Posted on 09/26/2009 7:03:03 AM PDT by topfile
"Iran's actions have raised grave doubts" about Iranian claims that they are only pursuing the peaceful use of nuclear energy," he said. "Iran is on notice when we meet with them Oct. 1. ... They're going to have to come clean and they're going to have to make a choice."
It is still unclear whether Iran will bow to international pressure. Some nuclear experts noted that the discovery of a clandestine site suggests that Iran could have many more.
"The Iranians are teaching us the limits of what we are overselling," said Henry Sokolski, executive director of the Nonproliferation Policy Education Center.
Each time they are caught, the Iranians belatedly inform the IAEA and claim they are not breaking the rules, he said, and the IAEA then agrees to monitor the new facility.
"What you're doing is increasing the noise-to-signal ratio and making it much tougher to find the next covert facility," he said.
Mr. Sokolski agreed, however, that the timing of the disclosure was "fortuitous." And he gave credit to the Obama administration "for keeping its powder keg dry."
White House officials acknowledged that the Iranians will determine when IAEA inspectors will be allowed into the site. IAEA spokesperson Marc Vidricaire said that the organization in Vienna "has requested Iran to provide specific information and access to the facility as soon as possible."
Mr. Obama said that the intelligence on the once secret site, tunneled into mountains 18 miles north of Qom, which is about 160 miles southwest of Tehran, was the product of U.S., British and French intelligence, had been "thoroughly scrubbed" and was "solid."
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I know..... just sit down with Prez Iamnutjob and appeal to his humanity....that'll do it! Yeah!
We'll give them a chance to "come clean" ...easy.
Seems clear to me.
Isn’t it amazing that we have, supposedly, satelites that can read a license plate on a car but can’t find any evidence of Iran building nuke sites?
What other sites does O know about but won’t tell the public?
Yes, but it's all Max Factor.
Confident?
Here's a start....
Ok, someone tell me if my tinfoil is screwed on a bit too tight, but I smell a rat here (yeah, I know ...). My thoughts are that this is being timed so that Zerobama can “discover” the continued nuke development by Iran so he can call them out on the world stage (while the UN is in session with all of the world leaders there). He’ll meet with them and they’ll “back down” and Zerobama will look like a hero. Of course, in the meantime, Iran will continue with their development and Zerobama will blightly turn a blind eye.
Headline makes no sense...what are tiying to say?
Obama can multiply? That Obama bought the conservative Washington Times and now it's as bad as the NYT?
They’re implying that Obama timed his response for maximum
impact.
Look at the map....Obama wants a sea-based platform....what sra...The Caspian Sea?
What will be the Western response if Israel nukes these sites?
A collective sigh of relief, followed by massive condemnation and the economic strangulation of Israel.
So when is Zer0 going to go and talk to them?
We have now definitely re-entered the murky domains of governance according to popularity polls.Who cares about just policies. Who cares about the lives of our servicemen and women overseas? Ram Manual will change those values every hour if need be.
The flip flopping now begins in earnest. And America deserves much better. Watch the melt down as middle America awakens to the thing/Junta that the left and romantic centrists have put into the White House.
Ladies and Gentlemen, thanks to Bibi and Donofrio, we are now over the target. Prepare to repel TROLL swarms.
It is perfectly clear we are at the end point of this Grand Charade,No one really wanted to take Military Action against Iran because of the Consequences to the world, including rumors that Nuclear bombs had already been Smuggled into the United States across the Mexican Border and sleeper cells in Place just waiting for an attack On Iran. Iran will shorty have the Bomb and that will be it and we will start another round of Meaningless talk just waiting for the Moment when the Lunatics set one off somewhere in the Good Old USA.
Bibbi has seen the handwriting on the wall, they may have had the Capability to do what needed to be done Militarily when the President in the White House was sympathetic to Israel but now they have one who is their Enemy and that really is the impediment that can not be overcome.
I believe with all Our Capabilities we would not have to shoot down Israeli planes, when and where this attack was coming would result in a Catastrophy ,do you think Obama would warn Iran if they had this Information?
Only Obama could have a country completely surrounded
and still be impotent.
What I understand is that Israel would have to fly over Iraq. Obama communicated back channel implication that a in air confrontation between the US and Israel could occur.
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