Does no one read the Guardian anymore? Luckily the IT picked up the story.
Bush refused to support Israeli plan to bomb Iran

The Israelis basically need US permission to bomb Iran. They allagedly asked for it earlier this year, only to be refuted by Bush. An air-strike might start off a war you see, and who would want that?

To be honest, I'm not sure about this story. But I thought I'd stick it up anyway.

905 wrote:

Does no one read the Guardian anymore? Luckily the IT picked up the story.
Bush refused to support Israeli plan to bomb Iran

The Israelis basically need US permission to bomb Iran. They allagedly asked for it earlier this year, only to be refuted by Bush. An air-strike might start off a war you see, and who would want that?

To be honest, I'm not sure about this story. But I thought I'd stick it up anyway.

I wonder what Obama would have said. I'm not too sure. There were a lot of reports around that time of Israeli civilian air raid drills. It may be true.

According to Russia Today, 70,000 people in Iran have volunteered to fight to support the Palestinians and the mood in Iran is angry. An Imam has forbidden anyone leaving for Palestine or committing suicide bombings.

Is the danger of arousing anger and disruption in the Middle East over Gaza being underestimated, or was it the intention all along in assaulting Gaza to raise the temperature and bring the situation closer to war?

Interesting story, but who leaked it, why, and is it true? The US provided the bunker busters to Israel to use on Gaza.

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Israel request to attack Iran, denied by the U.S.
President George W. Bush deflected Israel's secret request last year for bunker-busting bombs it wanted for an attack on Iran's main nuclear complex, saying he had authorized covert action to sabotage Tehran's suspected atomic weapons development, The New York Times said.


Citing U.S. and foreign officials, the Times reported on Saturday the White House was unable to determine whether Israel had decided to carry out the strike before Washington objected or whether Prime Minister Ehud Olmert was trying to get Bush to act more decisively before he leaves office this month.

Israel, widely believed to have the only nuclear arsenal in the Middle East, bombed the site of a suspected atomic reactor in Syria in 2007.

Details of the expanded U.S. covert program and the Bush administration's efforts to talk Israel out of attacking Iran emerged from 15 months of interviews with current and former U.S. officials, international nuclear inspectors, outside experts and European and Israeli officials, the Times said.

None of those interviewed would speak on the record, the paper said, adding it omitted many details of the covert efforts from its report at the request of senior U.S. intelligence and administration officials.

It said the interviews also suggested "that while Mr. Bush was extensively briefed on options for an overt American attack on Iran's facilities, he never instructed the Pentagon to move beyond contingency planning, even during the final year of his presidency, contrary to what some critics have suggested."

But aware that financial sanctions against Iran were inadequate, Bush turned to the CIA, according to people involved in the covert program, authorizing a broader effort aimed at Iran's industrial infrastructure supporting its nuclear programs, the Times said.

While the paper said details were closely held by U.S. officials, it quoted one as saying, "It was not until the last year that they got really imaginative about what one could do to screw up the system."

http://macedoniaonline.eu/content/view/5027/53/

'Uranium For Iran Nuke In 2009'

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Iran will have enough enriched uranium to make a single nuclear weapon later this year, the prestigious International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS) predicts.

The think tank's Mark Fitzpatrick made the announcement at today's launch of its annual global review of military powers.

During 2009, Iran will probably reach the point at which it has produced the amount of low-enriched uranium needed to make a nuclear bomb.

Mark Fitzpatrick, International Institute for Strategic Studies

"But being able to enrich uranium is not the same as having a nuclear weapon."
SKY NEWS

Skymongering or -- relevant reporting or -- one of ten weekly mundane reports on Iran and Uranium?

Well, we know for sure that the Israelis have them.

I read somewhere else that it would be at least ten years before Iran could make a bomb.

A great little one minute youtube posted elsewhere by youndan on the US vote to allow war with Iran -

Hilary cackles - Obama is not there...