Nukes: Iran: Iran's Hierarchs issue 'fatwa' requiring Iranian state to use nukes against Iranian state's enemies

We've learned quite recently that the Iranians - who attacked the Danish, Austrian, German, Norwegian, (and a week later also) Brit, and French Embassies in their country - have "confessed" that the Iranian leadership helped in divising the onslawt, according to reporter Shariv Omidvar in the Western-based bilingual Persian / English Rooz online website (Feb20,2k6). (Hat Tip to Regime Change in Iran blog which carried the article already and has made it available in its daily email newsletter.)

Rookmaker Club geostrategic analysis:

As to the event itself, it's called the 'Baseej Embassies Attack' - after the militant Student Organization "Baseej," a semi-official group that has strong connnections to the hierarchs of the Iranian theocracy.

The Rooz digital publication and Regime Changing in Iran republication could be read as discussing only the leadership of the Baseejies, but I read-in my inference (a friendly use of the hermeneutic of suspicion) that the author wishes to convey the implication that the salaried adult leaders of Baseej are at the beck and call of certain hierarchs. Subsequent events make this connection very probable.

The Baseej organized attack on European embassies comes after the Danish Cartoons Crisis, but the Baseej attacks come subsequent also to the European united stand (except foot-dragger France) urging the International Atomic Energy Agencvy's recent referral of Iran's nuke program to the UN Security Council, which voted for sanctions against Iran. Iran's leadership - from Baseej to the really powerful theocratic religious fanatics at the top of the Iranian system - is furious. They want the destruction of Israel, the subjugation of the infidels of Europe into a status of 'dhimmitude' (diminished economic, political and civil-rights status) ruled by the European Muslims under the new messianic Caliph (part of Iran's eschatological mythology). Thus, the Iranian version of the backlash against the Danish cartoons (which I strongly denounce as an instance of atheist Humanism, not Christian neighborliness and a responslble freedom of the press, a press free of prostituting itself to religious insult of our Muslim neighbours' core values): yet the Baseej assault used the press and governmental irresponsiblity in Europe as a cover to literally inflame the situation.

But here in this blog-entry, my main concern is the very lastest development I've encountered: Feb19,2k6 brawt us news of the grand fatwa by the hierarchs of the theocratic Iranian regime, reported by Colin Freeman in UK's London Sunday Telegraph via Washington Post where we read that "The hierarchs are now

approving the use of atomic weapons against the country's enemies.
Muslim clerics for the first time have questioned the theocracy's traditional viewpoint that Shariah law forbids the use of nuclear weapons.
One senior mullah has now said it is "only natural" to have nuclear bombs as a "countermeasure" against other nuclear powers, a reference considered to be the United States and Europe.
The pronouncement was issued by Mohsen Gharavian, a disciple of the extremely hard-line Ayatollah Mohammad Taghi Mesbah-Yazdi, widely regarded as the cleric closest to Iran's new president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.
Ayatollah Mesbah-Yazdi's group opposes virtually any kind of rapprochement with the West and is believed to have influenced Mr. Ahmadinejad's refusal to negotiate over Iran's nuclear program.
Separately, an Iranian group that claims its members are dedicated to becoming suicide bombers warned the United States and Britain yesterday that they will strike coalition military bases in Iraq if Tehran's nuclear facilities are attacked.

I think there will be war. Every Christian neo-Constantinian must now consider the probable need for a pre-emptive strike. You may want to regard it as an expansion of the War on Terrorism in Iraq, due to the Esteshadion (Martyrs Seekers) brigade which boasts "more than a thousand trained" suicide-bombers ticking already to go after the Coalition forces supporting the democratic government of Iraq. There are anxious Western voices calling upon Israel and the USA to bomb Iran's nuclear faclities now, the sooner the better. One estimate says the best pinpointing of the already-functioning nuke factory (apparently as of now only one is operational, at Natanz, Iran) will produce a maximum of 10,000 Iranian civilian and nuke-worker casualities. I don't know about this, but the suicide-bombers destined to cross from Iran to Iraq will surely create worse mischief to Coalition forces and Iraqi democrats, while Iran's finished product of deployable nukes will be sufficient to blackmail Iraq into becoming a satellite of Iran, under a then-to-be-installed viceroy - namely, fierce pro-Iranian Iraqi Shia theocracy-minded cleric Moqtada Sadr.

And this latter scenario doesn't even address what would happen to US, Brit, Aussie, Polish, Dane and other Coalition forces presently in Iraq. If theocratic Iran gets the bomb, unleashes its Esteshadion brigade on Iraq and the Coalition, then the US will have to pull its troops from Iraq with haste. God have mercy on the people of Iran, and on us all. - Politicarp