Iran could seek short build time for bomb: Israel

[oberliner]

(Reuters) - Iran's nuclear strategy could eventually allow it to build an atomic bomb with just 60 days' notice, Israeli Defence Minister Ehud Barak said on Friday.

His remarks elaborate on long-held Israeli concerns that Iran is playing for time even as it engages world powers in negotiations aimed at curbing its uranium enrichment drive. Talks are due to resume in Baghdad on May 23.

"They are currently trying to achieve immunity for the nuclear program," Barak told the Israel Hayom newspaper.

"If they arrive at military nuclear capability, at a weapon, or a demonstrated capability, or a threshold status in which they could manufacture a bomb within 60 days - they will achieve a different kind of immunity, regime immunity."

http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/05/04/us-israel-iran-idUSBRE8430KK20120504

[choie]

1. more bullshit propaganda

n/t

[jimmie]

8. And you know this how?

You know how much enriched plutonium they have?

You know how much the centrifuges have produced?

Or is it just you don't trust " those people" and you'd rather put your faith in a medieval regime that treats women like possessions and gay people as animals? Not to mention they want to wipe israel off the earth.

Nope, I'll go with Israel .

[choie]

9. um..I am one of "those people"

that doesn't stop me from recognizing that the Netanyahu govt. will do everything it can to get us into a war with Iran. Wake up.

[jimmie]

10. Really ??.... wow

And since you didn't directly answer my question , then apparently DO trust the insane medieval Iranian regime than you do Israel .

As for dragging the US into war, I think they can handle it themselves ... Like they did in Iraq and Syria.

And thank you, I'm very much awake.

[no_hypocrisy]

2. And Iran could buy a bomb from North Korea with two weeks delivery time.

What's their point?

[holdencaufield]

3. Very few people...

... really believed Hitler was capable of the things he did, despite his clear statements to do just that. Even the Jews of Europe couldn't bring themselves to accept that what he said he would do was sincere.

I'm not comparing Ahmadinejad to Hitler (that would be absurd). But, it would be equally as absurd for any Jew (given our history) to not take at face-value any threat to kill us in large numbers again.

Iran is actively, if not intelligently, trying to acquire nuclear weapons. I don't think this has anything to do with Israel because Iran's REAL ambition in conquest of the Arabian Peninsula. But, Jews around the world can ill afford to ignore the Jew-hating rhetoric of anyone who is trying to acquire nuclear weapons.

[shira]

5. It's a game changer. Saudi Arabia would be next to go nuclear. n/t

[bemildred]

4. Ayatollah Khamenei gives Iran nuclear talks unprecedented legitimacy

With a second round of nuclear negotiations between Iran and the “P5+1” powers just weeks away, analysts inside the Islamic Republic say Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has lent upcoming nuclear negotiations unprecedented legitimacy.

For Mr. Khamenei, who traditionally maintains a quiet, albeit fundamental, role behind the scenes of Iran's foreign policies, an open involvement in current nuclear talks conveys a message that Iran's negotiators have his explicit approval.

This means their final commitments won't be protested by lawmakers back in Tehran, as they were after the country's 2009 nuclear negotiations. But it also means Iran's supreme leader, long known to harbor a deep distrust of US intentions, will expect the country's negotiators to take a hard-line on final nuclear agreements, according to domestic analysts.

“The Leader's [open] involvement in the whole process is a major shift because until now, he had never done it," says a Tehran-based analyst, speaking on condition of anonymity because he is not authorized to speak with the media. "This means Iran's negotiators will have a lot more leeway in the compromises they make, and that whatever they commit to will stick."

http://www.csmonitor.com/World/Middle-East/2012/0504/Ayatollah-Khamenei-gives-Iran-nuclear-talks-unprecedented-legitimacy

[oberliner]

6. "The Leader"

Good reminder of who is really calling the shots in Iran.

The Leader, or Supreme Leader as he is sometimes called, is the man with the power.

And he has been in this position for just about 23 years.

[bemildred]

7. Yeah, who to pick, it's a problem. nt

[jimmie]

11. 23 wasted years

I'm sure he's proud.