ISRAEL has drawn up secret plans to destroy Iran’s uranium enrichment facilities with tactical nuclear weapons. Two Israeli air force squadrons are training to blow up an Iranian facility 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. Under the plans, conventional laser-guided bombs would open “tunnels” into the targets. “Mini-nukes” would then immediately be fired into a plant at Natanz, exploding deep underground to reduce the risk of radioactive fallout. “As soon as the green light is given, it will be one mission, one strike and the Iranian nuclear project will be demolished,” said one of the sources. The "source": Peace Now tactical liars.
The plans, disclosed to The Sunday Times last week, have been prompted in part by the Israeli intelligence service MossadÂ’s assessment that Iran is on the verge of producing enough enriched uranium to make nuclear weapons within two years. Israeli military commanders believe conventional strikes may no longer be enough to annihilate increasingly well-defended enrichment facilities. Several have been built beneath at least 70ft of concrete and rock. However, the nuclear-tipped bunker-busters would be used only if a conventional attack was ruled out and if the United States declined to intervene, senior sources said.
Any US involvement would use Reaganite "fait accompli" tactics. The public will, properly, only hear about whatever is done, in a breaking news report. There will be overwhelming support and the Pelosis will be left crying on the sidelines.
Israeli and American officials have met several times to consider military action. 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.
Some analysts warned that Iranian retaliation for such a strike could range from disruption of oil supplies to the West to terrorist attacks against Jewish targets around the world.
More BS; Iran lost over $6 billion in 2006, because they couldn't meet OPEC quotas. The Ayatollahs need every penny they can get. In any case, I would forsee a coup should the leaders prove impotent. And, the Iranian public is well aware of the unearned wealth that the Ayatollahs have given themselves and families, in non-competitive contracts. Rafsanjani is worth over a billion dollars.
Israel has identified three prime targets south of Tehran which are believed to be involved in IranÂ’s nuclear programme:
Natanz, where thousands of centrifuges are being installed for uranium enrichmentThe Israeli government has warned repeatedly that it will never allow nuclear weapons to be made in Iran, whose president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, has declared that “Israel must be wiped off the map”.
A uranium conversion facility near Isfahan where, according to a statement by an Iranian vice-president last week, 250 tons of gas for the enrichment process have been stored in tunnels
A heavy water reactor at Arak, which may in future produce enough plutonium for a bomb Israeli officials believe that destroying all three sites would delay Iran’s nuclear programme indefinitely and prevent them from having to live in fear of a “second Holocaust”.
Again, use of accurate missiles that can destroy Israeli power production would destroy Israel. If the Bush regime is not with the program - and they are pushing yet another useless 2-state plan - then they need to be prodded. The Paleo and Ayatollah leaders need to die. Period.
