PING!
Not if we have anything to say about it (and we do).
He was most likely was refering to the nuclear energy club, not weapons club. To make any serious weapons you first need spent fuel unless you plan to deliver low yeild weapons by crane and flatbed.
Good news, bad news fellow mullahs...
The good news is that in April Iran will join the club of nations in which the bomb has been demonstrated.
The bad news is that the bomb will be delivered by the Zionists.
SO, this isn't a new pronouncement. But it is plausible. The Israeli's have more or less promised to take care of this problem before the end of March. There is no moon on the 28th and 29th of March. I predict they go anytime that week. I think a great deal of the lack of sabre rattling etc., is because the principals (US and Israel) are feverishly trying to gather any scrap of intel that will increase the effectiveness of the attack.
We HAVE to go, right? He's not leaving us much choice. It's either that or let them set up us the bomb. If I was us. I'd bring in another division of airborne, and blame the troop increase on the current violence.
I actually hope that he continues to act under these assumptions.
They are all wrong.
The values of freedom and self-worth are spreading throughout the ME - Terrorists are on the run - We are leading in this GWOT.....which we either had to face now from strength...or later from weakness.
That neither of these two intelligent men understand this...nor can see this....only shows neither have 1. stepped foot in Iraq in the past 3 years...or 2. Don't have the stones for a tough fight.
No surprises here, except to the 99% who don't read these Iran threads.
Large Middle Eastern glass parking lot to follow in May.
I guess it's time to go long on popcorn.
Nothing will be done to stop Iran from getting nukes.
Our hands are tied because of Iraq. The US can not attack Iran now as we have 125,000 soldiers as targets in Iraq. Attack Iran, and the Shia majority in Iraq will go bonkers against us.
Isreal may try to derail Iran's nuclear dreams, but they just don't have the ability to launch the kinds of sustained strikes that would be needed to eliminate Iran's program in the long term.
Europe is a joke. Iran knows the Europeans are weak and spineless.
I'm afraid the truth is that Iran will join the nuclear club just like North Korea did. Not so long ago the US was commited to preventing the North Koreans from getting nukes.....and we all know how that worked out.
The West, to include the US, is just too awash in political correctness, multicultural nonense, squeamishness at the thought of any civilian casualities on the enemy side, etc.
We will wind up getting hit again and again at home before American attitudes change. Maybe at that time, we will finally realize that it is Islam that is our enemy - not just a few radicals.
follow-up headline
IRAN BOMBED IN APRIL
That is the first and the last day Iran will have the bomb!
Iran may or may not want the bomb -- I don't know. We can be sure, though, that there's no way in hell they'll have one in six months. Even if they have the proper designs, they just don't have the uranium.
A good rule of thumb is that about 1500 centrifuges running for a year will give you enough U-238 to build a nuclear bomb. Iran is currently running 20 to 30 centrifuges. Plus, I've heard several reports that they're having technical problems with their enrichment: the Pakistanis sold them the blueprints to an enrichment method twice as fast, but the Iranians don't know how to use it.
The tricky part is that with only 20-30 centrifuges running, Iran's program does look more like a energy program than a weapons program. That causes problems for the US on both ends. On one hand, we could overreact and get ourselves into an unnecessary war with a non-nuclear Iran; on the other hand, if we're complacent, they may be able to quickly "breakout" to a weapons program if the IAEA isn't watching.