Robert Gates: Strike on Iran Catastrophic, to Make Nuclear Iran Inevitable

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A US or "Israeli" attack on Iran would "prove catastrophic" and "make a nuclear-armed Iran inevitable," former US War Secretary Robert Gates said in a speech Wednesday night.
"Neither the United States nor "Israel" is capable of wiping out Iran's nuclear capability," Gates said.

He further pointed out that "They would just bury the program deeper and make it more covert."
"Not only would Iran be likely to reconstitute its defunct nuclear weapons program, but Tehran might also respond by disrupting world oil traffic in the Persian Gulf and launching a wave of terrorism across the region," Gates confirmed.
"The results of an American or "Israeli" military strike on Iran could, in my view, prove catastrophic, haunting us for generations in that part of the world."

Gates was reiterating what has become an emergent consensus within the military and intelligence community in the United States, that a war on Iran - which "Israel" and many hawks in Congress have been pushing for - would not only be entirely discretionary, but would have disastrous consequences for Iran, the region, and the United States.

A report released last month by former US government officials, security experts and retired military officers concluded also that "an attack would motivate Iran to restart its weapons development, and that the ensuing war would end up being more taxing than the Iraq and Afghanistan wars combined."

Source: News Agencies, Edited by moqawama.org