Iran Says Warships Headed Close to U.S. Borders

Yard Dart · Feb 11, 2014

kellory said: ↑

"True damage".....like an electromagnetic pulse? You know what that would do to the grid. Iran would become a parking lot, but we would be hit hard as well.
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You throw (a) or some nukes into the eastern seaboard as @DarkLight suggested and strike New York, Boston, DC. The psychological and infrastructure damage could be possibly worse than an EMP, due to the short range of a Scud and a high population density. An EMP with that delivery system would not get far enough inland for a broad-based EMP.

Still a suicide mission either way for Iran but nonetheless an effective F-U on the way to Valhalla.... or whatev.

DarkLight · Feb 11, 2014

Kinda what I was thinking. Perhaps a localized effect of EMP but hit a high density population center and while we'd make Iran flat and glow in the dark, the overall effect on our morale would be...less than pleasant.

BTPost · Feb 11, 2014

Yea, but Obummer, Shummer and a whole lot of Democrats would be nothing but "Glow in the Dark" dust..... Might almost be worth the Trade Off..... Just think'en....

CaboWabo5150 · Feb 12, 2014

We've seen the result of having a couple of 747's flown into the WTC and Pentagon ( supposedly, but I'll not get into that ).
The Patriot Act, NDAA ( indefinite detention ), the rise of Homeland Security and TSA, NSA surveillance - the explosive increase in the size of .gov..

Can you imagine how they would use an attack like that to completely finish off what's left of the Constitution..

Yard Dart · Feb 12, 2014

Well God I hope it does not happen, but if it ever did.... I hope they hit DC

ColtCarbine · Feb 12, 2014

CaboWabo5150 said: ↑

We've seen the result of having a couple of 747's flown into the WTC and Pentagon ( supposedly, but I'll not get into that ).
The Patriot Act, NDAA ( indefinite detention ), the rise of Homeland Security and TSA, NSA surveillance - the explosive increase in the size of .gov..

Can you imagine how they would use an attack like that to completely finish off what's left of the Constitution..
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They would never use an attack or the fear of an attack against its citizens, would they?

kellory · Feb 12, 2014

ColtCarbine said: ↑

They would never use an attack or the fear of an attack against its citizens, would they?
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We really should have a sarcasm smiley.

VHestin · Feb 12, 2014

D.C. without electricity....how would the politicians cope without teleprompters?!

DarkLight · Feb 12, 2014

DC without politicians...how will the rest of us cope without Nanny? Wait, I thought for .000000001 second and came up with the answer.

BTPost · Feb 12, 2014

CaboWabo5150 said: ↑

We've seen the result of having a couple of 747's flown into the WTC and Pentagon
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Just a NOTE, here: they were NOT 747s but 757 and 767s..... Big difference in sizes, between them.....

Yard Dart · Feb 14, 2014

Iran's surprising decision to move warships off the Atlantic coast poses a potential catastrophic threat to America from a nuclear or electromagnetic pulse attack, according to an expert who foresaw Iran's move.
Peter Pry, an expert on EMP attacks, said the ships are likely a dry run for a future attack, a maneuver meant to lull Washington into complacency while also embarrassing President Obama and his effort to convince Tehran to give up production of a nuclear bomb in return for a lifting of some economic sanctions.
“Yes, patrols by the Iranian Navy off our coasts could pose threat of a surprise EMP attack,” said Pry, who with others such as former CIA Director R. James Woolsey, has convinced several state legislatures to take moves to harden their electric and energy grids from EMP attack because Washington won't.
Pry said the ships are probably conducting a test for a future visit from an Iranian freighter that would launch the attack.
“I think the Iranian Navy patrols off our coasts may be intended to lull us into complacency, to get the U.S. Navy accustomed to an Iranian naval presence in our hemisphere, so eventually they could contribute to 'Zero Hour' and the great day when the Mullahs decide to drop the nuclear hammer on America,” said Pry, who staffed a former congressional EMP commission.
“I think the Iranian Navy patrols are also intended to humiliate Obama and the United States for the Geneva [nuclear] interim agreement that Tehran interprets, correctly I think, as U.S. surrendering to the inevitability of a nuclear-armed Iran,” he added.
Pry, president of EMPACT America, one of the nation's leading authorities on EMP, revealed that Iran recently purchased Russia's Club-K missile launcher, which can be hidden in tractor-trailer-sized cargo boxes.
“I and my colleagues, including Reza Kahlili, who warned six months ago that these Iranian patrols were coming, think it more likely Iran would make an EMP attack by launching a missile off a freighter, so they could do the deed anonymously, and escape retaliation,” Pry explained.
“Iran has demonstrated the capability to launch a missile off a freighter. Iran has also purchased Russia's Club-K missile system. The Club-K is a complete missile launch system, disguised to look like a shipping container, that could convert any freighter into a missile launch platform. The Club-K, if armed with a nuclear warhead, could be used to execute an EMP attack.”
Woolsey recently told Secrets that Iran was just months away from finishing production of their first nuclear bomb.
He also has joined with Pry and others, including Texas Sen. Ted Cruz, in warning about a nuclear blast in the atmosphere that would knock out electric transformers and facilities in the mid-Atlantic.
The maker of the Club-K has posted a promotional video, above, showing how a nation could use it.
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