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Titolo: Advertisement, Panetta: Iran not building bombs yet

Riuscirà il governo degli Stati Uniti a sottrarsi ai voleri della 
potentissima e nota Lobby?  Quest'ultima ha scelto bene il momento per 
accelerare le sue pressioni.
Lo si vede dalle bellicose quanto stolide dichiarazioni dei candidati 
repubblicani: Obama non può mostrarsi troppo meno aggressivo di loro se 
vuole aspirare ad essere rieletto.  Sembra una gara a chi si mostra più 
ferocemente idiota.
 
Eppure Obama è stato scelto dai cittadini americani non perché fosse più 
prono alle lobby e più bellicoso del suo predecessore: al contrario.  Ma 
conta ancora qualcosa la volontà dei cittadini americani nella sedicente 
democrazia statunitense?
 
La parabola di Obama dimostra che la risposta è no, che a contare è la 
volontà delle lobby, che negli USA la parola "democrazia" è una pura 
finzione, utile a tenere sotto controllo le masse.
 
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Advertisement, Panetta: Iran not building bombs yet
Updated 22m ag
 
WASHINGTON (AP) – Defense Secretary Leon Panetta says Iran is laying the 
groundwork for making nuclear weapons someday, but is not yet building a 
bomb and called for continued diplomatic and economic pressure to 
persuade Tehran not to take that step.
 
As he has previously, Panetta cautioned against a unilateral strike by 
Israel against Iran's nuclear facilities, saying the action could 
trigger Iranian retaliation against U.S. forces in the region.
 
"We have common cause here" with Israel, he said. "And the better 
approach is for us to work together."
 
Panetta's remarks on CBS' Face the Nation, which were taped Friday and 
aired Sunday, reflect the long-held view of the Obama administration 
that Iran is not yet committed to building a nuclear arsenal, only to 
creating the industrial and scientific capacity to allow one if its 
leaders to decide to take that final step.
 
The comments suggest the White House's assessment of Iran's nuclear 
strategy has not changed in recent months, despite warnings from 
advocates of military action that time is running out to prevent Tehran 
from becoming a nuclear-armed state.
 
Iran says its nuclear program is only for energy and medical research, 
and refuses to halt uranium enrichment
 
Several Republican candidates have called for a tougher line against 
Iran, saying they believe it is committed to building the bomb. "If we 
re-elect Barack Obama, Iran will have a nuclear weapon," said Mitt 
Romney. "And if you elect Mitt Romney, Iran will not have a nuclear weapon."
 
Rick Santorum has said that the U.S. should plan a military strike 
against Iran's nuclear facilities and "say to them that if you do not 
open up those facilities and close them down, we will close them down 
for you."
 
Iran has opened two dozen of its facilities to international inspectors, 
but has refused in defiance of the U.N. Security Council to suspend its 
uranium enrichment.
 
A leading hardline Iranian newspaper reported Sunday that Iran has begun 
uranium enrichment at a new underground site well protected from 
possible airstrikes.
 
Kayhan daily, which is close to Iran's ruling clerics, said scientists 
have begun injecting uranium gas into sophisticated centrifuges at the 
Fordo facility near the holy city of Qom.
 
In a talk at a Brookings Institution forum in December, Panetta said an 
attack on Iran's nuclear facilities would "at best" delay Iran's nuclear 
program by one or two years. Among the unintended consequences, he said, 
would be an increase in international support for Iran and the 
likelihood of Iranian retaliation against U.S. forces and bases in the 
Mideast.
 
Panetta did not discuss the issue directly on Sunday's "Face the 
Nation." But Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Martin Dempsey, 
appearing with the defense secretary, said that he wanted the Iranians 
to believe that a U.S. military strike could wipe out their nuclear program.
 
"I absolutely want them to believe that's the case," he said.
 
Panetta did not rule out launching a pre-emptive strike.
 
"But the responsible thing to do right now is to keep putting diplomatic 
and economic pressure on them to force them to do the right thing," he 
said. "And to make sure that they do not make the decision to proceed 
with the development of a nuclear weapon."
 
Panetta said if Iran started developing a weapon, the U.S. would act. "I 
think they need to know that — that if they take that step — that 
they're going to get stopped."
 
Dempsey also said that Iran has the military power to block the Strait 
of Hormuz "for a period of time" if it decides to do so, but that the 
U.S. would take action to reopen waterway. "We can defeat that," he said.
 
Panetta said closing the strait would draw a U.S. military response. "We 
made very clear that the United States will not tolerate the blocking of 
the Strait of Hormuz," he said. "That's another red line for us and … we 
will respond to them."
 
A number of experts say Iran is unlikely to close the strait, through 
which Gulf oil flows, because the action could hurt Iran as much as the 
West.
 
But a second Iranian newspaper, the Khorasan daily, on Sunday quoted a 
senior commander of the powerful Revolutionary Guard force as saying 
Tehran's leadership has decided to order the closure of the strategic 
oil route if the country's petroleum exports are blocked.
 
Iranian politicians have issued similar threats in the past, but this is 
the strongest statement yet by a top commander in the security 
establishment.
 
http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/story/2012-01-08/iran-nuclear-weapons/52451620/1
 
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 potentissima e nota Lobby?
 
Ti sei fatto un bel film nella tua testacca di pirla, spero che almeno 
ti diverta.
 
PP

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Magari potrebbe scommettere contro Romney.
 
 
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The lifestyle you ordered is currently out of stock.

 Magari potrebbe scommettere contro Romney.
 
Scommetteresti contro un pirla?
 
PP
 

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Uff.
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 Uff.
 
Se fosse interessato possiamo sempre votare come s'usa tra gentiluomini.
 
PP
 

 Magari potrebbe scommettere contro Romney.
 
Perché dovrei scommettere?
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 Perché dovrei scommettere?
 
Sport?
 
PP
 

accelerare le sue pressioni.
 
ecco come invece l'Iran sta buttando acqua sul fuoco.... :-)
 
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http://www.corriere.it/notizie-ultima-ora/Esteri/Iran-presto-sito-arricchimento-uranio/08-01-2012/1-A_001001139.shtml
 
 
Iran, presto sito arricchimento uranio
08 Gennaio 2012 10:19 ESTERI
 
(ANSA) - TEHERAN - Un sito sotterraneo per l'arricchimento di uranio sara' 
''operativo in un prossimo futuro''. Lo ha annunciato oggi al quotidiano 
Kayahan il capo dell'Organizzazione per l'energia atomica iraniana, 
Fereydoun Abbasi Davani. Il responsabile ha precisato che in ''questo sito 
puo' essere prodotto uranio arricchito al 20%, 3,5% e 4%''. L'annuncio 
rischia di acuire le tensioni fra l'Iran e l'Occidente, che sospetta che il 
programma nucleare di Teheran abbia finalita' militari. 
 

 Assomiglia in modo impressionante alla "realtà" dei nazisciroccati dell'Idaho Panhandle.
 
Ehi piano. Quelli sono combattenti per la libertà.
 
 
 
 
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“Those who expect to reap the blessings of  freedom, must, like men,
undergo the  fatigues of supporting it.”  - North Idaho 21st Batallion of
Light Foot

 spero che almeno ti diverta.
 
Essendo un pirla, a lui potrebbe piacere.
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 Essendo un pirla, a lui potrebbe piacere.
 
Io ne sono certo.
 
PP
 

 Ehi piano. Quelli sono combattenti per la libertà.
 
Quelli non nazi.
 
PP