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[quote=Anonymous][quote]War hysteria continues to grip the Middle East, as heightened anxieties over Iran's surreptitious nuclear program have the U.S. Defense Secretary on edge.

Leon Panetta said Thursday that Israel could launch attacks against Iran as early as April or May in effort to stop Tehran from building a nuclear bomb.

Panetta made the initial remarks to Washington Post columnist David Ignatius, who said Israelis are worried the Iranians have enough enriched uranium and only the U.S. could stop them militarily.

Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/news/world/israel-attack-iran-sanctions-fail-defense-minister-ehud-barak-article-1.1016489#ixzz1lKJhpEXu

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Bear in mind, Panetta indicated in Meet the Press last month that Iran is not yet building nuclear weapons:

[quote]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.

http://news.yahoo.com/us-iran-not-yet-decided-build-nuclear-bomb-140132073.html
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Also bear in mind there is already a country in the Middle East that has them:

[quote]Israel has not confirmed that it has nuclear weapons and officially maintains that it will not be the first country to introduce nuclear weapons into the Middle East. Yet the existence of Israeli nuclear weapons is a "public secret" by now due to the declassification of large numbers of formerly highly classified US government documents which show that the United States by 1975 was convinced that Israel had nuclear weapons.

http://www.fas.org/nuke/guide/israel/nuke/
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And that this country is suspected of assassinating Iran's nuclear scientists:

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Israel has emerged as a key suspect in the assassination of an Iranian nuclear scientist in Tehran yesterday, thought to be the latest strike in a covert war that has targeted technicians, military plants, and computer systems at the heart of Islamic Republic’s uranium enrichment program.

http://www.csmonitor.com/World/Middle-East/2012/0112/Was-Israel-behind-Iran-nuclear-scientist-s-assassination

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