Gus > The challenge Olmert has set for himself is not a simple one. But the more his warnings intensify, the more difficult he will find it to back down and convince the public that we can live with an Iranian bomb. Therefore, we can assume that the confrontation is moving closer.
Meanwhile, Iran isn't one bit worried about Olmert's continual 'cry wolf', in fact, Ahmadinejad keeps sticking his finger in Olmert's face. Since Olmert isn't getting much response from anyone about Iran's "intended" atom bomb he may well have to do more than just another 'false flag' operation -- he will have to attack Iran directly -- and I very much doubt he will do this unless, of course, he's completely mad.
But, clearly, he's stuffed if he attacks and he's stuffed if he doesn't. If he attacks, Israel will lose and Iran will definitely get the bomb, and if he doesn't attack he shows he has no balls -- something which war-crazed Israelis don't want to see in their leader.
ft.com
>>Iran says it will be ‘fully nuclear’ soon
Iran’s President Mahmoud Ahmadi-Nejad on Tuesday promised a “celebration of Iran’s full nuclearisation” before the end of the Iranian year next March and said the US and its allies had “finally agreed to live with...an Iran possessing the nuclear fuel cycle”.
Mr Ahmadi-Nejad did not explain his claims, which came at a news conference. But he was at pains to defend his record at home and abroad in the run-up to next month’s municipal council elections when his government faces its first nationwide popularity test.
The US state department said Mr Ahmadi-Nejad’s comments should represent “a cold jolt to the rest of the world”. But a more sober picture of Iran’s nuclear progress was painted by an International Atomic Energy Agency report on Iran obtained by the Financial Times.
The report, sent out on Tuesday to the governors of the nuclear watchdog, confirms that Iran is now principally using two “cascades” of 164 centrifuges apiece to enrich uranium. This means the country still falls well short of the 3,000 or so centrifuges that would be needed to enrich uranium on an industrial scale.<< |
