Is Israel Ready to Attack Iran?
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By Rod Pennington
Recently, with little fanfare, the Saudi government expressed their willingness to allow the Israeli Air Force to use its air space unchallenged if it wanted to attack Iran’s nuclear facilities. Living in such close proximity, the Kingdom is nervous about the extreme erratic Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and the radical clerics having “The Bomb”.
The Israelis may have concluded that President Obama’s attempt to “engage” the Iranians has failed. And worse has given Iran an extra year to in which to develop a nuclear weapon. An unnamed high official was contemptuous of the way Israel was being treated by the current administration. “They bully their friends and bow to their enemies.”
If Israel is going to attack the Iranian facilities it will likely be sooner rather than later. The Russians have agreed to sell Iran their state-of-the-art S-300 anti-aircraft missiles. Once deployed and activated it would make an Israeli attack much more difficult if not impossible. The Israeli realize their window of opportunity is closing, and fast. They will likely need to strike within the next 90 days or be willing to have a country that has vowed to wipe them off the planet have the bomb.
Israel has made it clear it will not allow its sworn enemies to join the Nuclear Weapon’s club. In 1981 the Israeli Air Force took out the nuclear facility of Saddam Hussein near the Iraqi capital. There is no reason to believe they will allow a much more belligerent Iranian government to have the bomb.
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WarSclerotic 
June 28, 2013 at 8:02 PM
Do we all here getting this ? Its point by point what we just said in a previous comment – really sorry if that’s doesn’t sound too much humble – regarding the strike on Iran probability which is exponentially increasing. And why is that? Two decisive factors :
1. The Israelis finally dig the fact that Obama’s USA is what it is and
2. The factor of time is crucial here and Israel is running out of time regarding the attack options; Assad is desperately fighting for survive – which is not sure he will get – and Hezbollah is already fighting a war – in Syria – and its far from sure that it will want to be involved in a new fresh conflict, facing the IAF and the IDF. Hezbollah will tell their Iranian commanders ”sorry, do you want us attacking Israel when we are conducting heavy fighting against the militants here, in Syria?” And, from the other hand, Israel might not trust too much the Iranian military logic and the IAF might act even before any attack on Iran will take place. Now, when their flank in front of Israel is exposed, Hezbollah is vulnerable more than ever to a sudden decapitation strike which will target their field commanders and their missiles sites and depots. The Israeli Air Forces knows very well how to execute this move and we wont be surprised if that will happen in a close future.
After quickly finished the job with the Shiite militia, Israel can militarily focus on Iran. We still think that the open strike should be a massive Jericho 3 missiles being rained upon the critical points such as the missiles sites, airports, Iranian guards bases; the strike should be simultaneous with a cyber like attack on the Iranian vital infrastructures ( power stations, transport and electricity in general ).
After the first wave, the IAF and other assets should be deployed to finish the job and for analyzing the results of the operation ( drones will be massively deployed in this stage, too ).
If decisively hit, the Iranian response will surprise the entire world, because Iranian assets should have been taken heavy damage and the Iranian capacity to defend itself severely diminished. We will see then what a great distance is between the Iranian rhetoric and its militarily potential in the field. If conducted correctly, Israel can reproduce the legendary ’67 success.
June 29, 2013 at 12:06 AM
Reblogged this on servehiminthewaiting.
June 29, 2013 at 1:13 AM
To achieve the desired results, see http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2013/05/03/pentagon-upgrades-bunker-buster-bomb-in-attempt-to-penetrate-key-iran-nuke-site/
Now, as to the delivery system? F-15? (Nope) F-16? (Nope) An-2 on steroids? (Nope) C-130H? (Elint, but not for ordinance delivery). C-130J-30 ‘Stretch’, or ‘Shimshon’? (Perhaps. IAF took delivery of the first aircraft a couple days ago. IAF-specific upgrades to begin . . . shortly.)
We live, said the walrus, in “interesting times.”
June 29, 2013 at 1:50 AM
Obama hasn’t given the Iranians “an extra year” through his “engagement” – he’s given them four and a half extra years! This article could’ve been written in 2010 and we wouldn’t have known the difference.
June 29, 2013 at 1:59 AM
JW,
This article is actually dated June 28, 2010.
LOL, I called that one!
June 29, 2013 at 2:01 AM
The comments below the article are all dated June 21, 2010.
June 29, 2013 at 5:32 AM
Just tell me when a couple of Magic Wand batteries are operational then I’ll know when we hit Iran.
June 29, 2013 at 6:49 AM
It seems, JW, is onto something and knows this older news article is very useful now during these very uncertain times Israel finds itself in with all the uneasiness surrounding Israel’s neighbors and beyond. A very informative post. Thank you for that.
June 29, 2013 at 7:30 AM
Actually, it appears I screwed up. I didn’t see the date. Thanks for the the support, Jake. I agree that the piece is still relevant even though written 3 years ago. Underscores just how little has changed…
June 29, 2013 at 10:52 PM
The only thing that has changed a little is the lingo being used.
Obama started with “engagement” (the soft approach) as if this hadn’t already been tried for years by previous Presidents.
Now he’s onto the sanctions phase – a phase that the doves never go past no matter how fruitless it is.
June 29, 2013 at 6:58 AM
Israel IS going to act regarding this Iran Nuke situation. It’s going to be at a time of ‘her’ choosing, and it is going to be deadly and gruesome, specially for those calling for the special country of Israel’s destruction. Just who the **** do these voices think they are?!!?
We are living in perilous yet exciting times.
June 29, 2013 at 9:23 AM
“deadly and gruesome” is Israel’s signature when attacking virtually defenseless population centers in Gaza and Lebanon.
Attacking a country that is fully armed, has 8 years of experience in defending itself against attacks, and has millions of highly motivated young men to defend it once more, is quite something else.
June 29, 2013 at 4:49 PM
stick to grooming teenage girls renbe,as we all think your a cock
June 29, 2013 at 9:18 AM
“In 1981 the Israeli Air Force took out the nuclear facility of Saddam Hussein near the Iraqi capital.”
This while it was later proven beyond dispute that “the nuclear facility” was in fact a nuclear reactor only suitable for producing energy, and did not contain any secret underground areas like Dimona.
Iran has already gone much further than Iraq could have dreamed of, Iran’s nuclear reactor is online, Iran is capable of enriching as much uranium as it desires, and gained indestructible knowledge.
And after 2 decades of Mr. Netanyahu’s warnings that Iran is now really really very close to hundreds of nuclear weapons, no one takes him serious anymore.
June 29, 2013 at 3:05 PM
Yes but remember your playing with a snake,and believe me that snake is real pissed and about to bite iran has no antidote to ist venom,unless the west drops israel which it will if it fucks the peace talks up
June 29, 2013 at 2:46 PM
We will see soon how it all works out, but there are nice vacant jobs in iran,s nuke workshops, nothing for you rembe ?
June 29, 2013 at 2:56 PM
By the way i would not first bomb the underground facilities, but destroy the complete infrastructure of iran first.
Nothing is going in end nothing is going out, and than pay attention to the underground facilities, one by one
Let say a series of bunker busters 30 seconds after each other and than sucking the air out whit a bunch of daisy cutters lets say one every 2 minutes or so .
You have to do that once and they will open the doors from the other ones freely
A realy nice working place for rembe.
June 29, 2013 at 3:05 PM
Make some holes whit bunker busters and than drop this
GBU-43/B Massive Ordnance Air Blast bomb
June 29, 2013 at 3:09 PM
its not a daisy cutter”air blast bomb”and it wont be as effective as jherico 111 with its new deep penetrating war head,israel should do its own work and not leave it to america or the UK
June 29, 2013 at 4:29 PM
Even that this article is outdated, the amazing thing here is how actual it is. The problem still exist – even more acute – and the players are still in place setting up the pieces for the game to be start. What has changed from 2010 is in the favor of the Israeli army and its strategy. So will have to wait and see.
June 29, 2013 at 4:34 PM
Regarding people here who write pure lines of propaganda – and we wont name ”those people”(apparently only one) because we don’t respect them – we decided not to react to their ”observations” from obvious reasons. We all know ”those people” who ”they” are.
June 30, 2013 at 10:15 PM
Luis, is there not a cabal and plot ‘neath every rock? Just look under the Temple Mount. There it is: al-haram al-qudsī ash-sharīf, the robbers’ roost of wouldbe shaheeds. No, wait a minute. Look a little deeper. Why . . . why . . . it’s a parabola. No, TWO OF ‘EM! And golden to boot. My God, it’s Herod’s own McDonald’s franchise, the one that sent everyone at the Last Supper off to the E.R.
Quick, let’s find some more cabals!
July 1, 2013 at 2:35 PM
pradeep you off your head keep taking the heroin and the psychotic drugs
July 1, 2013 at 6:54 AM
I think this will go ahead but I think it will happen at a moments notice. I agree with Isreal attacking Iran as Iran needs to be pulled in line and with Saudi backing, this makes it more credible