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Israel stands ready to bomb Iran's nuclear sites
Israel held it's
largest-ever nationwide military drills. The Israeli military is prepared to launch a massive aerial assault
on Iran's nuclear facilities within days of being given the go-ahead by its
new government.
Update June 2009 - Obama said that Iran has legitimate energy concerns and
has some right to nuclear energy.
Among the steps taken to ready Israeli forces for what would be a risky raid
requiring pinpoint aerial strikes are the acquisition of three Airborne
Warning and Control (AWAC) aircraft and regional missions to simulate the
attack.
Two nationwide civil defence drills will help to prepare the public for the
retaliation that Israel could face.
“Israel wants to know that if its forces were given the green light they
could strike at Iran in a matter of days, even hours. They are making
preparations on every level for this eventuality. The message to Iran is
that the threat is not just words,” one senior defence official told The
Times.
Officials believe that Israel could be required to hit more than a dozen
targets, including moving convoys. The sites include Natanz, where thousands
of centrifuges produce enriched uranium; Esfahan, where 250 tonnes of gas is
stored in tunnels; and Arak, where a heavy water reactor produces plutonium.
The distance from Israel to at least one of the sites is more than 870
miles, a distance that the Israeli force practised covering in a training
exercise last year that involved F15 and F16 jets, helicopters and
refuelling tankers.
The possible Israeli strike on Iran has drawn comparisons to its attack on
the Osirak nuclear facility near Baghdad in 1981. That strike, which
destroyed the facility in under 100 seconds, was completed without Israeli
losses and checked Iraqi ambitions for a nuclear weapons program.
“We would not make the threat [against Iran] without the force to back it.
There has been a recent move, a number of on-the-ground preparations, that
indicate Israel's willingness to act,” said another official from Israel's
intelligence community.
He added that it was unlikely that Israel would carry out the attack without
receiving at least tacit approval from America, which has struck a more
reconciliatory tone in dealing with Iran under its new administration.
An Israeli attack on Iran would entail flying over Jordanian and Iraqi
airspace, where US forces have a strong presence.
Ephraim Kam, the deputy director of the Institute for National Security
Studies, said it was unlikely that the Americans would approve an attack.
“The American defence establishment is unsure that the operation will be
successful. And the results of the operation would only delay Iran's
program by two to four years,” he said.
“Many of the leaks or statements made by Israeli leaders and military
commanders are meant for deterrence. The message is that if [the
international community] is unable to solve the problem they need to take
into account that we will solve it our way,” Mr Kam said.
Among recent preparations by the air force was the Israeli attack of a
weapons convoy in Sudan bound for militants in the Gaza Strip.
“Sudan was practice for the Israeli forces on a long-range attack,” Ronen
Bergman, the author of The Secret War with Iran, said. “They wanted to see
how they handled the transfer of information, hitting a moving target ... In
that sense it was a rehearsal.”
Israel has made public its intention to hold the largest-ever nationwide
drill next month.
Colonel Hilik Sofer told Haaretz, a daily Israeli newspaper, that the drill
would “train for a reality in which during war missiles can fall on any part
of the country without warning ... We want the citizens to understand that
war can happen tomorrow morning”.
Israel will conduct an exercise with US forces to test the ability of Arrow,
its US-funded missile defence system. The exercise would test whether the
system could intercept missiles launched at Israel.
“Israel has made it clear that it will not tolerate the threat of a nuclear
Iran. According to Israeli Intelligence they will have the bomb within two
years ... Once they have a bomb it will be too late, and Israel will have no
choice to strike — with or without America,” an official from the Israeli
Defence Ministry said.
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/middle_east/article6115903.ece
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