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April 1st, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda “The risks that we and others would take including Israel are far more significant than the advantages we might achieve,” Thomas Pickering, former undersecretary of state for political affairs and former US envoy to the United Nations, said in testimony before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on March 28.
He also challenged the notion, repeatedly cited by US and Israeli war hawks for a strike on Iran, that an attack on the Iranian nuclear facilities would set Tehran’s nuclear energy program back for several years.
“I don’t agree with that. I think that it is, in my view, a seriously flawed question, particularly now when we haven’t exhausted the other options,” Pickering, who also served as ambassador to Israel during the Reagan administration and ambassador to Russia during the Clinton administration, said.
The former Washington official further warned that any confrontation with Iran would spur the Islamic Republic to tap into its “great possibilities for asymmetrical reactions” to which, he added, both Israel and Americans overseas are vulnerable.
The remarks echo warnings last month by the former Israeli spy chief against any military action on Iran as such a move would “ignite a regional war.”
“It will be a devastating impact on our ability to continue with our daily life. I think that Israel will be in a very serious situation for quite a time,” Meir Dagan said.
The US, Israel and their allies accuse Iran of trying to build nuclear weapons. While Washington has repeatedly threatened Tehran with the “all potions” mantra, Tel Aviv openly speaks of a military strike against the Islamic Republic.
Iran, a member of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) and a signatory to the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT), refutes the allegations, saying its nuclear energy program is peaceful in nature.
Iranian officials have vowed a crushing response to any act of aggression against the country.
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