Iran preparing for electric-grid blackout war with U.S.

Nuclear experts long have warned of the threat of an electromagnetic-pulse nuclear attack that could shut down the U.S. electrical grid.

Now, there is new evidence that the Islamic regime is preparing for such an attack by hardening its "critical infrastructure" in preparation for a military response from the United States, reports the Washington Examiner's Paul Bedard.

In an electromagnetic-pulse, or EMP, attack, a small nuclear weapon delivered on a satellite is exploded at high altitude, resulting in a burst of electromagnetic energy that could cause a nationwide blackout of the electric power grid. The shutdown of critical infrastructure reliant on the grid, which could last as long as a year, would affect communications, transportation, food and water supply, and sanitation.

While nuclear experts believe Iran does not have the capacity to strike the U.S. with a traditional nuclear-tipped missile, its intent to carry out an EMP attack "may be reflected in their efforts to protect at least some of their critical infrastructures," according to a report by Peter Vincent Pry, the executive director of the EMP Task Force on National and Homeland Security.

Pry's report is titled "IRAN: EMP THREAT The Islamic Republic of Iran's Military Doctrine, Plans, and Capabilities for Electromagnetic Pulse (EMP) Attack."

Iran Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei (Wikimedia Commons)

Pry pointed out in his report that an official Iranian military textbook endorses a nuclear EMP attack against the United States, "as well as deception measures to conceal nuclear weapons in violation of international agreements."

The Biden administration currently is trying to revive the Obama-era nuclear agreement that was ended by President Trump.

'EMP apocalypse'
In March, Pry co-authored a column in The Hill warning that the the Ukraine war could devolve into an "EMP apocalypse" for America.

Pry and co-author D. Brian Hay, president of the Canadian security think tank Mackenzie Institute, said a missile-delivered EMP "of sufficient size, exploded high above St. Louis, for example, could basically fry the electricity systems of the United States and those of the main populated parts of Canada and northern Mexico."

"The resulting social catastrophe of such a doomsday scenario would forcibly preoccupy national, state and local authorities with their own internal problems," they wrote.

"Imagine most of the United States with no electricity, no ATMs, few working vehicles, few functioning hospitals, no delivery of prescription medicines, or food or fresh water or sewage treatment," they wrote "Most of the U.S. population could be reduced to a lifestyle like that of the 1800s. EMP Commission estimates project a death toll of 90 percent of the population within one year, were something of this nature to happen. Remaining authorities would be overwhelmed by civil unrest decimating the dwindling population as they fought for their survival."

The threat could come, they warned, from many sources, including North Korea and China as well as Russia and Iran.

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Pry warned that if Iran acquires EMP capacity, "its targets or that of its terrorist proxies will most likely be the populations of America and Israel.”

His report urged the Pentagon and the Biden administration to look beyond Iran’s struggle to build an intercontinental missile and focus also on satellites that can carry a warhead.

"Iran has orbited civilian satellites in 2008, 2009, 2010, 2015; orbited a military satellite; has suborbited a monkey into space and returned it safely (2013); and has medium-range military missiles, more than any other nation in the Middle East," he wrote.

Pry noted that Iran "has not demonstrated a military intercontinental missile equipped with a reentry vehicle capable of penetrating the atmosphere, accurate enough to strike a city."

"Yet a High-altitude Electromagnetic Pulse (HEMP) attack does not require a reentry vehicle or accuracy.”

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