Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Admiral Michael Mullen today cautioned that a military attack on Iran would not be able to stop the nation’s civilian nuclear program, but could at best slow it down.
Speculation of a possible American attack on the nation has been rising since last week’s comments by White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs, who said the nation would never rule out a military strike against the nation.
For the time being, however, the State Department insists the emphasis is on pushes for additional sanctions. State Dept. spokesman Philip Crowley today predicted that the P5+1 would be moving forward with specific sanctions in the UN Security Council in the coming weeks.
Iran has been enriching uranium to 3.5 percent for its nuclear energy program, and earlier this month began enriching to 20 percent in an attempt to produce fuel for its medical isotope reactor. The nation is looking to expand the number of sites for its enrichment activities, to minimize the potential damage to the program if the US or Israel attacks.
The warmongering against Iran is unbelievable. Iran is a threat to no one including Israel. Iran has not attacked another nation in forever and a day. Iran does not have an army that can project its power past it own borders. Iran does not have a blue water navy. Iran's Air Force amounts to a pile of junk. The Iranian government only has the knowledge to enrich uranium to the 3.5% level, and even uranium enriched to that level is contaminated. If the Iranian government somehow manages to enrich uranium to the 90% level and build some simple gun type nukes, they still would be a threat to no one. Both Israel and the United States have a nuclear deterent sufficient to reduce Iran to a nuclear sandbox. Nor is it likely that the Iranian government would hand off one of its nukes to a terrorist group. Nuclear forensics could quickly determine the origins of any nuclear based terrorist attack, and if such an attack was traced back to Iran, again Iran would face the fearsome power of the nuclear deterent of the United States or Israel.
The war mafia is using the same sort of threat inflation against Iran that they used against Iraq. It looks like the United States government is going to drag the American sheeple into another unneeded and unjust Middle Eastern war based upon nothing but phantom threats and lies.
Iran has as much right to nuclear power as Israel. The only Iran is doing it legal. Israel did not!!
The propaganda against Iran is working. Remember “…Iran…the most serious threat to world piece…” and other allegations in the corporate media?
It is working. According the Gallop pole Iran now is the most hated country.
See http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/blogs/persianality/…
Hated in the US maybe because Americans basically sit to munch their chips or hamburgers or hot dogs and expect the stupid media to think for them and allow their criminal politicians to take decisions for them. But violence, especially the one applied wholesale, has a way of returning to its source. Call it however you prefer -divine justice or karma- but all those deaths, especially the innocent ones are claiming for justice. That it will be made is a certain thing, and those who think they are God or His Chosen Ones will be overwhelmed by the weight of their own crimes.
israel sucks