Study: Bombing Iran will take years

PRESS TV
Friday, September 19, 2008

A bipartisan group says the US must strike Iran’s nuclear sites many times ‘over a period of years’ to halt the program successfully.

A recent study conducted by the Bipartisan Policy Center and prepared under the guidance of former senators Republican Daniel Coats and Democrat Charles Robb suggests that the next US president would be wise to make contingency plans for a military attack against Iran.

Contrary to the findings of the UN nuclear watchdog, the US accuses Tehran of pursuing nuclear weapons. In its latest report, the International Atomic Energy Agency announced that it could not find any ‘components of a nuclear weapon’ or ‘related nuclear physics studies’ in Iran.

The release of the Bipartisan Policy Center report comes ahead of the US presidential elections that will see Republican John McCain and Democrat Barack Obama face off on November 4.
Senator McCain says he would intensify pressure on Iran through sanctions before attacking the country – under the pretext that Tehran, a signatory to the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT), seeks nuclear weaponry.

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Senator Obama, meanwhile, has promised to engage Iran diplomatically to find a solution to the dispute.

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Under US pressure, the UN Security Council has intervened in Tehran’s nuclear case to slap three rounds of sanctions on Iran in spite of the pertinent international organization, the UN nuclear watchdog, having confirming the ‘non-diversion’ of Iranian nuclear activities.

After extensively monitoring Iran’s nuclear program since 2003, the IAEA announced that Iran has managed to enrich uranium-235 to a level ‘less than 5 percent’ – a rate consistent with the construction of a nuclear power plant. Nuclear arms production, meanwhile, requires an enrichment level of above 90 percent.

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