Israel has '8 Days' To Hit Iran Nuke Site

[Hunter]

WASHINGTON (AFP) – Israel has "eight days" to launch a military strike against Iran's Bushehr nuclear facility and stop Tehran from acquiring a functioning atomic plant, a former US envoy to the UN has said.

Iran is to bring online its first nuclear power reactor, built with Russia's help, on August 21, when a shipment of nuclear fuel will be loaded into the plant's core.

At that point, John Bolton warned Monday, it will be too late for Israel to launch a military strike against the facility because any attack would spread radiation and affect Iranian civilians.

"Once that uranium, once those fuel rods are very close to the reactor, certainly once they're in the reactor, attacking it means a release of radiation, no question about it," Bolton told Fox Business Network.

"So if Israel is going to do anything against Bushehr it has to move in the next eight days."

Absent an Israeli strike, Bolton said, "Iran will achieve something that no other opponent of Israel, no other enemy of the United States in the Middle East really has and that is a functioning nuclear reactor."

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[maxiep]

I can't imagine the discussions going on behind the scenes between the Iraelis and the US. How the hell did we let the Iranians get so far? This program should have been stopped under the Bush Administration.

 

[Hunter]

I can't imagine the discussions going on behind the scenes between the Iraelis and the US. How the hell did we let the Iranians get so far? This program should have been stopped under the Bush Administration.

Yeah, I am really shocked the Mossad (Israeli CIA) has allowed them to get this far especially given the harsh rhetoric from the Iranians on what they feel is their duty to wipe Israel off the face of the earth.

 

[NJNetz]

Can we just nuke Iran?

 

[Fez Hammersticks]

Joy.

Another war.

 

[TradeNurkicNow]

O____O jesus

So... Israel might bomb Iran in 8 days?

fuck

 

[maxiep]

The word is that the Saudis (who fear Iran as much as the Israelis) have allowed the Israelis to create a forward airbase on Saudi soil. I'm sure we greased the skids on that one so we don't have to push Jordan and Iraq to open their airspace.

 

[BrianFromWA]

wait, I thought the UN was on the job here? Aren't there something like 4 sets of sanctions stemming from 2006 about this reactor? Why are we involved at all? I thought that between the President's "negotiations" since 2009 (talked about since his candidacy in 2007) and the 4 sets of UN Sanctions, this thing would've been cleared up completely.
http://www.nytimes.com/info/iran-nuclear-program/

 

[oldmangrouch]

Joy.

Another war.

Phooey. If Israel and/or the Saudis are that upset about it, let them deal with it. War with Iran will make the situation in Iraq look like a paintball game.