If and when something as described by Debka happens, I wonder how will the world react. There is a lot of hypocrisy in the world of international politics and Russia’s covert, and not so cover, meddling in the Middle East and Iran in particular, is one of the great examples. However, I doubt Russia will remain silent if Iran actually test such a device. However, of all variables, China is the 800 pound gorilla in the room.
If it wasn’t such a deadly proposition, the whole Iran nuclear affair would make for a great fiction book.
Heck, I despise GW&Co. as much as anybody with a few grams of gray matter, but the thought of a country dominated by frothing-in-the-mouth Muslim Clerics bent on “wiping another country out of the face of the earth” would give some of his rhetoric a place to stick. Not sure if I’m more disappointed by the route Iran is taking or for them fullfilling some of GW’s prophecies…
DEBKAfile –
According to Lavrov, Russian intelligence estimates that Iran is now capable of detonating this non-weaponized nuclear device – or in other words carrying out its first nuclear test.
DEBKAfile sources add: This estimate which Russian president Vladimir Putin passed to President George Bush some weeks ago is challenged by US and Israeli nuclear experts, who do not believe Iran is up to the stage of a nuclear device. However, on Jan. 21, the opposition FDI claimed Iran would carry out its first nuclear test before the Iranian new year, which falls on March 20.
Iran and a death wish…
If and when something as described by Debka happens, I wonder how will the world react. There is a lot of hypocrisy in the world of international politics and Russia’s covert, and not so cover, meddling in the Middle East and Iran in particular, is one of the great examples. However, I doubt Russia will remain silent if Iran actually test such a device. However, of all variables, China is the 800 pound gorilla in the room.
If it wasn’t such a deadly proposition, the whole Iran nuclear affair would make for a great fiction book.
Heck, I despise GW&Co. as much as anybody with a few grams of gray matter, but the thought of a country dominated by frothing-in-the-mouth Muslim Clerics bent on “wiping another country out of the face of the earth” would give some of his rhetoric a place to stick. Not sure if I’m more disappointed by the route Iran is taking or for them fullfilling some of GW’s prophecies…
DEBKAfile –