CIA's Brennan: Iran knows it would face consequences for nuclear program

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Reuters:

Andy Sullivan

WASHINGTON Sun Mar 22, 2015

 

(Reuters) - U.S. Central Intelligence Agency Director John Brennan said Iran realizes that it will face "tremendous costs and consequences" if it decides to move ahead with an effort to develop nuclear weapons.

 

"I think they realize that there's going to be tremendous costs and consequences if they decide to go for a breakout," Brennan said on "Fox News Sunday," referring to current international efforts to reach an agreement with Tehran on curbing its nuclear program.

 

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LBPnClvbArU

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John Brennan assesses

Scott Johnson

March 23, 2015

 

CIA Director John Brennan appeared for an interview on FOX News Sunday with Chris Wallace (video below, 22 minutes). At the outset of the interview, Wallace asked tough questions related to the deal in process with Iran. In context, despite the gravity of the questions, Brennan’s expressions of comfort and assurance on the part of President Obama and Secretary Kerry come across almost laughable.

 

At 5:00, Wallace asks Brennan which is a greater threat to the United States, Iran or ISIS? One can gauge Brennan’s level of candor in the interview from his response to this question. Contrast it, for example, with David Petraeus’s unconstrained assessment in Liz Sly’s Washington Post article “Petraeus: The Islamic State isn’t our biggest problem in Iraq.”

 

 

Brennan proceeds to elaborate his perception of the common interests of the United States and Iran in resisting ISIS. Brennan takes no account of Iran’s support of terrorism to expand its influence to the detriment of the United States. To his credit, Wallace refers to the Petraeus interview and presses Brennan on this point. Brennan will only concede: “I wouldn’t consider Iran an ally inside of Iraq right now.” Brennan adds that Iran “needs to make sure they’re not pursuing a parochial agenda” in Iraq.

 

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John Brennan has been in this business for way to long to really believe this crap he said.