Blind Man’s Bluff,
A Nuke site War!
Dear Ahmadinejad:
Two Announcements,
Look out Iranian Sites,
If the Mossad is Correct!
THIS IS A Genuine Shocker,
Not That Saudis May ALLOW It,
But that Israel
would announce It,
Unless Israelis are using it as a Bluff,
Inducing Iran to halt its drive for Nukes!
Perhaps Biden’s Statement is part of a Plan,
To influence Iranian government to back Down,
Saudis, Biden, and Submarine meant to bluff Iran,
Keeping pressure on Iran as hot grease in frying Pan!
IAF Training In U.S. Adds A Real Scare To This Titanic Bluff,
And quite frankly, it might not be a bluff, but I hope it Works!
July 6, 2009
http://www.tribulationperiod.com/
Begin Excerpt 1 from Jerusalem Post
‘Saudis would let IAF jets fly over kingdom on Iran mission’
July 5, 2009
JPost.com Staff , THE JERUSALEM POST
Mossad head Meir Dagan assured Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu that Saudi Arabia would allow IAF jets to fly over the kingdom during any future raid on Iran’s nuclear facilities, The Sunday Times reported.
According to a report in the British paper, Dagan held talks with Saudi officials earlier this year on the topic.
The Israeli media
has already carried unconfirmed reports that high-ranking officials, including former prime minister Ehud Olmert, held meetings with Saudi officials, but the kingdom has denied the reports.
“The Saudis have tacitly agreed to the Israeli air force flying through their airspace on a mission which is supposed to be in the common interests of both Israel and Saudi Arabia,” a diplomatic source w as quoted in the Times
as saying.
While Israel has no formal diplomatic relations with Saudi Arabia, an Israeli source confirmed that the Mossad had “working relations” with the Saudis.
Former US ambassador to the United Nations
John Bolton, who recently visited the Gulf, said it was “entirely logical” for the Israelis to use Saudi airspace.
Bolton, who has talked to a number of Arab leaders, added: “None of them would say anything about it publicly, but they would certainly acquiesce in an overflight if the Israelis didn’t trumpet it as a big success.”
Arab states would publicly condemn a raid when they spoke at the UN, but would be privately relieved to see the threat of an Iranian bomb removed, Bolton said.
Referring to the attack on an alleged Syrian nuclear facility in 2007 that Israel is rumored to have launched, Bolton added: “To this day, the Israelis haven’t admitted the specifics but there’s one less nuclear facility in Syria . . .”
A former head of research in Israeli intelligence told the Times that “the Saudis are very concerned about an Iranian nuclear bomb, even more than the Israelis.”
Begin Excerpt 2 from Jerusalem Post
Biden: US will not stand in Israel’s way on Iranian issue
July 5, 2009
AP and jpost.com staff , THE JERUSALEM POST
The US will not stand in Israel’s way if Israel believes military action is needed to eliminate Iran’s nuclear threat, Vice President Joe Biden said on Sunday, during an interview with ABC’s ‘This Week.’
Biden opined that the US “cannot dictate to another sovereign nation what they can and cannot do.”
Speaking to interviewer George Stephanopolous during a three-day visit to Iraq, the US vice president said that Israel can determine for itself “what’s in their interest and what they decide to do relative to Iran and anyone else.”
When questioned if Israel could make that decision “whether [the US] agrees or not,” Biden answered in the affirmative, noting, “Any sovereign nation is entitled to do that.”
He went on to say that the interests of the US are also the interests of Israel and “the whole world.”
“If the Netanyahu government decides to take a course of action different than the one being pursued now, that is their sovereign right to do that. That is not our choice,” he added.
When pushed to comment on whether or not the US would grant “over-fly rights … in Iraq,” Biden responded, “I’m not going to speculate, George, on those issues, other than to say Israel has a right to determine what’s in its interests, and we have a right and we will determine what’s in our interests.”
The Israeli government had no immediate comment on Biden’s remarks, but said a statement might come later.
On the issue of recent North Korean test-fires, which have coincided with US Memorial Day commemorations and Fourth of July celebrations, Biden backed his country’s current policy, saying, “We have succeeded in uniting the most important and critical countries to North Korea on a common path of further isolating North Korea.”
He also spoke of US President Barack Obama’s plan to withdraw US troops from Iraq, stressing that the main aim was to “leave behind a stable and secure country.”
He reiterated that by 2011, all US troops will be out of Iraq, by which point Iraqis will be “fully capable of maintaining their own security.”
Speaking to CBS News political analyst John Dickerson on ‘Face the Nation,’ on Sunday meanwhile, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Adm. Mike Mullen evaluated that both a US strike on Iran, and the Islamic republic attaining nuclear weapons would be “very destabilizing.”
He said called both situations “really, really bad outcomes,” and urged appropriate actions to prevent either eventuality.
Mullen said that the US has a “very narrow window” of options which would be appropriate to deal with the Iranian nuclear threat.
Begin Excerpt 3 from DEBKAfile
Israeli sub said armed with nuclear-capable torpedoes navigates Suez Canal
DEBKAfile Special Report
July 3, 2009, 7:26 PM (GMT+02:00)
Dolphin-class submarine
The Dolphin-class attack submarine is reported to be the first Israeli naval vessel to transit the Suez Canal in four years on its way from Haifa to Eilat last month. According to DEBKAfile’s military sources, the move indicates a strengthening of the informal Israel-Egyptian-Saudi pact forged in recent months against Iran and first revealed by our sources. The three Middle East nations have opted for an Iran policy which is separate from the track pursued by US president Barack Obama.
According to foreign military sources, the Israeli Dolphins are stationed in the Mediterranean, the Arabian Sea and the Indian Ocean opposite Iran’s shores. They are said to be armed with torpedo tubes capable of launching nuclear-capable cruise missiles.
To transit the Suez Canal, the armed submarine would have required Egyptian permission at the highest level, possibly even President Hosni Mubarak. An official in Cairo told Reuters that its passage would not be problematic as Egypt and Israel are not at war.
This noncommittal response indicates that Egypt has no objection to Israeli military craft passing through the canal on their way to the Red Sea and on to the Persian Gulf in case of a decision to strike Iran. The alternative would be a voyage of weeks around the Horn of Africa.
Our military sources report that since the Israel Navy lost the Dakar submarine near Greece in 1968, all Israeli subs are armed when they move out of harbor. Disclosure of the Israeli sub’s passage through the Suez Canal last month is rated by our sources as of high regional significance, over and above the Middle East diplomatic moves afoot.
Begin Excerpt 4 from Jerusalem Post
IDF Navy submarine spotted returning to Israel via Suez
July 5, 2009
Yaakov Katz and JPost.com staff , THE JERUSALEM POST
An IDF Navy Dolphin-class submarine that participated in maneuvers off the Eilat coast last week returned to Israel via the Suez Canal on Sunday according to witnesses’ reports.
The submarine was spotted returning through the waterway along with an Israeli missile boat.
However, an Israeli defense official told Reuters there would be no permanent deployment in Eilat of the German-made submarines, of which the Navy has three, with two more on order.
“If anything, we are scaling down our naval operations in Eilat,” the official was quoted as saying on Sunday.
A senior naval source explained that the “submarines need the open water, and that’s just not available at Eilat.”
“Also, the navy cannot take on the logistical burden of setting up two bases, with all the specialized needs in terms of equipment, maintenance crews and security safeguards, for a submarine fleet that, at most, will comprise five Dolphins,” he told the news agency.
On Friday, The Jerusalem Post was first to reveal that in a possible signal to Iran, the Israeli Navy returned to sailing through the Suez Canal after a long hiatus, and recently sent an advanced submarine through the canal to participate in a drill in the Red Sea.
IDF sources said the decision to allow navy vessels to sail through the canal was made recently and was a definite “change of policy” within the service. In 2005, then OC Navy Adm. David Ben-Bashat decided to stop sending Israeli ships through the canal due to growing threats in the area.
However, the Dolphin-class submarine sailed through last month to get from the Mediterranean to the Red Sea. Israeli officials said it passed through the canal above water, and that it was not done covertly.
“It is a question of policy,” a senior officer explained. “Navy vessels have sailed through the canal on several occasions recently.”
The significance of the move was debatable, but it could be interpreted as a message to Iran and a demonstration of strengthening ties between Egypt and Israel.
In the event of a conflict with Iran, and if Israel decided to involve its three Dolphin-class submarines – which according to foreign reports can fire nuclear-tipped cruise missiles and serve as a second-strike platform – the quickest route would be to send them through the Suez Canal.
The only way to get to the Gulf of Oman without refueling would be to go through the canal.
With their reported 4,500 nautical mile range, taking the long way, around Africa, would require the Dolphins to make at least two stops for refueling at a friendly port, or for fuel to be replenished at sea.
Excerpt 5 from Jerusalem Post
IAF to train overseas in coming months in face of Iranian threat
July 5, 2009
yaakov katz and ap , THE JERUSALEM POST
Asked about Biden’s comments, Adm. Mike Mullen, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said the US position on Iran and a military strike involved a “political decision.”
“I have been, for some time, concerned about any strike on Iran. I worry about it being very destabilizing, not just in and of itself but unintended consequences of a strike like that,” Mullen said on CBS’s Face the Nation.
“At the same time, I’m one that thinks Iran should not have nuclear weapons. I think that is very destabilizing,” he said.
IAF planes will take part this year in a joint aerial exercise with a NATO-member state that cannot be identified.
In addition, later this month, the air force will send F-16C fighter jets to participate in the Red Flag exercise at the Nellis Air Force Base in Nevada. At the same time, several of the IAF’s C-130 Hercules transport aircraft will participate in the Rodeo 2009 competition at the McChord Air Force Base in Washington state.
Defense officials said the overseas exercises would be used to drill long-range maneuvers. L ast summer, more th
an 100 IAF jets flew over Greece in what was viewed as a test-run for a potential strike on Iranian nuclear facilities.
Israel has a number of defense pacts with countries under which the air force is allowed to fly in foreign airspace. In May, the French newsweekly L’ Express reported that the IAF had staged military exercises over Gibraltar, some 4,000 km.
away from Israel.
In 2006, then-defense minister Shaul Mofaz signed a five-year cooperation agreement allowing IDF forces to deploy in Romania for joint training exercises. In 1996, Israel and Turkey signed a bilateral defense alliance allowing their air forces to fly in each other’s airspace.
The IAF did not participate in the recent multi-nation Anatolian Eagle aerial exercise in Turkey, “but defense officials said that the absence was not due to tensions between the countries sparked by Operation Cast Lead earlier this year.”
Israel’s rare absence from the exercise earlier this month drew attention and was reported on by the Turkish media. Another and larger Anatolian Eagle exercise will be held later this year. Israel has yet to announce if it will participate.
In the recent exercise, 83 jets drilled live bombing runs under a simulated surface-to-air threat environment.
On Sunday, the London Sunday Times reported that Saudi Arabia would allow IAF jets to fly over the kingdom during any strike on Iranian nuclear facilities.
According to the report, Mossad chief Meir Dagan held talks with Saudi officials earlier this year on the topic and recently conveyed news of the green light to Netanyahu.
The Prime Minister’s Office issued an official denial on Sunday morning, saying the report was “completely false and baseless.”
The Israeli media has already carried unconfirmed reports that high-ranking officials, including former prime minister Ehud Olmert, held meetings with Saudi officials, but the kingdom has denied the reports.
“The Saudis have tacitly agreed to the Israeli air force flying through their airspace on a mission which is supposed to be in the common interests of both Israel and Saudi Arabia,” the Sunday Times quoted a diplomatic source as saying.
Former US ambassador to the UN John Bolton, who recently visited the Gulf, said it was “entirely logical” for the Israelis to use Saudi airspace.
Bolton, who has talked recently to a number of Arab leaders, added: “None of them would say anything about it publicly, but they would certainly acquiesce in an overflight if the Israelis didn’t trumpet it as a big success.”
Arab states would publicly condemn a raid when they spoke at the UN, but would be privately relieved to see the threat of an Iranian bomb removed, Bolton said.
While most experts are in agreement that there’s a good chance Iran could have a usable nuclear bomb sometime during his presidency, President Barack Obama told The Associated Press in an interview Thursday, “I’m not reconciled with that.”
A nuclear-armed Iran, Obama said, “probably would lead to an arms race in the volatile Mideast and that would be “a recipe for potential disaster.”
He said opposing a nuclear weapons capacity for Iran was more than just “a US position” and that “the biggest concern is not simply that Iran can threaten us or our allies, like Israel or its neighbors.”
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