Iran - Current Situational Analysis - Poisoning the Asian Well

I recently posted an update to the Iranian military action page (along with reordering it so that recent actions appear first). There is a world of maneuvering going on over the last few days -

• Jan 10, 2012 - The IAEA- Iranian officials earlier said the Fordo plant, deep inside the mountains near the central Iranian city of Qom, was build to produce 20-percent uranium needed for a research reactor in Tehran, which produces medical isotopes to treat cancer patients.
• Jan 9, 2012 - Iran has begun uranium enrichment at a new underground site built to withstand possible airstrikes
• Jan 9, 2012 - Iran has sentenced alleged CIA spy, 28 year old Amir Hekmati, to death. 
• Jan 9, 2012 - The Russian carrier Admiral Kuznetsov anchored at Syria’s Tartus port along with the destroyer Admiral Chabanenko and frigate Yaroslav Mudry.
• Dawoud Rajha was received on the deck by a guard of honor of marines under a flyover of Russian Su-33 and Su-25 fighter-bombers
• Jan 9, 2012 - France consigned an air defense destroyer Forbin to the waters off Tartus”
• Jan 8, 2012 - Defense Secretary Leon Panetta says is not yet building a bomb and called for continued diplomatic and economic pressure to persuade Tehran not to take that step.
• Jan 8, 2012 - RQ-4 Global Hawk UAV, took off from the USS Stennis aircraft carrier for for a Broad Aerial Maritime Surveillance Mission (BAMS) over the coasts of Iran.
• Jan 8, 2012 - Ali Ashraf Nouri, a senior commander in Iran’s Revolutionary Guard, told Khorasan daily on Sunday that the Iranian government has decided to close the strategic Strait of Hormuz at the mouth of the Persian Gulf if the country’s oil exports are blocked.
• Jan 8, 2012 - Philip Hammond, the UK's Defence Secretary, warned the regime in Tehran that Britain will not tolerate the ‘very significant consequences’ if it fulfils a threat to block the Strait of Hormuz.
• The HMS Daring is a Type 45 destroyer that has the world’s most sophisticated naval radar is sent to the Gulf.
• French Charles de Gaulle aircraft carrier is dispatched to the area as well.
• Jan 7, 2012 - Iran launches security exercises on Afghanistan border. Mohammad Pakpour, commander of the Revolutionary Guards' ground forces, said the "Martyrs of Unity" exercises near Khvat, 60 km (40 miles) from Afghanistan, were "aimed at boosting security along the Iranian borders," Fars reported. 

The Real Effect
So what on earth is going on? Quite frankly, a large chess match. The US and Israel's goal, along with NATO, is to invade Iran. Russia and China, Syria and Iran oppose this. Let us take a quick look at the events leading up to this from Iran's perspective:

• The US has invaded almost all nations surrounding Iran as part of a larger Geo-political strategy. (In existence before and NOT in response to 9/11 and the War on Terror) This is part of a much larger religious strategy designed to demonize Christianity AND Islam.
• Iran is currently surrounded by US forces.
• The US imposes sanctions on Iran.
• It is actively looking for justification for the war. (In part by using propaganda to paint Iran as aggressors)
• The US is positioning against Syria one of Iran's allies. (Part of the larger move) Israel is also joining the fray.
• And Jordan
• This same strategy was used recently, against Iraq and Libya.
• The US has been trying to wear down your forces recently.
• The French, with the Globalist Sarkozy, have positioned an aircraft carrier near your nation. (They too are part of the broader War on Terror)

It doesn't take a genius to figure out what the US wants to do to Iran. As a matter of fact, they keep screaming it from the pulpits. So where do you stand as a nation?

• The revived Russian Federation says they have your back. (2) (As part of the larger strategy)
• Countries are stating they will buy more oil in an attempt to bolster Iran
• South Korea
• China 
• Japan
• China might have your back. (I would think that would depend on how much they think the US will retaliate.)
• Do you take a shot at the UK's 'advanced' but eminently pegable and juicy target HMS Daring?
• Will NATO take the shot? And then claim you did it?
• You move your cutting edge, highly expensive facilities to where the 'enemy' can't get them.
• Eventually you push ahead with nuclear warheads because if you can get them, perhaps you'll be left alone or at a minimum, you'll take the other side with you.

Overall, I believe all of this is designed to inflame two parties -  The Muslims in the Mideast and the Asian nations. If the US can get Iran, the focus on the war on terror shifts from the Muslims of the Mideast to the Muslims from such countries as Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, Tajikistan which just so happen to share a border wiiiiiith...........

China and Russia.