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Report: In Devastating Blow, Israel Sets Back Iran's Nuke Program Two Years
https://pjmedia.com ^ | 07.07.2020 | P. DAVID HORNIK

Posted on 07/07/2020 2:49:45 PM PDT by rxsid

Report: In Devastating Blow, Israel Sets Back Iran's Nuke Program Two Years

The last couple of weeks have seen a string of apparent sabotage incidents in Iran. Questions about them abound. Possible answers are intriguing to say the least.

Probably the most significant attack came early Thursday morning at Natanz, when, as the New York Times reported:

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A Middle Eastern intelligence official…said the blast was caused by an explosive device planted inside the facility. The explosion, he said, destroyed much of the aboveground parts of the facility where new centrifuges…are balanced before they are put into operation….

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Instead, Iran appears to be facing a more dismal prospect. On Monday, Israel’s Channel 12 News said the “attack on the Natanz nuclear facility in Iran, credited to Israel, had managed to set back Tehran’s uranium enrichment program by two years, citing Western intelligence estimates.”

Channel 12 also said Israel’s Mossad had “recently foiled planned or attempted Iranian attacks on Israeli diplomatic missions in Europe and elsewhere,” and that “frustration is growing fast in Iran.”

And what of the other incidents? The biggest of them, which came on June 26, was a huge blast at Iran’s secret Parchin nuclear complex. Breaking Defense reported that the explosion “destroyed big parts” of the facility

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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Government; Israel; News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: centrifuges; iran; iraq; irgc; israel; israeliran; isreal; jerusalem; kaboom; letshavejerusalem; natanz; nuclear; parchin; qasemsoleimani; qudsforce; tehran; waronterror
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To: SunkenCiv
However, multiple sources [in Israel] say the explosion could have been caused by a “kinetic cyber” attack that one source says was performed by a “major force.”

Anyone know what and “kinetic cyber attack” is?

21 posted on 07/07/2020 3:47:31 PM PDT by EarlyBird (ThereÂ’s a whole lot of winning going on around here!)
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To: EarlyBird

https://www.cybersecurity-insiders.com › what-is-a-cyber-kinetic-attack

A Cyber Kinetic Attack is nothing but a direct or indirect assault causing damage, injury or death solely through the exploitation of vulnerable information systems...


22 posted on 07/07/2020 3:50:12 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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To: hinckley buzzard

I believe that thanks


23 posted on 07/07/2020 3:51:46 PM PDT by faithhopecharity (Politicians are not born, theyÂ’re excreted. Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 to 43 BCE))
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Cyber-Physical Systems (CPSes) such as Internet of Things (IoT) and Industrial Control Systems (ICS)... CPSes enhance your life. But they carry with them the risk of cyber-kinetic attacks. Cyber-kinetic attacks consist of unauthorized personnel hijacking CPSes – whether in homes, cities, cars or human bodies – and using them to harm people or damage the environment.

https://www.csoonline.com/article/3245036/the-tangible-threat-of-cyber-kinetic-attacks.html


24 posted on 07/07/2020 3:52:06 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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To: rxsid

Good news for the world.


25 posted on 07/07/2020 3:56:32 PM PDT by Crucial
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To: rxsid

Elections have consequences.

Bibi got re elected and formed a sort of pardnership with his chief rival.

They are now back in the kill Iran groove


26 posted on 07/07/2020 3:57:55 PM PDT by bert ( (KE. NP. N.C. +12) Progressives are existential American enemies)
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To: EarlyBird
Anyone know what and “kinetic cyber attack” is?

It ia a mistake to think of cyber attacks as "non-kinetic."

Ones and zeros can unleash a lot of destructive, kinetic, energy in most industrial control and weapons systems.

27 posted on 07/07/2020 3:58:51 PM PDT by Natty Bumppo@frontier.net (We are the dangerous ones, who stand between all we love and a more dangerous world.)
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To: rxsid

If they get a nuke, I don’t doubt they would use it against Israel.


28 posted on 07/07/2020 4:06:24 PM PDT by Mr. K (NO CONSEQUENCE OF REPEALING OBAMACARE IS WORSE THAN OBAMACARE ITSELF)
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To: rxsid

The muzz are really serious about security for that Natanz place, what with watchtowers and anti aircraft guns circling it. Two layer perimeter fence as well.

Excellent place for a mystery boom. I imagine it looked like an anthill kicked over for a while.


29 posted on 07/07/2020 4:07:49 PM PDT by doorgunner69 (Peace is that brief glorious moment in history when everybody stands around reloading - T Jefferson)
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To: Mr. K
"If they get a nuke, I don’t doubt they would use it against Israel."

Well, they are suicidal...the 12th Imam and all.

30 posted on 07/07/2020 4:13:17 PM PDT by rxsid (HOW CAN A NATURAL BORN CITIZEN'S STATUS BE "GOVERNED" BY GREAT BRITAIN? - Leo Donofrio (2009))
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To: rxsid
There are days like today when you get several happy things happen.

Cherish these days.

31 posted on 07/07/2020 4:13:47 PM PDT by Harmless Teddy Bear (Leave it to me to be holdin' the matches when the fire truck shows up & there's nobody else to blame)
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To: rxsid
Possibly related: Israel request to buy 990 million gallons of diesel, gasoline and jet fuel from United States

32 posted on 07/07/2020 4:18:03 PM PDT by rxsid (HOW CAN A NATURAL BORN CITIZEN'S STATUS BE "GOVERNED" BY GREAT BRITAIN? - Leo Donofrio (2009))
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To: W.

His best one is Term Limits. I keep hoping.


33 posted on 07/07/2020 4:18:17 PM PDT by VTenigma (The Democrat party is the party of the mathematically challenged)
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To: rxsid

Good.


34 posted on 07/07/2020 4:19:57 PM PDT by metmom ( ...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith....)
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To: SunkenCiv

We all try to do our part. If you use another drone to blow up some other big shot terrorists, Dem heads will explode, so that would be a twofer.


35 posted on 07/07/2020 4:33:22 PM PDT by Eleutheria5 ("SHUT UP!" he explained.)
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To: rxsid

There’s something to be said for Israel’s anti-nuclear program methodology. No unwieldy and hard to enforce sanctions programs that impose great hardships on the civilian population. Just airstrikes. Once against Iraq’s program in the 80’s, and once against Syria’s program in 2007. I wager F-22 and F-35 strike packages could completely destroy Iran’s air defenses and level Iran’s nuclear program after a month of bombing.


36 posted on 07/07/2020 4:42:47 PM PDT by Zhang Fei (My dad had a Delta 88. That was a car. It was like driving your living room.)
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To: Blue Highway

Mooselimbs lie. Their religion approves of lying (father of lies as origin, doubtless). Obamaroid knew they were lying, He paid them off for their treachery. Brennen is a Mooselimb, so he lies, too. John Kerry just lies because he is a demon rat.


37 posted on 07/07/2020 4:49:29 PM PDT by MHGinTN (A dispensation perspective is a powerful tool for discernment)
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To: Mr. K; RushIsMyTeddyBear; metmom; CynicalBear; SkyPilot; tuffydoodle; tang-soo; righttackle44; ...

[If they (IRAN) get a nuke, I don’t doubt they would use it against Israel.]

I’m convinced that Iran will use one (or more) against Israel. And fulfill this prophecy for the latter days and the latter years (KJ Version)


Ezekiel 38 is going to happen one of these days. Prophesied about 2,600 years ago. It’s for the Latter Days (v. 16) and the Latter Years (v. 8) (KJV).

Ezekiel 38 KJV:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2zuYCM0g2kc

Ezekiel 38 King James Version (KJV)

1 And the word of the Lord came unto me, saying,

2 Son of man, set thy face against Gog, the land of Magog, the chief prince of Meshech and Tubal, and prophesy against him,

3 And say, Thus saith the Lord God; Behold, I am against thee, O Gog, the chief prince of Meshech and Tubal:

4 And I will turn thee back, and put hooks into thy jaws, and I will bring thee forth, and all thine army, horses and horsemen, all of them clothed with all sorts of armour, even a great company with bucklers and shields, all of them handling swords:

5 Persia, Ethiopia, and Libya with them; all of them with shield and helmet:

6 Gomer, and all his bands; the house of Togarmah of the north quarters, and all his bands: and many people with thee.

7 Be thou prepared, and prepare for thyself, thou, and all thy company that are assembled unto thee, and be thou a guard unto them.

8 After many days thou shalt be visited: in the latter years thou shalt come into the land that is brought back from the sword, and is gathered out of many people, against the mountains of Israel, which have been always waste: but it is brought forth out of the nations, and they shall dwell safely all of them.

9 Thou shalt ascend and come like a storm, thou shalt be like a cloud to cover the land, thou, and all thy bands, and many people with thee.

10 Thus saith the Lord God; It shall also come to pass, that at the same time shall things come into thy mind, and thou shalt think an evil thought:

11 And thou shalt say, I will go up to the land of unwalled villages; I will go to them that are at rest, that dwell safely, all of them dwelling without walls, and having neither bars nor gates,

12 To take a spoil, and to take a prey; to turn thine hand upon the desolate places that are now inhabited, and upon the people that are gathered out of the nations, which have gotten cattle and goods, that dwell in the midst of the land.

13 Sheba, and Dedan, and the merchants of Tarshish, with all the young lions thereof, shall say unto thee, Art thou come to take a spoil? hast thou gathered thy company to take a prey? to carry away silver and gold, to take away cattle and goods, to take a great spoil?

14 Therefore, son of man, prophesy and say unto Gog, Thus saith the Lord God; In that day when my people of Israel dwelleth safely, shalt thou not know it?

15 And thou shalt come from thy place out of the north parts, thou, and many people with thee, all of them riding upon horses, a great company, and a mighty army:

16 And thou shalt come up against my people of Israel, as a cloud to cover the land; it shall be in the latter days, and I will bring thee against my land, that the heathen may know me, when I shall be sanctified in thee, O Gog, before their eyes.

17 Thus saith the Lord God; Art thou he of whom I have spoken in old time by my servants the prophets of Israel, which prophesied in those days many years that I would bring thee against them?

18 And it shall come to pass at the same time when Gog shall come against the land of Israel, saith the Lord God, that my fury shall come up in my face.

19 For in my jealousy and in the fire of my wrath have I spoken, Surely in that day there shall be a great shaking in the land of Israel;

20 So that the fishes of the sea, and the fowls of the heaven, and the beasts of the field, and all creeping things that creep upon the earth, and all the men that are upon the face of the earth, shall shake at my presence, and the mountains shall be thrown down, and the steep places shall fall, and every wall shall fall to the ground.

21 And I will call for a sword against him throughout all my mountains, saith the Lord God: every man’s sword shall be against his brother.

22 And I will plead against him with pestilence and with blood; and I will rain upon him, and upon his bands, and upon the many people that are with him, an overflowing rain, and great hailstones, fire, and brimstone.

23 Thus will I magnify myself, and sanctify myself; and I will be known in the eyes of many nations, and they shall know that I am the Lord.


38 posted on 07/07/2020 6:02:39 PM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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39 posted on 07/07/2020 6:38:21 PM PDT by bitt (Let justice be done though the heavens fall Fiat justitia ruat cælum)
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To: rxsid

Some good news this week!


40 posted on 07/07/2020 6:44:11 PM PDT by Rummyfan (In any war between the civilized man and the savage, support the civilized man. Support Israel.)
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