Israel will hit Iran in the next few months: Israeli official

[ECH1969]

Israel will strike Iran’s nuclear facilities in the next “month or two or three,” an Israeli official has been quoted here as saying.

The unnamed official told Arnaud de Borchgrave, editor-in-chief of the United Press International, at the recently held national day reception at the Israeli Embassy that he believed Israel would strike Iran first in the next two or three months and that fighter bombers would not be involved as they had been to take out Iraq’s Osirak nuclear reactor before it went critical in 1981. For Osirak, Israel had used 14 F-15s and F-16s. This time, the Israeli said, it would be missiles.

Asked if tunnel entrances to widely scattered Iranian nuclear facilities would be targeted, he responded that Israel had its own geo-stationary spy-in-the-sky satellite taking constant pictures of Iran with a resolution down to 70 centimetres.

According to de Borchgrave, “Israel has developed some 100 Jericho-II medium-range ballistic missiles (which entered service in 1989). Jericho II’s range varies from 1,500 to 3,500 kilometres, depending on payload weight. They are deployed in underground caves and silos. Israel has several satellites in orbit - Ofeq-1 through Ofeq-5 - that were launched by Shavit space launch vehicles (SLV).


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[David Dunham]

1. The Arabs in Iraq will really love us if Israel does this deed.

[dubeskin]

2. Soooo, is this like Chernobyl again?

It seems that if nuclear reactors are destroyed, all the radiation from them would spread. So then is Iran going to be like the next Chernobyl? Will be be FORCED to withdraw!?!?!?! :toast: Also, as said above, we will be hated by even MORE Arabs. I see our country's foreign appreciation going down with Bush's poll numbers.

[Moderator]

3. Locking

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