US Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta said on Tuesday �that if Iran decides to manufacture a nuclear bomb, the United States would have a bit more than a year to stop Tehran from doing so.
�It’s roughly about a year right now. A little more than a year. We think we will have the opportunity once we know that they’ve made that decision, take the action necessary to stop (Iran),” Panetta told CBS� �This Morning” program.
The senior American official reiterated the qualitative intelligence data gathered by US intelligence experts, adding he feels that the experts are in tune to the real-time events in Iran.
Panetta�s statements come on the heels of US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton�s announcement that the administration will not comply with requests from Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu to set a �red line� in place, to send a clear message to Iran that there is a line that may not be crossed. Clinton rejected that request, stating she is comfortable and America�s handling of the situation is the correct way.
(YWN � Israel Desk, Jerusalem)
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So long as Panetta and Clinton feel this way, the US can go to sleep for a year. Something tells me when they awake, the topography in Iran will be DRASTICALLY different. Guess what, Lebanon and Syria may look quite different too! Hashem Yaazor!
Like I believe him. They’re just trying to stall until after the elections.