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Ken Burch

(50,254 posts)
Sun Mar 18, 2012, 03:08 AM Mar 2012

'US, Israel agree Iran abandoned nuclear bomb'


'US, Israel agree Iran abandoned nuclear bomb'
Source: The Jerusalem Post

US and Israeli intelligence agencies mostly agree that Iran has not restarted its development of a nuclear bomb, the New York Times reported on Saturday.

According to the report, the assessment among top US officials is that Iran has not yet decided to pursue a nuclear weapon, a conclusion which was established based on intelligence analyses.

Israel - while seeing an existential threat in Iran's possible pursuit of a nuclear bomb - mostly agrees with those assessment, a US intelligence official speaking on the condition of anonymity told the Times.

“Their people ask very hard questions, but Mossad does not disagree with the US on the weapons program,” the Times quoted the official as saying.

Read more: http://www.jpost.com/IranianThreat/News/Article.aspx?id=262275

(note...cross-posted from LBN)

There...so Bibi needs to STOP ALREADY with the threats of bombing. It's over.
The New York Times article cited:
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/18/world/middleeast/iran-intelligence-crisis-showed-difficulty-of-assessing-nuclear-data.html?_r=1&hp=&pagewanted=all
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'US, Israel agree Iran abandoned nuclear bomb' (Original Post) Ken Burch Mar 2012 OP
Indeed Sherman A1 Mar 2012 #1
K/R Dawson Leery Mar 2012 #2
this could be called a 'Roseanne Roseannadanna' moment in international politics azurnoir Mar 2012 #3
Yeah, right. Wish it was true... shira Mar 2012 #4

azurnoir

(45,850 posts)
3. this could be called a 'Roseanne Roseannadanna' moment in international politics
Sun Mar 18, 2012, 02:34 PM
Mar 2012

after all the 'drama' of will they/we or won't they/we it's oh never mind?

 

shira

(30,109 posts)
4. Yeah, right. Wish it was true...
Mon Mar 19, 2012, 07:45 AM
Mar 2012

There are no independent Israeli reports about this. Just a reference to a NYT article.

If this were true, I'd expect Israeli media to be all over it.

No names of Israeli officials who "agree" either.

This looks like propaganda.

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