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'UNAVOIDABLE' ATTACK ON IRAN LOOMS, SAYS ISRAELI MINISTERJune 6, 2008The Guardian.co.uk reports: “An Israeli minister has said an attack on Iran's nuclear sites will be ‘unavoidable’ if Tehran refuses to halt its alleged weapons program.In the most explicit threat yet by a member of Ehud Olmert's government, Shaul Mofaz, a deputy prime minister, said the hardline Iranian president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, ‘would disappear before Israel does’.‘If Iran continues with its program for developing nuclear weapons, we will attack it. The sanctions are ineffective,’ Mofaz, who is also Israel's transport minister, said in comments published today by the Yedioth Ahronoth newspaper.‘Attacking Iran in order to stop its nuclear plans will be unavoidable.’Iranian-born Mofaz is a former army chief and defence minister. He is a member of Olmert's security cabinet and leads regular strategic coordination talks with the US state department.Iran denies trying to build nuclear weapons and has defied western pressure to abandon uranium enrichment.The leadership in Tehran has threatened that if attacked the country will retaliate against Israel - believed to have the Middle East's only nuclear arsenal - and American targets in the region.Ahmadinejad has repeatedly called for Israel to be wiped off the map since becoming president. On Monday, he said Israel was ‘about to die and will soon be erased from the geographical scene’…”--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
If Israel or the U.S. attacks Iran it will only plunge the U.S. much faster into a deep deep depression. But even if they don’t attack Iran, the U.S. is on it way down anyway, attacking it will only give the U.S. a sudden death. I hope we are at least mentally prepared for way beyond third word conditions in this country.