Former US president Bill Clinton said in a television interview that President Barack Obama should not rule out military action on Iran, but there might be other ways “to skin the cat.” Clinton also said a recent report by UN inspectors showed that Tehran’s efforts to obtain a nuclear weapon “seemed to be pretty far along the road,” and amounted to what “was the biggest unkept secret in the world.”
“I mean, when you ask yourself what are your options here, I do not believe the president should take any military option off the table,” Clinton told Fox News host Bill O’Reilly’s “The O’Reilly Factor” show, according to an excerpt.
“But there may be more than one way to skin the cat,” said former president Clinton, noting that a virus last year in systems at its nuclear facilities had pretty much “gummed up their computer capacity.” Iran announced Tuesday that it had moved most of its government websites from foreign-based hosts to domestic providers to protect itself from cyber attacks.
The Pentagon on Tuesday moved to play down remarks from US Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta that suggested Iran’s nuclear program was more advanced than previously thought and could be realized in “sometime in around a year.”
Husbanding State department?
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