The red line for the U.S. is an Iranian
decision to make a bomb • Israel's red line is preventing Iran from
becoming a "nuclear threshold state" • Israel believes U.S. treating
Iran like moderate, reasonable nuclear threshold states Japan and
Germany.
Shlomo Cesana, Reuters and Israel Hayom Staff
Has Iran stepped up its
uranium enrichment activity?
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The differences between Israel and the U.S. on
whether to take action against the Ayatollah regime over its nuclear
weapons program have deepened. The U.S. still believes that Iran is not
on the verge of producing a nuclear weapon and that Tehran has not made a
decision to pursue one, U.S. officials said on Thursday.
Their comments came after Israeli media
reports claimed U.S. President Barack Obama had received a new National
Intelligence Estimate saying Iran had made significant and surprising
progress toward military nuclear capability.
The new National Intelligence Estimate report
on the Iranian nuclear program is very similar to Israeli assessments on
the matter, and the perturbing nature of the report highlights the
disparity between Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's position to that
of President Obama.
Later, Defense Minister Ehud Barak suggested
that the new U.S. report, which he acknowledged might be something other
than a National Intelligence Estimate, "transforms the Iranian
situation into an even more urgent one."
But U.S. National Security Council Spokesman
Tommy Vietor disputed the Israeli reports, saying the U.S. intelligence
assessment of Iran's nuclear activities had not changed since
intelligence officials delivered testimony to Congress on the issue
earlier this year.
"We believe that there is time and space to
continue to pursue a diplomatic path, backed by growing international
pressure on the Iranian government," Vietor said. "We continue to assess
that Iran is not on the verge of achieving a nuclear weapon."
The alleged U.S. intelligence report points to
a significant increase in Iranian efforts to advance its nuclear
program. Iran's amplified efforts, which have been especially noticeable
over the past four months, include uranium enrichment activities to
higher levels and along all parameters. In regards to U.S. and Israeli
intelligence and security assessments on the matter, the two countries
have reached common ground and there is no longer a question that Iran's
nuclear program is designed for military purposes. There is also no
dissent regarding the amount of fissile material in Iran's possession or
how it is being enriched.
The primary difference between the U.S. and
Israel is on the diplomatic front. The two countries are at odds over
what constitutes the red line that if crossed by Tehran would lead to
military action against Iran.
During his recent visit to Israel, U.S.
Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta outlined a very problematic red line
as far as Israel is concerned. According to Panetta, the red line for
the U.S. is an Iranian decision to make a bomb.
Israel's red line is preventing Iran from
becoming a "threshold state" — a country that is capable of making a
nuclear weapon but has yet to decide to do so.
There are several threshold states in the
world, like Germany and Japan for example. Israel's political leadership
believes that the U.S. is sees Iran the same as moderate threshold
countries, which act as reasonable, rational states.
Jerusalem contends that a nuclear threshold
state can build a bomb in a short period of time, and that countries
like Pakistan and North Korea were able to conceal their progress. At
such a point, according to Israel, the decision to try and stop them
comes with much greater risk.
U.S. officials would not directly comment on
whether there was a new National Intelligence Estimate on Iran, which is
a compilation of views of the various U.S. intelligence agencies.
The last formal NIE on Iran in 2007, partially
made public by the administration of President George W. Bush, became
highly controversial because it said Tehran had halted nuclear
weaponization work in 2003, although other aspects of the overall
program continued. A later update to that report retained that central
assessment, sources have previously said.
James Clapper, U.S. director of national
intelligence, said in congressional testimony in January: "We assess
Iran is keeping open the option to develop nuclear weapons, in part by
developing various nuclear capabilities that better position it to
produce such weapons, should it choose to do so. We do not know,
however, if Iran will eventually decide to build nuclear weapons."
Barak told Israel Radio: "There probably
really is such an American intelligence report — I don't know if it is
an NIE one — making its way around senior offices (in Washington)."
"As far as we know it brings the American
assessment much closer to ours ... it makes the Iranian issue even more
urgent and (shows it is) less clear and certain that we will know
everything in time about their steady progress toward military nuclear
capability."
In the meantime, the Iranians have not succumbed to
sanctions and the Americans have yet to announce that negotiations with
Tehran are a failure. The Ayatollah regime is under the impression that
the U.S. has no intention of armed conflict and that they have time to
operate "quietly" until the U.S. elections in November.
4 comments:
Israel has brought America now into three wars, world war two, and the Desert storm of the early nineties, and the War in Iraq, by saying their intelligence had positive intelligence that Saddam Husseun had suit case bombs with atomic bombs within, and huge stock piles of chemical and weapons of mass destruction, and then again Saddam after 9-11 and before Israel was positive that saddam was going to attack Israel with chemical and mass destruction weapons, { yet saddam had nothing, again } and them saying if they began to attack Iraq that Israels security would be in jeopardy, and since we have lost 1000's of soldiers while Israel pops off at any neighbor, and says go get them America, for us! Now as with saddam, them, Israel threatening to attack Iran if WHAT? If America will not attack Iran for Israel! I say it is time to watch them Israel now follow their intelligence, and if they cannot take Iran alone, we then join them, cry wolf three times, it is time to show proof, or shut up! It is certain that Iran is up to something, but again Israel tries forcing us into a war for their security, there comes a time when you must stand on your own first to prove your WHAT? Intelligence, show us the proof Israel by going alone after your Nations Intelligence department say's positively, after crying wolf now to many times.....
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Thank you for reading my blog and taking time to offer such a lengthy comment. It is obvious you espouse Christian principles and that you are committed to them. I disagree totally with your supposition that Israel brought the USA into three wars and for you to even suggest that WWII was the result of Israel is ludicrous and factually inaccurate. Israel became a country when? I'll not address your next "war" comments for obvious reasons.
"Israel has brought America now into three wars, world war two, and the Desert storm of the early nineties,"
The writer of this post, clearly lacks any understand of history nor their timeline: The statement made above is misleading and untrue and lacks any foundation in fact...
All it is is a misguided opinion piece with no supporting evidence other personal pathos...
Hans,
Spot on!!
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