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Op-ed:

The Leopard That Is Iran 

By: Diane Sori / The Patriot Factor / Right Side Patriots on Right Side Patriots Radio 

As we've all been (rightfully) focused on the nasty little virus from China as well as the homegrown miscreants and thugs trying to destroy our beloved America, there have been other important events going on in the world that have been getting little to no media attention or airtime. And one such important event is that Iran has not so silently been pushing forward with its efforts to build and then possibly use a nuclear weapon. However, it now looks like their nuclear ambitions just got setback months if not hopefully years as once again Iran is blaming Israel for yet another cyber-attack on its nuclear facilities. And if that's proven to be true all I can say is, “Bravo Israel.” 

And it all seems to have come to a head when just this past June 26th, a fire broke out at the main power plant in Shiraz followed by an explosive blast at the Parchin military complex...a blast supposedly felt in Tehran. But while Iranian officials first claimed that the blast was caused by an “accidental” gas leak in the “public area” of the Parchin complex, Israeli satellite images showed that the blast actually took place at a nearby not so secret liquid fuel production plant near but not on the Parchin complex itself...a plant used specifically to manufacture and then test solid propellant rockets and explosives for nuclear warheads. 

Then on June 30th an explosion shook the Sina Athar Clinic in the northern Tehran town of Tajrish, resulting in 19 deaths and injuring 14 others, and was followed two days later by a blast and fire at the largely underground Natanz nuclear facility...the very facility which houses a major centrifuge needed for the making of nuclear weapons. And surprise, surprise, on July 3rd, the Shiraz power plant again was on fire, while on July 4th another power plant, this time in Ahwaz, saw yet another “accidental” explosion this time supposedly caused by a faulty transformer, as per Iranian officials. And not only did an explosion occur but said explosion set the entirety of the plant on fire. And to add insult to Iran's nuclear injury, on the same day as the Ahwaz explosion, a chlorine gas leak at the Karoun petrochemical plant sent 70 workers to the hospital. 

And of course as soon as they could Iran revoked their “accidental” excuses and blamed the “little Satan” Israel and Israel-backed hackers for their newest nuclear woes...blamed Israel for perpetrating a “kinetic cyber weapons attack” on Iran. But the question that remains is, is Israel truly responsible for all or any of these attacks? Right now as I write this article Israel has neither confirmed nor denied culpability for any of the said “attacks,” however, Israeli Defense Minister Benny Gantz did issue this statement and said on 'Israel Radio' that, “Not every incident that transpires in Iran necessarily has something to do with us.”  

Maybe not “necessarily,” but nevertheless I will not lose any sleep over it if it is indeed true. 

And while Benny Gantz's statement itself rings true, it's also true that the defense minister's words are both cleverly veiled and calculatingly ambiguous, while Haim Tomer...the former director of Tevel, the Mossad’s foreign intelligence cooperation unit...did state that while he was not aware of Israel being responsible for the explosion at Natanz, "substantial damage" caused in the incident showed that "there's an operational capability here." Obviously a very dangerous “operational capability,” and the civilized world should actually be glad the Natanz nuclear enrichment site went boom, especially since President Trump removed our country from Obama's very bad and oh so treasonous Iranian nuclear deal, leaving Iran's nuclear ambitions to basically run unchecked...or so Iran believes. 

So what exactly was Iran's final, to date, official response to the “attacks” now being blamed on Israel? As per Iran's Civil Defense Chief Gholamreza Jalali, who said on Iranian state television that, "Responding to cyber-attacks is part of the country's defense might. If it is proven that our country has been targeted by a cyber-attack, we will respond," proves to be just more inflammatory rhetoric and as expected retaliatory words...“face saving” words and nothing more...for Iran is no match for Israel cyber nor technology wise, and if they don't know it by now, they very well should. 

  

And so Iranian officials continue to talk out of both sides of their islamic mouths, with one side spewing that they already know the cause of the explosion at Natanz but cannot divulge that information at this time due to “security reasons”...while the other side of their islamist mouths seek to downplay the very happenings at Natanz as but just an “incident,” thus wanting the world to believe that no real “significant damage” was done to the facility or that any radiation had escaped.  

  

And all this is really quite astounding what with Behrouz Kamalvandi, a spokesman for 'The Atomic Energy Organization of Iran' along with Iranian nuclear chief Ali Akbar Salehi having rushed to the Natanz site after the explosion and fire, and with Kamalvandi having issued a statement that the explosion had indeed caused major damage to the facility...damage which could now slow down the production of advanced centrifuges used to enrich uranium...while also releasing a photo showing part of the charred remains of a centrifuge assembly workshop at the Natanz facility.  

  

Now here it's important to note that not only are Iranian officials putting focus on Natanz, but so too are aforementioned Israeli Defense Minister Benny Gantz and former Tevel director Haim Tomeri. And this leads me to believe that the Natanz facility was the major target that needed to be taken out for Natanz was not only a fuel enrichment site, but a site replete with at least 60 advanced centrifuges of its own used for enriching uranium, and uranium is the very “must have” item in one's possession when building a nuclear weapon. But why has Iran now accelerated its nuclear program...simply because its leaders are worried that a continuation of the still-in-place arms embargo coupled with crippling U.S. economic sanctions would make it even more difficult to obtain let alone pay for both the systems and materials needed to not only declare itself a nuclear power, but to be able to eventually wipe Israel off the map. 

  

So even though Israel is still denying any "physical" connection to the recent explosion at Natanz, which technically might not be a lie, for history itself shows that Israeli operatives need not be on the ground to do what needs to be done...as in go in, get the job done, and get out before it's too late. And for proof of that one just needs to remember back to 2010 when Iran's nuclear program was “disrupted” via the Stuxnet cyber-attack...as in the malicious computer worm which specifically and successfully targeted Iran's supervisory control and data acquisition systems in regards to their nuclear centrifuges, setting Iran's nuclear program back years. And while Israel never actually admitted to being the culprit behind said attack, both Israel and the U.S. were and still are being blamed for it.  

   

Simply, with the Stuxnet cyber-attack having succeeded as it did...in fact it caused damage to around 1,000 of Iran's centrifuges...and with Iran still not changing its ways nor its nuclear ambitions, surely they had to know that another cyber-attack...or two or three or more...was a strong possibility. And Iran also had to know that their tried for cyber-attack last April on Israeli civilians and on its water infrastructure would not go unpunished.  

   

As per London's Financial Times, Iran tried but due to Israeli top-notch cyber-defences failed in their attempt to not only inject dangerously high levels of chlorine and other nasty chemicals into the drinking water being pumped into residential areas of Israel, but could have also seriously interrupting the flow of water throughout the Jewish state. Again, thankfully Iran's attempt did fail as there was also a chance, albeit a small one, that said cyber-attack could have not only triggered a “fail-safe” that would have completely shut down Israel's water pumps but also sections of Israel's main water infrastructure itself, leaving most Israelis without any water during what was then a deadly heatwave. 

  

So Iran had to know that some sort of (rightful) Israeli retaliatory “kinetic cyber-attack” would be forthcoming, but they would simply have no way of knowing exactly when or how such an attack would be carried out. First, one does need to know that a “kinetic cyber-attack”...such as Stuxnet...can cause direct or indirect physical damage, injury or even death though the exploitation of...as in tampering with...vulnerable information systems and processes, as is just what happened back in 2010. For example, a computer program can remotely monitor, control, and shut down security cameras at a targeted site so that security personnel would not be aware of someone sneaking into the site and doing or planting something...as in explosives.  

   

But in the case of Iran more power to whomever...whether it be Israel as most suspect, the U.S., Iranian dissident groups or a combination of all three...is behind these attacks for we all know that Iran wants nuclear capabilities not for peaceful purposes but to first wipe Israel off the map and then come for us and the rest of the civilized world next. After all, we all know that a leopard can never change its spots and neither apparently can this rogue islamic nation.

Copyright @ 2020 Diane Sori / The Patriot Factor / All rights reserved.

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Op-ed:

What If There Was No Israel

By: Diane Sori / The Patriot Factor / Right Side Patriots on American Political Radio

The Day is Coming (Lebanese song in support of Palestine) “O occupiers, leave my land… Leave, leave, leave The day is coming, the day is coming when you will leave And Palestine will return to being the bride of the Arabs… I’m prepared to sacrifice my blood for [Palestine],                                                      This is my land, and the land of my forefathers,                                                      We own the cause.”   Such a lovely sentiment it most certainly is not yet a sentiment that has become the                      Palestinians battle cry. “Israel will not be able to live in peace and security as long as we do not achieve our legal rights...our people will not accept any deal other than the deal of return to its land”

- Fatah Spokesman in Al-Hayat Al-Jadida, the Official PA daily (April 6, 2018)

Both the wishes of islamists...not of all Arabs nor of all muslims...but surely the wishes of each and every true Israel-hating islamist. The Levant and return of the final Caliphate (the Mahdi) is their goal and nothing else will do as they work daily on pushing forward their propaganda that Israel must be removed from the map...that Israel must be forever pushed into the sea.

Removed from the map indeed. In fact, just a few years ago an atlas specifically designed for schools in the Middle East actually omitted the Jewish State of Israel from the map. The map, part of a HarperCollins atlas that was to be used by grade schoolers...nothing like starting the hate Jews indoctrination young...showed Jordan and Syria extending all the way to the Mediterranean Sea with Gaza and the West Bank clearly labelled, but showing no Israel at all. In trying to defend their map HarperCollins claimed that the decision to exclude Israel reflected “local preferences,” meaning that if they had included Israel it would have been “unacceptable” to their Gulf (muslim) customers. And while worldwide criticism was intense with the publisher being forced to totally scrap this particular map, a dangerous foreboding came to fruition as what Israel fears most easily happened with just a “sign-off stroke” of the company chairman's business pen.

Wiping Israel off the map most definitely remains the islamists and their anti-Semitic, anti-Zionist, condoners goal. A lofty goal indeed what with Israel having 350+ 'little friends' at their disposal that they will rightfully use if need be...just as we would if faced with the possibility of total annihilation. And that's a possibility Israel faces daily...or does it...as new relationships with more moderate Arab states are now being forged...as new relationships are growing between Israel, Russia, and China as well. And dare we forget that America once again has Israel's back thanks to President Donald Trump and that Israel has our back thanks to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

So while the harbingers of all-out war can be witnessed in certain areas of the Middle East...especially in regards to Israel and with the now in Syria both proxy and extremist Iranian fighters...an army of fighters 80,000 strong...a new region-wide war appears as a very likely possibility. And while Iran does think they can win such a war...the truth is they cannot especially when America will come riding in on the proverbial "white horse" to help Israel win said war. But again if truth be told...as it always must be...it's Iran alone who remains the region's true destabilizing force for it's Iran alone who is actively pushing for Israel's demise...good little islamists the ruling mullahs are...and it's the Iranian regime alone who really needs to be gone.

But wishing Israel gone is not something new as can be witnessed by history itself, for hating the Jewish people is hating the land of Israel as well...the very land that truly belongs to the Jewish people's history alone. All other people's claims to that land came after God Our Father gave said land to the Jews.

And while over the centuries Jews both thrived and lost claim to the land given to them by God, it all came to a head in 1948 when from the rubble of the Holocaust the modern day Jewish State of Israel was born...born via a U.N. mandate they now wish they could take back but legally simply cannot.

But let's play devil's advocate for a minute and say that against all odds what if modern Israel courtesy of a war with Iran truly is no more...what would Middle East reality look like today with Israel not on the map?

Simply, Israel's now developed and tended to lush green and fertile lands would become desert again...as muslim men, for the most part, are a lazy lot so not willing to do the hard work needed to keep the lands fertile and green. After all, terrorism alone is what most muslim men do...being skilled in the fields of education, business, trade, agriculture, medicine, and technology are as foreign to them and as is their “it's all about killing infidels” mindset being their daily norm. And with their all-consuming hatred and scapegoating of Israel giving self-perceived meaning to their miserable lives, this would translate into what was once thriving Israel becoming nothing but additional acreage they willingly turned back into a cesspool...a 7th century cesspool not unlike that from which islam was born...albeit a cesspool with even more 21st century weapons than the islamists already have now.

Democracy and freedom would now obviously not exist anywhere in the Middle East what with Israel gone while even more of our taxpayer dollars would still be funneled to Arab countries that don't like us very much...this time being used as out-and-out bribe monies to help keep 'them' over there instead of 'them' coming over here. And the mullahs in Iran would most probably now be sitting as lord and master over all the region's muslim lands; and the still ongoing muslim invasion of Europe would finally reach its completion as the five-times-a-day so very annoying muslim call to prayer would not just ring from mosque spires but would now ring from Christian church bells as well.

So while some continue to insist that with Israel...the "Little Satan"...gone there would be regional peace as all the Middle Eastern lands would now be muslim, nothing could be farther from the truth as Shi'ite and Sunni muslims simply do not get along and never will. Bloody muslim on muslim killings would surely continue on; the sharia would become the singular and total rule of law; and with the Jews finally gone the islamists would come for any and all Christians that happen to be left in the lands they once called home.

And in addition to all this Arab economies would most likely collapse as trading with the West would likely come to a screeching halt if Israel was gone; and the goats, donkeys, camels and sheep would be cowering in their stalls. The left hand would still be used for the toilet, the right for preparing and eating food; while young girl children with swollen pregnant bellies would now be so proudly paraded around by vile old men as their self-perceived rightful marriage prize won. And older burka 'garbage bag' clad women confined to their homes would most likely be relegated to being nothing but sex slaves alone... forever remaining the chattel they were before Israel was gone.

And most importantly of all there would still be no Palestinian state for without Israel as a point of contention and with Arab leaders never really caring about their own brethren's sorry lot in life, the 'so-called' Palestinians would be forced to filter back into the general Arab population and simply with time being absorbed and finally just fading away until they were all but gone.

So when all is said and done, the fact remains that lacking the common enemy once known as Israel, Shi'ite v. Sunni tensions would become heightened even more than they already are leaving muslim government corruption, lack of economic progress, and islamic fundamentalism remaining exactly as it was before Israel's demise. And that in turn leaves the Middle East region remaining in an ongoing state of perpetual war...just as it has been in since mohammad invented islam way back in 632 AD.

Still remaining trapped under the weight of both greedy despots and perverted tyrants, welcome to the muslim world with Israel finally becoming part of the sea. And yet even with Israel gone the muslim world would then have to find someone else to blame for their own, their leaders, and their countries ever so miserable failures. And while they surely will continue to act out like a spoiled 2-year old child in the throws of an all-consuming temper tantrum, muslims would happily go on killing each other and any and all who they perceive to be in their fundamentalist way. And they'd do so in the name of allah...their made-up god who commands them via the unholy qur'an to play army while the countries of the civilized world cower in fear of being next on Iran's annihilation hit list.

But with the above stated scenario being only a 'what if' in the earlier mentioned game of devil's advocate, what it all boils down to is this...can Iran finish off what Hitler started and come for us...the "Great Satan"...next...with the answer being only if we and the world continue to look away to the true threat Iran possess while refusing to act until it's too late.

Copyright @ 2018 Diane Sori / The Patriot Factor / All Rights Reserved. 
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