard negative comments about this erroneous first step and the invasion became the masterpiece of the entire strategy. The problem was that we failed to maintain a strong and direct defined objective as we did during Desert Storm during the George H.W. Bush administration by forcing Iraq out of Kuwait territory in 1991. Consequently, the assembly of multi-national forces maintained strong political ties for years to come, as it did, better than before, the results of the peace conference in Madrid to improve the relations Arab-Israeli. The Clinton administration contained Iran and Iraq while managing the Arab-Israeli everlasting conflict through diplomacy. Between 1991 until the end of the Clinton administration, America was able to neutralize the region’s three most critical arenas of conflict: the Arab-Persian fault line, the occupied Palestinian territories, and the time-bomb called Lebanon. During the George W. Bush administration, the handling of the crystal ball of the Israeli-Arab affairs shifted more to the Israeli side and the Intifada of 2000 put the Palestinians and all the terrorist groups they support in a situation that only grew more and throw the pendulum to the opposite side of the political relations in the region.
The George W. Bush policy of “with us or against us” to fight terrorism created animosity toward the United States and it promptly became widespread. We were at war and we needed to deal with animosity as in any other military intervention. The results of the war 10 years later reflect the total destruction of the sanguinary regime in Iraq but it allowed Iran spread its influence beyond its borders toward the Arab world. Hezbollah has strengthen its forces and commitment to annihilate anti-Muslims, and the bankruptcy of peace processes boosted Hamas and gave the terrorists the clear arena to adhere to the fatwa issued in 1998 by Osama bin Laden. What have we done wrong to allow Syria its continuance in relations with Radical Islamist terrorist organizations? What have we done wrong to allow Hezbollah infiltrate the political hemisphere in Lebanon? What have we done wrong when trying to sit in the same table Israel, Saudi-Arabia, and Iraq if these critical chess-pieces never shared neither values nor interests? What have we done right or maybe we think is right but it is just an invisible strategy from Syria to be willing to negotiate peace relations with Israel while Iran has openly called for its destruction? Practically, no country in the Middle East has a positive agenda or is in a position to successfully advance one as long as Radical Islam heart still beating.
It won’t be easy for the United States to undertake strong, effective, and lethal measures against Radical Islam. It may increase regional divisions, increase more tension, and increase the chances of more conflicts in different territories. President Barack Hussein Obama started his administration with the unmistakable decision and ambition of reversing the results of the war on terrorism but he has forgotten to close the book on failed policies and strategies of the past, and design a strong arrow that carries the strongest venom to the heart of Radical Islam.

Islamic Fatwa vs. American Political Correctness

Is this the time to start racial and religious profiling? Can this approach be the response or process to the TSA increasing safety measures and security? The answer is yes, at least this is the opinion and recommendation of Asra Nomani, a Muslim who supports religious and racial profiling to enhance the security of airports and other points of entry to the United States. We have embraced the nation into so many political correctness attitude that is choking us and does not let us fight back the forces of aversion, which is represented by Radical Islam. In 1998, Osama bin Laden issued a "fatwa" indicating that airlines and airports are legitimate targets for Muslims. The response can be easily seen in the threats and or terrorist activities in Glascow, London, JFK, and others as well as airlines attacks with one common denominator called "Muslim." Nomani indicated that we can be discriminating wihout being discriminatory. It is time to focus on the threat of terrorism and forget the stupid and unnecessary political correctness when dealing with the leprosy of humanity, terrorists. Osama bin Laden was serious about the decret and took charge of an international plan, which continues to be the threat to the Western hemisphere, especially the United States as it is against the State of Israel. While the leader of Al Q'aeda plans and executes according to the fatwa, Americans worry about political correctness and still surviving an almost failed war on terrorism going into its eleven year. Religion and race have to be part of the threat assessment for the intelligence community. It is a matter and need of being realistic of the perpretators, the countries they are coming from, the language they speak, the frequency they travel, and the way they dress. The assessment needs to be conducted constantly and meticulously. The concern of civil rights movements will always interfere when pulling the racial profile card, and this is enough for politicians that do not concentrate on the real threat but the feelings of groups concerned mostly on their rights than on the nation's sovereignty.