A ray of hope on Iran? ...I don't know whether to believe this or not...¿?

[99th_Monkey]

I'd LOVE to believe this, that some actual thinking is going on regarding attacking Iran, and cooler heads are prevailing. Could this be true?
Anyone else have a take on this? :shrug:

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US and Israel 'face up to' Iran bomb
telegraph.co.uk
By Philip Sherwell in New York and Matthew Kalman in Jerusalem
Last Updated: 4:35pm GMT 18/11/2007

America and Israel are secretly drawing up plans to deal with an Iran that has acquired nuclear weapons, The Sunday Telegraph has learned.

Teheran's two arch-foes are preparing for what they have long declared is an unacceptable scenario, as the prospects for air strikes to cripple Iran's nuclear network fade, and China and Russia undermine efforts to forge an international sanctions regime.

The United States and Israel are sticking publicly to their threats not to allow the Islamic Republic to develop an atomic bomb. But intelligence chiefs and military planners have given warning that Iran has done better at hiding and dispersing its nuclear facilities than previously assessed, this newspaper has been told.
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The revelations come as the United Nations nuclear watchdog has revealed that Iran has stepped up its production of enriched uranium, and President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad tightens his grip on Teheran's nuclear programme by threatening domestic critics with treason charges.

Pentagon strategists are updating US deterrence policies for a future nuclear-armed Iran, even though — after the terrorist attack on New York and Washington in 2001 — the Bush administration put a policy of pre-emptive military action at the heart of national security policy.

"The more they looked at the intelligence and the information they had, the more pessimistic they have become about what could be achieved on the operational front by military action," said Dan Goure, a Pentagon adviser.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2007/11/18/wiran118.xml