The U.S. has plans in place to attack Iran if necessary to prevent it from developing nuclear weapons, Washington's envoy to Israel said, days ahead of a crucial round of nuclear talks with Tehran.
Dan Shapiro's message has resonated far beyond the closed forum in which it was made — Iran should not test Washington's resolve to act on its promise to strike if diplomacy and sanctions fail to pressure Tehran to abandon its disputed nuclear programme.
Mr. Shapiro told the Israel Bar Association the U.S. hopes it would not have to resort to military force.
“But that doesn't mean that option is not fully available. Not just available, but it's ready,” he said.
“The necessary planning has been done to ensure that it's ready.”
Iran says its nuclear programme is for peaceful purposes, like energy production. The U.S. and Israel suspect Iran is pursuing nuclear weapons, but differences have emerged in how to persuade Tehran to curb its programme.
Keywords: Iran's nuclear issue, U.S.-Iran relationship
Is it not obvious that US is not interested in Iran's nuclear ambitions as much as it is on the control of its oil resources and to prevent it from trading oil in anything other than US dollars?
Paul Erdman's prophecy about the third world war breaking out from West Asia - vide his book of yore "The Crash of 79" - will presumably come true now. The outcome will however be disastrous because it will be a full fledged nuclear war and expectantly, half the world will disappear. Rusia and China are not going to stand by and watch because they have huge investment interests in that region so they may resort to premptive strikes against forces trying to atatck Iran. The truth is, USA and its allies do not want Iran to develop a nuclear arsenal so that they can invade Iran at will as they did with Iraq but were rebuffed by North Korea that holds such an arsenal.
I believe Israeli and it's lackeys are resigned to the fact that Iran would not give up uranium enrichment. As far the nuclear weapons, I believe they all know that Iran is not building any.
In Baghdad Obama would do his climb-down upside down so from the other side of the globe it looks like he is climbing up.
Looks like another oil shock in the making. US sure can spend billion on wild goose chases but can't even feed its own poor. I humbly suggest restraint.
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