Iran is always within a year or two of some artificial “red line” regarding their advancement of a civilian nuclear program, and related only tangentially to hypothetical weapons creation.
Today saw the Institute for Science and International Security (ISIS) pushing yet another hysterical warning about Iran’s “breakout capability,” which is itself a concept invented entirely to paint Iran’s civilian program as a military threat, and popularized in ISIS reports.
The “breakout capability” rests on the assumption that Iran could hypothetically transform its entire perfectly legal civilian program into a military program and produce a weapon at some sufficiently scary point in the near future.
Iran’s program is, of course, constantly being inspected by the IAEA under the terms of its safeguards agreement. ISIS complained in their report that the inspections don’t actually mean the program is stopped from civilian use, which of course isn’t what inspections are for.
To put the hysteria in proper context, however, ISIS claimed four and a half years ago that Iran had already reached breakout capability, and analysts in general have been predicting that Iran was within a few years of acquiring a nuclear weapon for over 30 years now.
Syrian war is not going anywhere, the Israel-Palestinian peace process is just to "hope" for and Iraq is a mess and people all over the middle east hade enough of saudis and UAE barbarians and muslims brotherhoods and finally a change in the Iranian hardline attitude toward USA, Israel not peaceful at all foreign policies and off course the USA-EU economic situation makes the perfect time for peace with Iran, doesn't it.
Couldn't they have thought about it before the second time around…?
ISIS is that another aipac spin off
Iran has been taken off the front page….and now the neocons want it back there..so as to fullfill their most demonic dreams
"Hypothetically" Is that the word they want to use to make war with Iran, whatever happen to good old 'WMD'?