Netanyahu Prepares for Attack on Iranian Nuclear Facilities After Secret Meeting: Report
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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is preparing to carry out attacks on Iranian nuclear facilities and has attended secret meetings with top military officers about a possible confrontation with Tehran, a report said.
Channel 12, the Israeli news station, did not go into specific details about what these strikes would look like, but The Times of Israel said the report itself could be a signal of the “seriousness of Israeli threats to resort to military action in order to shut down Iran’s suspected drive toward a nuclear weapon.”
The Israeli paper noted that Netanyahu addressed a national security conference last week and said, throughout history, the only way to stop “rogue nations from developing nuclear weapons is a credible military threat or a credible military action.”
“A necessary condition and often a sufficient condition is credible military action. The longer you wait, the harder that becomes. We’ve waited very long,” he said.
Netanyahu recently informed Washington that Israel would be willing to act alone to stop the Iranian program.
Netanyahu, Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich, and Defense Minister Yoav Gallant agreed last week on a multi-year defense budget that includes an increase of $2.8 billion for a potential strike on these Iranian nuclear facilities.
The Middle East Monitor reported that Israel plans to ask Washington to sell its new GBU-72 bomb, which weighs 5,000 pounds and has the capability to strike underground sites or bunkers.
TRENDPOST: The Trends Journal has reported extensively on how Israel has been conducting a clandestine war against Iran for years. We’ve also reported on how the U.S. identifies Iran as one of the greatest threats to regional security and has been preparing accordingly.
Just days before an Israeli drone attack on a nuclear facility in Iran, the U.S. and Israel conducted their largest combined military drill ever, which included 140 aircraft and 12 naval vessels. Washington said Juniper Oak 23.2 was intended to “demonstrate that the U.S. commitment to Israel’s security is ironclad and enduring.”
Israel has long stated that it will not allow Iran to gain nuclear capabilities.
In 2012, Netanyahu made an appearance at the UN in New York and held up a cartoon-style drawing that illustrates an Iranian nuclear time bomb ready to explode. It was his attempt to show the Israeli view of Iran’s progress in achieving the ability to make a nuclear weapon.
As for the U.S., the message of these drills to China, Russia, and the world is that America has all the weaponry it needs to fight their “enemy.”
EARLIER ATTACK
Netanyahu refused to confirm or deny involvement in last month’s drone attack on an Iranian military facility that Tehran blamed on Israel.
Few details about the attack are known. Iran claimed that it managed to intercept most of the drones, but one slipped past its air defenses and caused superficial damage to the facility. Western sources said Tehran downplayed the strike and called it a success.
Iran blamed Israel for the attack last week and said it has the right to “respond resolutely.”
Amir Saeid Iravani, Iran’s ambassador to the UN, wrote in a letter to the UN secretary-general that there was a “terrorist attack against a workshop complex of the Iranian Defense Ministry in the city of Isfahan using three Micro Aerial Vehicles.” He wrote, “Early investigations suggest that the Israeli regime was responsible for this attempted act of aggression.”
The Wall Street Journal reported that Israel’s Mossad conducted the attack. The paper, citing people familiar with Israeli operations, wrote, “Israel has waged a long-running conflict of sabotage and unacknowledged military strikes against Iran’s nuclear sites, scientists, military officers, and other military targets, as well as against Iranian forces in Syria and cargo ships carrying Iranian oil.”
Netanyahu, who has vowed in the past to prevent Iran from ever obtaining a nuclear weapon, told CNN that he never talks about “specific operations.”
“And every time some explosion takes place in the Middle East, Israel is blamed or given responsibility. Sometimes we are, sometimes we’re not,” he said.
TRENDPOST: Netanyahu’s comments essentially admit that “Sometimes we are” responsible for explosions, which in effect means, they can bomb and kill whomever they wish in any country they consider an enemy. However, if countries bombed them back, it would be characterized as an act of terror carried out by terrorists.
World “leaders” have lost their minds, and will cost the rest of us our lives.
I wonder if this time Iran will retaliate and destroy Tel Aviv. It would a fitting retribution, and would bring peace to the region, probably for many years.