Iranian Alert - January 7, 2007 - Revealed: Israel plans nuclear strike on Iran

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Revealed: Israel plans nuclear strike on Iran

• The Times Online reported that ISRAEL has drawn up secret plans to destroy Iran’s uranium enrichment facilities with tactical nuclear weapons.

 

Impending Iran crisis

• Kenneth R. Timmerman, The Washington Times reported that over the next three to six months we should expect the very real possibility of a war with Iran which could spread far beyond the Persian Gulf.

 

Military Shakeup Places US Command In Fighting Stance

• DEBKAfile believes that the new Iraq strategy which the US president is due to unveil next week - and is geared to victory rather than exit - could bring US troops into clashes with Iran and/or Syria in the Persian Gulf, the Arabian Sea or the eastern Mediterranean.
• The New York Post argued that Iran is the reason Bush is moving Adm. William Fallon to take charge of Central Command, responsible for the Middle East.

 

A Leadership Change In Tehran?

• Stratfor weighed in on reports that Iran's 67-year-old supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, is entering the final stage in his fight against cancer.

 

UK, Saudis, France urge compliance from Iran

• Margaret Beckett, the British foreign secretary, The Jerusalem Post argued that the UNSC's resolution on Iran marks an important moment. Iran faces a choice, between a route that allows it to develop a modern civil nuclear power program and brings many benefits to its people, or further defiance and the costs of isolation.
• SeattlePI reported that Saudi Arabia and France called Saturday on Iran to accept international demands to halt uranium enrichment.

 

On Radio Farda - a debate

• Edward E. Kaufman & S. Enders Wimbush, The Weekly Standard published the Broadcasting Board of Governors response to S. Enders Wimbush's article. "Radio Free Iran." Wimbush wrote a response.

 

Here are a few other news items you may have missed.

• Reuters reported that Iranian "reformist" parliamentarians on Saturday blamed Ahmadinejad's government for failing to prevent United Nations sanctions.
• Richard Miniter, Pajamas Media published a video interview with Flemming Rose an author and the cultural editor of the Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten.
• DryBones Blog published a cartoon: The UN Finds the Courage?

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[GoldenPup]

Nothing like shredding the element of surprise!!! The bozo who revealed this should be shot!!

[BuffaloJack]

Although I completely agree with you about the idiot who leaked this, it may have been to mitigate public outcry by the MSM when it happens. Not that they won't scream bloody murder anyway.

[saganite]

I wouldn't worry too much about it. We were seeing identical reports last winter predicting a strike by Israel within months. In fact, this report looks like it's a recycled version of the same thing with the dates changed.

[SoldierDad]

The Times Online reported that ISRAEL has drawn up secret plans to destroy Iran’s uranium enrichment facilities with tactical nuclear weapons.

Secret? How does some reporter for Time obtain "secret" information of this type? Or, is it possible that this reporter just assumes Israel has drawn up plans for such an attack and is just writing his speculation on it? In any event, he should be brought up on charges of espionage.

[Garvin]

I agree the reporter is just speculating that Israel has drawn up plans. But as the old saying goes "Tell a lie long enough and loud enough and it becomes truth."

[rahbert]

Its very possible that the leak originated with the Israelis
as a deliberate effort to impress upon Iran how close they
are to an Israeli administered bum kicking. Not all Iranians
are signed up for this...

[SoldierDad]

Problem is the leaders in Iran are wanting a confrontation with Israel, especially if Israel is the aggressor. In their warped view a conflict with Israel will ignite the holy war they want.

[TigersEye]

The Sunday Times journalist in question Uzi Mahnaimi, is a controversial figure, who co-authored a book with Bassam Abu Sharif, former senior adviser to Yasser Arafat and PLO press officer.

So what does Baghdad Bob think?

Frankly I hope Isreal does whatever it needs to do and makes no apology about it. America is hamstrung with liberal hand-wringers. Pres. Bush will have to show a great deal more grit than he has to date to strike Iran.

[the Real fifi]

Poppycock--the dream of an emasculated West and the fantasy of Israel's enemies. Check out pajamasmedia--the author is an anti-Israeli who regularly prints this kind of nonsense.

[the Real fifi]

Poppycock--the dream of an emasculated West and the fantasy of Israel's enemies. Check out pajamasmedia--the author is an anti-Israeli who regularly prints this kind of nonsense.

[bert]

Slow news day speculation sourced through an IAF sargent in Tel Aviv bar.

[odds]

"Revealed: Israel plans nuclear strike on Iran"

Good. Hope they make it better than they did in Iraq.

[DoctorZIn]

Israeli Military Leaks Iran Plans to the London Times -- UPDATE: The Reporter Who Cried Wolf?

Pajamas Media challenged the report from the Sunday (London) Times for January 7, 2007: “Two Israeli air force squadrons are training to blow up an Iranian facility [Natanz] using low-yield nuclear “bunker-busters”, according to several Israeli military sources.

The attack would be the first with nuclear weapons since 1945, when the United States dropped atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The Israeli weapons would each have a force equivalent to one-fifteenth of the Hiroshima bomb.”

Pajamas Media wants to know why Israeli military sources would leak this information now. The Times asked that question as well: “Military analysts said the disclosure of the plans could be intended to put pressure on Tehran to halt enrichment, cajole America into action or soften up world opinion in advance of an Israeli attack.”

Meanwhile, US and allied presence is already increasing in the Persian Gulf.

The Israeli Foreign Ministry denies the report: the Prime Minister’s office has no comment.

UPDATE: The Reporter Who Cried Wolf? ...

http://pajamasmedia.com/2007/01/israeli_military_leaks_iran_pl.php

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Happy New Year DoctorZin. Thanks again for all your good work.

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Thanks and Happy New Year to you!!!

[BuffaloJack]

Being that the source of the story is Bassam Abu Sharif, former PLO press officer and senior adviser to Yasser Arafat, the only thing this story says Fiction Fiction Fiction.

[rbmillerjr]

If only it were true