Above: Israeli F-35s. Fast tracking the sale of KC-46 tankers to Israel, which have thus far been delayed, would enable the Zionist state to strike at Iran’s nuclear facilities. We would suggest that this would be the Biden administrations preferred option, coupled with the provision of more arms and intelligence, rather than a direct U.S. strike
With negotiations likely to fail, he’d better be prepared for a military strike
Mark Dubowitz, Matthew Kroneog – Wall Street Journal Jan 6, 2021
Negotiations in Vienna over Iran’s nuclear program started this week and quickly stalled—and little wonder. Tehran is striding toward nuclear weapons and has little interest in a diplomatic breakthrough.
That makes it almost certain that President Biden will soon face the fateful choice between allowing the clerical regime to become a nuclear-weapons power and using military force to stop it. The red line for military action will come when Iran’s timeline to sprint to a nuclear weapon shrinks to less than the Pentagon’s response time. On the current trajectory, that could happen early this year. If and when it does, the president should order military strikes on Iran’s nuclear facilities to prevent Tehran from building the bomb.
The best possible resolution of this crisis would be a negotiated settlement that verifiably and permanently closes off all Iranian pathways to the bomb. But the 2015 nuclear deal failed to do that, and Tehran isn’t interested in any agreement that does.
Meanwhile, time is running out. Iran already could produce one bomb’s worth of weapons-grade uranium in as little as three weeks and test a crude nuclear device in six months. It might take a year or two to fashion a functioning nuclear warhead that is deliverable on a missile, but once the clerical regime has enough weapons-grade material, the game is over. The world could no longer physically prevent Iranian weaponization. Like North Korea, Tehran could move its bomb-grade material to secret facilities and fashion warheads undisturbed. To stop Iranian nuclearization, Washington must stop Tehran from acquiring sufficient quantities of fissile material.
A nuclear-armed Iran would cause further proliferation as regional powers like Saudi Arabia build their own bombs. Backed by the threat of nuclear weapons, Iran would step up its regional aggression and support to terror and proxy groups. With Washington deterred by fear of escalation—including the risk of a nuclear strike against Israel—the clerical regime would have a freer hand. Eventually, as Tehran’s intercontinental ballistic missile program advances, the U.S. itself would be vulnerable to Iranian nuclear attacks and coercion.
Fortunately, Washington has effective military options. There is little doubt the Pentagon can destroy Iran’s nuclear facilities (even those that are deeply buried and hardened), as several defense secretaries have stated.
American strikes would delay Iran’s efforts by years at minimum and forever at best. Tehran can’t enrich uranium without the necessary facilities. It would take time to rebuild, install and operate centrifuges, and reconstitute stockpiles of fissile material. The U.S. government has estimated that an Israeli strike would buy only one or two years, but an American strike would be more effective. And Iran might think twice before spending billions to rebuild facilities the U.S. could destroy again.
Iran would likely retaliate, but the lesson from President Trump’s strike on Gen. Qasem Soleimani two years ago is that Tehran’s response would likely be muted. The attack would stun the Iranian political system since it will be unexpected; Islamic Revolutionary Guard publications now regularly mock American determination. The ruling clerics still fear a major war, which could lead to the destruction of their military and the end of their regime. Washington can further deter retaliation by issuing an explicit threat that if Tehran escalates, the Pentagon will destroy more than the nuclear facilities.
Mr. Biden should publicly ask the Pentagon to update military plans and, alongside allies and partners, conduct exercises targeting mockup Iranian nuclear facilities. He should also ensure that U.S. allies and bases in the region are protected against Iranian counterstrikes. Israel would benefit from help addressing the threat of Iranian precision-guided missiles. Mr. Biden could also broker a deal between Israel and Saudi Arabia on missile and drone technology, which Riyadh needs to defend against Iranian attacks. It could have the added benefit of encouraging the kingdom’s entry into the Abraham Accords.
Military options are most effective when they don’t have to be used. If Tehran understands that diplomatic intransigence will have serious consequences, it will be more likely to negotiate. For those who hold out hope that coercive diplomacy still can solve the Iranian nuclear challenge, putting the military option back on the table, along with a renewed sanctions offensive, is the best bet.
If all else fails, Mr. Biden should be prepared to destroy Iran’s nuclear program. The risks of this approach pale in comparison to the threat of living with a nuclear-armed Iran for decades to come.
Mr. Dubowitz is chief executive of the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies. Mr. Kroenig is a professor of government at Georgetown, director of the Atlantic Council’s Scowcroft Strategy Initiative and a former senior policy adviser at the Pentagon
America dropped two atom bombs when nobody else had them. It is the last country which can make demands over who can or can’t have nukes.
These bastards want to start WWIII. They won’t be in danger in their Strangelovian bunkers. A mineshaft gap, and we’ll be the ones being shafted.
WSJ says, “If and when it does, the president should order military strikes on Iran’s nuclear facilities to prevent Tehran from building the bomb.” I say fuck the WSJ.
R.C.
the USA now has military bases in Syria lebanon libys
and iraq
what poissble threat were these countries to the USA ?
This is israel throwing the youth of the USA and UK into a war for the jews to have the whole middle east
we need to say stuff you dirty jews if you want yet another war you fight it
What an amusing title for an article: Biden’s Moment of Truth.
Decades ago an article like this would be dismissed as the boilerplate of an old Jewish hack braying for the blood of insolent goyim, refusing to bow down and pay tribute to Israel. Demanding that merica bomb Iran. Now, it reads as entertainment. Iran was bought off long ago.
Well at least the author left out the Hall of Cost.
Biden’s moment of truth is when a chabad lubavitcher rebbe came to the white house and told the Shabbos Goy in Chief that his wife bore twelve Jewish children. Well, down on his knees went the President. He went down faster than a twenty dollar bus stop skank. Faster than Trump went down on Sheldon Adelson or Hillary on Huma Abedin.
https://www.chabad.org/theJewishWoman/article_cdo/aid/5180715/jewish/To-Whom-Does-a-US-President-Bow.htm
Vietnam showed how to deal with the US. There are no US bases in Vietnam.
So the habitually lying degenerates at the Wall St. Journal and Jew “think tanks” want to spread more destruction, death, and misery. Here’s an idea: if the scum at that Jew-controlled shameless propaganda shit-rag and foundations want an invasion of Iran so badly, how about they lead the way. Hand out rifles and parachutes to everyone in the Wall St. Journal office, bus them over to the airfield, load ’em onto C-130s, and air-drop the shit-talking studs into Iran so the mighty warriors can go forth and conquer. Make Dubowitz and Kroneog lead the charge. The Iranians would be laughing themselves silly in short order as the Jew clowns would be pissing down both legs and shitting themselves in record time.
You want a war so bad, Jew boys? Then you f*cking go.
By the way, awesome comment by Bob Smith above!
US politicians (and by extension, British politicians), are so hopelessly controlled by the Zionist lobby that an attack is extremely likely.
They are too dumb to see that China will react – China imports huge quantities of Iranian LPG and have made it clear that any interruption of those supplies will be regarded as an attack on China itself. Trump threatened it, but backed down.
If the US and it’s puppets attack Iran, there’s a good chance that Taiwan will be attacked in turn. Possibly Japan also.
YES GO INTO YOUR NEXT NAM-IRAK-
SYRIA-AFGANISTAN QUAGMIRE !
I was going to mock the fact that we have here a couple of jew boys on a “journalistic” platform provided by a jew rag demanding that America once again go to war against the good guys in the Middle East for Israel. But I can’t say it better than Bob Smith did, so I won’t try.
Peace lovin’ jews. We let ’em brutalize USS Liberty and 911 but we are OK with them watching as our boys die. The bastards need a good hard slap.
THEIR JEW MEDIA INCITED HATRED
ALREADY AGAINST GERMANY IN
1st +2nd WORLDWAR THEY CANNOT
STOP IT . all jewmedia need a beating !
“Iran would likely retaliate, but the lesson from President Trump’s strike on Gen. Qasem Soleimani two years ago is that Tehran’s response would likely be muted.”
Trump: “(Arrives with delay, Heavy breathing)… All is well, Iran is standing down!”, even though he had promised to hit some 50 targets in Iran should there be any attack from Iran. Instead they used electronic-spoofing attack and caused Iran’s air-defense to shoot down that passenger jet (wasn’t supposed to be cleared that night). Iran was on high alert and expecting attacks, Hajizade said they had prepared up to 1000 missiles to extend the conflict for up to 7 days if needed and take out targets all over the region.
Please watch again Trump, look at the eyes of the guys around him: https://www.npr.org/2020/01/08/794404894/president-trump-to-deliver-statement-on-iran?t=1641769020789 …it is clear he was hiding things!!
It is not about nuclear weapons, the reason Iran is not shredded to pieces and is still standing, is only due to deterrence.
Seems like Pompeo has canceled meetings and lost a lot of weight… he is afraid of revenge!
These names are already crossed in the hit list:
1- Eitan Ben Eliyahu – (Israeli Air Force Commander) – Killed in an Iran’s Artesh ground attack on Erbil base
2- James Willis – (US Air Force Lieutenant Colonel) – Killed by an IRGC suicide delta-shaped drone
3- Sharon Asman (Israel’s Commander of Nahal Brigade) – Killed by an IRGC suicide delta-shaped drone
4- Shylee Westland (IDF Drone/Radar Specialist) – Killed by an IRGC suicide delta-shaped drone
5- Michael D’Andrea (CIA’s head of Iran Table) – Reported to have been killed either in a missile attack on Erbil base or in the Spy-Plane crash in Afghanistan
Numbers 2, 3 and 4 died together at the same time and place, however they were reported to have suddenly collapsed during normal training only a couple days apart!
As for the 5th one, if he is alive US should confirm.
So really, if Iran was to remain mute as suggested, things would have ended 30 years ago. Zionists still have to remove Hamas next door. Maybe these threats are meant to affect Iran’s JCPOA negotiators, but they should know, Rohani’s term is finished.
WSJ…..Wall Street Jews.
Every effort should be made to explain to the public HOW a racist minority is determining US Foreign Policies….AND GETTING YOUNG AMERICANS KILLED
THE daily Mail has been running scare stories about a group of anti vaccers running training camps to break through police lines.
One of the leaders of this group is an individual named “Glass”…this is USUALLY A JEWISH SURNAME…So these camps might be a name harvesting exercise run by Britains notorious secret police MI5.
Shalom to these shmucks means “when everyone but the jews is dead.” It’s Israel not Iran with the clandestine nuclear program, WTFU WSJ; It’s Israelis who write editorials that propose to nuke Germany and Iran-
https://www.timesofisrael.com/op-ed-calls-on-israel-to-nuke-germany-iran/
These sayanim sleep in a house of mirrors and only wake up to an Orwellian inversion of how a human being sees the world. These snakes only talk with forked tongues.
As part of my compassion discipline innerstanding people I hate, I tried to imagine being married to an old jewess hag uglier than Jacinda whose OCD was nonstop micromanagement and scorn. I imagined even ifn I wuz the strongest richest kykel with ten casinos and a brewery I might wind up wanting to Samson Option the whole damn world, cut off my nose to spite my face, and lose my closed mind along with the carefree youth that started disappearing half a century ago. To stave it off one would have to find younger and younger consorts, flying off to an island with Mossad, and that’s become much harder since Ghislaine went down. Of course when yer old, harder is better even if it’s a hag like Ghislaine going down on you.
Well, The Talmud is the final authority on a stopping condition for pedophilia and they draw the line at three years old. So they do have SOME moral standards in the jewish sport of martial arts practiced on Wall Street, in case you thought they were completely immoral and insane.
Smedley Butler was right though. All the wars are bankers’ wars.