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| Iran can have nukes in 6 months |
| 2004-09-14 |
| Can I hear a, "Faster please?" The head of Israeli military intelligence, General Aharon Zeevi, claimed on Monday that Iran could be in a position to develop nuclear weapons without outside help within six months. As the UN's nuclear watchdog prepared to meet on Monday to set a deadline for Iran to allay suspicions it is secretly making atomic weapons, Zeevi said time was rapidly running out for the international community to deal with Tehran. "The next six months will determine if Iran will achieve in the spring of 2005 a non-conventional capability in the sphere of nuclear research and development," he said in remarks broadcast by public radio. "In other words, it will no longer require external assistance to acquire an unconventional capability. "This does not mean that it will have a bomb in 2005. It means that it will have all the means at its disposal to build a bomb." Zeevi said that failure to prevent Iran from acquiring nuclear weapons would merely encourage other regimes to develop an atomic arsenal. |
| Posted by:Dan Darling |
| #8 Anonymous6446, saying Israel has the balls misses the point. Israel is the stated target of those nukes and I don't think its possible for the world to hate Israel any more than they currently do. Israel has nothing to lose and a lot to gain by such action. |
| Posted by: rjschwarz 2004-09-14 11:05:45 AM |
| #7 They can have nukes today - made in American and brought to these turban tight terrorists by the United States Air Force. |
| Posted by: Douglas De Bono 2004-09-14 10:06:30 AM |
| #6 Right, V, we'd need to take out their military facilities and decapitate their leadership at the same time. Can't allow them to start wiping out neighboring oil facilities in retaliation. That's why I've advocated a few well-placed simultaneous nukes, though I'm open to conventional bombing of military/leadership targets near population centers. We need to decide whether, after 25 years of being "The Great Satan," we are going to win this war or not. Iran has had perpetrated so much mischief in the last 25 years that they deserve to be wiped clean. And we need to scare the crap out of North Korea, Pakistan, and Syria. |
| Posted by: Tom 2004-09-14 8:22:49 AM |
| #5 If the US bombed Iran, it would put us in a state of open war with them, and I think that means we would have to be ready for a conventional ground war to finish the job. So I don't think it's as simple as just taking out a few facilities. |
| Posted by: V is for Victory 2004-09-14 8:05:56 AM |
| #4 Maybe some one can convince Vlad the 1st that Iran is funding Islamic independence movements in the Caucasus and the matter will not be the wests problem anymore. |
| Posted by: Sock Puppet of Doom 2004-09-14 5:32:47 AM |
| #3 Sadly for the U.S. I think Israel has the balls... we'll keep talking for a while longer. |
| Posted by: Anonymous6446 2004-09-14 5:07:46 AM |
| #2 Zara' we all know very well what Zeevi was trying to say I have this creepin' suspicion that someone is trying to prepare the PR background for some preemptive action. Rantburgers, (and any possible trolls) any bets on who acts first - the US or Israel ?????? |
| Posted by: Elder of Zion 2004-09-14 4:37:00 AM |
| #1 "Iran can have nukes in 6 months" I don't want to nitpick but the article states: "Iran could be in a position to develop nuclear weapons without outside help within six months" Which does not in any sense mean that they can have them. I would tend to think just the opposite. :-) |
| Posted by: Zarathustra 2004-09-14 4:19:30 AM |