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Iran flirting with the nuclear genie : Comments
By Gary Brown, published 23/1/2006Gary Brown argues Iran is playing with fire by resuming its nuclear fuel cycle program.
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I don't think it likely Israel, would use nuclear weapons against Iran, however Israel is very unpredictable.
Israel is treating the potential Iranian nuclear threat extremely seriously. As Gary stated "Like the famous Israeli strike against the main Iraqi nuclear facility over 20 years ago, strikes on Iranian nuclear plants would need to be executed before these plants (especially breeder reactors and weapons-grade enrichment facilities) came on stream. This is so because of the risk of massive pollution if functioning facilities were destroyed and also to prevent Iran creating a stockpile of weapons-grade nuclear material."
So I think Israel is in a hurry to do something about Iran and its basically lost its PM (Sharon) making Israeli politicians more uneasy.
So this creates a dangerous situation.
While I don't think Israel will use nukes. It will use the nuclear use possibility to persuade the US to take strong action against Iran (possibly an airstrike).