Will Iran Acquire A Nuclear Bomb With Barack Obama As US President? -- The Telegraph
If America ever goes to war with Iran, Mustapha Attaee will find himself uncomfortably close to the frontline.
Just a few miles from the 42-year-old farmer's homestead on the outskirts of Isfahan is the city's nuclear research facility, viewed by the Pentagon as one of the key incubators for Iran's atomic weapons programme, and marked on its intelligence maps for a priority strike.
The plant's gleaming chimneystacks are strategically hidden behind a range of rust-coloured hills, but in the event of a strike with high-powered bunker-buster missiles, Mr Attaee fears the shock waves would do more than just rattle his windows.
"We are worried what damage would be done to our houses in the event of a strike," he said. "But we Iranians are used to threats after all these years."
As of last Tuesday, those threats seemed to recede with the presidential triumph of Barack Obama, a man who appears keener on dialogue with Iran than his rival John McCain and his predecessor George W.Bush, who both made no secret of their interest in the "military option".
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