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by Dan Darling - The Weekly Standard

AS ISRAEL CONTINUES to come to grips with Hezbollah’s missile strike on the northern Israeli city of Haifa, it is important to fully appreciate the implications of this attack. While Hezbollah, like other terrorist and guerrilla organizations worldwide, has long been known to possess a number of Katyushas with a range of up to 10-20 kilometers, the two missiles fired at Haifa are believed to be Iranian-produced Raad-1s, which have an estimated range of as much as 150 kilometers. While attacks by Katyusha rockets (like their Qassem counterparts that are favored by Hamas) have long been a problem for northern Israel, the grim implications of the use of Raad-1s against Haifa were best spelled out in a headline by Ynet News: “2 million Israelis under threat.” The reach of Hezbollah’s missiles, once believed to be confined to the northern border, has now spread to encompass the vast majority of Israel.
The introduction of Raad missiles should also clear up any lingering doubts among analysts as to the Iranian complicity in the latest violence. While the relationship between Hezbollah and the senior echelons of the Iranian Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps and Ministry of Intelligence and Security (MOIS) have long been clear enough to make it the quintessential textbook definition of state-sponsored terrorism, the increasingly sophisticated weapons being used by the terrorist group leave little doubt that Iran is complicit in the recent violence.
In an eerie parallel to the current situation, Time magazine discussed Hezbollah’s relationship with Iran in a recent article 
 
 
in which it noted:

Hizballah officials have publicly said that the group possesses some 13,000 rockets. Most of them are believed to be standard Katyushas, which have a 12-mile range. But, Israeli officials say Hizballah also maintains a supply of 220mm and even larger rockets from Iran, a “strategic threat” capable of hitting targets in Haifa–20 miles inside Israel–and beyond. “They can target all of the north and go as far afield as Haifa, threatening one million inhabitants of Israel. It must be considered by Israel’s leaders at all times,” the Israeli military intelligence official says.
Israeli officials reportedly allege that the long-range rockets are under the direct command of officers of Iran’s Revolutionary Guards, which Israel alleges has lately expanded its presence along the border. This charge, too, is denied by Hizballah, and has not been independently confirmed.

The Time article also goes on to discuss the continued financial support that Hezbollah enjoys from Iran, reporting that “one Western diplomat in Beirut estimated the figure at between $20 million and $40 million a month.” These continued logistical and financial ties further highlight the absurdity of denying the clear-cut patron-client relationship that exists between Iran and Hezbollah. That this relationship continues in spite of Hezbollah’s recent attacks leaves little doubt that Iran at least approved of, if not ordered, the current violence. READ THE REST HERE

AND AFTER THAT READ THIS:

Rush: “It’s Been World War III Since 9/11, What’s Happening Now Is Gift to the World”

Idiot liberals had a cow on many of the blogs yesterday after Rush make this comment on his show. Several liberal blogs had posted the quote less an hour after he made them without understanding what he meant by them.
Rush explains basically that we have an opportunity NOW to deal with Iran BEFORE they get nukes. I ran is responsible for what is going on and frankly they don’t give a shit what the rest of the world thinks. So they need to be dealt with. Here is Rush’s take: 

Here’s the key: Are we going to take care of Iran now before it has nukes or are we going to wait until we can’t do anything?

That’s the key here.

Iran is nothing more than a third-rate dictatorship. It’s not supported by it’s own people. There’s a very restive population there. It’s a Jimmy Carter legacy which has to be ended. Now, Israel can’t do this. People say, “Turn Israel loose on Iran.” Israel can’t do it, folks. They can’t take care of Iran without us. Iran is too far away for their ground forces. It’s too far away for their fighter jets to run bombing missions and to get back, but just think. Ask yourself a hypothetical: if we were doing to Iran what Israel is doing in Lebanon, that might be enough. You don’t need to go in and occupy Iran. Anything that takes its place can’t be any worse if we were to root out the current mullah regime and that has to be objective number one. That’s why I think this is a gift to the world, folks. This is an opportunity finally to do something about Iran. Iran is the elephant in the room in all of this, and if we sit here and say it’s Hezbollah or it’s Assad or it’s Syria or it’s Hamas, we are blaming the tentacles and not the brain, and Iran is the center and the focus of this, and that’s why this is a gift.

READ FULL TRANSCRIPT HERE:

This entry was posted on Tuesday, July 18th, 2006 at 8:45 am and is filed under Terrorist pimps, Iran, Middle East.
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