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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsIf Netanyahu thought this was a good idea:
should we be listening to him on Iran?
OneBlueDotBama
(1,384 posts)song since 1992
Scott Peterson at the Christian Science Monitor did a useful timeline for dire Israeli and US predictions of an imminent Iranian nuclear weapon, beginning 20 years ago.
1992: Israeli member of parliament Binyamin Netanyahu predicts that Iran was 3 to 5 years from having a nuclear weapon.
1992: Israeli Foreign Minister Shimon Peres predicts an Iranian nuclear warhead by 1999 to French TV.
1995: The New York Times quotes US and Israeli officials saying that Iran would have the bomb by 2000.
1998: Donald Rumsfeld tells Congress that Iran could have an intercontinental ballistic missile that could hit the US by 2003.
http://www.juancole.com/2012/09/netanyahu-in-1992-iran-close-to-having-nuclear-bomb.html
gateley
(62,683 posts)Liberal Veteran
(22,239 posts)And it has a cool party hat on top and a tassel.
railsback
(1,881 posts)That, and the fact that he's been predicting an Iranian nuclear bomb being 3 years away now for over 20 years.