Panetta: US Has A Year If Iran Decides On A Nuclear Bomb

[Purveyor]

WASHINGTON - If Iran decides to make a nuclear weapon, the United States would have a little more than a year to act to stop it, US Defense Secretary Leon Panetta said on Tuesday.

"It's roughly about a year right now. A little more than a year. And so ... we think we will have the opportunity once we know that they've made that decision, take the action necessary to stop (Iran)," Panetta said on CBS's "This Morning" program.

He said the United States has "pretty good intelligence" on Iran. "We know generally what they're up to. And so we keep a close track on them."

Panetta said the United States has the capability to prevent Iran from building an atomic bomb.

"We have the forces in place to be able to not only defend ourselves, but to do what we have to do to try to stop them from developing nuclear weapons," he said.

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http://www.jpost.com/IranianThreat/News/Article.aspx?ID=284682&R=R1

[arcane1]

1. Because, as we all know, we really need to "defend ourselves" from Iran

[hobbit709]

2. and how many years before they actually have one AND a delivery system?

[piratefish08]

3. can we just bring back the color coded Terror Risk Alert?

it was so much easier to simply adjust my fear level to a color.

[leveymg]

4. More spinning by JPost

[Purveyor]

5. This is a Reuters article being carry by jpost. eom

[GeorgeGist]

6. Reading between the lines ...

it's clearly propaganda.

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

7. No doubt the MIC...er...Pentagon..er..somebody will ask congress for a declaration of war..before..

Oh, never mind.