Iran war drumbeat grows louder

Recent media reports suggest that Iran may come under attack because of its nuclear program.

According to an article on the BBC, fears of an Israeli or American military strike against Iran’s nuclear sites have cooled last December after the release of a report by American intelligence agencies which said that Iran had stopped trying building nuclear weapons in late 2003. 

Many analysts all over the world believe that a military strike against the facilities that Iran has built for what it insists is a purely peaceful nuclear program would have disastrous consequences in a region already suffering from the 2003 U.S.-led invasion of Iraq and the decades-old Palestinian-Israeli conflict. An attack on Iran would also drive up the already high oil prices. 

But negotiations with Tehran - and sanctions against it - have not stopped its uranium enrichment activities, which its critics claim are aimed at making an atomic bomb.

That’s why talks of war against Iran have started again.

Israel, believed to be the region's sole if undeclared nuclear power, has never believed that Iran has stopped trying to build nuclear weapons.

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