US wants it absolutely clear it has no intention of attacking Iran's nuclear installations

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FROM JEWISHWORLDREVIEW.COM:

US wants it absolutely clear it has no intention of attacking Iran's nuclear installations
By Caroline B. Glick
Any residual doubt that Washington has decided to take no action to prevent Iran from acquiring nuclear weapons dissipated Wednesday with the news that Undersecretary of State William Burns will be participating in EU foreign policy chief Javier Solana's negotiations with Iran's nuclear negotiator Saeed Jalili in Geneva on Saturday.
That those negotiations will fail to end or even slow down Iran's progress towards nuclear weapons capabilities is a certainty. Ahead of the talks, Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei reiterated for the umpteenth time that Iran will make no compromises on its uranium enrichment activities. And so far, Iran - as opposed to Washington - has been true to its word.
Given Iran's forthrightness, there is only one reasonable explanation for the administration's decision to send Burns to meet with Jalili: the US wants it to be absolutely clear to Iran and everyone else that it has no intention whatsoever of attacking Iran's nuclear installations.
It makes sense that Washington considers it necessary to make this point clearly. In light of the threat that a nuclear-armed Iran would constitute to US national security interests, it would have been more reasonable to assume that the US would attack Iran's nuclear facilities preemptively than to assume that the US would allow Iran to go forward with its goal to acquire nuclear weapons.

A nuclear-armed Iran would place the US military's hard-won victories against Iranian surrogates in Iraq and its tentative success in separating Iraq's Shiite leaders from Teheran in jeopardy. So too, given Iran's increasingly active support for the Taliban, an Iranian acquisition of nuclear capabilities would cast doubt on the US's ability to defeat the resurgent Taliban.
The US's economic well-being would be also endangered by a nuclear-armed Iran. Teheran has repeatedly threatened to attack Saudi oil platforms and endanger the oil shipping lanes in the Straits of Hormuz. And a nuclear arsenal will give Iran unprecedented power to dictate price setting policies for the OPEC oil cartel.

Beyond all that, a nuclear-armed Iran would directly threaten US territory in two ways. First, there is no reason not to think that Iran would use Hizbullah cells in the US to detonate nuclear devices in US cities. Iran has already shown its willingness to use Hizbullah to carry out terror attacks in the West - most spectacularly in the 1994 bombing of the AMIA Jewish center in Buenos Aires.
Second, it is widely feared that Iran is developing the capacity to launch an electromagnetic pulse (or EMP) attack against the US mainland. An EMP attack is conducted by launching a nuclear bomb into the atmosphere above a country. It needn't actually hit the country. Simply by detonating a nuclear device at sufficiently high altitude, an EMP attack can destroy the electrical grids, communications systems and military-industrial foundations of a society. Such an attack on the US would set the country back a hundred years. (emphasis mine. -ed)
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