Did they or didn't they?
Mixed messages out of the WH - Politicizing Iran's nuclear aspirations

New information revealing the CES is sitting on information about Iran nuclear program until now.
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From a Debka article this morning, once the IAEA arrived and requested to interview the head of the nuclear program in Iran and view the site in Parchin the Iranian government refused both requests and sent them home. [Parchin is the site where they test triggers and explosives.] This of course derails the so called transparency that the rest of ( Read more... )

Debka article on crisis in US-Israeli relations over nuclear talks with Iran

The gist is that not only Israeli government but also a bipartisan group of US senators feel that a back channel exchanges held in privacy between O administration and Iran government leaders will result in:

1. communication while Iran continues its nuclear program instead of ( Read more... )

By suddenly stating, contrary to all informed estimates, that Iran’s nuclear arms program has not yet reached the point of no return, Israel’s Defense Minister Ehud Barak implied that Israel was in no hurry to strike its nuclear facilities, a message for which Washington has been angling for months.
In a Kol Israel interview from Turkey, Thursday, ( Read more... )

Ayatollah: Kill all Jews, annihilate Israel
Iran lays out legal case for genocidal attack against 'cancerous tumor'

The Iranian government, through a website proxy, has laid out the legal and religious justification for the destruction of Israel and the slaughter of its people.

The doctrine includes wiping out Israeli assets and Jewish people ( Read more... )

Feb 3 editorial in the NYT

2 cents: I think it is much easier for people in US to sit in a position of being many thousands of miles away and base opinion on best case scenarios. Best case scenarios built with flawed interpretation of the value of words in an Islamic nation.

Israel successfully dealt with this same nuclear equation/issue in Iraq and ( Read more... )

What is Bold Alligator?

What are our ships doing?

And how did IAEA visit actually go?

Iran tried to draw maximum publicity through a show of cooperation with inspectors from the UN watchdog International Atomic Energy Agency who visited Tehran this week. Iranian Foreign Minister Ali Akbar Salehi said Iran was "prepared to make arrangements for ( Read more... )

In kind of a follow up to my post yesterday in reference to the bunker buster effectiveness and how deep Iran has dug in for protection.
In a Washington Post article dated 1/30 I learned that Iran’s enrichment site at Fordo near the Iranian city of Qom, for instance, is shielded by about 300 feet (90 meters) of rock. So the bunker busters have ( Read more... )

Today's Washington Post contains a column by David Ignatius who is a pretty good reporter. If I see him as a guest on Charlie Rose I always make sure to watch it. His column today is about Panetta's concern that Israel will strike Iran this summer. "Panetta believes there is a strong likelihood that Israel will strike Iran in April, May or June - ( Read more... )