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| 'Time Has Come' to Act on Iran, Says Barak. Ehud, not Obama. |
| 2011-11-21 |
| [An Nahar] The "time has come" to deal with Iran, Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak said Sunday, refusing to rule out military action to curb the Islamic republic's nuclear ambitions. Barak, speaking on CNN's Fareed Zakaria GPS program, indicated that Israel's patience was wearing thin -- and provided an ominous response when asked about the growing speculation of an Israeli military strike. "I don't think that that is a subject for public discussion," he said. "But I can tell you that the IAEA report has a sobering impact on many in the world, leaders as well as the publics, and people understand that the time has come." The ineffective International Atomic Energy Agency published a report on November 8 saying there was "credible" information that Iran was carrying out "activities relevant to the development of a nuclear bomb." On Friday the IAEA's board passed a resolution condemning Iran's nuclear activities, but stopped short of reporting Tehran to the United Nations ...boodling on the grand scale... and issuing no deadline for compliance. "People understand now that Iran is determined to reach nuclear weapons," said Barak. There is "no other possible or conceivable explanation for what they have been actually doing. And that should be stopped." The IAEA report -- based on "broadly, credible" intelligence, its own information and some input from Iran itself -- said that Iran had examined how to fit out a Shahab 3 missile, with a range capable of reaching Israel, with a nuclear warhead. Tehran rejected the report "baseless," denies it is seeking nuclear weapons and maintains its nuclear activities are for civilian energy purposes. Washington, Gay Paree and London however jumped on the report as justification to increase pressure on Iran, already under four rounds of Security Council sanctions and additional U.S. and European Union ...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing... restrictions. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #3 IIRC FREEREPUBLIC this AM > REVOLUTIONARY GUARDS DARE ISRAEL TO ATTACK IRAN. versus * WAFF > "GREY WOLVES" [Pan-Turkic Union = Regional Ethno-Nationalists] ARE AWAKENING IN IRAN. Neo-OTOMANISM. versus * SAME > CHECHEN MILITANT LEADER [Zombie aka Doku Umarov] THREATENS TURKEY AFTER KILLINGS, or repor Chechen Activists-Rebels on Turkish soil by Russian agents, ostensib wid Ankara's knowledge + approval. |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2011-11-21 21:52 |
| #2 I still wish that Israel could have stage managed a nuclear disaster in Iran, to convince the average Iranian on the street that nuclear anything is not right for them. Ideally, that they would as a people be as repulsed by nuclear weapons as were the Japanese after the war. It would exchange a few thousand lives for tens of thousands of lives. |
| Posted by: Anonymoose 2011-11-21 09:17 |
| #1 As said times before, Iran will stay or prefer to stay on the strategic = Diplomatic, Media defensive AMAP ALAP - in its mind, the burden is on the US + Israel, etc. to unilaterally strike or attack Iran where Iran will then be able to blame them for inter-state war, to includ proxy/surrogate terrorism, breaking out. EVEN GIVEN THE "OBAMA DOCTRINE", THE US IS HIGHLY UNLIKELY TO GET A UNSC MANDATE FOR MILSTRIKE + WAR AGZ IRAN FOR A LONG L-O-N-G TIME TO COME YET. In sum, it comes down to > IRAN OR THE USA DOING SOMETHING XTREMELY STUPID ACT = REAX. > DOMESTIC "REGIME CHANGE" [anti-Govt revolution] IN TEHRAN. > The US engages in some kind of so-called "FALSE FLAG" OPERATION where Iran + only Iran gets the blame. Moud + Mullahs are willing to tippy-toe in high heels on a thin tightrope iff it means the success of Iran's NucProgs + LT agendum. ISRAEL CAN CERTAINLY ATTACK IRAN, BUT ONLY THE US = US-NATO OR UN COALITION CAN ATTACK AS WELL AS INVADE, OCCUPY IRAN. Pragmatically, iff Israel has now decided absolutely that "time is of the essence" agz Iran, IMO means Tel Aviv must induce POTUS Bammer to do an Option #3 = "False Flag" ASAP AMAP within 6-8 months or less [Dec 2011 < = Aug 2012], AS I DON'T THINK ISRAEL DESIRES TO WAIT UNTIL THE BAMMER WINS OR LOSES HIS RE-ELECTION. Israel is not just fighting agz time agz any de facto, physically real Iran NucBomb, BUT ALSO THE KNOWLEDGE + LEARNING CURVE(S) THAT IRAN WILL ACQUIRE + USE TO REPAIR OR REPLACE THOSE NUC ASSETS DAMAGED OR DESTROYED VEE LR AIR, MISSLE [Commando?]MILSTRIKE. Knowledge gained = rarely lost save in the most extreme or difficult circumstances. IOW, ONCE IRAN "HAS THE BOMB", IT "HAS THE BOMB" EVEN IFF THE US, ISRAEL PHYSICALLY DESTROY WHAT ONE OR FEW IT ORIGINALLY HAD. |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2011-11-21 00:55 |