By Howard Bloom
This is a World War III minute. A minute when the wrong move could kick off the sort of domino effect that led to World War I. And this time the war would be nuclear.
But this is also a minute when we can’t stop fighting. Why? The war with Iran is a war we must win. There’s a reason. Iran’s constitution implies the elimination of western culture and its replacement with a world ruled by Islam.
The 1991 the Muslim Brotherhood’s “General Strategic Goal for the group in North America” said essentiallythe same. That American culture must die and be replaced by the rule of Islam.
This conquest of the west sounds extreme, but if you read the holy books of Islam, the Qur’an, the hadith, that is what they call for. Said Mohammed, God unrolled the scroll of the earth to me and said all that is to the east shall be yours and all that is to the west.
Today that seems to mean nuking major American cities or occupying them, cities like Washington DC, New York and LA. Iran has been working on the weapons to achieve this goal since the 1980s.
Tehran has been beavering away at nuclear warheads and at the core technologies of intercontinental ballistic missiles. You can see those core technologies in the rockets Iran has used since 2009 to loft over 25 satellites into space.
Iran’s nuclear and missile programs have been disturbed by our bombing campaigns, but not stopped. To get an idea of how Iran has been inventing while we’ve been bombing, take a look at the way the Iranians have been upgrading their drones and ballistic missiles in the midst of bombardment and war. In fact, Iran’s innovations have come from seeing how their drones and missiles have performed in battle and how their limitations can be overcome.
The Iranians have been increasing the accuracy of their missiles, giving them the ability to fend off electronic warfare, making warheads that can shift their path as they close in on their targets, warheads that can confuse missile defenses. Iran has been building missile cities deep underground where we can’t bomb them, creating rapid repair systems for launchers damaged by US attacks, and perfecting the art of throwing us off base by putting nearly every form of rocket, drone and decoy they have into massive attacks, attacks designed to confuse even a Patriot defense missile’s electronic brain.
The Iranians are digging nuclear facilities like Pickaxe Mountain, nuclear cities more than 300 feet deep shielded by solid granite. That’s 100 feet beneath what our biggest bunker busters can reach.
To get an idea of how profoundly the push to invent new weapons is rooted in Islam’s global ambitions, here are the words from a TV appearance by Gholamreza Ghasemian, a former member of Iran’s government and head of the Imam Reza Jihad Base and a network of seminary schools,
“We should negotiate with the United States after we have occupied New York or Washington, and after we have arrested and handcuffed [President Donald] Trump and brought him before Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei, and let his eminence then decide what to do with that ‘yellow dog.’ Then we can begin to negotiate with them.”
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About the author: Howard Bloom of the Howard Bloom Institute has been called the Einstein, Newton, Darwin, and Freud of the 21st century by Britain’s Channel 4 TV. Bloom’s new book is The Case of the Sexual Cosmos: Everything You Know About Nature is Wrong. Says Harvard’s Ellen Langer of The Case of the Sexual Cosmos, Bloom “argues that we are not savaging the earth as some would have it, but instead are growing the cosmos. A fascinating read.” One of Bloom’s eight previous books–Global Brain—was the subject of a symposium thrown by the Office of the Secretary of Defense including representatives from the State Department, the Energy Department, DARPA, IBM, and MIT. Bloom’s work has been published in The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, Wired, Psychology Today, and the Scientific American. Not to mention in scientific journals like Biosystems, New Ideas in Psychology, and PhysicaPlus. He has appeared on Iranian and Saudi TV more than forty times. Says Joseph Chilton Pearce, author of Evolution’s End and The Crack in the Cosmic Egg, “I have finished Howard Bloom’s [first two] books, The Lucifer Principle and Global Brain, in that order, and am seriously awed, near overwhelmed by the magnitude of what he has done. I never expected to see, in any form, from any sector, such an accomplishment. I doubt there is a stronger intellect than Bloom’s on the planet.” For more, see http://howardbloom.net or http://howardbloom.institute
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