Washington - Speaking
on Sunday at the National Press Club, Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Admiral Michael Mullen
(photo) declared that
it’s very clear to him that a nuclear weapon in Iran is an existential threat to
Israel. Mullen said US president Barack Obama was fully prepared to see the US attack Iran. Mullen
further said he has spent a significant amount of time with his Israeli
counterpart, IDF Chief of Staff Gabi Ashkenazi.
Ashkenazi, his deputy Maj. Gen. Benny Gantz, and
Brig. Gen. Yossi Baidatz (head of the Military Intelligence research
division), met last week with Adm. James Stavridis, the commander of U.S. European Command (EUCOM) and NATO supreme allied commander of Europe, while Stavridis visited Israel with several of his top
officers.
