Israel Received ‘Good Hints’ that U.S. Has Credible Military Option Against Iran: Report
The Trends Journal has reported that Israel and Iran have been conducting a stealth war for years
Israel received “good hints” from the U.S. that Washington has a credible military option against Iran as Tehran reviews a European Union drafted text to restore the 2015 nuclear deal that was submitted last month.
The Times of Israel, citing a defense official, reported that the U.S. would be “ready to act against Iran alongside Israel, which has also been preparing a military option.”
Israel is opposed to the deal.
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The official spoke to the paper after a meeting between Defense Minister Benny Gantz and President Joe Biden’s National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan. Israel called the meeting “positive.”
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History: Israel has long insisted that it has the right to act alone to prevent Iran's nuclear program from being weaponized. Israel sees Iran’s nuclear program as an existential threat and is willing to go to war to destroy it. Israel is known to conduct assassinations and other covert attacks on scientists and nuclear facilities.
The Jerusalem Post reported that Israel modified its U.S.-made F-35 stealth fighters to be capable of flying from Israel to Iran without mid-air refueling.
The country also “integrated a new one-ton bomb into the arsenal of weapons used by the F-35s that can be carried inside the plane’s internal weapons compartment without jeopardizing its stealth radar signature.”
Reports said Israel owns 33 Lockheed Martin F-35s. The Israeli Air Force conducted a massive war drill over the Mediterranean Sea that included four large-scale military drills simulating attacks against Iran.
Last month, President Joe Biden reaffirmed the U.S. position that Iran cannot obtain a nuclear weapon during a high-profile meeting with Yair Lapid, the former soap opera star and ad pitchman now playing the role as Israeli Prime Minister.
The meeting resulted in the U.S. signing a joint declaration with Israel that both countries would use all their power to prevent Iran from joining the nuclear-armed club, which includes the U.S., Russia, India, Israel, Pakistan, the U.K., China, and France. There are about 19,000 nuclear weapons in the world.
The declaration reads in part that the U.S. will never “allow Iran to acquire a nuclear weapon and that it is prepared to use all elements of its national power to ensure that outcome.”
Biden also confirmed that the U.S. would use force to stop Iran’s nuclear ambition, but he insisted that the move would be after all diplomatic efforts have been exhausted.
TRENDPOST: We’ve pointed out that the Center for Arms Control and Non-Proliferation, Israel possesses at minimum some 90 plutonium-based nuclear warheads and has produced enough plutonium for 100-200 weapons.
Thus, it is OK for Israel and other nations to have nuclear weapons but not Iran... or, for that matter, North Korea. Only nations sanctified by a higher political order are permitted to have nuclear weapons or weapons of mass destruction. And, as evidenced with Iraq, whether they possess them or not, the very thought of it is enough to invade and destroy an “enemy” nation.