Iran Faces `All Options' Over Nuclear Activity, Top Israeli Commander Says

[Purveyor]

Source: Bloomberg

By Jonathan Ferziger

July 24 (Bloomberg) -- Israel's top military commander said he told U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney and Pentagon officials that both countries must be ready to use force to stop Iran's nuclear development program if diplomacy fails.

``We all realize, both the Americans and us, that all options must be prepared,'' Lieutenant-General Gabi Ashkenazi said in an interview from Washington on Israel Radio. ``There is no doubt that diplomacy must be given priority.''

Ashkenazi, Israel's military chief of staff, is in Washington all week for talks with the U.S. on strategic cooperation amid escalating tensions with Iran.

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Ashkenazi said he met with Cheney and held talks with top military officials at the Pentagon. He is scheduled today to meet with Admiral Michael Mullen, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.

Read more: http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601104&sid=aoE065bAelu8&refer=mideast

[boomerbust]

1. Cheney

Just loves this shit!

[Jefferson23]

2. The sick paranoid bastard really does love this. Pelosi, you hearing any

of this???

[saigon68]

3. Pelosi and the rest of the DINO's

Maybe will get to put their stamp of approval' on the first stage of the Iran War

Coming to a venue soon near you.

[snappyturtle]

4. What's this 'we' stuff? nt

[Megahurtz]

6. Yeah.

Fucking sickening isn't it? :puke:

[subsuelo]

5. Who are the real terrorists n/t

[nyrnyr1994]

7. interesting timing...

Iran ends cooperation with UN nuclear arms probe

By GEORGE JAHN, Associated Press Writer Thu Jul 24, 5:16 PM ET

VIENNA, Austria - Iran signaled Thursday that it will no longer cooperate with U.N. experts probing for signs of clandestine nuclear weapons work, confirming the investigation is at a dead end a year after it began.

The announcement from Iranian Vice President Gholam Reza Aghazadeh compounded skepticism about denting Tehran's nuclear defiance, just five days after Tehran stonewalled demands from six world powers that it halt activities capable of producing the fissile core of warheads.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080724/ap_on_re_mi_ea/nuclear_iran

[ohio2007]

8. Didn't Iran kick out a UK journalist last week? For reporting stories inside Iran?

'Hizbullah convoy likely hit in Iran'


A mysterious explosion in a suburb of Teheran that killed 15 people last Saturday was likely an attack on a Iranian military convoy carrying arms to Hizbullah, the Telegraph reported Friday.

The Iranian Revolutionary Guards imposed a news black-out immediately after the blast, but the UK newspaper reported that it looked like sabotage was responsible for destroying the convoy as it traveled through Khavarshahar.

snip

Last Saturday's incident was the latest in a series of mysterious explosions in the Islamic republic.

In May, Iran blamed British and US agents for an explosion at a mosque in Shiraz that had just been the site of a military exhibition.

In 2007, more than a dozen Iranian engineers lost their lives while trying to fit a chemical warhead to a missile in Syria.

A few months earlier, a train apparently carrying military supplies to Syria was derailed by an explosion in northern Turkey.

http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1215331097040&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull
interesting timing