IRAN: Nuclear Post Time?

A former chief of Israel's Mossad said last weekend that Iran will be able to go nuclear within one year.  so the Washington Post runs a front-pager quoting an anonymous ex-CIA official, now suing Uncle Sam, that the Agency covered up in 2004 evidence he had submitted that Iran was not pursuing a nuclear bomb.  What this fellow knows was rejected by the Israeli, French and British intel services, and now by even much of the American intel community.  A senior US defense official added his assessment, that Iran will go nuclear in 2009, according to the latest US & Israeli intel estimates, and that the window for striking may be determined by how rapidly Russia supplies the SA-20, its top air defense system, to Iran; the missiles have a 250-mile range, hypersonic speed (6,000 mph top end) and can hit planes skimming above the surface.  Which raises a worrisome issue: Could Russia force Israel's hand before the American election, by supplying the SA-20 and making it operational before November 4?