Wednesday, April 22, 2015

Obama has known that Benjamin Netanyahu was right all along when he claimed that Iran could make a bomb in two or three months instead of the year that Obama has been claiming.





◼ Obama Lied to Us for Years About How Close Iran Is to a Nuclear Bomb - RUSH

Did you see where Iran's foreign minister, Javad Zarif, has an op-ed in the New York Times? I kid you not. The Iranian foreign minister is considered an ally by the New York Times op-ed page. You see, ladies and gentlemen, there is so much controversy over the Iranian nuclear deal that Obama's putting together that the New York Times -- hoping to facilitate things for Obama -- offers op-ed space to the Iranian foreign minister, Javad Zarif.

When you skim this thing, it looks like a regular editorial from the New York Times editors. Just like when old Mahmoud Ahmadinejad used to say rotten things about America, it sounded exactly like your average Democrat on the campaign trail. Well, I'm not kidding you. This op-ed by the Iranian foreign minister reads like it was a standard New York Times editorial, and it's incredible. They've given space to this guy as an ally to help promote the deal.

Naturally, the enemies are Republicans and anybody else who opposes Iran getting nuclear weapons, and the good guys are any and all people on the side of Iran getting nuclear weapons.

Now, are you ready for this? Because speaking of Iran, Eli Lake, who is now at Bloomberg News... He used to be over there at the Daily Beast back when Tina Brown ran the place. But he's now over at Bloomberg.

Eli Lake is a Clintonista, and Democrat... Well, he's shown Democrat leanings in foreign policy, and he is reporting at Bloomberg News. I've seen this at the Huffing and Puffington Post today. In fact, I've seen this a number of places today. Bloomberg News via Eli Lake is reporting that Barack Obama has known that Benjamin Netanyahu was right all along when he claimed that Iran could make a bomb in two or three months instead of the year that Obama has been claiming.

Now, of course Obama was just saying that about it taking a year for domestic consumption. This is a huge admission. Netanyahu comes to the United States, makes a speech criticizing the existing Iranian deal as he understands it before a joint session of Congress, and he's routinely lambasted by the Democrats and by the Drive-By Media. One of the things he claimed was that Iran is within months of a bomb.

They have more centrifuges than anybody knows that they have, and they are continuing to use them, and they're ramping up. They're not years away. They're not 10 years away, they're not 13 years away, they are months away from being able to make a bomb. And Eli Lake at Bloomberg is reporting that Obama has known that all along. Apparently Obama's known all along that Netanyahu and the rest of the experts were right about Iran only being a couple of months away from a bomb.

◼ Did Susan Rice Disclose Classified Info on Iran? - Jeryl Bier/Weekly Standard
Bloomberg's Eli Lake reports Tuesday that the Obama administration kept secret until the beginning of April Iran's two to three month breakout time for a nuclear weapon, saying "the administration only declassified this estimate at the beginning of the month, just in time for the White House to make the case for its Iran deal to Congress and the public."
◼ Obama Kept Iran's Short Breakout Time a Secret - Eli Lake/Bloomberg
Here is the puzzling thing: When Obama began his second term in 2013, he sang a different tune. He emphasized that Iran was more than a year away from a nuclear bomb, without mentioning that his intelligence community believed it was only two to three months away from making enough fuel for one, long considered the most challenging task in building a weapon. Today Obama emphasizes that Iran is only two to three months away from acquiring enough fuel for a bomb, creating a sense of urgency for his Iran agreement.

Back in 2013, when Congress was weighing new sanctions on Iran and Obama was pushing for more diplomacy, his interest was in tamping down that sense of urgency. On the eve of a visit to Israel, Obama told Israel's Channel Two, "Right now, we think it would take over a year or so for Iran to actually develop a nuclear weapon, but obviously we don’t want to cut it too close."
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