Mullen on Iran Strikes

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Admiral Mullen on Iran

Noah Shachtmann passes along Admiral Mullen's thoughts on a military attack on Iran's nuclear facilities:

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â??Iran getting a nuclear weapon would be incredibly destabilizing. Attacking them would also create the same kind of outcome,â? Mullen said. â??In an area thatâ??s so unstable right now, we just donâ??t need more of that.â?

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He went on to say:

'â??I worry about Iran achieving a nuclear weapons capability. There are those that say, â??Câ??mon Mullen, get over that. Theyâ??re gonna get it. Letâ??s deal with that.â?? Well, dealing with it has [results] that I donâ??t think weâ??ve all thought through. I worry other countries in the region will then seek -â?? actually, I know they will seek â?? nuclear weapons as well. And the spiral headed in that direction is a very bad outcome,â? Mullen said.'

As Shachtmann observes, this is a situation with absolutely no good outcomes in sight.

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