If we are to believe Iran's Ahmadinejad, the country has actually reached the nuclear point of no return.
Iran has met a key target for its nuclear programme and now has 3,000 centrifuges enriching uranium, President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has said.
Mr Ahmadinejad said Iran would continue its drive in spite of UN sanctions.
The IAEA just praised Iran for its cooperations. Most western experts believe that Iran is bluffing.
That's just not very reassuring.
Then again, this isn't either:
THE Pentagon has drawn up plans for massive airstrikes against 1,200 targets in Iran, designed to annihilate the Iranians’ military capability in three days, according to a national security expert.
Alexis Debat, director of terrorism and national security at the Nixon Center, said last week that US military planners were not preparing for “pinprick strikes” against Iran’s nuclear facilities. “They’re about taking out the entire Iranian military,” he said.
Debat was speaking at a meeting organised by The National Interest, a conservative foreign policy journal. He told The Sunday Times that the US military had concluded: “Whether you go for pinprick strikes or all-out military action, the reaction from the Iranians will be the same.” It was, he added, a “very legitimate strategic calculus”.
That the Pentagon has drawn up plans, as I have repeatedly said, doesn't in any shape or form mean that the US administration is actually intending to attack now.
I am no expert in US law by any means, but I seem to recall it is the US Congress, not the President, who can authorize a war. There is this famous exception about "clear and present danger" but I honestly don't think it applies here.
Update: As Bernt kindly pointed out to me in the comments, I misconstrued the meaning of "clear and present danger." I guess it is not wise to take lessons in constitutional law from Tom Clancy.
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