Posted by
Cary Wesberry on Sunday, July 20, 2008 6:33:32 PM
It appears Iran's last chance for a peaceful resolution which will halt their nuclear weapon's program is ocurring over the next couple of months. One way or another, President George Bush looks as though he will keep his promise to the American People of not allowing Iran to possess nuclear weapons. Either from an assault from Israel alone, or through a joint U.S.-Israel attack, Iran's days of playing political games with nuclear weapons is over if they do not accept a peaceful compromise. This from Admiral Mullen:
Adm. Mike Mullen, chairman of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff, told Fox News he is convinced the Iranians are seeking to building an atomic bomb, “a very destabilizing possibility in that part of the world.” He stressed the US had the capacity and the reserves to attack Iran as a last resort
DEBKAfile’s Washington sources stressed the special significance of Mullen’s statement on Sunday, July 20. The night before, a senior Israeli security official said that if the US-Iranian talks failed, President Bush planned to use the three-month period between the November elections in America and his exit from the White House in January for an attack on Iran’s nuclear facilities.
When you read Admiral Mullen's statements in context with this article, the picture becomes more clear:
Senior Israeli official: If nuclear talks fail, Bush will order Iran attack between November and January. This assessment was reported by Israeli national radio Saturday overnight quoting a high-placed “security-political” official.
The source predicted that President George W. Bush would order Iran attacked between the November 4 presidential election and his exit from the White House in January. The quote was aired shortly after the six-power talks with Iran in Geneva – with US official participation for the first time – failed, and just before Israel chief of staff Lt. Gen. Gabi Ashkenazi set out for Washington. He is to spend a week there as guest of Adm. Mike Mullen, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.
DEBKAfile’s political sources describe the disclosure as a step aimed at slowing down the collapse of Israel’s stated policy of relying on international diplomatic pressure to thwart Iran’s acquisition of nuclear arms. It is expected to raise a furious outcry from the powers spearheading the diplomatic effort and prompt extreme reactions from Tehran.
Our sources report that the unidentified Israeli “security-political” source sought to achieve three objectives:
1. Underlining the signal that the US military option had not been taken off the table after the state department spokesman said Iran must choose between cooperation with the international community and confrontation.
The official was also giving Israel’s answer to the latest evaluations making the rounds in Washington that the Israeli Air Force does not have enough warplanes to strike Iran’s nuclear sites without American military support.
2. A signal that the presence at the Geneva talks Saturday, July 19, of Under Secretary of State William Burns, far from being a concession, was an implicit ultimatum. Tehran was being told that no more than three months remained for it to suspend uranium enrichment before Bush made good on his pledge to resolve the issue before he left the White House. No member of the Bush administration is saying this directly, whether Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, Defense Secretary Robert Gates or the president himself. Israel will not doubt be rebuked for its disclosure.
3. As a high-risk step to derail the accommodations Washington and Tehran are on the way to reaching in their secret talks on a wide range of issues, with the exception of the nuclear controversy, as revealed by DEBKA-Net-Weekly and DEBKAfile. Israel fears being abandoned and left out in the cold on all its fronts against Iran by these accommodations.
Tehran may well seize on the Israeli disclosure as a pretext to ditch the nuclear negotiations on all levels, unless all six powers offer guarantees against their pursuit of military initiatives.
Time is almost up for Iran's Islamic fascist rulers. If they stay on this track of refusing a diplomatic solution, Iran will pay a high price. Israel, regardless of any other nation's support, will not allow such a hostile country like Iran to possess nuclear weapons in close proximity to their own people. Iran has repeatedly threatened to blow Israel off the face of the world when their nuclear program gives them the ability to do so. With or without U.S. support, Israel will act. Our only decision is: will we stand with Israel in the face of annihilation or will we leave them to fight Iran alone?
In my opinion, the United States military should have been allowed to attack any and all Iranian bases and government buildings when we learned for a fact that Iran was killing American soldiers in Iraq. That alone should have been enough to make Iran a non-issue through the use of force on our part. Apparently it was not. We as a nation cannot allow Iran to continue killing American soldiers while also sending officers, money, and weapons to Hezbollah, Hamas, and Syria along with directly threatening to attack Israel. Iran has gotten away with enough. They have to give in on one of these issues, and their nuclear weapons program is the most pressing of them all.