U.S. MUST DESTROY SEVERAL SITES TO END IRAN'S NUKES
WASHINGTON [MENL] -- The United States must be willing to destroy a range of
Iranian facilities to ensure the elimination of Iran's nuclear weapons
program.A report by the Washington Institute for Near East Policy asserts that
any U.S. effort to destroy Iran's nuclear weapons capability would invite
major retaliation from the Islamic regime. The institute said that a U.S.
strike on one or two nuclear facilities would not suffice in ensuring the
destruction of Iran's nuclear capability."Given the broad scope of the Iranian program, the United States would
have to mount a comprehensive attack aimed at several key facilities in
order to significantly stunt its progress," the report, entitled "Iran's
Nuclear Weapons: How Might Iran Retaliate," said. "Any such operations would
need to be precise and effective. Key facilities and components would need
to be completely destroyed or rendered useless, and this level of damage is
not always easy to achieve."The report was referring to a series of facilities discovered over the
last year secretly built by the Islamic republic. The United States has
confirmed nuclear facilities at Arak, Natanz and the nuclear power plant at
Bushehr.
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