Israel has ‘eight days’ to hit Iran nuclear site: Bolton
18 August, 2010
WASHINGTON: Israel has “eight days” to launch a military strike against Iran’s Bushehr nuclear facility and stop Tehran from acquiring a functioning atomic plant, John Bolton, a former US envoy to the UN, said on Monday.
Iran is to bring online its first nuclear power reactor, built with Russia’s assistance, on August 21, when a shipment of nuclear fuel will be loaded into the plant’s core. At that point, Bolton warned, it will be too late for Israel to launch a military strike against the facility because any attack would spread radiation and affect Iranian civilians.
“Once that uranium, once those fuel rods are very close to the reactor, certainly once they’re in the reactor, attacking it means a release of radiation, no question about it,” Bolton told Fox Business Network.
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