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Title: WASHINGTON (AFP) – Israel has "eight days" to launch a military strike against Iran's Bushehr nuclear facility and stop Tehran from acquiring a functioning atomic plant, a former US envoy to the UN has said.
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URL Source: http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/2010081 ... sraelusmilitary_20100817120240
Published: Aug 17, 2010
Author: AFP
Post Date: 2010-08-17 09:28:29 by Jethro Tull
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WASHINGTON (AFP) – Israel has "eight days" to launch a military strike against Iran's Bushehr nuclear facility and stop Tehran from acquiring a functioning atomic plant, a former US envoy to the UN has said. Iran is to bring online its first nuclear power reactor, built with Russia's help, on August 21, when a shipment of nuclear fuel will be loaded into the plant's core. At that point, John Bolton warned Monday, it will be too late for Israel to launch a military strike against the facility because any attack would spread radiation and affect Iranian civilians. "Once that uranium, once those fuel rods are very close to the reactor, certainly once they're in the reactor, attacking it means a release of radiation, no question about it," Bolton told Fox Business Network. "So if Israel is going to do anything against Bushehr it has to move in the next eight days." Absent an Israeli strike, Bolton said, "Iran will achieve something that no other opponent of Israel, no other enemy of the United States in the Middle East really has and that is a functioning nuclear reactor." But when asked whether he expected Israel to actually launch strikes against Iran within the next eight days, Bolton was skeptical. "I don't think so, I'm afraid that they've lost this opportunity," he said. The controversial former envoy to the United Nations criticized Russia's role in the development of the plant, saying "the Russians are, as they often do, playing both sides against the middle." "The idea of being able to stick a thumb in America's eye always figures prominently in Moscow," he added. Iran dismissed the possibilities of such an attack from its archfoes. Foreign Ministry spokesman Ramin Mehmanparast said Tuesday that "these threats of attacks had become repetitive and lost their meaning." "According to international law, installations which have real fuel cannot be attacked because of the humanitarian consequences," he told reporters at a news conference in Tehran. Iranian officials say Iran has stepped up defensive measures at the Bushehr plant to protect it from any attacks. Russia has been building the Bushehr plant since the mid-1990s but the project was marred by delays, and the issue is hugely sensitive amid Tehran's standoff with the West and Israel over its nuclear ambitions. The UN Security Council hit Tehran with a fourth set of sanctions on June 9 over its nuclear programme, and the United States and European Union followed up with tougher punitive measures targeting Iran's banking and energy sectors. The Bushehr project was first launched by the late shah in the 1970s using contractors from German firm Siemens. But it was shelved when he was deposed in the 1979 Islamic revolution. It was revived after the death of revolutionary founder Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini in 1989, as Iran's new supreme leader Ali Khamenei and his first president, Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, backed the project. In 1995, Iran won the support of Russia which agreed to finish building the plant and fuel it.
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#1. To: Jethro Tull (#0)
No attack on Iran? It's enough to make a neocon cry.
I wish that Jew SOB would move to Israel.
Bolton is certifiable.
If they do launch an attack on Iran, I expect to see the Iranians sweeping into Iraq immediately and at the same time shore up the Afghanistan resistance with their most sophisticated weaponry. Again, our kids will have their asses in the line of fire while the Israeli planes (the ones we gave them) will be safely tucked away in their hangers.
Didn't some of our own intelligence agencies recently report that Iran doesn't have and isn't making nuclear weapons? It seems to be common knowledge that Israel (who still refuses to sign the NNPT) has more than 200 nuclear warheads; therefore, what offensive capability would Iran have at this time to counter the nuclear capability of Israel? Iran does not want to commit suicide....
"The 'uniter' has brought the entire world together - to despise and deride us." lod
I wish that Jew SOB would move to Israel. OMG - that this piece of piss still gets in the public discussion shows how terribly off we are.
"Satan / Cheney in "08" Yes they did. But that doesn't matter to the neocons because they don't want Iran to have anything close to a nuke capability. What they are likely concerned about is Iran sneaking nukes to Palestinians and then having them planted somewhere. A nuke set off that way could be harder to blame on Iran. But I think sneaking nukes around is pretty hard to do due to the radiation signature which should be easy to detect. Though with 200-300 nukes, Israel may well have a scorched earth policy that if it goes down, half the mid-east goes down with it and maybe a few European cities as well. That's life when you make peace at the point of a sword.
So what's the problem? Does Israel actually care?
Not a wit.
Good news! I saw in the Sunday night news dump (when almost nobody is looking) that we're giving LittleShittystan $4 billion in new F-15Is. So much for that $3 billion/year bullshit. That puts the tab at about $50 billion to date this year, near as I can tell.
I pray they're armed with the latest American technology. I want those A-Rabs scattered about in glowing pieces!!
The face of a sex pervert.
“How many Sex and the City fans have funneled all their maternal instincts into their Chinese bulldog without even noticing their ovaries have expired?”
Ya seen one pederast, ya seen 'em all.
That has always been the bottom line of all this "Middle East nuclear" brohuhua. Israel has always been the suicide commando they accuse the Arabs and Muslims of being. Israel either needs the United States to protect them - without doing what is in the United States' best interests - or they need to threaten the Arabs and Muslims with mutual annihilation unless Israel is able to completely dominate one fifth of the world population. The majority of Jews can't get along with the rest of humanity on earth. Time for them to find another planet to live on.
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#2. To: Jethro Tull (#0)
At that point, John Bolton
#3. To: Jethro Tull, 4 (#0)
#4. To: Cynicom, Lod (#2)
I wish that Jew SOB would move to Israel.
#5. To: Jethro Tull (#4)
#6. To: Cynicom (#2)
At that point, John Bolton
#7. To: Bub (#5)
Didn't some of our own intelligence agencies recently report that Iran doesn't have and isn't making nuclear weapons?
It seems to be common knowledge that Israel (who still refuses to sign the NNPT) has more than 200 nuclear warheads; therefore, what offensive capability would Iran have at this time to counter the nuclear capability of Israel? Iran does not want to commit suicide....
#8. To: Jethro Tull (#0)
At that point, John Bolton warned Monday, it will be too late for Israel to launch a military strike against the facility because any attack would spread radiation and affect Iranian civilians.
#9. To: Pinguinite (#8)
#10. To: Jethro Tull (#4)
Again, our kids will have their asses in the line of fire while the Israeli planes (the ones we gave them) will be safely tucked away in their hangers.
Mike Flaherty: Yeah, it's been there a long time. I wish I knew which corner.
My Man Godfrey (1936)
#11. To: Esso (#10)
Good news! I saw in the Sunday night news dump (when almost nobody is looking) that we're giving LittleShittystan $4 billion in new F-15Is.
#12. To: Jethro Tull (#0)
John Bolton
#13. To: Turtle (#12)
#14. To: Turtle (#12)
The face of a sex pervert.
Mike Flaherty: Yeah, it's been there a long time. I wish I knew which corner.
My Man Godfrey (1936)
#15. To: Pinguinite (#7)
Though with 200-300 nukes, Israel may well have a scorched earth policy that if it goes down, half the mid-east goes down with it and maybe a few European cities as well. That's life when you make peace at the point of a sword.
One of the major consequences of the 9/11 movement has been to draw enormous amounts of energy and effort away from activism directed to real and ongoing crimes of state, and their institutional background, crimes that are far more serious than blowing up the WTC would be, if there were any credibility to that thesis. That is, I suspect, why the 9/11 movement is treated far more tolerantly by centers of power than is the norm for serious critical and activist work....Noam Chomsky
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