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Iran: False Assumptions
by Peter Huessy
• June 4, 2014 at 5:00 am
The U.S. already failed to detect nuclear programs on four other
occasions: Iraq - 1991, Syria - 2009, North Korea - 2000-1 and Libya - 2005.
That is quite a record.
Terrorist groups, such as Hezbollah and Hamas, regularly launch
rocket attacks on Israel, but because they are not "recognized state
actors" launching rocket attacks on another sovereign state, we do not
put the min the same category. All terrorist groups attacking a state
therefore get a free pass.
A nuclear device in the hands of such terrorist groups -- chosen
precisely because they cannot be readily identified as working for, or
connected to, a state -- can therefore be used in an attack with impunity,
totally undermining the assumption that such weapons in the hands of Iran are
"only for deterrence."
Unless we end the Iranian nuclear weapons program now, we
will probably only know if a threat is "real" after it is too late.
The
Arak heavy water reactor, in Iran. (Image source: Wikimedia Commons)
The Iranian Supreme Leader announced last week that further negotiations
on Tehran's nuclear program are ended, asserting that "jihad" will
continue until America is destroyed.
Whatever the future of a nuclear "deal" with Iran, still
missing are both an analysis of what specific deal is technically required to
end the Iranian nuclear weapons program compared to what is now on the table,
and whether the assumptions many in the West bring for an agreement to
succeed hold up under scrutiny.
To answer the first problem, an analysis by Gregory Jones of the
Nonproliferation Policy Education Center (NPEC) explores the faults with the
current proposals.
Austria: Muslim Brotherhood's New European Headquarters
by Valentina Colombo
• June 4, 2014 at 4:00 am
What is clear is that Austria's "Law of Islam" of 1812
represents protection for Islamic organizations that no other European
country has to offer.
Many Egyptian communities in Austria, however, do not define
themselves as Muslim. They are completely opposed to political Islam, and are
enormously worried about the presence of the Muslim Brotherhood.
The 1912 law might be delivering the most potent weapon of
Islamic extremism at the expense of the majority of Austria's Muslims -- most
of whom practice their religion as a part of life not as an instrument of
power.
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image from the cover of Petra Ramsauer's book Muslimbrüder. Ihre geheime
Strategie. Ihr globales Netzwerk [The Muslim Brotherhood. Their Secret
Strategies, Their Global Network] (Vienna, 2014)
One reason for the possible relocation of the Muslim Brotherhood's
European headquarters from London to Graz, Austria, mentioned by The Daily
Mail on April 12, might well be the inquiry, started by the British
government in March, into the activities of the Brotherhood.
Ibrahim Munir, Secretary General of the Muslim Brotherhood and often
referred to as the head of the Brotherhood in Europe, had said to the Anadolu
news agency that he could not "imagine or accept leaving Britain for any
other country."
However, the satellite channel Al Arabiya reported, from a source linked
to the Brotherhood, that in London a meeting had taken place in the presence
of Mahmoud Hussein, the secretary general of the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt,
during which those present had discussed not only the situation in Egypt and
the appointment of 17 new leaders, but had also endorsed the decision to move
their headquarters from London to Austria and three other European countries.
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