Irancove @ August 9, 2008 # No Comment Yet
Via NPR Watch:
Yesterday on ATC, Eric Westervelt’s piece on Iran might have well have been written by Dick Cheney or the Israeli Defense Forces. Consider these statements that formed the substance of the report:
Melissa Block: “….some Iranian leaders have called for Israel’s destruction….and Israel is within the reach of some Iranian missiles.”
Deputy Prime Minister Shaul […]
Irancove @ August 9, 2008 # No Comment Yet
The decision by Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert to step down amid corruption allegations has left many questions in Israel and in the region. There are two main contenders to replace Olmert as leader of the Kadima party. The front-runner Tzipi Livni, is a former Mossad operative and current foreign minister. She was a protégé […]
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Bolton thinks that Israel can drop bombs on Iran’s nuclear facilities in Isfahan (population of about 2 million people), but Iran should think “very hard” about retaliating because that risks an Israeli “escalation.” American News Project attends a panel attended by neoconservative, Israeli linked warmongers like Bill Kristol asking about the potential catastrophic consequences […]
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Jim Lobe:
A military attack on Iran’s major nuclear facilities by the United States or Israel would likely result only in a delay – and not a particularly significant one at that – in Tehran’s ability to produce the fuel necessary to build a nuclear weapon, according to a report [.pdf] released Friday […]
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WaPo:
A military strike against Iran’s nuclear facilities would probably only delay the country’s progress toward nuclear-weapons capability, according to a study that concludes that such an attack could backfire by strengthening Tehran’s resolve to acquire the bomb.
The analysis by the Washington-based Institute for Science and International Security found that Iran’s uranium facilities are too widely […]