US can't object if Israel attacks IranUS Vice President Joe Biden gave Israel a green light for military action against Iran, saying the US “cannot dictate to another sovereign nation what they can and cannot do.”
“Israel can determine for itself — it’s a sovereign nation — what’s in their interest and what they decide to do relative to Iran and anyone else,” Biden told ABC’s “This Week” in an interview broadcast on Sunday.
Which seems to be a shift from the previous attitude the US had.
Israel have been planning, exercising and simulating attacks on iran's facilities for several months now and the bush administration was urging them not to do any military actions.
Any military actions done by Israel will push the US immediately in the battle scene, because Iran have declared it will retaliate to any attack by attacking the US bases in the Middle East and blocking the oil route.
The US have done it's best to assure Israel, the US government have even installed the state of the art anti missile radar, capable of detecting any missile launch from the entire region including Iran.
But after the failure to topple the regime in the post elections riots, it seems that the US sees no other way to deal with Iran other than by force.
“Whether we agree or not. They’re entitled to do that. Any sovereign nation is entitled to do that. But there is no pressure from any nation that’s going to alter our behavior as to how to proceed,” Biden said.
The government of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says it prefers to see Iran’s nuclear program stopped through diplomacy but has not ruled out a military strike.“If the Netanyahu government decides to take a course of action different than the one being pursued now, that is their sovereign right to do that. That is not our choice,” Biden said.
Asked about Biden’s comments, Adm Mike Mullen, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said on Sunday the US position on Iran and a military strike involves a “political decision.” “I have been, for some time, concerned about any strike on Iran. I worry about it being very destabilizing, not just in and of itself but unintended consequences of a strike like that,” Mullen said on CBS’ “Face the Nation.”
“At the same time, I’m one that thinks Iran should not have nuclear weapons. I think that is very destabilizing,” he said. Most experts believe that wiping out the Iranian nuclear program is beyond the ability of Israel’s military. In 1982 the Israeli air force destroyed Iraq’s nuclear reactor in a lightning strike. But Iran’s facilities are scattered around the country, some of them underground.
Biden was asked in the interview that if the Israelis decide they need to try to take out Iran’s nuclear program, would the US stand in the way militarily? “We cannot dictate to another sovereign nation what they can and cannot do,” the vice president replied. “Israel has a right to determine what’s in its interests, and we have a right and we will determine what’s in our interests.”
Meanwhile, the Sunday Times said in report, denied by Israel and Saudi arabia , that Saudi Arabia would turn a blind eye to Israeli warplanes flying over the kingdom in any raid on Iran’s nuclear sites.
Citing diplomatic sources, it said the head of Israel’s Mossad intelligence service had assured Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu that Saudi Arabia has tacitly agreed to the use of its airspace.
Israel have successfully destroyed an Iraqi Nuclear reactor in 1982 and more recently a Syrian suspected under construction nuclear plant.
Iraqi nuclear reactor hit in 1982:
Does Obama want to talk with iran ???
So why give the israeli's the green light???
Is this a part of the psychological warfare ??
Is this greenlight addressed to the Iranian leaders to make them remove ahmadinejad or even to topple the regime for fear of an attack ??
Is it addressed to the Iranian people to give them more reasons to remove the regime?
Is it simply one of Biden's slips or a personal opinion that does not represent the administration's opinion ?
