And most recently, on February 3 of this year, the Ayatollah Ali Khamenei told an Iranian audience that Iran will continue its nuclear program, will retaliate ferociously against any military interference, and will offer its full support to any nation or group that confronts Israel, “that cancerous tumor that should be cut and will be cut.”
It seems crystal clear that Iran can and will go nuclear very soon, and once nuclear, it will use its new strength to advance its Islamic genocidal goals. For the U.S., for Israel, for the EU and for the UN these developments should represent the sum of all fears, yet Obama seems not only dead-set against taking military action against Iran; he is working very hard to talk Israel out of doing so.[iii]
Such a grim assessment of Obama’s mindset is unavoidable when one recalls his inaction against Iran for its capture of the RQ-170 stealth drone in December of last year; his silence over Iran’s initiation of 20% uranium enrichment at the underground Fordo facility near Qom; his reluctance to send U.S. aircraft carriers into the Persian Gulf through the Strait of Hormuz; his hesitation in approving immediate sanctions on Iran’s central bank and energy sector; and his secret attempt to influence Congress to soften the most recent more biting sanctions.
So it is not surprising that “pre-empt now” and “point of no return” are terms used by some pundits in the West to predict Israel’s supposedly imminent attack on Iran.[iv]
Some have suggested that the only viable solution is regime change in Iran. Perhaps a much easier solution is regime change in the USA in November 2012.
Endnotes:
[i] http://keller.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/01/22/how-about-not-bombing-iran/?pagemode=print “How About Not Bombing Iran?’; and Colin H. Kahl, former Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for the Middle East in the Obama administration, at http://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/137031/colin-h-kahl/not-time-to-attack-iran; and R. Nicholas Burns, Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs in the George W. Bush administration, at http://belfercenter.ksg.harvard.edu/publication/21686/what_to_do_about_iran.html ; and Roger Cohen, at http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/17/opinion/cohen-dont-do-it-bibi.html?_r=2; and Jeffrey Goldberg at http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2010/09/the-point-of-no-return/8186/.
[ii] http://features.rr.com/article/00wR5Cg0rn4L1 for list of recent articles discussing the support Iran receives from its erstwhile allies.
[iii] http://security.blogs.cnn.com/2012/02/02/panetta-believes-israel-could-strike-iran-this-spring/; and http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,2106071,00.html; and http://www.foxnews.com/us/2012/02/02/west-making-case-to-israel-dont-attack-iran/ ; and http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2095799/West-scrambles-avoid-Israeli-attack-Iran-come-months.html
[iv] http://www.foxnews.com/world/2011/11/02/israel-test-fires-missile-that-can-hit-iran-1866648425/, and http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/29/magazine/will-israel-attack-iran.html?_r=3&pagewanted=all, and
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/columnists/sns-201202011030–tms–cthomastq–b-a20120202feb02,0,1249312.column , and http://www.israelnationalnews.com/Articles/Article.aspx/11204, inter alia.
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