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Skriven 2005-12-17 14:18:20 av Roy Witt (1:1/22)
  Kommentar till text 18726 av SHANNON TALLEY (1:275/311)
Ärende: Israeli strike on Iran
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15 Dec 05 13:08, SHANNON TALLEY wrote to All:

They shouldn't have said anything, just gone ahead and done it and worry
about the consequences later. Now the Iranians are forewarned and will be
ready.


 ST> Rabinovich, A. (2005). Sharon prepares for strike on Iran. API,
 ST> Retrieved Dec 15, 2005

 ST> ISRAELI Prime Minister Ariel Sharon has ordered his armed forces to
 ST> be prepared to strike at Iran's nuclear facilities by the end of
 ST> March, according to a report in The Sunday Times [Jerusalem]. The
 ST> operation would involve both air and ground attacks against widely
 ST> scattered sites where Iran is developing its nuclear capability,
 ST> according to the report. Citing unnamed Israeli security sources, the
 ST> newspaper said that Israel would employ its F-15I warplanes, which
 ST> can reach Iran from Israel and return without refuelling, as well as
 ST> crack commando forces.

 ST> Israeli military intelligence chief Aharon Zeevi Farkash told a
 ST> Knesset committee last week that if Iran's nuclear weapons
 ST> development program was not halted by the end of next March it would
 ST> have reached the point of no return. Mr Sharon said this month that
 ST> Israel was letting the international community take the lead in the
 ST> effort to stop the Iranian program. However, he added that Israel
 ST> "cannot accept" the possibility of Iran acquiring
 ST>  nuclear weapons.

 ST> Tensions have been heightened by recent statements by Iranian
 ST> President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad calling for "wiping this scourge of
 ST> shame (Israel) from the Islamic world" and expressing doubt that the
 ST> Holocaust had happened.
 ST>  Last week, Mr Ahmadinejad suggested that the Jewish state be moved
 ST> to
 ST>  Europe. The Sunday Times report said Israeli intelligence officers,
 ST>  operating out of the Kurdish area of northern Iraq, had penetrated
 ST> Iran and used electronic intercepts to identify hitherto unknown
 ST> uranium enrichment sites. These, the report said, were disguised as
 ST> civilian structures and had gone undetected by the UN International
 ST> Atomic Energy Agency. IAEA head Mohamed ElBaradei has recently
 ST> stepped up his warnings about Iran's nuclear program.

 ST> He told British newspaper The Independent last week that if the
 ST> enrichment plant at Natanz became fully operational, Iran could be
 ST> only months away from nuclear weapons. But he warned Israel against
 ST> attempting to stop the program militarily. An attack, he said, would
 ST> likely only delay the Iranian program while providing Tehran with
 ST> motivation for revenge.

 ST> Israeli Foreign Minister Silvan Shalom yesterday called on the UN to
 ST> urgently impose sanctions against Tehran to prevent it from
 ST> proceeding with its nuclear plans. "To think that a mad regime like
 ST> this will have nuclear weapons is a nightmare for the entire world."

 ST> In 1981, Israeli warplanes destroyed Iraq's nuclear reactor just
 ST> before it came on line, effectively delaying Baghdad's nuclear
 ST> program for years. But Tehran has drawn lessons from the event and
 ST> scattered its nuclear efforts
 ST>  over many sites, some of them deep underground and some in civilian
 ST> areas. Most military experts agree that their complete elimination
 ST> would be
 ST>  extremely difficult.

 ST> The Sunday Times offers a quote from a source who appears to think
 ST> differently. "If we opt for the military strike," the source said,
 ST> "it must be not less than 100per cent successful. It will resemble
 ST> the destruction of the Egyptian air force in three hours in June,
 ST> 1967 (the Six Day War)". Israel has hitherto kept a relatively low
 ST> profile on the Iranian issue, preferring to have the international
 ST> community not expect Israel to resolve the issue militarily.

 ST> Rabinovich, A. (2005). Sharon prepares for strike on Iran. API,
 ST> Retrieved Dec 15, 2005

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