ISSUED BY: GCIS Communications Command Center
SOURCE: A7
19August2010 11:59amEDT
GCIS/MSS INTELLIGENCE UPDATE: First it was the United Arab Emirates ambassador in Washington, now it�s a Saudi Arabian editorial, and John Bolton says the entire Persian Gulf feels the same: an attack on Iran is the only option - if it's not too late.
An editorial in an official Saudi Arabian newspaper indicates that a military attack against Iran might be the only way of stopping it from obtaining nuclear weapons.
�Tehran is moving its conflict with the international community into high gear,� the Al Madina daily wrote this week, �and [in this case] some may consider the military option to be the best solution.�
Delaying recourse to this option, the paper continues, �may lead to a point where it is impossible to implement it - if Tehran manages to produce a nuclear bomb of its own.�
Former Ambassador to the United Nations John Bolton goes a bit further, saying it is the only way of stopping it � but adds that it might already be too late.