Hmm, this is probably propaganda. Maybe disinformation. It may be trying to force the hand of the United States, it may just be that Israel has concluded that America is having enough problems in Iraq at the moment.
Isf Israel were to attack Iran, Syria and Hezbollah should attack Israel, and we'd probably have to become involved.
Mission Iran (Israel will not tolerate Iran going nuclear)
Sunday Times ^ | January 7, 2007 | Uzi Mahnaimi and Sarah Baxter
Posted on 01/06/2007 4:41:43 PM PST by West Coast Conservative
In an Israeli air force bunker in Tel Aviv, near the concert hall for the Israeli Philharmonic Orchestra, Major General Eliezer Shkedi might one day conduct operations of a perilous kind. Should the order come from the Israeli prime minister, it will be Shkedi’s job as air force commander to orchestrate a tactical nuclear strike on Iran.
Two fast assault squadrons based in the Negev desert and in Tel Nof, south of Tel Aviv, are already training for the attack.
The other potential targets are Iran’s uranium conversion facility at Isfahan — uncomfortably near a metropolis of 4.5m people — and the heavy water power reactor at Arak, which might one day be able to produce enough plutonium to make a bomb. These will be hit with conventional bombs.
In recent weeks Israeli pilots have been flying long-haul as far as Gibraltar to simulate the 2,000-mile round trip to Natanz. “There is no 99% success in this mission. It must be a perfect 100% or better not at all,” one of the pilots expected to fly on the mission told The Sunday Times.
On a plasma screen, Shkedi will be able to see dozens of planes advance towards Iran, as well as the electronic warfare aircraft jamming the Iranian and Syrian air defences and the rescue choppers hovering near the border, ready to move in and pluck out the pilots should the mission go wrong.
Another screen will show live satellite images of the Iranian nuclear sites. The prime target will be Natanz, the deep and ferociously protected bunker south of Tehran where the Iranians are churning out enriched uranium in defiance of the United Nations security council.
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Comments: 16
Israel as they have done in the past would be only going for the milatary nuke stuff... sergical
But I agree Scary...
As I say, this might not happen. Why was this story told to the British Media? Someone obviously wanted Ahmedinejad to hear quite loudly that his time in power could be limited.
Hezbollah? I thought the UN was disarming them.....(again) hahahahahahaha...yeah right. Israel knows it can count on nobody but themselves. Can you blame them?
At least Israel needs to be concerned about surviving a response from Iran, and Syria, and Hezbollah. If Russia takes a side on this, or China comes to the aid of Iran, things could get out of hand quickly.
Nanci, no, of course I don't trust any of the looney leaders in this world including our own. I'm just saying that if we give them more to get all threatened and agitated about, the more likely they are to retaliate. That's just human nature. As far as them breaking with the UN, how can we be so double standard to accept the nukes from India and Israel and yet sanction Iran? We have gone and invalidated that whole treaty. The rest of the world sees our hypocracy and they think less of us and it is embarrassing. Also, I kind of would like to live for a few more years.