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| Russian official: Israel is blackmailing Obama, attack on Iran imminent |
| 2012-03-17 |
| Israel will attack Iran this year if a new round of talks scheduled for April fail, a leading Russian newspaper has reported quoting a senior Russian diplomat. Russian diplomats at the United Nations believe the strike against Iran is “a matter of when, not if”, said the Kommersant daily on Wednesday. “The attack will be mounted before the end of this year. Israel is blackmailing [U.S. President Barack] Obama by confronting him with a dilemma: either he supports the war option or will lose the support [of the U.S. Jews],” a high-ranking official of the Russian Foreign Ministry told the paper ahead of the U.N. Security Council meeting on Syria on Monday. After the meeting, the Russian diplomat said the attack could come earlier, any time after April when the six-nation group holds new talks with Iran. The Kommersant quoted the diplomat as saying that U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton had asked Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov to warn Iran that the talks were a “last chance for Tehran” to avoid the attack. The newspaper said a precise date and location for the talks was still being discussed. Iran on Tuesday confirmed that the talks would take place soon and said Turkey had been suggested as the venue. The coming strike against Iran would save Syria from foreign military intervention, the unnamed Russian diplomat told the Kommersant. “Americans realize that Israel will attack Iran and it would be too much to have two wars in the region,” the diplomat said explaining Washington’s consent to let U.N.-Arab League envoy Kofi Annan pursue his peace efforts in Syria. |
| Posted by:tipper |
| #6 TOPIX > [Buzzflash]NETANYAHU'S REAL GOAL IS NOT BOMBING IRAN, BUT DEFEATING OBAMA. OH THE BOMB-MANITIES! |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2012-03-17 23:21 |
| #5 "DEFENSIVE" MINDED IRAN WILL PREFER THE US-ISRAEL MAKE THE FIRST MOVE, as Iran's strategy = among other, the US + Israel will be attacking a sovereign Muslim country that officially has no NucWeaps of any kind. * "JAPAN/EGYPT" MODEL = THERE ARE NO PHYSICAL, OVERT NUCWEAPS OR ARSENAL PER SE, ONLY THE [subjective = debatable]NATIONAL "POTENTIAL" TO QUICKLY PRODUCE SAME IN TIME OF THREAT OR CONTINGENCY. By most accounts the Bammer is still losing points among mainstream US Voters - even iff the GOP field becomes a "split ticket", as is likely at the way things are going, it may not give the Bammer any advantage oer the GOP 4 = POTUS Candidates. MORESO IFF THE US ECON CONTINUES TO TANK WHILE US DEBT EXPLODES, AS MANY ANALYSTS BELIEVE Since 3 of the GOP 4 are in favor of Milaction andor strong UN-led Sanctions agz Rising Iran, it is ironically in Iran + Radical Islam's favor to ensure that pro-Diplomacy + UN Sanctions, anti-war Obama de facto wins re-election in US. "BILL CLINTON II", as per dubious $$$ ME contributions to 2012 re-election coffers. Will a troubled or cash-short Bammer re-election campaign covertly tow the Iran line on nukes, + by extension the similar agendums of Nuke-happy, post-"Arab Spring" Islamist Govts throughout the ME??? |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2012-03-17 22:47 |
| #4 ...either he supports the war option or will lose the support [of the U.S. Jews]... Technically thatÂ’s extortion not blackmail. But either way itÂ’s bullshit. |
| Posted by: DepotGuy 2012-03-17 10:04 |
| #3 U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton had asked Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov to warn Iran that the talks were a "last chance for Tehran" to avoid the attack. If true, that's significant |
| Posted by: Bill Schwarzeneggar1358 2012-03-17 09:26 |
| #2 Have they not been talking about attacking Iran for years. First stuxnet now banking next the freaking dumb as s will impose a sand embargo!Our leaders are a joke! |
| Posted by: Spats Big Foot5894 2012-03-17 07:32 |
| #1 Israel is blackmailing Obama Discovered he's not really black---just takes melanin tablets? |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2012-03-17 02:15 |