No mystery about it. We intend to attack Iran. It is unlikely they have a bomb. Plans have long been ongoing for coordinated attacks on their 'well dug in' nuclear program. A least two American spy planes have been lost - maybe shot down - in Iran probably doing those searches. At least two that Iran is willing to admit to. Attempt will probably be a major and coordinated air attack on these well buried sights sometime before Iran gets uranium sufficiently enriched. IOW that air attack will probably be just under a year from now. What happens after that has just too many variables to predict.
How enriched need uranium be? Bomb on Hiroshima was only as enriched as uranium after being expended in a conventional nuclear power plant. Better bombs would be even higher grade. As I recall numbers, Iran would need something like 15,000 centrifuges to process uranium gas. It is believed they have just recently finished setting up most if not all this equipment.
No they do not yet have a bomb. And it will not be the mythical 'end of the world' scenario. What it would be is reams of US troops coming home with massive nuclear induced injuries. A problem that could have long ago been avoided had the United States not intentionally undermined the entire Iranian reform movement with all this open talk of war.
How long ago was it completely obvious to Iran that the US intended - actually intended - to attack? Not just threaten - literally make those intensions obvious.
In Jan 2005:
The real cost of IRAQ: PTSD and the second war
In Aug 2005:
Understanding terrorism
In Feb 2005:
100,000 Iraqi Civilians have died in current war
In Dec 2004:
In Nov 2004:
In Oct 2004:
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Do you FEEL safer?
... an agenda that calls for Pearl Harbor style attacks on Iran and North Korea.
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