{"id":11384,"date":"2012-03-12T06:39:08","date_gmt":"2012-03-12T10:39:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theredphoenixapl.org\/?p=11384"},"modified":"2012-03-12T06:39:08","modified_gmt":"2012-03-12T10:39:08","slug":"kissinger-we-should-ignore-intelligence-and-assume-iran-wants-nukes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/redphoenix.news\/es\/2012\/03\/kissinger-we-should-ignore-intelligence-and-assume-iran-wants-nukes\/","title":{"rendered":"Kissinger: We should ignore intelligence and assume Iran wants nukes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/redphoenixnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/henry-kissinger-2012-via-afp.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-11385\" title=\"Henry-Kissinger-2012-via-AFP\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/redphoenixnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/henry-kissinger-2012-via-afp.jpg?resize=490%2C274\" alt=\"\" width=\"490\" height=\"274\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\"><strong>By Agence France-Presse<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color:#000000;\"> <em><strong> March 11, 2012<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">Former US secretary of state Henry Kissinger said in an interview Sunday that the United States should assume that Iran is actively preparing to build nuclear weapons.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">Kissinger, 88, was asked on the CNN show \u201cGPS\u201d if the threat of an Iranian nuclear weapon was so dire that Israel would need to launch a military strike in the near future.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">\u201cI am very uneasy with the so-called intelligence report that say we don\u2019t know whether they are actually working on nuclear weapons,\u201d Kissinger told CNN.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">\u201cI think we should start from the premise that they are undergoing all this in order to achieve a military capability. I don\u2019t think that is a disputable point.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">US intelligence analysts believe there is no hard evidence that Iran has decided to build a nuclear bomb \u2014 an assessment broadly consistent with a 2007 intelligence finding that concluded that Iran had abandoned its nuclear weapons program, The New York Times reported in February, citing unnamed US officials.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">The assessment was largely reaffirmed in a 2010 National Intelligence Estimate, and that it remains the consensus view of America\u2019s 16 intelligence agencies, the Times reported.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">The US administration maintains that tough sanctions on Iran and diplomatic efforts need to be given more time before any resort to bombing raids.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">Israeli leaders however say time is running out for any pre-emptive strike. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Monday that sanctions against Iran have not worked, and \u201cnone of us can afford to wait much longer.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">US President Barack Obama has cautioned against \u201cbluster\u201d in talking about possible war with Iran, saying there still exists a window of diplomacy.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#0000ff;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rawstory.com\/rs\/2012\/03\/11\/kissinger-we-should-ignore-intelligence-and-assume-iran-wants-nukes\/#.T15XzOKQY88.facebook\"><span style=\"color:#0000ff;\">Fuente<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Agence France-Presse March 11, 2012 Former US secretary of state Henry Kissinger said in an interview Sunday that the United States should assume that..<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":38765,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[166,21,84,97],"tags":[197,226,199],"class_list":["post-11384","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-government","category-international","category-statements","category-us-news","tag-imperialism","tag-imperialist-war","tag-iran"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/redphoenix.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Henry-Kissinger-2012-via-AFP_11384_ffbdd.jpg?fit=615%2C345&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/redphoenix.news\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11384","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/redphoenix.news\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/redphoenix.news\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redphoenix.news\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redphoenix.news\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11384"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/redphoenix.news\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11384\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redphoenix.news\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38765"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/redphoenix.news\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11384"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redphoenix.news\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11384"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redphoenix.news\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11384"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}