‘Iran, not Israel, faces an existential threat’
‘Iran, not Israel, faces an existential threat’ | The Times of Israel.
Top US analyst says all of Islamic Republic’s population centers now within range of Israeli missiles with hydrogen warheads
Iran, not Israel, faces an existential threat, according to a top US analyst who is considered one of the world’s leading scholars on the Iranian nuclear issue.
In a research paper published earlier this week, Anthony Cordesman of the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) said that in preparation for a nuclear Iran, Israel had been working in recent years to extend the range of its missiles, and that it now poses a real threat to all of the Islamic Republic’s major population centers.
Cordesman, a former national security aide to Senator John McCain, said Iran is now within the range of Israeli missiles carrying hydrogen warheads, which are far more powerful than standard atomic warheads. According to the report, each bomb with a hydrogen warhead has about a hundred times more power than a conventional nuclear bomb.
Israel has never admitted to having hydrogen warheads, much like it has never admitted to holding any nuclear weapons.
According to Cordesman’s report, Iran will not have the ability to threaten Israel with a long-range nuclear warhead for several years. Today, the Islamic Republic can attack Israel with small bombs from the sea, or with long-range non-nuclear missiles, he noted.
Iran maintains that its nuclear program is for peaceful purposes only and has no military component, a claim that Israel and Western powers reject.
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April 26, 2013 at 1:01 PM
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April 27, 2013 at 10:56 PM
It is very odd and perplexing that no Iranian official, whether military or otherwise, has ever bothered to react or ever made any statements about the very obvious nuclear menace – atom and hydrogen bombs – that could be directed against Iran from Israel; especially that Israel is reputed in the West to be prone to behave like a “mad dog” in order to get the world submit to its unreasonable demands.
The Iranian policy makers are not under any illusion about Israel’s nuclear and conventional prowess. They are also well aware of the fact that Israel, with its long reach over the Western media, is, in a final analysis, not likely to be deterred by world public opinion outrage over use of its nuclear arsenal against Iran.
The fact that the Iranian regime does not worry about a nuclear attack scenario could be due to the never admitted fact that Iran already has obtained a handful of 200-kiloton nuclear warheads from Ukraine back in the early 1990’s, together with cruise missiles that could easily deliver them to an enemy thousands of miles away. Under such circumstances there would be no doubt in the mind of Iranians and the Israelis that a nuclear attack on Iran could actually end up with much-hyped prospect of an” Israel wiped off the map”.
Both the Israeli and the US intelligence services are in the know about Iran’s hidden nuclear deterrence, and their threatening postures are only for public consumption worldwide. That this dire analysis by Cordesman should appear at this juncture is mainly because the Iranian public seems to be immune to tough sanctions and all threats of conventional military attacks by either Israel or the US. That Israel might use its many atom and hydrogen bombs against the Iran is a new and desperate ploy to really concentrate the minds of the Iranians about the unthinkable and have them submit to Western and Israeli demands.
April 26, 2013 at 1:14 PM
he did not quite say this.this propaganda designed to scare iran,he used the phrase could be perceived as a existential threat