The conservative Iranian website Alef, with close ties to Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, has published a doctrine detailing why it would be acceptable to kill all Jews and annihilate Israel. The article, written by Khamenei's strategy specialist Alireza Forghani, warned that it would only take nine minutes to wipe out Israel.
It said Iran would be justified in launching a pre-emptive strike against Israel because of the threats against its own nuclear facilities. It added Israel would need U.S. approval and help to carry out such an attack, and that because of a current passive climate in America, the time for Iran to strike was now. Since Tel Aviv, Jerusalem, and Haifa contain more than 60% of the Jewish population, it noted that Iranian Shahab 3 ballistic missiles could easily kill everyone. (Daily Mail-UK)
WH: No Rush to deal with Iran http://thehill.com/blogs/defcon-hill/policy-and-strategy/207469-white-house-no-rush-on-decision-to-strike-against-irans-nuclear-program
The White House won't be rushing to make a decision on Iran's nuclear program, White House press secretary Jay Carney said Monday.
Defense Secretary Panetta said over the weekend in a "60 Minutes" interview that Iran could develop a nuclear weapon within a year and have a delivery system for the weapons in two to three years, if it attempted to pursue them.
3 plus years of the hand that remains outstretched and open…
BTW, the enforcement of the sanctions announced to much publicity a couple of days ago are among the sanctions that are likely to have the least effect on Iran:http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/envoy/white-house-orders-iran-sanctions-amid-diplomatic-impasse-182609480.html -there are far more stringent measures that Senators Kirk and Menendez have made available to the President:
The new measures are unlikely to have much effect given the United States has sanctioned transactions with Iran's government for well over a decade and Iran has so few assets in the United States.
"The real impact is likely to be negligible since the U.S. and Iran have had no relations since 1979," Douglas Jacobson, an international trade law attorney in Washington, D.C., told Yahoo News Monday. "There have been very little [Iran] assets on the books held by U.S. banks."
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