Iran Wants War

By

Barbara J. Stock

Reasonable people listening to the bombastic rhetoric coming out of Iran should easily come to one conclusion:  Iran wants to start a war.  

The leaders of Iran would prefer the war be started by Israel so that their Muslim brothers will howl for the blood of Jews in revenge.   This is why hardly a day goes by that threats are not hurled at Israel, hoping to push Israel over the edge.   

Iran is sending money to Hamas, the new Palestinian ruling party so that attacks on Israeli civilians can continue.  Oddly, Hamas hasn’t thought about how it would fare if Iran drops a nuke or two on Israel.  Between the initial blast, the heat and shock waves, and the radiation, millions of Palestinians would die.  Islam doesn’t care.  Islam has never cared about the Palestinians. 

There is only one thing that would make the leaders of the Jewish state strike first:  An imminent nuclear attack from Iran.  This is certainly a possibility, considering that no one truly knows how close Iran is to being the proud owners of nuclear bombs.  No country would stand by and allow itself to be attacked with this weapon of mass destruction and Israel would have every right to strike first with conventional weapons.   The people of Iran do not need to pay the price for the folly of their leaders.   

For those liberals out there who would scream that no one has the right to make a pre-emptive strike, let me remind them of the Cuban missile crisis.  

America nearly went to war with the Soviet Union because it placed nuclear missiles off our shore in Cuba.  Nikita Khrushchev was not making daily threats to use them, but Kennedy would not allow it.  For 13 long days America and the Soviet Union went head-to-head and Khrushchev finally blinked.  He realized that Kennedy meant what he said:  Remove the nukes from Cuba or pay the price.  Khrushchev did not have a death wish.  Khrushchev did not want to start a nuclear war with the United States.  Even hard-line communists knew that there would be no winners in a nuclear exchange.  The Islamic leaders of Iran are not tethered by such logical constraints.   

Even Hitler did not have a desire to die.  In Hitler’s worst dreams, he never believed that Germany would be nearly destroyed.  Hitler believed that he could conquer Europe at the very least and he nearly did.  But Hitler did not start a war in Europe knowing he would be vaporized twenty minutes after launching his first attack.

Iran knows if it drops a nuclear bomb on Israel, Israel will launch every nuke it has at Iran.   If truth be known, Israel may choose to settle some old scores with several Islamic countries.  Israel may cease to exist, but so will Iran.  This deterrent of mutual destruction has been the leash that has held all the world’s nuclear weapons in their launch bays since World War II.  Sane people do not want to see their own countries and people destroyed.   

The president of Iran, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, is not insane.  He is a Shiite Muslim.  He believes that he and Iran have been chosen to herald in the return of the Twelfth Imam.  This Imam will rise out of a sacred well at the Jamkaran mosque and it is the duty of Iran to pave the way for his return.  This mysterious Imam will only return to raise Islam from the ashes of Armageddon as the eternal conquerors and rulers of the world.  Ahmadinejad has stated last fall that this will happen in two years. 

So the stage is now set.  The president of Iran absolutely believes that this Imam, who disappeared eleven centuries ago, will rise up and save devout Muslims from destruction while destroying all the infidels of the world in a fiery conflagration.  All that needs to be done is to launch nuclear weapons at everyone that their missiles can reach, especially Israel, to set this all in motion.   

There are reasons for all the saber-rattling and spewing of threats.  The first is to stall the West long enough to obtain the necessary weapon to start a war worthy of the Twelfth Imam.  Second is to try to entice Iran’s two most hated enemies to attack them so that Iran cannot be blamed in any way for starting a nuclear world war.  Iran knows that neither Israel nor America will use nuclear weapons first.  But if Iran is attacked, it will claim self defense and unleash its nukes on the world.  If Iran is not successful in enticing a country to attack it, it will simply strike first. 

So the free and sane world has only one choice to make.  Stop Iran now, while it still can, or suffer the consequences.  Only in the dream world of the pacifists does Iran “have a right” to nuclear weapons so that it can “feel safe.”  Iran has no intention of “feeling safe.”  It has every intention of starting a nuclear war.  But the devout Shiite Muslims of the world have no fear.  Allah and the Twelfth Imam will save them all.  They will be rewarded beyond their wildest dreams because they brought about the end of the rule of evil non-believers in the world. 

Every religion has had its “kook” faction.  Jim Jones and David Koresh, two noted cult leaders, come to mind.  But while these men felt that they had a direct line to God, they did not have a direct line to nuclear weapons, nor would any rational person have allowed them to possess such a weapon.  Yet, there are those who are willing to take the risk and allow a country led by Islamic mullahs and a little man with delusions of grandeur to have them.  This is more than irresponsible, it borders on insanity.   

Time is short.  There are those who claim that Iran will have one or more nuclear bombs within six months.  Others say two years and there are some who claim it will be ten years.  We know they have missiles to deliver nuclear warheads to Israel and European capitals.   

While Iran can be compared to Nazi Germany in many ways, there is one distinct difference.  The Nazi invasion of Poland could be reversed.  Vast tracts of land rendered unlivable because of radiation cannot be reversed.  The millions that would die in an instant cannot be rescued. 

The diplomatic route and the attempt to reason with the unreasonable has been exhausted.  All that came of diplomacy was three long years of wasted time as Iran moved ever-closer to achieving its goal:  possessing the means to bring its messiah—the Twelfth Imam—one step closer to reality. 

Iran’s “reality” will be the free world’s version of “Dante’s Inferno.”  The world must move as one against Iran and its insanity because it is the world that is at stake.  The placating, appeasing, and cow-towing must stop.  There can be no “deals” or bargaining.  Iran must be stopped before it’s too late and “too late” could be as soon as this summer.  When a rabid dog is coming at you, even though you love dogs, you must kill it before it kills you.  You cannot bargain with a rabid dog and you cannot bargain with Iran.