Does America or Israel plan to attack Iranian Nuke Sites?
Geneva Pre-Conference October Game of Blind Man’s Bluff,
Has first USA 15-ton super bunker-buster Bomb (GBU-57 A/B),
Being rapidly accelerated in production as a bluffing chip on Iran!
I don’t think America will use it on Iran’s nuke sites before next War,
I agree with the following statement in the last paragraph of Excerpt 2!
“[The Iranian regime may support suicide terrorism, yet it is not suicidal
itself. At the end of the day, the leading and possibly only interest its leaders care about is its own survival.
]”
I DON’T BELIEVE THE COMING MIDDLE EAST WAR WILL INVOLVE ANY NUCLEAR WEAPONS OF MASS DESTRUCTION!
September 28, 2009
http://www.tribulationperiod.com/
Begin Excerpt 1 from DEBKAfile Report
US giant bunker-buster bomb project rushed since Iran’s Qom site discovered
DEBKAfile Special Report
September 27, 2009, 4:08 PM (GMT+02:00)
The Pentagon has brought forward to December 2009 the target-date for producing the first 15-ton super bunker-buster bomb (GBU-57A/B) Massive Ordinance Penetrator, which can reach a depth of 60.09 meters underground before exploding. DEBKAfile’s military sources report that top defense agencies and air force units were also working against the clock to adapt the bay of a B2a Stealth bomber for carrying and delivering the bomb.
The Pentagon has ordered the number of bombs rolling off the production line increased from four to ten – a rush job triggered in May by the discovery that Iran was hiding a second uranium enrichment plant under a mountain near Qom – a discovery which prompted this week’s international outcry.
Congress has since quietly inserted the necessary funding in the 2009 budget.
All this urgency indicates that the Obama administration has been preparing military muscle to back up the international condemnation of Iran’s concealed nuclear bomb program, its sanctions threat and his willingness to join the negotiations with Iran opening on Oct.
1 in Geneva. Tehran may have to take into account a possible one-time surgical strike against its underground enrichment facility as a warning shot should its defiance continue.
In particular, the world powers this week demanded that Iran open up all its nuclear facilities and programs to full and immediate international inspection.
Failure to do so could bring forth further US military action.
According to our military sources, the earliest date for the accelerated Pentagon program to produce a super bunker buster bomb mounted on a stealth bomber is December 2009 or January 2010. This too is three years ahead of its original schedule.
Pressed into service are two US Air Force research centers for work on adapting the radar-evading stealth bomber to the giant bomb: the Air Force Research Laboratory at Wright Patterson Air Force Base and the Munitions Directorate and Air Armament Center, both headquartered at Eglin Air Force Base in Florida.
Last month, DEBKAfile quoted Air Force Lt.
Gen. Mark Shackelford as disclosing that the Pentagon had decided to accelerate the production of 10-12 giant bunker buster bombs in response to intelligence received of Iranian and North Korean underground nuclear plants.
Begin Excerpt 2 from YNet News
Will Israel strike Iran
?
Latest revelations in fact decrease likelihood of Israeli attack on nuke sites
Ronen Bergman
Beyond the details of what goes on at the nuclear site, beyond the Iranian response to its exposure, and beyond the American president’s response, another intriguing aspect preoccupies Europe and the US at this time: Will Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu order the Air Force to destroy the Iranian nuclear project, or at least the parts of it that are known to Israel?
The answer to this is not clear-cut. The effect here does not have to do with the mere exposure of the site, but rather, with the influence of this exposure on global public opinion and mostly on the global powers’ conduct vis-à-vis Iran.
The way it appeared in the past two days at least, there is room for hope that the revelations, which made headlines worldwide, will in fact reduce the likelihood of Israel taking the step that it is so uninterested in taking.
Although the new revelations do not fully incriminate Iran in respect to the suspicions of developing nuclear weapons, they prove that it blatantly lied to the International Atomic Energy Agency and that it hid critical information about its nuclear project.
It is clear to everyone that had Iran been interested in an atomic enterprise merely in order to produce electric energy, as it claims, it would have no reason to hide a giant facility of centrifuges that in any case cannot produce sufficient electricity. Moreover, it would not build such site underground and safeguard it with anti-aircraft missile batteries.
The revelations prove that Israel’s warnings in recent years were accurate: The Iranians are indeed aspiring to produce doomsday weapons.
Iranian regime not suicidal
According to Israeli estimates, the revelations will encourage the major powers to respond. The first sign of this was the unusual press conference held by the leaders of the US, France, and Britain.
Should they respond, as expected, by tightening the economic sanctions on Tehran, it may still be possible to curb the Iranian nuclear project and make an Israeli strike unnecessary.
Iran views the prospect of turning into a nuclear power as a sort of insurance policy that would guarantee the regime’s survival. Should the great powers make it clear that it is in fact the project’s continuation that may exact a price tag that would topple the regime (for example, by tightening the economic sanctions,) the Ayatollahs in Tehran could very well reconsider their options.
The Iranian regime may support suicide terrorism, yet it is not suicidal itself.
At the end of the day, the leading and possibly only interest its leaders care about is its own survival.
Ronen Bergman, a correspondent for Israel’s largest daily Yedioth Ahronoth, is the author of the “The Secret War With Iran”
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