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Originally Posted by steeljack
just reading the tea-leaves but wonder what the response will be if Iran manages later this week to test an A Bomb ..... 
Supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said on Monday that Iran is set to deliver a "punch" that will stun world powers during this week's 31st anniversary of the Islamic revolution.
"The Iranian nation, with its unity and God's grace, will punch the arrogance (Western powers) on the 22nd of Bahman (February 11) in a way that will leave them stunned," Khamenei, who is also Iran's commander-in-chief, told a gathering of air force personnel.
Iran anniversary 'punch' will stun West: Khamenei |
Let's hope that this is a bunch of hot air flavored with farmyard biomass. Maybe the whole thing will be a dud. Like in a modified version of Ralph Waldo Emerson's "Concord Hymn" that made the rounds at Los Alamos during the Manhattan Project:
From this crude lab that spawned a dud
Their necks to Truman's axe uncurled
Lo, the embattled savants stood
And fired the flop heard round the world.
Still think that the big news from Iran will have nothing to do with their nuclear program, but will have a lot to do with the popular anti-government movement. And I do believe that the reactionary clerics will lose out to the secularists and the moderates.