News that Russia will load nuclear fuel rods into an Iranian reactor has touched off a countdown to a point of no return, a deadline by which Israel would have to launch an attack on Iran's Bushehr reactor before it becomes effectively "immune" to any assault, says former Bush administration U.N. Ambassador John R. Bolton.
Once the fuel rods are loaded, Bolton told Fox News on Friday afternoon, "it makes it essentially immune from attack by Israel. Because once the rods are in the reactor an attack on the reactor risks spreading radiation in the air, and perhaps into the water of the Persian Gulf."
Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin declared in March that Russia would start the Bushehr reactor this summer. But the announcement from a spokesman for Russia's state atomic agency to Reuters Friday sent international diplomats scrambling to head off a crisis.
The story immediately became front-page news in Israel, which has laid precise plans to carry out an attack on Iran's nuclear facilities while going along with President Obama's plans to use international sanctions and diplomatic persuasion to convince Iran's clerics not to go nuclear.
Bolton made it clear that it is widely assumed that any Israeli attack on the Bushehr reactor must take place before the reactor is loaded with fuel rods.
"If they're going to do it that's the window that they have," Bolton declared. "Otherwise as I said before, once the rods are in the reactor, if you attack the reactor you're going to open it up and radiation will escape at least into the atmosphere and possibly into the waters of the Persian Gulf.
Bolton cited the 1981 Israeli attack on Saddam Hussein's Osirak reactor outside Baghdad and the September 2007 Israeli attack on a North Korean reactor being built in Syria. Both of those strikes came before fuel rods were loaded into those reactors.
"So if it's going to happen in Bushehr it has to happen before the fuel rods go in," Bolton said.
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If our muslim president honored his oath to protect America, we (and the UK) would stand with Isreal and bomb the hell out of anything that even looked like it might someday be a nuclear sight. Then let North Korea, Russia and the rest of the menaces of the world know that we have some for them too if they want it. They would all back down like the little pussies that they are. They are terrorists and the only thing they understand is terror. Isreal knows that and nobody in the world is going to be safe until our "leaders(s)" and the leaders of the rest of the free world figure it out and DO WHAT HAS TO BE DONE!
ReplyDeleteA practical side to this post-- if this happens, energy prices will skyrocket for at least a while, maybe longer.
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Better get some right now.
Why stop at the nuclear sites?? Hit their capitol and major industrial centers, too. If not, we'll be back again in a few years ---the Chinese and Russians will be there the next day to help rebuild...They have been openly taunting the free world for years...and what do you think the MUSLIMS are going to do with a nuclear weapon??? What they do best and foremost --- kill, maim and destroy. The religion of peace??? hah!! Everyone who thinks that Iran would not launch nuclear weapons if they had them should be forced to live in Israel for a year AFTER Iran announces (proudly announces) that they now have the "bomb"....but then again, liberal, feel-good, "they just want electricity", bimbo's only want YOU to die for THEIR beliefs. NEVER the other way around....
ReplyDeleteNot a big Israel backer, but green light guys, do it NOW. You can do it, and there is no need to drag the United States into it. An attack on this facility would be a blow against global nuclear war. Do you think we would sit still for a nuclear plant in Cuba...wait...we didn't did we... and now they have none.
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