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August 2, 2012       Share:    

Source: http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/iran-israel-waging-silent-war/2012/08/01/gJQAdYxKQX_story.html

Iran, Israel Waging Silent War

(Washington Post) Walter Pincus - Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei believes that his government is so deeply penetrated by U.S., Israeli and other intelligence agencies that when he eventually gives an order to build a nuclear weapon it will be quickly known. As a result, Khamenei is creating redundancy in production sites, adding centrifuges and more low- and medium-level enriched uranium to Iran's stockpile so when the time comes Israel will not have the capability to carry out a surgical strike against Tehran's nuclear complex, Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak told CNN on Monday. The Israelis do not believe that the Iranians would respond as strongly as Washington fears. Nor do they see an attack generating a broader anti-Israel, anti-U.S. reaction throughout the Middle East.

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