Top U.S official: There's no way to stop Iran's nuclear program

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http://haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1059583.html

"There's no way and no chance to stop the Iranian nuclear program," Republican U.S. Congressman and House Intelligence Committee Chairman Peter Hoekstra told the independent American news site Newsmax in an interview on Tuesday.

The Congressman, who has access to top secret information, indicated that an attack on Iran's nuclear facilities would be "incredibly difficult and complex."

Hoekstra explained that while Israel's attack on a Syrian complex in 2007 completely destroyed in a single blow what the committee believes was a nuclear reactor located at a remote site, the case with Iran is entirely different.

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"In Iran you'd have to make multiple attacks against very difficult targets, with very precision bombing. That's very very difficult," he said.

When asked if the United States would be involved if Israel was to attack Iran's nuclear facilities, Hoekstra replied that "It might, because if Israel decides to attack Iran's nuclear facilities it would have to be a broad-based attack and a pretty extensive attack."

Hoekstra added: "What we have learned, or what the Iranians have learned from previous strikes or previous activities, is that what they need to do is separate out their nuclear facilities so they don't have them all in one place. You can't hit a particular location and say we have dealt a death blow to the Iranian nuclear program, so they've dispersed their facilities."

Regarding the U.S army's Strategic Studies Institute's assessment that Iran will obtain enough enriched uranium to build a nuclear bomb before the end of the year, Hoekstra stated that "Our information is limited. What we know is that they are committed to producing nuclear arms, we know of their intentions to develop capabilities to launch nuclear arms and that their technological knowledge in the field of developing and manufacturing missiles continues to improve."

"Iran is a threat to the stability of the Middle East, and countries like Saudi Arabia and Israel fear what it may do," said Hoekstra.

[kaydee457 13]

Nah, Obama's going to charm them and all will be well.....

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that is much faith you have

[Jasman0717 9]

Nuke em, that would stop the program

[luckytxn 2,264]

Look their goal is to nuke Israel. Israel is not America.

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Look their goal is to nuke Israel. Israel is not America.

every thread on this topic has em... A nuke detonation is a GLOBAL event

[w¡n9Nµ7 §£@¥€r 123]

Hiroshima and Nagasaki were nuked, America turned out ok.

Maybe Tel Aviv can be nuked without it mattering to New York?

[Trumplestiltskin 5,791]

Probably right. There is no way to stop it. At present anyway

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Hiroshima and Nagasaki were nuked, America turned out ok.

Maybe Tel Aviv can be nuked without it mattering to New York?

[w¡n9Nµ7 §£@¥€r 123]

Maybe Tel Aviv can be nuked without it mattering to New York?

Well, can it?

[NickD 202]

What, no respect from Iran either?

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Maybe Tel Aviv can be nuked without it mattering to New York?

Well, can it?

especially not to NY (Jewish population)

[w¡n9Nµ7 §£@¥€r 123]

Maybe Tel Aviv can be nuked without it mattering to New York?

Well, can it?

especially not to NY (Jewish population)

The Jews of NY will be safe.

In the end, if Iran nukes Tel Aviv, it won't really matter to anyone living in America except as a source of outrage (or pride, if you're a terrorist). Iran simply won't have the technology anytime soon to drop a nuke that destroys the planet.

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Maybe Tel Aviv can be nuked without it mattering to New York?

Well, can it?

especially not to NY (Jewish population)

The Jews of NY will be safe.

In the end, if Iran nukes Tel Aviv, it won't really matter to anyone living in America except as a source of outrage (or pride, if you're a terrorist). Iran simply won't have the technology anytime soon to drop a nuke that destroys the planet.

for the sake of sanity I concede to you AJ... US soil won't PHYSICALLY be affected by a nuclear blast in the ME.

[w¡n9Nµ7 §£@¥€r 123]

Cool. I'm glad you accept that.

Of course, you do understand don't you, that this means we have very little actual skin in the game. We blow a lot of hot hair, but have very little actual skin. Worst case, we don't even get singed.