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Source: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/09/28/AR2009092802484.html
The Real Iran Crisis
[Washington Post] Richard Cohen - The supposedly secret installation had been known to Western intelligence agencies - Britain, France, the U.S. and undoubtedly Israel - for several years. Its existence had been deduced by intelligence analysts from Iranian purchases abroad, and it was pinpointed sometime afterward. What had changed was that news of it had gone public. This happened not because Obama announced it but because the Iranians beat him to it after discovering that their cover was blown. No one should believe Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. Iran seems intent on developing a nuclear weapons program and the missiles capable of delivering them. This - not the public revelations of a known installation - is the real crisis. Only the U.S. has the capability to obliterate Tehran's underground facilities. Washington may have to act.