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US assures Israel on Iran's bomb plans
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Published: 20.08.10, 07:40
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1. Don't Think So
Tony ,   Teaneck, USA   (08.20.10)
Anything from the Obama Administration should not be taken at face value.
2. :: The now openly Muslim in Chief President assures Israel?
Matty Groves ,   Fairport   (08.20.10)
After the Mosque debacle and previous hostile attitude Israel should never trust B. Hussein.
3. They also offered to sell us a bridge.
Terry ,   Eilat - Israel   (08.20.10)
It's in Brooklyn, very famous. They said they'd throw in some Enron stock to sweeten the deal. I can't believe anyone in our gov't. would believe a word from the Obama administration, exception made for Ehud Barak, our brilliant DM, well known for his masterful sense of strategy & judgement. Ehud has a plan, so we shouldn't worry, he's ordered more paintguns in case Iran attacks us.
4. good way to save face
jacob ,   Encino, CA   (08.20.10)
israel is too scared to hit iran because they know they get the real deal this time and no more funny armies and ragt tag militias to fight. I hope both you bozos find a way to co-exist, which is possible; But I won't feel sorry for either one of you bullies if you decide to go at it.
5. Wow! Another fictitious NIE report
Harry Wright ,   UK   (08.20.10)
Obama gives his Islamic brethren in Iran an extension to complete their nuclear weapon. Whose intelligence is more accurate, Obama's or Israel's? I'll go with Israel's. Obama has a track record of deceitfulness and lies, he bows to muslims and detests Israel. He has no intention of stopping Iran from acquiring nuclear weapons and is waiting for the 99th hour to declare it is too late to do anything. Meanwhile, he endorses the victory mosque on ground zero. Two blocks away is as good as. Over time, that structure will just expand and expand until it swallows ground zero.
6. a YEAR??
lola ,   australia   (08.20.10)
HOLY ike. and israel is not supposed to worry? high time somebody did something - if of course its true.
7. #2 Matty
Nate ,   USA   (08.20.10)
Quit your yapping and go attend a tea party protest.
8.  'A year is a very long period of time' ...
Chonny ,   Colorado, US   (08.20.10)
A year is only 12 months. A year didn't seem so long ago...it was then (last summer) that Israel and the State Department were giving Iran "until Christmas" or "until the end of 2009" to halt enrichment and allow IAEA inspectors back into the country. That date came and went. Now, in August 2010, we have Bushehr "going active" and Iran apparently in possession of some S-300 missiles. So, perhaps 12 months is a long time...for Iran to bolster its defenses and to acquire a bomb or two or twenty...
9. Stupid to build nuke now when N.Korea can for them
Bloodyscot ,   Dallas, Texas   (08.20.10)
Iran is not trying hard to build a nuke or 2 now but to get ability for many later if needed. While that give West some time but makes Iran a greater threat down the road. N. Korea could build Iran about 1 nuke per month(4 every 4months) if Iran is willing to pay in uranium fuel rods and cash, since changing out fuel rods every 3 or 4 months would be needed to extract plutonium.
10. we want to believe, but the nations of the world
Larry ,   Los Angeles   (08.20.10)
seem to enjoy pulling the carpet out from under our feet. Nope, tell Mr. Obama that he can keep his promises to his people, but we, in G-d we trust and we had better prepare our selves.
11. It's going to happen very soon
Johnny ,   Stockholm Sweden   (08.20.10)
12. UMCANNY COMPARISON
DAVID ,   JUDEA   (08.20.10)
Before the Shoah in 1939 the political leaders in Holland told the people that they could go to sleep without any worry about the Nazis. Well we saw the results off that great advice. And knowing that Israelis are easily swayed and mislead, by their great ally the USA, to trust their assurance would be a smart thing to do.
13. and if not?????
tiki ,   belgium   (08.20.10)
Oeps, mistake....Sorry guys!!!!!! US intelligence was soooo accurate lately that now we can relax and go back to sleep, because 'our good friend OBAMA promised. "Jerusalem will never be devided"...ring a bell?
14. Iran will build the bomb at all costs
Atomino ,   Germany   (08.20.10)
Iran needs to build the bomb. Why? It is surrounded by enemies and has the USA and Israel as enemies too. The US did very bad things with Iran in the last 50 years, they will never forget. Nobody gives them security guaranties. Israel has nucelar weapons. To be untouchable Iran will aquire nukes in 1 year or 10 years. The west can solve the problem, pressure Israel and surrounding countries to make peace contract and to ban nuclear weapons from the complete region and provide security guarantees for all contries which are not try to build nuclear weapons. The strategic importance of Israel for the USA will changing, there are other big problems coming (China, Pakistan). The US has already accepted a nuclear Iran.
15. Barakah Hussein Obama
Albrecht Klein ,   Germany   (08.20.10)
Q: How do you know that BHO is lying? A: He opens his mouth.
16. Last Years Assesment
Stan ,   Johannesburg RSA   (08.20.10)
This is the same assesment the USA gave last year. Clearly the idiot who compiles this garbage has discounted the help that Iran is receiving from Russia, China and Pakistan.
17. when obama is near
JL   (08.20.10)
theres nutin to fear...and ehud barak is one mean DM...im sure the iranians have pushed back thier plans a year out of fear from these two great leaders
18. #Atomino 14: You apply reverse logic
Mr Green ,   Manchester   (08.20.10)
Because Iran IS a special case First Israel and the US have never ever threatened the existence of Iran. It is Ah MAD inejad who has created the tensions, made overt threats and is fostering terrorism. Iran remember is a de facto Police State In addition if you took the trouble to examine the speeches and rhetoric now coming out of Iran from Ah MAD inejad down to the RG Officers - there is shocking culture of violence and militarism and the express wish not only to build nuclear weapons but to use them And on whom? If you think that their hatred is for just Israel and the US think again. They hate ALL of the West but worse they are engendering a 'Superior Race', mentality where anyone who is not Persian and that includes Arabs is classed inferior and worthless
19. #11. Stop looking at your crystal balls...
Mr Green ,   Manchester   (08.20.10)
Its unhealthy!
20. To #14
Yakov ,   Tel Aviv   (08.20.10)
Are you naive? Are you blind, or slow witted? Does anything about the Iranian regime suggest they show wisdom and good judgement? Does the recent history of Iranian politics suggest they can/could manage nuclear weapons in a responsible manner? Does anything about the Iranian regime suggest moral and ethical responsibility? Stoning woman and hanging children, as a matter of routine does not suggest that the same people should have nuclear weapons. The Iranian government has proclaimed serially that they are blood-thirsty, cruel and barbaric. Would you give a genocidal megalomaniac weapons of mass destruction? Iran, as a nuclear power represents a threat far beyond the Middle-East. When a nuclear Iran announces to surrounding oil states to surrender, or face death, does that serve to further world peace? Does nuking Israel, and turning the region into an inhospitable radioactive wasteland serve the Palestinians? They couldn't inhabit a radioactive Palestine, so how does nuclear Iran serve the cause of the Palestinian state? Supporting Iran, in its' current iteration is as intelligent as following Hitler or Stalin or Pol Pot. The result is, has been, and will never be a positive one.
21. To Nate (# 7) from the USA.
flyingdoc57 ,   Florida, U.S.A.   (08.20.10)
Matty has every right to express his opinion here and you shouldn’t be denying freedom of speech. Many of us believe Obama is a dire threat to the security of Israel, as usual Matty is spot on with his estimation.
22. They were asleep at "Perl Harbour"too !
Roland Seener ,   London England   (08.20.10)
When somebody says "We are going to kill you,BELIEVE THEM ! I am frightened our leaders are asleep too.
23. #18
max ,   vienna   (08.20.10)
"First Israel and the US have never ever threatened the existence of Iran" Mr. Green,the last 30 years the US and Israel by all means tried to regain control over Iran - the US for controlling the whole ME and its large resources -and Israel to get a reliable oil supplier again. Just as in the good old days of the Schah Reza. Who tortured with his SAVAK (trained by CIA and MOSSAD) an approx. 50 000 opponents to death. So, don't talk about violent states or regimes.
24. saudis,u.a.e and other gulf states
John ,   Accra,Ghana   (08.20.10)
are against iran having nuclear weapons they know the danger of it.Look at the way women are been stoned in iran.nuclear weapons in possession of islamic country is very dangerous to the whole World.If a musim can detonate a suicide vest on himself then there is no doubts he will not detonate a nuclear weapon.
25. Trusting Obama on Iran (or anything )
DT ,   TA Israel   (08.20.10)
I would rather trust anyone before I would trust the US while he is President
26. Ahmadinedashad is really bad but
Chris Rettenmoser ,   Bayerisch Gmain Germ   (08.20.10)
Hussein Obama and his "experts" are even more bad, they are the "biological weapons" of Iran...
27. Ah Max...
norman ,   France, Eurabia   (08.20.10)
So Israel tried for the last 30 years to take control over Iran ? So i give you a chance... to prove it. Or maybe as yakov suggest it, are you slow witted ;-)
28. The U.S. has not been trustworthy on this question
Shalom Freedman ,   Jerusalem Israel   (08.20.10)
The U.S. has not been trustworthy on the Iraninan quest for nuclear weapons. President Bush did not honor his promise to stop the Iranian program. There was a major American Intelligence snafu when in 2007 The US said that the Iranians had halted their program when they had not. PS A year is not a long time. It has been several years that the U.S.. and Israel have been speaking about an imminent nuclear Iran. If they let the coming year go by like the previous ones where will we all be? Bushehr has just go online. There is no real sign that the U.S. has the will to stop Iran. And there is what is even worse with the present Administration no real sign that were the decision made to do this it would be done in open coordination with , and with taking into account the interests of, Israel.
29. This is total madness
Frank ,   Canada   (08.20.10)
Americans are brainwashing Israelis to believe that Iran is no threat yet but they cannot be sure that it is not. The real point is no to know if Iran is one year away of a nuclear breakthrough but if Iran must be striked.
30. Why wait?
Brod ,   USA   (08.20.10)
Why wait for another year for the fanatics to acquire their nukes? It is plain idiocy and insanity. Preemption is this the best solution to the problem. Don't wait till they are armed with more missiles and nukes. Israel should not be fooled by AntiSemites whose latent agenda are not for Israel's national security interests and existence.
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