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| Iran has likely not yet decided on actual construction of nuclear bomb, Israeli officials concede |
| 2012-03-19 |
| Despite saber-rattling from Jerusalem, Israeli officials now agree with the U.S. assessment that Tehran has not yet decided on the actual construction of a nuclear bomb, according to senior Israeli government and defense figures. Even so, there is great concern in Israel about leaving Iran "on the cusp" of a bomb - explaining why Israel continues to hint at a military attack on Iran's nuclear installations before it moves enough of them underground to protect them from Israel's bombs. Israel's leaders have been charging in no uncertain terms for years that Iran is trying to build nuclear weapons. Though officials say they accept the more nuanced American view, they warn that it is just a matter of semantics, because an Iran on the verge of being able to build a bomb would still be a danger. The United States is playing up its assessment that Iran has not made its final decision in a public campaign to persuade Israel to call off any attack plan and allow the increasingly harsh sanctions against Iran time to persuade Tehran to back down. |
| Posted by:tipper |
| #6 Lest we fergit, AFAIK there is still no formal or final verification or disverification that Iran received a number of black market Nukes + other WMDS after the collapse of the USSR back in the 1990's. The nuke threat from Iran stems notsomuch from a Nuke-armed per se but ultimately the proliferation of military-oriented Nuke, Advanced WMD Techs to covert Militant-Terror Groups + their Regional, International Networks = NGOS/TANGOS, ala so-called "Unilateral/ Asymmetric Warfare". THE MAHA-RUSHIAN HISTOIRE' OF THE ANTI-ISRAELI ARAB-MUSLIM STRUGGLE DURING THE COLD WAR + AFTER INDICS THAT THESE DANGEROUS TECHS WILL END UP IN THE HANDS OF ASSORTED MILTERR GROUPS, NETWORKS REGRADLESS IFF IRAN DEVS NUCWEAPS OR NOT. We've seen it countless times already - a Terror Incident(s) occurs, + the US-West find out that the One or Few MilTerr Groups whom formally claimed responsibility for the acts received mucho covert support + assistance in carrying out the attacks from many other MilTerr Groups, affiliated, "autonomous", "independent" or other, whom did not claim formal responsibility for same, NOR INTEND TO. * POST-USSR BLACK MARKET NUKES-WMDS ASIDE, "JAPAN/EGYPT" MODEL = IRAN WILL EITHER DEV THE PROFICIENCIES + ECONOMIES TO QUICKLY PRODUCE NUCWEAPS IN TIMES OF "CRISIS", BUT "OFFICIALLY" WON'T; OR ELSE IRAN WILL HIDE ITS DEV + STORAGE OF NUCWEAPS, BUT ONCE AGAIN "OFFICIALLY" DENY IT HAS ANY. As far as IRAN [+ Aligned] is concerned, the US + Israel started a major ME war because they unilater threatened + attacked a sovereign foreign country Iran that "officially" doesn't have NucWeaps, nor ever E-V-A-R! intended to dev any. |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2012-03-19 20:15 |
| #5 That mugger approaching me with a Glock in his right hand and a clip in his left hand, does not appear to have made an affirmative decision to mug me. Phew! |
| Posted by: Peter Carroll 2012-03-19 15:40 |
| #4 The only reason they haven't made the decision to make a bomb yet is because they haven't they haven't reached breakout capacity. |
| Posted by: gorb 2012-03-19 13:11 |
| #3 Title changed to spell concede correctly. |
| Posted by: Bright Pebbles 2012-03-19 13:09 |
| #2 Khanmeni wanted to get a model train set, but he was overruled. |
| Posted by: Thing From Snowy Mountain 2012-03-19 12:57 |
| #1 Oh, of course not. They just have all those centrifuges underground as a hobby. |
| Posted by: Thing From Snowy Mountain 2012-03-19 12:56 |