Report: Washington concerned Israel gearing up to attack Iran

Haaretz ^ | November 8, 2007 | Haaretz Service and News Agencies

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Washington officials are concerned that Tehran's announcement that it has 3,000 centrifuges fully working in its controversial uranium enrichment program will lead to an Israeli strike on Iran, the British daily The Times reported on Thursday.

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad announced the landmark development on Wednesday. Pentagon sources in Washington fear Israel could move to attack the uranium enrichment plant, as U.S. officials and foreign media reports confirmed it did a suspected Syrian nuclear facilily on September 6.

The Times report quoted military officials as saying that while the United States is hesitant to embark on an attack on Iran, Israel is a "different matter."

When Iran first announced launching the 3,000 centrifuges in April, the UN nuclear watchdog agency, the International Atomic Energy Agency, said Tehran had only 328 centrifuges up and running at Natanz's underground facility.

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More dithering from unamed 'nancys' in the State Department and Pentagon.

[OB1kNOb]

Translation: “Israel’s coming for you Iran, and we’ll just stand here and act horrified to appease the world and say, “Bad Israel! Bad, bad Israel! (Here’s your treat.)”

[Resolute Conservative]

You know Imanutjob is just nuts. If he really wanted to achieve nuclear capability he would stop announcing their progress and work silently until it was too late to stop them.

He is intentionally trying to provoke an attack to try and rally the ME into a fight against Israel and the West.

[ASA Vet]

Did those Washington officials explain how Israel could complete a successful attack on Iran without passing though U.S. controlled airspace?

[Perdogg]

Bingo!

[ASA Vet]

[HHKrepublican_2]

There must be a Deputy Secretary of State Nancy McRetreaty

[philetus]

You know Imanutjob is just nuts. If he really wanted to achieve nuclear capability he would stop announcing their progress and work silently until it was too late to stop them.”

He wants Israel and or the U.S. to attack Iran.

[joe fonebone]

I really like your tagline...

[wastedyears]

We should be concerned they haven’t done it sooner.

[Post-Neolithic]

Makes you wonder sometimes if Cuba came out and said they wanted to destroy the USA and then started on a massive campaign to build nukes, all the while stating they wanted to see us destroyed at all costs, what would we do?

Sooner or later there will be an all out war with Islam, it's not a matter of if, it's a matter of when. What we do to prepare for that, which in my mind would include making sure Iran does not get nukes by any means possible, is what really matters.

[ASA Vet]

I use that one anytime I post the nutjobs photo

[ASA Vet]

We lost almost 100,000 KIA in III. It wasn’t cold.

[montag813]

Why are we “concerned”. Having Israel do it is a perfect solution to our current political impasse. We outsource everything else, why not this? (we should also hire Israel to build our border fence)

[Tommyjo]

The F-15s being grounded at the moment might just be a slight problem?

[HardStarboard]

>>>Did those Washington officials explain how Israel could complete a successful attack on Iran without passing though U.S. controlled airspace? <<<

I read a report that claimed we shared IFF codes with Israel for their Syrian strike so there would be no interference from US ircraft in the area - flying in Turkey or Iran.

I'm confident that if we are not actively assisting the attack,(perhaps with e'lint and AWACs battle info), we will at least find a way to let Israeli aircraft transit Iraqi airspace.

There will be reprocussions...much Muslim and UN anguish and accusations, but quietly most of the Middle East countries (that count) want to see Iran's wings clipped.

[2001convSVT]

LOL! Good post.