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Iran closing in on its goal: Nuclear weaponization

Thursday, August 9, 2012 16:27
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The left-leaning Israeli newspaper Ha’aretz reports that, according to Western and Israeli sources, “President Barack Obama recently received a new National Intelligence Estimate report on the Iranian nuclear program, which shares Israel’s view that Iran has made surprising, significant progress toward military nuclear capability.”

The White House is not commenting on the report, which would be a complete turnabout from the infamous 2007 National Intelligence Estimate that asserted Iran had dropped its nuclear weapons program. (I suppose that for five years we’ve been pursuing a policy for no good reason? The 2007 NIE report stands as a tribute and warning regarding the determined obliviousness of our national intelligence apparatus.)

Israeli Defense Secretary Ehud Barak reacted to the news report:

There probably really is such an American intelligence report — I don’t know if it is an NIE one — making its way around senior offices (in Washington),” Barak told Israel Radio.

“As far as we know it brings the American assessment much closer to ours … it makes the Iranian issue even more urgent and (shows it is) less clear and certain that we will know everything in time about their steady progress toward military nuclear capability.”

Israel sees an atomic armed Iran as a threat to its existence and there is persistent speculation over whether it will launch a pre-emptive military strike against the Islamic republic’s nuclear facilities.

Read More: http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/right-turn/post/iran-closing-in-on-its-goal-nuclear-weaponization/2012/08/09/39f1f246-e226-11e1-a25e-15067bb31849_blog.html

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  • Just looking at anything that can get a war started with them.It’s about time you realized who the real enemy is Zionisum.

  • Before anyone jumps on this rhetorical, war-mongering, fear-inducing bandwagon, check out the Keshe Foundation (Dr Keshe is an Iranian nuclear engineer operating out of Belgium) and look at their tabled technology reveal of the coming 21st September.

  • Pix

    Occupied Palestine is a welfare stat of the USA, of course they are going to agree that Iran is their worst nightmare. After all the USA has interfered with Iran developing, destroying it’s democracy and replacing it with a dictatorship. If I was Iranian I would be pretty much pissed off with the USA as well with it’s constant destruction and prevention of developing energy technologies. The USA is the biggest warmongering greed infected bully, than the rest of the world put together.

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