MidnightWatcher – Prophecy in Motion

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By Gil Ronen, INN – “The U.S. military’s top officer made statements Thursday which appear to warn Israel that it should not expect U.S. assistance if it chooses to attack Iran’s nuclear weapons program.

Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, General Martin Dempsey, said such an attack would ‘clearly delay but probably not destroy Iran’s nuclear program,’ The Guardian reported Thursday. He added: ‘I don’t want to be complicit if they [Israel] choose to do it.’

Dempsey said he did not know Iran’s nuclear intentions, since intelligence does not reveal intentions. What was clear, he said, was that the ‘international coalition’ applying pressure on Iran ‘could be undone if [Iran] was attacked prematurely’.

The White House said on Thursday that Iran has a limited window of time to accept the West’s conditions regarding its nuclear weapons program.

White House Press Secretary Jay Carney told reporters the U.S. is ‘closely studying’ the UN International Atomic Energy Agency’s (IAEA) quarterly report on Iran, ‘but broadly speaking it is not surprising that Iran is continuing to violate its obligations.'” Read more.

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