Jerusalem stammers, Washington deaf to Iran's race for nuke
DEBKAfile Exclusive Analysis
April 10, 2009, 4:49 PM (GMT+02:00)
Israeli PM Binyamin Netanyahu. What change?
For most of the past decade, Washington and successive Israeli governments have shunted over to "the international community" and "diplomatic engagement" Iran's hell-bent race for nuclear armament and the missiles for its delivery. New administrations have just taken over in the United States and Israel – but nothing has changed. Incoming secretary of state Hillary Clinton decided skepticism about Iranian claims of nuclear successes was the better part of valor, while Binyamin Netanyahu parroted the timorous evasions of his predecessors, Ariel Sharon, Ehud Olmert and Tzipi Livni, which left Tehran free to go its own way.
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Ahmadinejad inaugurates Iran's first nuclear fuel plant – "We are a nuclear power!"
DEBKAfile Special Report
April 9, 2009, 12:48 PM (GMT+02:00)
Covert plutonium production at Arak
Cutting the ribbon on Iran's first nuclear fuel plant at Isfahan, Thursday, April 9, Iran's president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad triumphantly marked a major breakthrough at a ceremony marking Iran's fourth national nuclear day, 24 hours after the five UN Security Council powers and Germany offered Tehran economic incentives for negotiations on uranium enrichment.
DEBKAfile's military sources: The Isfahan plant takes Iran's nuclear reactors another big step outside the purview of international inspections.
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