Military action won `t stop the Iranian nuclear program: U.S.
Tuesday, November 16, 2010 | Labels: News world | |
Washington - U. S. Secretary of Defense Robert Gates said Tuesday that military action will stop Iran's nuclear program and instead would only "deeper and more secret. Gates at a conference that military action alone provides a "short-term solution" to the thorny issue of Iran's "nuclear program. Western nations have accused Tehran of seeking a nuclear weapon, that Iran vehemently denies the development.
Military action against Iran's government, which refused to calls to curb its global nuclear enrichment program suspected, would "bring together a divided nation, will definitely check this nuclear weapons, to get" the head of the U.S. defense. In this scenario, Iran `s secret nuclear efforts" to deeper and more secret, "Gates said. He said he believed that diplomacy and economic pressure was the best way to try to persuade Tehran - already hit by a series of UN sanctions and international - its nuclear project abandoned.
"The only long term solution Iranian nuclear weapons capability to stop for the Iranians to decide it` s not in their interest, "Gates said. "Everything else is a short term solution - a solution is two to three years. He said there were signs that the recent economic sanctions hit Iran hard, and tensions between the country's supreme leader and president, Ahmadinejad. We even have evidence that (Iran` s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali) Khamenei is now beginning to wonder whether (Iran's President Mahmoud) Ahmadinejad is lying to him about the impact of sanctions on the economy, "he said. I personally believe that they intend to acquire nuclear weapons, but the information we have is that they` ve been surprised by the impact of sanctions, "Gates said He added that the measures" really bite much harder than they hoped.
Military action against Iran's government, which refused to calls to curb its global nuclear enrichment program suspected, would "bring together a divided nation, will definitely check this nuclear weapons, to get" the head of the U.S. defense. In this scenario, Iran `s secret nuclear efforts" to deeper and more secret, "Gates said. He said he believed that diplomacy and economic pressure was the best way to try to persuade Tehran - already hit by a series of UN sanctions and international - its nuclear project abandoned.
"The only long term solution Iranian nuclear weapons capability to stop for the Iranians to decide it` s not in their interest, "Gates said. "Everything else is a short term solution - a solution is two to three years. He said there were signs that the recent economic sanctions hit Iran hard, and tensions between the country's supreme leader and president, Ahmadinejad. We even have evidence that (Iran` s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali) Khamenei is now beginning to wonder whether (Iran's President Mahmoud) Ahmadinejad is lying to him about the impact of sanctions on the economy, "he said. I personally believe that they intend to acquire nuclear weapons, but the information we have is that they` ve been surprised by the impact of sanctions, "Gates said He added that the measures" really bite much harder than they hoped.
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