The British Guardian, which is by no means a Right-leaning newspaper, reports Israeli intelligence believes the nuclear facility in Syria which the Israeli air force bombed last year was to produce nuclear material earmarked for the Iranians, who has for some time been working on their own nuclear program.
The Israeli adviser told the Guardian: "The Iranians were involved in the Syrian programme. The idea was that the Syrians produce plutonium and the Iranians get their share. Syria had no reprocessing facility for the spent fuel. It's not deduction alone that brings almost everyone to think that the link exists."
On Monday the German magazine Der Spiegel quoted "intelligence reports" as making similar claims. A Syrian government spokesman dismissed them as "nonsense". But Der Spiegel said that the Syrian president, Bashar al-Assad, was considering withdrawing support for the Iranian nuclear programme. Tehran and Damascus have had close relations since the 1979 Islamic revolution. Both support Hizbullah, which fought Israel in 2006.
Syria and Iran, as you may recall, are both members of the "Axis of Evil" cited by President Bush in the wake of the 911 terrorist attack.
The article also mentions what has been whispered about in recent days: that Israel is rehearsing an air strike on Iran's nuclear facilities.
The Israelis may have to go this alone, as they did when they took out the Iraqi nuclear facility in the early 1980s.
Thanks to a lack of support from some of our "allies" and interference from liberals in our own country, America is bogged down in Iraq and unlikely to do what needs to be done in Iraq.
Someone needs to prevent these maniacs running Iran from getting nuclear weapons, and that dirty job is likely to fall to Israel alone.
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