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The Secret History of the Push to Strike Iran - NYT article
  • GoldRanger

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    A long read, seems to be very interesting, although I haven't had the chance to go through it fully myself.

    Here's a random paragraph:
    As a way to calm Israeli concern about the Obama administration’s commitment to keeping Iran from gaining a nuclear weapon, Panetta had even taken the extraordinary step of bringing Barak into his Pentagon office and showing him a highly classified video. In a desert in the American Southwest, the Pentagon had constructed an exact replica of the Fordow facility, and the video showed a test of the 30,000-pound massive ordnance penetrator, a bunker-busting weapon the Air Force had designed to penetrate the most hardened of underground defenses. The bomb destroyed the mock-up in the desert. Barak was impressed.

    This shit is better than Game of Thrones.

    I'll be sure to read this article from top to bottom the moment I have the time.

    EDIT: From skimming through it further - this is a treasure trove. Seriously READ THIS, especially if you want to understand the behind the scenes processes going on in Israel and the US vis a vis a strike against Iran. That said, keep in mind to remain critical of the claims presented, especially from anonymous sources.
     
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