It is painfully obvious that the international community has no idea how to prevent Iran from developing a nuclear weapon. How close the Iranians are to having one is a matter of conjecture. In June of last year, the head of Israel’s Mossad, Meir Dagan, told a Knesset committee that Iran would not be able to produce a bomb before 2014. This came only two months after the US national intelligence director, Dennis Blair, presented a document to a senate committee offering a shorter deadline of 2013. Both estimates, however, indicated a longer time frame for an Iranian bomb than is found in much of the public rhetoric today.
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