Israel sets deadline ultimatum on Iranian nuclear development

Wonder where this latest confrontation
between Israel and Iran lead the world
to. How can Israel set any kind of dead
line or time frame as if Iran will listen
to force...There needs to be back channel
negotiations to find a amicable solution.
Let the two nations not put the world
on the brink of nuclear disaster with
their foolhardiness. Excellent report there
Karl. Rated^

Good thoughts Nina. Please consider that we have been dealing with this problem for 20 years. At least 10 of which we had imposed sanctions, seizure of financial avenues and other mechanisms to make it difficult for Iran to proceed in their quest to threaten not only Israel, but the entire Gulf region, thereby threatening all of the West.

Israel is the small fry in this picture, we are the target.

The Iranians fully understand that they need to get a BIG BANG for their buck - the huge investments to their prosperity and the well being of their people they have made to get this far.

Israel is no threat to the Iranians. Israel doesn't want to have anything to do with them. The say LEAVE US ALONE!

The threat is to the West, Europe and North America.

And that threat is real.

Thanks for commenting Nina. Very much appreciated. Diplomacy should always be first and foremost. Co-operation by the Security Council to influence Iran to stop nuclear development would go a long way. I think that Israel believes if the US makes it clear that military force is not only on table but that it will be used, it may convince the Iranians to stop this pursuit.

Leon Panetta said on Tuesday he did not believe that Israel had made a decision on whether to attack Iran over its nuclear program!!!!

Thanks for your comment Saleh, then the question is whether or not the Israeli Ambassador who talked about this on one of the networks this afternoon is telling the truth. The story is also being vamped up by the media in Israel.

Irish Times: ISRAEL IS pressing US president Barack Obama to make a definitive statement at the UN general assembly in late September, committing Washington to taking military action to stop Iran from acquiring nuclear weapons.

BBC: US Defence Secretary Leon Panetta has played down reports that Israel is moving closer to taking military action over Iran's nuclear programme.

"I don't believe they've made a decision as to whether or not they will go in and attack," he told reporters.

Israel Ynet news: Israel may rule out a unilateral attack in Iran should the US toughen its stance with regards to the Islamic Republic's nuclear program, a senior official in Jerusalem claimed. "The problem is that the Iranians are not identifying determination on the American side. This is why they have been accelerating the pace of their uranium enrichment over the past four months. They are also developing the weapon itself at a fast pace," the official said.

"The Iranian regime is certain that in any case 2012 will pass peacefully. They assume the US will not attack for fear of soaring oil prices and because of the presidential elections. They do not believe we will attack without a green light from Washington. Therefore, it is in the Americans' interest to convince the Iranians that the US may attack, not to convince us not to attack."



Here is a link regarding this:

The Telegraph: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/iran/9471079/Israel-demands-nuclear-ultimatum-for-Iran.html

Another comment from the Washington Post:

Israeli media has been full of reports in recent days, based on leaks and off-the-record briefings by senior figures, suggesting that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Defense Minister Ehud Barak are close to deciding on an Israeli attack to thwart Iran — despite opposition from the US, and from current and former domestic security chiefs

Spokesmen for both the National Security Council and the State Department replied promptly to Right Turn’s inquiry with “No comment.” Whatever ambiguity this and other blind-sourced reports create, the U.S. administration is in no rush to clarify.

A VIDEO FOR THOSE INTERESTED IN THIS ISSUE:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=3dBzslDdQ_g

agb100 Thank you for the link.

The plan all along is for Israel to attack Iran right before the election so that Romney will win. There will be nowhere to hide when WWIII begins this fall.

I am in the right place to hide Adrian :).

I worry about doing what is right and what is necessary, not about my own hide.

That is because I've seen this play before when the world did nothing.

I worry about doing what is right and what is necessary, not about my own hide.

That is because I've seen this play before when the world did nothing.

And thank you Karl!

Adolf Hitler, Chancellor of Nazi Germany (1933-45)


"Who, after all, speaks today of the annihilation of the Armenians?"

[August 22, 1939]

My decision to attack Poland was arrived at last spring. Originally, I feared that the political constellation would compel me to strike simultaneously at England, Russia, France, and Poland. Even this risk would have had to be taken.

Ever since the autumn of 1938, and because I realized that Japan would not join us unconditionally and that Mussolini is threatened by that nit-wit of a king and the treasonable scoundrel of a crown prince, I decided to go with Stalin.

In the last analysis, there are only three great statesmen in the world, Stalin, I, and Mussolini. Mussolini is the weakest, for he has been unable to break the power of either the crown or the church. Stalin and I are the only ones who envisage the future and nothing but the future. Accordingly, I shall in a few weeks stretch out my hand to Stalin at the common German-Russian frontier and undertake the redistribution of the world with him.

Our strength consists in our speed and in our brutality. Genghis Khan led millions of women and children to slaughter — with premeditation and a happy heart. History sees in him solely the founder of a state. It's a matter of indifference to me what a weak western European civilization will say about me.

I have issued the command — and I'll have anybody who utters but one word of criticism executed by a firing squad — that our war aim does not consist in reaching certain lines, but in the physical destruction of the enemy. Accordingly, I have placed my death-head formations in readiness — for the present only in the East — with orders to them to send to death mercilessly and without compassion, men, women, and children of Polish derivation and language. Only thus shall we gain the living space (Lebensraum) which we need. Who, after all, speaks today of the annihilation of the Armenians?

Kevork B. Bardakjian, Hitler and the Armenian Genocide (Cambridge, Massachusetts: The Zoryan Institute, 1985).

The text above is the English version of the German document handed to Louis P. Lochner in Berlin. It first appeared in Lochner's What About Germany? (New York: Dodd, Mead & Co., 1942), pp. 1-4. The Nuremberg Tribunal later identified the document as L-3 or Exhibit USA-28. Two other versions of the same document appear in Appendices II and III. For the German original cf. Akten zur Deutschen Auswartigen Politik 1918-1945, Serie D, Band VII, (Baden-Baden, 1956), pp. 171-172.

agb100 thank you. I was a product of postwar Germany, with my parents living through that mess. Hitler took advantage of a humiliated people and a bad deal out of the Versaille treaty. Deceit was his the name of the game. Germans fell for it and we can all point to the end result. My grandparents, my mom and dad as teenagers lived through this horrendous mess. I am not sure they ever overcame it. In any case they lost their childhood and almost their lives. Not a pretty picture. You also have to feel for the people in Eastern Europe, including Poland, Russia and the Ukraine that had to suffer through this.

Hollywood depicted it as all glory. The White Crosses at the beaches of Normandy tell a different story. Thanks for publishing Hitler's comments out of Lochner's book. It should be a reminder to all of us.

agb100 thank you. I was a product of postwar Germany, with my parents living through that mess. Hitler took advantage of a humiliated people and a bad deal out of the Versaille treaty. Deceit was his the name of the game. Germans fell for it and we can all point to the end result. My grandparents, my mom and dad as teenagers lived through this horrendous mess. I am not sure they ever overcame it. In any case they lost their childhood and almost their lives. Not a pretty picture. You also have to feel for the people in Eastern Europe, including Poland, Russia and the Ukraine that had to suffer through this.

Hollywood depicted it as all glory. The White Crosses at the beaches of Normandy tell a different story. Thanks for publishing Hitler's comments out of Lochner's book. It should be a reminder to all of us.

Israel nor American have courage or strength to attack and destory Iran Neuclear plant? Do not consider Iran as SAUDI Arabia ( they are true face of Wahabi sect - no relation with Islam and blind observer and followers of American salves)

Sharif thank you for commenting and your input. Much appreciated.