Hurricane Sandy (unofficially referred to as Superstorm Sandy) was an extremely large and devastating tropical cyclone which ravaged the Caribbean and the coastal Mid-Atlantic region of the United States in late October 2012. It was the largest Atlantic hurricane on record as measured by diameter, with tropical-storm-force winds spanning 1,150 miles (1,850 km). The storm inflicted nearly $70 billion USD in damage (equivalent to $93 billion in 2023), and killed 254 people in eight countries, from the Caribbean to Canada.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hurricane_Sandy

Hours after Super-storm Sandy howled its way through the East Coast, unleashing a fatal trail of destruction, global reactions included outpouring of sympathy and support. In Syria however, pro-government supporters welcomed the super-storm, claiming the natural disaster is the result of high-tech secret Iranian engineering.

Source – http://edition.cnn.com/2012/10/31/world/meast/syria-sandy-facebook-claim/ & http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/10/31/syrian-supporters-claim-iran-technology-behind-hurricane-sandy_n_2049879.html

CNN Source, Pro-government group “News Network” of the Syrian Armed Forces stated on a Facebook posting:

“Sources confirmed to us that Hurricane Sandy that is slamming the U.S. was set off by highly advanced technologies developed by the heroic Iranian regime that supports the resistance, with coordination of our resistive Syrian regime,”

“This is the punishment for whoever dares to attack Syria’s (Bashar) al-Assad and threaten peace and stability.”

Comments accompanying the post, which had more than 300 likes, ranged from derision to support.

Could Hurricane Sandy have been an attack on the United States?

Hurricane Sandy’s devastating storm track is a rare one among hurricanes. The track of the storm — which took an unusual left-hand turn in the Atlantic before slamming into the East Coast — has an average probability of happening only once every 700 years. “The particular shape of Sandy’s trajectory is very peculiar, and that’s very rare, on the order of once every 700 years,” said Timothy Hall, a senior scientist at the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies. That means that in any particular year, the chance of such a storm track happening is 0.0014 percent.

Source – Hurricane Sandy Was 1-in-700-Year Event: http://news.yahoo.com/hurricane-sandy-1-700-event-182934012.html

An article by Spencer Platt states: http://realtruth.org/articles/121027-001.html

“Normally, when hurricanes approach the East Coast from Sandy’s angle, they are pulled safely out to sea by a semi-permanent low-pressure center near Iceland. This time around, that low pressure isn’t there. In fact, it’s been replaced by a high pressure so intense it only occurs approximately 0.2% of the time on average. The coincidence of that strong of a high pressure ‘block’ being in place just when a hurricane is passing by—in and of itself a very rare occurrence—is just mindbogglingly rare. It’s the kind of stuff that’s important enough to rewrite meteorological textbooks. The result, instead of heading out to sea Sandy’s full force will be turned back against the grain and directed squarely at the East Coast.”

An article by Amy Ellis Nutt and Stephen Stirling states: http://www.nj.com/news/index.ssf/2012/11/experts_argue_global_warmings.html

“It wasn’t supposed to happen. That’s what the weather experts kept saying immediately before, during and after Sandy smacked New Jersey in the face. Not this far north, they said, not in autumn, and certainly not this bad.“

An article by Doctor Jeff Masters states: http://www.wunderground.com/blog/JeffMasters/comment.html?entrynum=2283

“We’re used to seeing hurricane-battered beaches and flooded cities in Florida, North Carolina, and the Gulf Coast. But to see these images from the Jersey Shore and New York City in the wake of Hurricane Sandy is a shocking experience. New Jersey only rarely gets hit by hurricanes because it lies in a portion of the coast that doesn’t stick out much, and is too far north. How did this happen? How was a hurricane able to move from southeast to northwest at landfall, so far north, and so late in hurricane season? We expect hurricanes to move from east to west in the tropics, where the prevailing trade winds blow that direction. But the prevailing wind direction reverses at mid-latitudes, flowing predominately west-to-east, due to the spin of the Earth. Hurricanes that penetrate to about Florida’s latitude usually get caught up in these westerly winds, and are whisked north-eastwards, out to sea.”

Skeptical Science states: http://www.skepticalscience.com/hurricane-sandy-climate-connection.html

“Hurricane Sandy was an unprecedented storm in modern times, arriving late in the hurricane season, making landfall abnormally far to the north on the US east coast.”

Based on the information presented I believe that someone may have replaced low pressure in Iceland with high pressure which redirected Sandy into the east coast of the United States.

Is this a freak set of unusual, rare and coincidental occurrences, or was Hurricane Sandy an attack on the United States by the Iranian Regime?