General: US planning for military strike on Iran

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President Obama’s chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff said this morning that the United States military is developing the plans necessary for a military strike on Iran in the event that the Iranians try to buiild a nuclear weapon.

“My responsibility is to encourage the right degree of planning [for if Iran tries to build a nuclear bomb], to understand the risks associated with any kind of military option — in some cases to position assets, to provide those options in a timely fashion,” General Martin Dempsey said on Face the Nation today. “And all those activities are going on,” he added.

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