Posted on 09/04/2019 7:29:20 AM PDT by Eleutheria5
Israel was close to launching an attack on Iran's nuclear facilities in 2012, despite opposition from the Obama Administration, the New York Times reported.
Israel had delayed a joint military exercise which had been scheduled for spring, 2012, prompting concerns among American officials that an attack on Iran was imminent.
The administration sent a series of officials to Israel to "Bibisit" Prime Minister Netanyahu and convince him to hold off on any attack every few weeks. In addition, then Defense Secretary Leon Panetta showed then Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak video of an American strike on an exact replica of the Fordow nuclear facility using an advanced bunker buster bomb. Barak was impressed by the footage of the complete destruction of the facility.
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The fact that their F-23’s could and DID overfly Tehran shows their job is more doable than ever before.
And had that treasonous POS Obongo not stopped Israel the world be a much safer place now. The list of bad things left the wake of the 8 years of that cancer is a long one.
All we needed was a landing strip and logistics in proximity, and it could have been done. We had that in Azerbaijan, but the Obastard outed us and that was the end of that. Absent a carrier of our own, we would have a problem.
But I stand by my non-violent solution. A free and independent Khuzestan means liberation of the oppressed Ahwazis, and a 90% reduction in Iranian oil revenues.
If you’d like to be on or off, please FR mail me.
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Too bad. Of course GWB stopped them too. What a fine world it would be if Sadaam's Iraq and Assad's Syria were both nuclear powers. Wouldn't help global warming a bit.
I would argue that the destuction was accomplished by covert action.
Israel did in fact after all steal all the Iranian nuclear program records. Israel has some pretty large covert capabilities in Iran
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