Israel receives about $3 billion from the US a year. Given the change in our administration recently, I think Israel may not act as it has in the past.

The Israelis don't take Obama seriously. Obama told them to halt the construction of new settlements and they laughed at him.

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Then Obama explained what side of the bread the butter is on and now there is a halt to settlement construction.
But we're not discussing settlements, we're discussing attacking another country. Please keep on topic.

As long as the UN or NATO agrees go for it.

Iran isnt dumb enough to use a bomb. If they do we can wipe them off the map, literaly.

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well, do we really want to bomb a site full of radioactive (i think? correct me if i am wrong) material?

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Sure, its in their country its their problem.

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You're naive.

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well, if we follow that logic, then why do we even get involved in the first place?

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No I'm not. You can't read.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20091125/ts_nm/us_palestinians_israel

Well, the last time Israel had this issue, they bombed the facility while it was still under construction, before there was any radioactive material on site.

Yes, and I would expect them to do the same this time.

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500,000 Iranian Centrifuges
Tehran ups the ante again as diplomacy goes nowhere.

Mohamed ElBaradei caps his contentious and ultimately failed 12-year stint as head of the International Atomic Energy Agency today, having spent many years enabling Iran's nuclear bids only to condemn them in his final days in office. Mr. ElBaradei combined his rebuke of Iran with his familiar calls for more negotiation, but we'll take his belated realism about Iran as his tacit admission that Dick Cheney and John Bolton have been right all along. Let's hope the education of the Obama Administration doesn't take as long.

As if to underscore the point, yesterday the Iranian government ordered up 10 additional uranium enrichment plants on the scale of its already operational facility in Natanz, which has a planned capacity of 54,000 centrifuges. That could mean an eventual total of more than 500,000 centrifuges, or enough to enrich about 160 bombs worth of uranium each year. Whether it can ever do that is an open question, but it does give a sense of the scale of the regime's ambitions.

The decision is also a reminder of how unchastened Iran has been by President Obama's revelation in September that Iran had been building a secret 3,000 centrifuge facility near the city of Qom. The IAEA's governing board finally got around on Friday to rebuking Iran for that deception, a vote the Administration trumpeted because both Russia and China voted with the United States. But perhaps only within the Obama Administration can a symbolic gesture by the IAEA be considered a diplomatic triumph.

"Time is running out for Iran to address the international community's growing concerns about its nuclear program," White House press secretary Robert Gibbs said yesterday, but the West has said this many times before. Earlier this year, Mr. Obama said Iran had a deadline of September.

The regime scoffed at Mr. Obama after he delivered a conciliating message for the Persian New Year in March, scoffed again after he mildly criticized its post-election crackdown and killing spree in June (following days of silence), and scoffed a third time by rejecting the West's offer last month to enrich Iran's uranium for it. Yet the Administration insists the enrichment deal is still Iran's for the taking. "A few years ago [the West] said we had to completely stop all our nuclear activities," Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said last month. "Now look where we are today."

Those are the words of a man who believes he has Mr. Obama's number. And until the President, his advisers and the Europeans realize that only punitive sanctions or military strikes will force it to reconsider its nuclear ambitions, an emboldened Islamic Republic will continue to march confidently toward a bomb over the wreckage of Mohamed ElBaradei's—and Barack Obama's—best intentions.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703939404574565802447685802.html

'Give Iran last chance for dialogue'

We should give Iran one last chance for dialogue," French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner said in an interview published on Monday in Le Figaro.
According to Kouchner, "Economic sanctions that would be imposed on Iran would be very harsh, but we are not there yet."

The French foreign minister expressed concern about Iran's actions. "Why did Iran announce 10 new uranium enrichment sites when it has only one nuclear plant to burn this fuel?" The fact that Iran persists in ignoring the demands of the IAEA, that's very dangerous."

Regarding tensions between Israel and Iran, Kouchner said "direct confrontation between the countries must be avoided as it would have incalculable consequences."

Meanwhile, one of Iran's vice presidents, Ali Akbar Salehi, admitted on Monday morning that Teheran had no intention of building 10 new uranium enrichment facilities until it was criticized by the UN nuclear watchdog.


Salehi, who is also the head of Iran's nuclear program, told state radio that Iran needed to issue a "firm response" to the resolution passed by the IAEA on Friday. "The action by 5+1 (US, Britain, France, China, Russia and Germany) at the IAEA prompted the [Iranian] government to approve a proposal to build 10 sites like that of Natanz," he said.

The new sites are to be on the same scale of Iran's only other industrial enrichment plant currently in operation, near the town of Natanz in central Iran.

"We had no intention of building many facilities like the Natanz site, but apparently the West doesn't want to understand Iran's peaceful message," Salehi said.

Salehi said the Iranian Cabinet would discuss the issue Wednesday, but did not provide further details.


http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1259243040133&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull


Pretty Please! With sugar and sprinkles on it! Please! Pretty Please!

You can export and/or launch nuclear warheads anywhere. Fallout is very local, its only going to affect the area the facility thats bombed.

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I agree. However he'd have to display some first.

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