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July 19, 2012

Our View: Iran, again

The Joplin Globe

Not much has been written in the American media about Iran and its nuclear ambitions of late. But the international community, particularly the segments interested in security issues, continue to place a lot of focus on that issue.

The MI6 is the British Secret Intelligence Service, like our Central Intelligence Agency. Sir John Sawers, the head of MI6, was recently quoted in the London Telegraph saying: “The Iranians are determinedly going down a path to master all aspects of nuclear weapons; all the technologies they need.” It has also been reported Sawers has said that a nuclear weapon will be produced by Iran by 2014.

On Tuesday, the former U.S. director of our CIA expressed similar concerns, publicly, about the continued escalation of Iran’s nuclear production processes and the increasing dangers inherent in such actions.

There is much speculation over what Israel might do if such is the case and when Israel might undertake military action to counter such a threat. Yes, we have heard this before, like last winter, of potential Israeli strikes against Iran, but such media attention has not been raised, again, of late. After all, we are in the midst of a presidential campaign, so why throw in more debate on international tensions?

However, it would seem, to us at least, that while the world is focused on the European economic crisis, the coming American election, Syria, Egypt, Libya and a host of “hot spots” elsewhere around the world, well why should Iranian leaders and nuclear workers not keep on keeping on, very quietly? Sure, the CIA, MI6 and the Israeli intelligence services are all watching carefully what is going on in Iran related to nuclear weapons today.

So to us, it would seem that at least one good question for the upcoming presidential debates would be, for each candidate: “If Sir John Sawers is correct, what would you do in your administration as a result of his announcement?”

We would like to hear the answer. And yes, maybe some public debate about how accurate Sawers might be in his announcement.

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