Revealed: Israel plans nuclear strike on Iran (actual article, not teaser)

UK Sunday Times ^ | Jan. 7, 2007 | Uzi Mahnaimi New York and Sarah Baxter Washington

[FairOpinion]

Q: Why can Israel do this and we can't? A: They don't have Democrats to undermine them trying to defend their country.

[aynrandfreak]

If they were really planning this, it shouldn't be in the newspapers. I hope it's not just bluffing to get Iran to negotiate.

[monkapotamus]

ping

[Maynerd]

There is a sort of beautiful poetic balance and natural symmetry with nuking the nukes.

[SmithL]

If only Jimmy Carter had dealt with Iran when he had the watch.

[chartnah]

I believe they have as many self-hating loonies, but they only have to be wrong once to lose their entire country / existence. Israel is a tiny place, relatively speaking. No "overs".

[ironmaidenPR2717]

I hope it wasn't "leaked" to incite Iran to nuke Israel first.

[denydenydeny]

Typical idiotic media hype, taking military contingency plans of the sort that every single country in the world has on file and using them to terrify people with inflammatory headlines.

It's stories like this that make people hate the media. Disgraceful.

[Maynerd]

However, American experts warned of repercussions, including widespread protests that could destabilise parts of the Islamic world friendly to the West.

Gotta love the clueless "experts". Israel better be careful or the arabs and muslims may not be their friends anymore. It would be terrible if Israel and the US lost any of those wonderful friends.

In reality, I think Egypt, Saudi Arabia, and the Gulf emrites will be doing handsprings and backflips celebrating the destruction of Shia Persian nukes.

[GSlob]

It isn't a job for mini-nukes, but for something in a more respectable range. If the iranians are not complete idiots, the openable entrances are seriously offset from the actual facility.

[Graymatter]

Maybe it was a story planted by Iran. This was one of Hitler's early strategems, inventing a reason to attack, then do it. First villainize, then victimize.

[FairOpinion]

"I hope it wasn't "leaked" to incite Iran to nuke Israel first."


You may have just hit on the sad truth.

[Edgar3]

American experts warned of repercussions, including widespread protests that could destabilise parts of the Islamic world

That's oxymoronic if I've ever heard it!

[Zack Nguyen]

ISRAEL has drawn up secret plans to destroy Iran’s uranium enrichment facilities with tactical nuclear weapons.

Less secret now, I presume. A pox on the media enablers of rogue terrorist states.

[dennisw]

So now do Russia and or China issue covert or overt threats to Israel on behalf of Iran? GWBush ain't bugging out of Iraq, not when the main attraction is yet to come

[plain talk]

Why can Israel do what? Draw up secret plans? You can bet we have secret plans as well. Countries draw up all sorts of contingency plans and options. That is NOT the same as the headline implies as "planning to strike". Crappy editing.

[contrarian]

I think this is where the Iranians need to plan a little vacation far away from the nuke sites

[rbg81]

I have little doubt such a plan exists. But the fact is that militaries plan for ANY NUMBER of contingencies. This results in a wide range of plans--some serious, some not. Most sit on the shelf and will never see the light of day.

Unfortunately, we are at the point where Israel may have to do something drastic like this to survive. If Iran gets nukes, Israel will be nuked--no question. Probably via a Hezbollah rocket. The messianic maniac in Tehran cannot be deterred. Despite the stakes, I doubt that Olmert has the cohones to carry out such an operation.

[Zack Nguyen]

Typical idiotic media hype, taking military contingency plans of the sort that every single country in the world has on file and using them to terrify people with inflammatory headlines.

That's a good point.

[Uncle George]

Isreal won't do it this way: They will secretly eliminate each scientest who the Iranians have hired to make the bomb.
Result; tons of yellowcake and no boom.