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Saturday, October 26, 2013

Is Israel on the verge of an assault on Iran?

Israeli President Benjamin Nataniyahu
A few minutes as ago, as I was reading world news, an update from USA TODAY popped up. As I read through the article, two things stood out to me; either Israel is scared of Iran and is inflating the issue to force the world community to act, or Israel is certain that Iran only has 30 days to complete the enrichment of materials capable of arming a nuclear warhead and may go alone with it.

The report states:
A new report that says Iran may need as little as a month to produce enough uranium for a nuclear bomb is further evidence for why Israel will take military action before that happens, an Israeli defense official said Friday. 
First of all, the Israeli government had warned last year - as depicted by this picture - that Iran was on the second stage of enrichment. After all, that estimated time period didn't arrive as anticipated. Partly due to the gripping US and European sanction against Iran and perhaps partly due to the virus attack on the nuclear program. This didn't deter Iran from further pursuing this dirty, deadly bomb. And the Israeli government has all the right in the world to be scared.
Secondly, the Obama administration's middle eastern policy is a huge disappointment. The appeasement approach had emboldened Israeli enemies and those who hate Americans knowing that attacking Israel would not bring in the US big guns. And US demanding more from Israel than it does Israeli enemies. This is a dangerous mix for a fragile region that is sitting on a time-bomb.
Just recently the US government had engaged Iran indirectly and that sort of shaken Israel and US relationship. To Israeli government, the new leader of Iran is using his soft spoken mannerism to fool America while Iran continues its nuclear enrichment. There's no doubt Israel will attack Iran sooner than expected.

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