Eight days to remove the nuclear plant at Bushehr that is, at least according to former US envoy to the UN, John Bolton in an interview with Fox Business News.

ZeroHedge has the story (emphasis of the amusing comment is mine) :

In an interview with Fox Business News, former US envoy to the UN, John Bolton, told the channel that if Israel wants to prevent Iran from acquiring a working nuclear plant, then a military strike must be launched against the Bushehr nuclear power facility within the next eight days. Specifically, Bolton was envisioning the projected August 21 launch date of the nuclear power plant, which Zero Hedge noted previously. According to Bolton, once the Bushehr facility is operational it will be too late for a military air strike against Iran because such an attack would affect too many Iranian civilians due to the spread radiation.

“Once that uranium, once those fuel rods are very close to the reactor, certainly once they’re in the reactor, attacking it means a release of radiation, no question about it. So if Israel is going to do anything against Bushehr it has to move in the next eight days.”

Bolton simplistic summary is that should Iran launch the reactor, both Israel and the US would be in trouble.

“Iran will achieve something that no other opponent of Israel, no other enemy of the United States in the Middle East really has and that is a functioning nuclear reactor.”

Laslty, Russia was portrayed as evil for daring to go with its own national interest, whatever that may be, over that of the US.

“The Russians are, as they often do, playing both sides against the middle. The idea of being able to stick a thumb in America’s eye always figures prominently in Moscow.”

One to watch I think.