Cole's claim that "a key allegation...has fallen apart", should be taken with a grain of salt.
I have read the piece in the WP and I was astounded by some very peculiar facts.
For a staret while the aricle do acknowledge that Danilenko worked in diamond fabrication he also cites the scientist did work for almost 40 years in the Soviet nuclear program, and only later changed to civil engineering. So what we have is a nuclear scientist who also knows to blown diamonds.
The second issue is that Danilenko denies any relation with the Iran Nuclear program, and who would so? Since it seems the Irainian-related nuclear scientist are been assassinate all over the world, hence I don't expect for any person to admit so.
Lastly, one can be connected with the nuclear program even without been a nuclear physicist, for example triggering the bomb you need to have explosion experts who know how to coordinate a very precise detonation. I it seems that this is exactly what Danilenko was doing.
All in all, the WP/AP article does raises more questions than answer them !
What a beautiful demonstration it was ! No violence, no policeman shooting on people, no looting. The crowd was well behaving, polite and courageous. Maybe the Arabs nations have thing or two to learn from us.
Second, I read carefully the article and the reader's responds following. Although some may look logical in their essence they also lack a key ingredient in the analysis. The factor they all missing is : USA retaliation against Iran the moment Iran will attack either USA or its proxies. Since Iran is surrounded from the west and east by US forces, not to mention battle ships in the med and gulf, most likely that USA will attack swiftly and very very very rigorously. As seen in Iraq and Afg. - the regime in Iran will not survive for 2 weeks. Since this scenario is very likely the president of Iran will probably prefer to start a covert war on the US.
This scenario has already happened in 2008 when Israel bombed Syria nuclear facility with out any action from Syria- since President Asad understood that retaliation will signal the end of his region. I believe the same will happen when Israel will bomb Iran (BTW - Iran combat capabilities are very exdutrated - their army is very week and lacks in technology or equipment.)
Cole's claim that "a key allegation...has fallen apart", should be taken with a grain of salt.
I have read the piece in the WP and I was astounded by some very peculiar facts.
For a staret while the aricle do acknowledge that Danilenko worked in diamond fabrication he also cites the scientist did work for almost 40 years in the Soviet nuclear program, and only later changed to civil engineering. So what we have is a nuclear scientist who also knows to blown diamonds.
The second issue is that Danilenko denies any relation with the Iran Nuclear program, and who would so? Since it seems the Irainian-related nuclear scientist are been assassinate all over the world, hence I don't expect for any person to admit so.
Lastly, one can be connected with the nuclear program even without been a nuclear physicist, for example triggering the bomb you need to have explosion experts who know how to coordinate a very precise detonation. I it seems that this is exactly what Danilenko was doing.
All in all, the WP/AP article does raises more questions than answer them !
What a beautiful demonstration it was ! No violence, no policeman shooting on people, no looting. The crowd was well behaving, polite and courageous. Maybe the Arabs nations have thing or two to learn from us.
First U would like to apologize for my English...
Second, I read carefully the article and the reader's responds following. Although some may look logical in their essence they also lack a key ingredient in the analysis. The factor they all missing is : USA retaliation against Iran the moment Iran will attack either USA or its proxies. Since Iran is surrounded from the west and east by US forces, not to mention battle ships in the med and gulf, most likely that USA will attack swiftly and very very very rigorously. As seen in Iraq and Afg. - the regime in Iran will not survive for 2 weeks. Since this scenario is very likely the president of Iran will probably prefer to start a covert war on the US.
This scenario has already happened in 2008 when Israel bombed Syria nuclear facility with out any action from Syria- since President Asad understood that retaliation will signal the end of his region. I believe the same will happen when Israel will bomb Iran (BTW - Iran combat capabilities are very exdutrated - their army is very week and lacks in technology or equipment.)