[Mb-civic] FW: IRAN DISAGREEMENT IS MATTER OF 'TIME'

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From: Samii Shahla <shahla at thesamiis.com>
Date: Sat, 16 Apr 2005 02:35:35 -0400
Subject: IRAN DISAGREEMENT IS MATTER OF 'TIME'



NY Post

  IRAN DISAGREEMENT IS MATTER OF 'TIME'

  By URI DAN

  JERUSALEM ‹ When Israeli officials showed President Bush the
reconnaissance photos of Iran's nuclear-arms effort this week at the
president's Texas ranch, it was clear that the two allies agreed on the
gravity of the danger of Tehran getting the Bomb.

  The photos don't lie.

  "The resolution is extraordinary," one official, who saw them, told
The Post.

  What the United States and Israel may disagree on is how near the
danger is ‹ and how much pressure has to be exerted now.

  Nevertheless, those differences are a big improvement over the recent
past.

  During the late 1990s, an Israeli brigadier general went to Washington
to brief the Clinton administration about how deeply Russian black
marketers were involved in selling nuclear know-how to Iran. His
information turned out to be true ‹ but Washington believed the
Kremlin's denials instead.

  So when Bush hosted Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, there was a much
different atmosphere of cooperation on Iran's nukes.

  If there is a sharp disagreement, it's about "the timetable," as
former intelligence officer Yaacov Amidror told Israeli TV yesterday.

  The U.S. evaluation is that Iran may not have a usable nuclear weapon
until as late as 2010.

  But Israeli officials, looking at the same hard data, say that within
a few months to two years, Iran will be at the "point of no return."

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