Posted on 08/01/2006 12:17:01 PM PDT by PghBaldy
his year, the nuclear proliferation spotlight has swung away from Iraq and North Korea, only to focus on Iran. Western intelligence agencies have not discovered clandestine Iranian nuclear weapon facilities, nor have they, in fact, developed irrefutable evidence that Iran has a bomb program. But they have assembled a substantial body of evidence suggesting that, although Iran signed the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT), it is secretly pursuing a broad, organized effort to develop nuclear weapons ...
But it was Secretary of State Warren Christopher who, on May 1 [1995], gave the clearest statement of the U.S. position on Iran's nuclear ambitions: "Based upon a wide variety of data, we know that since the mid-1980s, Iran has had an organized structure dedicated to acquiring and developing nuclear weapons."
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I mean my tagline most sincerely...
Problem is that Isreal won't do its own dirty work.
They have Nukes.
What are they saving them for?
Their funeral?
Blinky!
Good tagline.
The worlds outrage, minus the US, against Israel now is one thing. Could you imagine how bad it'd be after they actually used one?
Actually I wouldn't be too surprised if they did, and not in the too distant future either. They have in thier playbook an option they call "The Samson option". Basically states that if WMD's are used against them, they'd reciprocate with a nuke.
I firmly believe that "the surprises" Nasrallah and Ahmadinajed have been alluding to recently are Saddam's old WMD's that got transferred to the Bekka valley just prior to the Iraq war.
Interesting comments:
"On January 10, then-Director of Central Intelligence James Woolsey told a Senate intelligence committee that the most likely scenario would be for Iran to continue developing its indigenous resources. That might give it the capability to produce a nuclear weapon by early in the next century.
On the same day, Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and U.S. Defense Secretary William Perry agreed at a press conference in Israel that it might take Iran--at its present pace--seven to 15 years to develop nuclear weapons."
Since this article was written in 1995, those are scary statements. Especially with Mahmoud running that country.
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