Nuclear Iran: The Debate Continues
BY Herschel Smith
18 years, 3 months ago
The contention between the House Intelligence Committee and the national intelligence community continues, while Condoleezza Rice continues to believe (falsely) that Russia will support sanctions. Meanwhile, Iran continues its push to go nuclear.
The U.S. intelligence community still suffers from the Clinton administration’s stripping it thread-bare of human intelligence resources. There is a woeful dearth of reliable and trustworthy information concerning the precise state of affairs of the Iranian nuclear enrichment program. Even so, the U.S. intelligence community is sticking to its guns by refusing to revise the timeline for a nuclear Iran, in a showdown with the House Intelligence Committee. At the same time, Israel’s foreign minister Tzipi Livni said on Sunday that the world may have as little as a few months to avoid a nuclear Iran, and called for sanctions.
Elsewhere we learn that the EU is capitulating and Condoleezza Rice actually believes that Russia and China will support the U.S. as it pertains to U.N. sanctions. Of course, this is false. As Dick Morris reported on FNC a few nights ago, and has reported elsewhere, Russia is practicing regional energy hegemony, and needs the natural gas supply from Iran to effect this control over energy. Neither Russia nor China will support sanctions, and it is mystifying that Rice believes so.
Finally, we learn that:
Another of the U.S. officials said intel reports show Iran was experiencing significant problems with gyroscopes it has been trying to install on missiles that could deliver Iranian bombs to targets in the region and even further.
In the total absence of consideration of a nuclear program, Iran is pursuing missile technology that it does not need to defend itself from any sort of regional aggression.
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