Blogosphere Preview: Iran Nukes NYC - the ad

New York City is destroyed in major new television ad being launched by Dr. Jerome Corsi (of the swift boat vets fame) on his new Iran Freedom Foundation website.

The chilling commercial depicts an improvised nuclear device being detonated by Iranian-backed terrorists. You can view the ad now in this blogosphere exclusive.

The ad is the brainchild of Dr. Jerome Corsi, co-author of the best seller Unfit for Command: Swift Boat Veterans Speak Out Against John Kerry. The ad is designed to educate the American public of the threat to the United States of a nuclear Iran. Just as the swift vets ads created tremendous controversy in the 2004 election, this ad likely generate significant media controversy.

The ad is being prepared for broadcast in the NYC and Washington DC markets in their initial ad buys. The ads were produced by the same team that produced the excellent documentary, In the Face of Evil: Reagan's War in Word and Deeds.

Titled: “An Atomic 9/11: When Evil is Appeased,” the attack is based on a scenario described in Dr. Corsi's newly released book, Atomic Iran: How the Terrorist Regime Bought the Bomb and American Politicians.” The publisher has shipped approximately 200,000 copies to major bookstores across the nation.

You may now see the videos on the IFF website here:

You may also see the TV ad here and the extended version here.

Dr. Corsi hopes the blogosphere will spread the word of the ads just as it did for the swift boat vets ads last year.

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Dr. Corsi explains that an Atomic 9/11 is an imminent threat once a terrorist state like Iran has the capability to develop nuclear weapons.

“The major technical problems that have kept terrorists from exploding improvised nuclear devices (IND) within American cities are solved once a terrorist regime like the Islamic Republic of Iran has the capability to manufacture a nuclear weapon and deliver it in containers to a major US port. The device can be picked up by sleeper terrorist cells, assembled, and driven into the heart of the city, where it can be detonated at the height of an ordinary business day.”

The destruction that could result from a successful Atomic 9/11 attack on a major US city like New York would be enormous. “In the blink of an eye,” Dr. Corsi says, “the United States could be reduced to second class economic status.” The scenario described in Atomic Iran shows that a 150-kiloton IND exploded in New York would reduce much of the city to rubble. Some 1.5 million people would be killed instantly, with another 1.5 million certain to die over the next few days.

The television commercials while shocking were produced for more than their scare value. “I wrote Atomic Iran and founded the Iran Freedom Foundation,” Dr. Corsi points out, “to warn America of the approaching danger, in the hope that the catastrophes describe in the book can be avoided if we are alerted in advance to the threat.”

The IFF hopes that the availability of the commercials for free viewing over the Internet will generate sufficient donations to begin buying air time. The IFF was established in January 2005, and is headquartered in Washington, D.C., as a 501-c3 Foundation with the ability to accept donations on a favorable tax basis once the IRS issues a tax status determination.

The IFF commercials also contain a clip of John Kerry’s statement in the first debate of the 2005 presidential campaign, where he stated he was in favor of the United States giving nuclear fuel to Iran for peaceful purposes. Dr. Corsi in writing Atomic Iran has criticized four Democratic senators – Ted Kennedy, John Kerry, Joe Biden, and Hillary Clinton – for having accepted campaign donations from the pro-mullah lobby in the United States.

“The Democrats just don’t seem to get it,” Corsi argues. “President Bill Clinton and Secretary of State Madeleine Albright started this ridiculous policy by giving nuclear fuel to North Korea for peaceful purposes. Then Kim Jong-Il turned right around and made nuclear weapons out of the fuel. The Democrats are about to make the same mistake again, but they don’t seem to have any problem taking campaign contributions from the mullahs’ friends in America.”

The IFF has begun working with Senator Rick Santorum (R-PA) and Sam Brownback (R-Kansas), as well as Congressman Steve King (R-Iowa) to produce legislation that will support the opposition movements within Iran. “We have an action plan described on our website to reach across in solidarity to the freedom advocates within Iran,” explains IFF President and CEO Bijan Sepasy, Ph.D., himself an Iranian-American born in Iran and naturalized as a US citizen. “We plan to use radio, television, and the Internet to communicate our support of peaceful change and freedom in Iran.”

The IFF has called for demonstrations of solidarity in the United States prior to the June 17 elections in Iran. “If thousands of Iranians came to the streets in protest on June 17,” Dr. Sepasy argues, “the repressive theocracy could fall. Look at the impact of the recent demonstrations in Lebanon. The freedom movement is taking hold throughout the Middle East. Why not also in Iran?”