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Uninhabitable Gulf Region – if the West bombed Iran’s nuclear facility

Has such absolute insanity infected the minds of the Western powers to such a degree that they actually would attack Iran, and in so doing destroy the entire Gulf State region, further irradiate the entire planet and themselves, and quite possibly set off World War III? Or is it all just smoke-and-mirrors, scare tactics and rhetoric, and saner minds will in fact prevail?

Let us all hope and pray for the latter.

Good-bye Dubai? Bombing Iran’s Nuclear Facilities would leave the Entire Gulf States Region virtually Uninhabitable By Wade Stone Global Research, May 11, 2013 “…….Think “Fukushima x 10”:  Fukushima is, without question, the world’s worst nuclear disaster to date. In fact, many scientists believe, and with good reason, that the Fukushima incident, which is far from over, is the world’s worst
environmental catastrophe.

“While the long-term repercussions of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster are yet to be fully assessed, they are far more serious than
those pertaining to the 1986 Chernobyl disaster in the Ukraine, which resulted in almost one million deaths (New Book Concludes – Chernobyl death toll: 985,000, mostly from cancer” Global Research, September 10, 2010. For a full account of Fukushima, see “Global Research Online Interactive Reader Series, Fukushima: A Nuclear War without a War, The Unspoken Crisis of Worldwide Nuclear Radiation (Michel Chossudovsky, editor).

Now imagine several large nuclear reactors (Iran’s Bushehr reactor output, for example, is 1000 megawatts, compared to Fukushima Daiichi’s largest reactor which had an output of 784 megawatts), along with several uranium enrichment plants, and certainly military storage sites and quite likely even uranium mines, all bombed to dust within a matter of days.

Moreover, unlike the Fukushima Daiichi reactors which suffered only partial meltdowns with much of the fuel rods and spent
fuel storages remaining mostly intact, “all” of Iran’s nuclear fuel would be exploded into the atmosphere. And let us not forget that the
US-Israeli military ordinances employed to destroy Iran’s nuclear
facilities would certainly be tipped with depleted uranium, and very
likely would include some mini-nukes.

Indeed, in regards nuclear disasters and environmental catastrophes,
Fukushima would absolutely pale in comparison to that caused by the
bombing of Iran’s nuclear sites. The nuclear fallout from such an
event would be extreme, to put it mildly. Tens, if not hundreds of
thousands of innocent Iranians would likely die within the first year
of such a strike, while millions more would die within a decade or two
of some form of radiation-induced cancer. And since a significant
portion of that nuclear fallout would end up either immediately, or
over the course of the next weeks and months in the Arabian Desert,
where the winds, year after year, would gather it up along with the
particles of sand and dust into gigantic roiling irradiated storms
(remember, “hundreds” of such sand and dust storms annually), not a
person living anywhere in the Gulf State region would be safe from
exposure. The Persian Gulf, too, would soon be so irradiated and toxic
and lifeless that it might as well be renamed the New Dead Sea.
Some statistics worth recalling: The half-life of cesium-137 is just
over 31 years, while that of strontium-90 is approximately 29 years.
Plutonium-239, the most dangerous of the above-mentioned radioactive
substances, has a half-life of 24,110 years. And uranium, which is the
primary target and which will make up the largest percentage of the
fallout, has a half-life ranging between 700 million to nearly 4.5
billion years, depending on the type of uranium used—U-235 or U-238.
It’s also worth noting that it takes an estimated 20 x the half-life
years listed for the radiation from such contamination to dissipate
entirely.

Of course, a lot of that radiation would also enter the jet stream,
which would then carry it around the globe, depositing it as nuclear
fallout everywhere. No nation, no body of water, would be spared. It
takes but “one” inhaled or ingested “hot” particle to produce a
life-threatening cancer.

Calling for, even so much as contemplating, such a genocidal event is
madness; actually carrying it out would be insanity beyond
description.

We must conclude, therefore, that the US-NATO-Israeli alliance is
bluffing. Shortly before each and every scheduled P5+1 negotiations
regarding Iran’s nuclear program, the corporate/government controlled
mainstream media in the West ratchets up the threats, with Israel
insisting that they will soon bomb Iran’s nuclear facilities if their
nuclear program isn’t shut down. We’ve been hearing these same threats
for more than a decade now. The very fact that the other Gulf States
in the region are in support of the US-NATO-Israeli alliance also
suggests that such threats are all smoke-and-mirrors, attempts to
scare Iran into accepting whatever demands US-NATO and Israel want.

Surely, the Gulf State monarchs especially are aware enough to realize
that, even if Iran is planning to develop a nuclear weapon (for which
no evidence whatsoever exists), a nuclear-armed Iran would be far less
of a danger to them than a bombing of Iran’s nuclear facilities, which
would positively guarantee their demise. Even Israel, which is only
1100 kilometers away from Iran, and also experiences regular severe
sand and dust storms, would likely suffer dire consequences as a
result of the radiation fallout from such an attack.

Has such absolute insanity infected the minds of the Western powers to such a degree that they actually would attack Iran, and in so doing
destroy the entire Gulf State region, further irradiate the entire planet and themselves, and quite possibly set off World War III? Or is it all just smoke-and-mirrors, scare tactics and rhetoric, and saner minds will in fact prevail?

Let us all hope and pray for the latter.http://www.globalresearch.ca/good-bye-dubai-bombing-irans-nuclear-facilities-would-leave-the-entire-gulf-states-region-virtually-uninhabitable/5334737

May 14, 2013 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | Iran, MIDDLE EAST, weapons and war