Israel has numerous considerations as it decides whether it must take out the Bushehr reactor. The attack could ignite a two-front war. The Israelis may decide that they can wait as long as the reactor’s activity is monitored by the IAEA. The fuel for the reactor is being provided by Russia, who will also be responsible for taking it out of the reactor and taking it outside the country. The Obama Administration is apparently confident that these measures will prevent the site from being used to make weapons-grade plutonium.
Fox News analyst General Thomas McInerney, the former Assistant Vice Chief of Staff for the U.S. Air Force and former Director of the Defense Performance Review, told FrontPage that Israel must not allow the fuel rods to be delivered to the reactor. Once that happens, any bombing raid would spread radiation throughout the region including Gulf countries that oppose Iran. Russian personnel at the plant would also be killed.
“The danger is that 40 to 60 plutonium bombs could be manufactured once the Bushehr plant is online so the IDF must strike Iran now,” he said. “Iran may have crossed the nuclear threshold, which is unacceptable.”
General McInerney said that Israel should use submarine-launched cruise missiles and special forces to target the underground sites and should try to spark an uprising by the Iranian people.
“I believe an air campaign without attacking Bushehr does not make it complete which is why I believe they must do it now,” he said.
About a dozen other nuclear sites must be targeted, according to General McInerney. Surface-to-air missile sites, air bases, and Shahab ballistic missile sites would also have to be struck to minimize Iran’s retaliatory capabilities. Despite the mammoth undertaking such a campaign would be, he felt there was a “high probability” of Israel attacking Iran.
The Israelis may believe that covert measures can be taken to delay the time when a strike becomes necessary. The Mossad is suspected of being involved in the deaths of important Iranian nuclear scientists and has used cyber warfare against the nuclear program. The Israelis are likely the ones responsible for greatly damaging the uranium enrichment efforts at Natanz by providing Iran with faulty equipment. The Iranians are running short on raw uranium and it is unknown if they have the ability to reprocess plutonium for a bomb. The Israelis may believe they can tolerate the operating of such facilities if their performance is hindered enough to prevent a bomb from being made and delivery capability from being achieved.
The Israelis must also consider whether the regime actually wants them to strike their facilities. The regime may believe it would bring them stability as their people continue to challenge them. They may even believe that such a strike would commence the final days when the Hidden Imam will arise during a final great war to bring victory for Islam. According to one cleric, Ayatollah Khamenei is telling his inner circle that he has met with the Hidden Imam and was promised that he’d appear before his time as Supreme Leader ends.
The Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty permits Iran to build the infrastructure it needs to quickly build a nuclear arsenal before actually constructing a bomb. According to the treaty, Iran can cite a security threat and announce its withdrawal from the treaty to build nuclear weapons as long as it is done with 90 days notice. Iran may actually be hoping to use an Israeli strike to justify the creation of nuclear weapons and attribute the subsequent crisis to Israeli aggression. The sites are dispersed and underground, potentially allowing the regime to believe they can rejuvenate their program relatively quickly.
A remark by Ahmadinejad last September indicates that Iran is planning to point to some threat to declare that its “peaceful” program must become a weapons program. When pressed by reporter Ann Curry as to whether Iran was seeking nukes, he said “We don’t need nuclear weapons. Without such weapons we are able to defend ourselves.” She then said to him that he didn’t rule out building them in the future if he saw the need and he replied, “You can take from this whatever you want, madam.”
The Israelis have much to consider as they decide whether it’s worth attacking the Bushehr reactor. They currently have less than one week before the fuel rods are sent in, removing the option of a bombing raid on the site in the future. Israel must now decide whether to destroy the reactor or allow Iran to have a critical piece for a plutonium-based nuclear weapons program.
Didn't the "Community Organizer in-Chief" realize that by giving Russia the go-ahead on the nuclear fuel rods would place Israel in a corner with its back against the wall. And the only outcome would be a preemptive strike? Is he really that stupid!!!!
Please will someone wake me up from this nightmare. This administration seems to have one agenda; destroy America and all of its allies.
It's becoming harder and harder to believe that BHO isn't a stealth Muslim every day.
Frank, haven't you heard about B. Hussein O. being the Manchurian President? The proof is in the pudding. He was elected in spite of his intimate friendships with known America hatters such as Louis Farrakhan, Jeremiah Wright, Rashid Khalidi, Bill Ayers and Michelle Obama, just to name a few. Apparently we committed suicide as a nation, electing a man that hates our country.
The USA strategic nuclear self-deception.
Nuclear weapons, while useful, are not essential to the Iranian strategy against Israel, which is based on Hezbollah, Hamas, and Syria (with its massive stockpile of non-nuclear missiles, some of them with chemical and biological warheads).
NUCLEAR WEAPONS ARE ESSENTIAL, HOWEVER, FOR THE STRATEGY AGAINST THE US AND THE WEST. And this explains the willingness of the Iranian regime to expend huge sums of money — to the detriment of its population — as well as expose itself to the possibility of military attack from a cornered Israel.
Unfortunately, the US is behaving toward Iran very much as it behaved toward Hitler’s Germany in the late 1930’s, pretending that, after all, the worst that can happen is that somebody else will be hurt. Nuclearization of Iran must be understood in the context of the Islamic Revolution as explained at : http://israelagainstterror.blogspot.com/2009/02/w…
Israel is the greatest threat in the region. Iran, despite its mullahs and rhetoric have not attacked any neighbor. To the contrary, suffered from Saddam's aggression, which was supported by Israel and the USA.
Israel, with its nuclear weapons, racist and paranoid attitude, with almost a century-long invasions and atrocities against civilians, will continue its bullying and aggression, until it will destroy itself through its own arrogance and aggression. History has plenty examples of bully nations that think that they are above law.
Jews and Arabs and the humanity will win when the Nazionist regime falls. Wait and see.
Another kool-aid drinker. Not even going to waste my breath to respond to this tripe.
You've heard it said, there are 3 kinds of people: 1) those who make things happen; 2) those who "Wait-n-see." what happens; and 3) those who will still wonder what happened.
Although, there are examples a-plenty of those who feel that, they are above law, there are none who are above common sense: "Wait-n-see.", "Wait-n-see.", yeah, that might be funny—except that, it comes from one "Edip Yuksel" who presents as so without the sensibility for welfare which G0D gave even to members of the lower animal kingdom, . . .
"Nazionist"? You should get a copyright on that word, before all the other nutjobs on the planet start using it …
"Israel is the greatest threat in the region."
Nope, that is Iran which instigates instability in the region by funding terrorism and starting wars with its neighbors (Iraq).
"Iran, despite its mullahs and rhetoric have not attacked any neighbor."
Um no, it attacked Iraq, see above. It provides military and financial support to terrorist organizations such as Hamas and Hezbollah which is an indirect way for Iran to attack Israel. Not to mention that Iran has made territorial claims to Saudi Arabia, Bahran, Qatar and several other UAE members. The Iranian government is a bully and warmongering regime.
"To the contrary, suffered from Saddam's aggression, which was supported by Israel and the USA."
Edip, are you seriously mentally retarded? Israel NEVER supported Saddam, in fact Israel bombed Iraq's nuclear reactor in the early 80's. There were rumors for years about Mossad plots to assassinate Saddam Hussein who launched SCUD missles at Israel and funded Hamas and Islamic Jihad among other terrorist organizations.
"Israel, with its nuclear weapons, racist and paranoid attitude, with almost a century-long invasions and atrocities against civilians, will continue its bullying and aggression, until it will destroy itself through its own arrogance and aggression."
Um you just described the Pali-Nazis and Iran, thank you. When Arab and Islamic aggression (both going on since 570 AD) ceases there will be true peace in the region and the world.
Iran, through its proxies, undermines Lebanese democracy, launched a Gaza coup against the elected Palestinian government, and has made possible aggression from those territories against democratic Israel. It also seeks to empower democracy hating Chavez and the like. They are indeed aggressive. And will be all the more so when their aggression is shielded by nukes.
iran sponsors, finances and equips terrorism on a global scale, twit.
Ryan,
It is my understanding that the Russian fuel rods have been on-site at Bushehr, ostensibly under IAEA lock and key in an ancillary structure, for the past two years.
It would require some excellent HUMINT collection for the Israeli's to avoid creating a dirty bomb out of those rods should an attack occur.
Israel, DESTROY them! Go with God. God does help them who help themselves; the US Administration will sit by and see Israel destroyed. They have no choice but to attack. Will they? We'll see won't we.
Winston Churchill would have told Israel to act :
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6llT2ZYg-4E
Over seventy years ago, Winston Churchill lamented what he called the "confirmed unteachability of mankind," the unfortunate habit of civilized societies to sleep until danger nearly overtakes them. Churchill bemoaned what he called the "want of foresight, the unwillingness to act when action will be simple and effective, the lack of clear thinking, the confusion of counsel until emergency comes, until self-preservation strikes its jarring gong."
I speak here today in the hope that Churchill's assessment of the "unteachibility of mankind" is for once proven wrong
September 24, 2009, United Nations General Assembly
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu:
It is time for Israel to prevent Iranian aggression by striking first. Now, when the SHTF, we will be involved, like it or not. I believe that the wars that we are involved in at this time, are only two fronts of W.W IV. Although we may not have the manpower in uniform to fight land wars in different scenarios, we do have enough fire power to destroy our enemies totally, and I'm not only mentioning Iran,Syria, but Venezuela, Cuba, Nicaragua, Turkey, and anybody else whom might want a piece of us. Total war is harsh, savage, brutal and uncertain, but I like to keep score on past transgressions against my country, and I can only hope that when we are attacked, we have enough "Cojones" to respond with finality. An Attack on International shipping in the Persian Gulf should bring us into this comming fight. Go Navy.
Obama IS a Trojan Horse Islamist. Oh, they can build the mega-Mosque in N.Y.C., its legal. But its illegal for Israeli citizens to build in their own CAPITAL, Jerusalem, with a valid building permit. Racism at its finest. How about "demanding" that Catholics be forbidden from building in Washington, D.C. This guy has been running a dual agenda–STRENGTHENING America's enemies/Islamic regimes of the worst sort, while paying lip service as a front to hide his aim of bringing America down. Overnight, he has created the most anxious, divided America that I can recall, being CONSTANTLY at odds with the American public again and again and again, with no apology for it. The WILL of the People is simply IRRELEVANT. I am, frankly, amazed that he is still around since there is such incredible anger towards this guy, with millions of Americans now feeling suckered by his song and dance campaign of emotional manipulation.
Obama is nothing more than a balless Muslim.. His own wife slipped
in a speach and mentioned his birth place as being Kenya.. Wake up
all you dumb asses !!!
NUKE TEHRAN AND MECCA!