{"id":13484,"date":"2012-01-03T08:31:05","date_gmt":"2012-01-03T16:31:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/?p=13484"},"modified":"2012-01-03T08:54:45","modified_gmt":"2012-01-03T16:54:45","slug":"answer-some-questions-before-you-bomb-iran","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2012\/01\/03\/answer-some-questions-before-you-bomb-iran\/","title":{"rendered":"Answer Some Questions Before You Bomb Iran"},"content":{"rendered":"

In no way do I entirely endorse\u00a0Micah Zenko’s latest post at the Council of Foreign Relations blog<\/a>, but he does put forth a healthy dose of skepticism about the Iranian nuclear issue and the clambering for war<\/a> since the IAEA’s latest hyperbolic report<\/a>. Zenko points out the misleading official lines about Iran being one or two years away from the bomb and how those same warnings have been going on for decades<\/a>. He also says that, given international monitoring and inspections of Iran’s reactors, “it is virtually impossible that Iran could covertly make, divert, and reprocess spent fuel to make\u00a0eight kilograms<\/a>\u00a0of plutonium, or the ‘special quantity’ amount that the IAEA contends is required for one nuclear weapon.”<\/p>\n

He then poses eight questions he thinks Obama must consider before taking the advice of the “growing chorus of hawks and authorizes a preventive attack against Iran\u2019s suspected nuclear weapons facilities”:<\/p>\n