re: #185 lawhawk

And basing your entire view of Iran’s nuclear intentions on the language of Israeli Minister Barak?

Whose view should we base it on if the mother fucking Israeli Defense Minister is not good enough? Is “Curveball” available? See #179.

[Link: transcripts.cnn.com…]

BLITZER: What — what does that mean, that the ayatollah has not given the order to build a nuclear bomb?

BARAK: It’s something technical. He did not tell his people start and build it — a weapon on — an explodable device. We think that we understand why he — the — he does not give this order.

[Link: www.haaretz.com…]

Defense Minister Ehud Barak was quoted on Thursday as saying he does not view Iran as a threat to Israel’s existence, a view that would seem to depart from Israeli statements of the recent past.

Israel’s mass-circulation Yedioth Ahronoth daily quoted Barak, the head of Israel’s centre-left Labour party, as saying “Iran does not constitute an existential threat against Israel.”

[Link: www.juancole.com…]

Israel: No Iranian Nuclear Weapons Program;