Posted on 08/20/2010 3:50:05 AM PDT by tobyhill
The Obama administration, citing evidence of continued troubles inside Irans nuclear program, has persuaded Israel that it would take roughly a year and perhaps longer for Iran to complete what one senior official called a dash for a nuclear weapon, according to American officials.
Administration officials said they believe the assessment has dimmed the prospect that Israel would pre-emptively strike against the countrys nuclear facilities within the next year, as Israeli officials have suggested in thinly veiled threats.
For years, Israeli and American officials have debated whether Iran is on an inexorable drive toward a nuclear bomb and, if so, how long it would take to produce one. A critical question has been the time it would take Tehran to convert existing stocks of low-enriched uranium into weapons-grade material, a process commonly known as breakout.
Israeli intelligence officials had argued that Iran could complete such a race for the bomb in months, while American intelligence agencies have come to believe in the past year that the timeline is longer.
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And they should believe him..... why?
I see Lucy teeing up the football for ole Chuck...
Israel shouldn’t believe him.
I’m sure Israel will immediately back off.
They probably would have told Poland they had nothing to worry about in August, 1939.
I wouldn’t believe Obama if he told us he was really a Christian.
Oh wait...
Every single American. Over and over.
No one should ever believe the documented
(and THAT is the only documentation that
exists for the illegal-alien-in-charge) liar.
I’d trust Israel’s information more than ours.
It is so obvious this guy is a muslim. He’s doing everything he can to help with Israel’s destruction. If the world thinks it’ll be bad if Israel hits Iran, wait until Iran gets the nuke and gives it to every middle east country. If we don’t stop this or give our blessing to Israel to stop it, there’s going to be some bad stuff going down.
Yeah, I’d throw him about as far as I could trust him.
I have a hunch that Netanyahu is fully aware of what a pantload our _resident is, and will do what's in Israel's interest.
A better friend than we deserve, at the moment.
Israel just needs to bomb the hell out of Iran....even nuke it. I would not trust anything coming from an Islamophilia-fueled Imam Obama admin.
Netanyahu knows our countries are no longer friends.
I think the Mossad is more on top of goings-on in the Iranian nuclear program than the CIA or any other intelligence service. After all, it is Israel who will face extinction first from an Iranian bomb. Therefore I am also certain Bibi and Company filed this information in the circular basket immediately.
Oh great! That give us another whole year to dither!
I'm sure they know better than to pay any attention to the Obamaganda coming from the White House.
So Israel should plan on being nuked next year?
Is it just me or is this parsing? Sure the "weapon" won't be ready for a year but the processing of Uranium is the problem and along with that is the extra year for design and perfection of a deliverable nuke.
Also, isn't the current crisis based on the fact that, once the reactor is fueled, bombing it would create problems?
He is totally full of crap. He's reflexively wrong on nearly everything. He is a menace to our nation and damn near everyone living here.
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