Leon Panetta

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Leon Panetta

International press reports that Leon Panetta, the US Defense Secretary, expressed fear that Israel would hit Iran before summer, that is in April, May or June, before the Islamic country enters a “zone of immunity,” where it can produce its nuclear weapon undisturbed.

British Telegraph reports that the Washington Post was the first to report this kind of fear and that CNN later confirmed it by citing a senior official of the Obama administration.

In a column for the Washington Post David Ignatius said that Israel fears that soon Iran will have enough enriched uranium to build a bomb, and that the only one to be able to stop the militarily will be the United States.

Neither Panetta nor the Pentagon commented on the post of the columnist, who was reporting from Brussels, where a NATO meeting was held.

Iran has always denied that its nuclear program had a military component, arguing that it was for energy production only. Latest reports of the International Atomic Energy Agency however show that Tehran had some military simulations in computers and that it built some uranium enrichment facilities deep inside mountains.

Israel reacted very promptly last year, when IAEA issued the report about the computer simulations, and threatened with a military attack. The United States chose to go on economic sanctions, thus imposing sanctions on the national bank in hopes that it would collapse the economy, thus rendering the nuclear ambitious impossible to fulfil.

The European Union and Japan imposed an oil embargo on Tehran, leaving one of the most important oil supplier of the world without possibility to make money out of it. In response, Iran threatened to close the Strait of Hormuz, through which a large part of the world oil flows, and to impose a permanent ban on oil sales to Europe.

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