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Key General: White House Briefed on Iran Target Options

February 29, 2012 RSS Feed Print

The Air Force has provided the White House with options for a strike against Iran's nuclear weapons sites, but a former top Pentagon official is warning that America and Israel lack the weaponry to halt Tehran's atomic arms program. "Our obligation is to provide options" to the defense secretary and the president, "and we have done that," Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. Norton Schwartz told reporters Wednesday.

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