Barak: Nuke Iran!!

New Iran nuclear facility resistant to regular bombs

Defense Minister Ehud Barak said Monday that a regular military attack on Iran's recently discovered nuclear plant would be close to impossible, adding that the Islamic Republic had been working on that underground facility for years.

"The facility in Qom is in a bunker and therefore resistant to regular bombs," Barak told the Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee. "What the Iranians have recently revealed, according to their own decision, is a site that was under construction for years."


"The project of the decade will continue," added the defense minister. Barak also condemned the Islamic regime's crackdown on opposition protesters, a day after at least eight demonstrators were killed across Iran.

"These demonstrators are just looking for a normal life," he said. "It bothers me to say the way the free world is responding to what's going on there? They are crushing civilians from above, there."


Barak: 2010 will be a year of threats and opportunities

In his address to the committee, Barak declared that 2010 would be the year of "threats and opportunities", adding that Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas' apparent readiness to resume negotiations was an optimistic sign for possible peace progress.

"Two weeks ago, Abu Mazen [Abbas] said in an interview that 'if all the core issues are brought up for discussion, the Palestinian people will see an end to the conflict and to reciprocal demands,'" Barak told members of the Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee.

"I don't think I've ever heard someone on the Palestinian side say such a thing," he said. "We don't agree with him about everything, but it's important he said it? because it alleviates some of the public's fear about returning to negotiations."

International interest in the Palestinian-Israeli conflict has dwindled, Barak said, due to the global financial crisis, Iran's contentious nuclear program and the eruption of radical Islam around the world.

"We are naturally in the center of these things," said the defense minister. "But we are not the only ones.

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