Israel's War Plans to Attack Iran ?Before the US Elections ...

by Michel Chossudovsky,Global Research, -

Israel?s Channel 10? suggests, in no uncertain terms, that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is ?determined to attack Iran before the US elections? and that the ?time for action is getting closer.?

?Israel is now?closer than ever?to a strike designed to thwart Iran?s nuclear drive?.

This timely report suggests that Netanyahu and Defense Minister Ehud Barak firmly believe that President Obama ?would have no choice but to give backing for an Israeli attack? were it to be waged before the November presidential elections:

The TV station?s military reporter Alon Ben-David, who earlier this year was given extensive access to the Israel Air Force as it trained for a possible attack, reported that, since upgraded sanctions against Iran have failed to force a suspension of the Iranian nuclear program in the past two months,??from the prime minister?s point of view, the time for action is getting ever closer.?

Asked by the news anchor in the Hebrew-language TV report how close Israel now was to ?a decision and perhaps an attack,? Ben-David said: ?It appears that we are closer than ever.?

He said it seemed that Netanyahu was not waiting for a much-discussed possible meeting with US President Barack Obama, after the UN General Assembly gathering in New York late next month ? indeed, ?it?s not clear that there?ll be a meeting.? In any case, said Ben-David,??I doubt Obama could say anything that would convince Netanyahu to delay a possible attack.?

There is considerable opposition to an Israeli strike on Iran?s nuclear facilities, the report noted ? with President Shimon Peres, the army?s chief of the General Staff and top generals, the intelligence community, opposition leader Shaul Mofaz, ?and of course the Americans? all lined up against Israeli action at this stage.

But, noted Ben-David, it is the Israeli government that would have to take the decision, and there Netanyahu is ?almost guaranteed? a majority. Other Hebrew media reports on Tuesday also said Netanyahu had dispatched a senior official, National Security Adviser Yaakov Amidror, to update the elderly spiritual leader of the Shas ultra-Orthodox coalition party, Rabbi Ovadia Yosef, on the status of the Iranian nuclear program, in order to try to win over Shas government ministers? support for an attack. (Times of Israel,?emphasis added)

In an earlier?report,?Richard Silverstein provides?details of a leaked military document?(translated from the Hebrew) which outlines the nature of Netanyahu?s proposed ?shock and awe attack? on Iran:

The Israeli attack will open with a coordinated strike, including an unprecedented cyber-attack which will totally paralyze the Iranian regime?and its ability to know what is happening within its borders.? The internet, telephones, radio and television, communications satellites, and fiber optic cables leading to and from critical installations?including underground missile bases at Khorramabad and Isfahan?will be taken out of action.? The electrical grid throughout Iran will be paralyzed and transformer stations will absorb severe damage from carbon fiber munitions which are finer than a human hair, causing electrical short circuits whose repair requires their complete removal.? This would be a Sisyphean task in light of cluster munitions which would be dropped, some time-delayed and some remote-activated through the use of a satellite signal. Read more?

Source: http://www.worldwidehippies.com/2012/08/23/israels-war-plans-to-attack-iran-before-the-us-elections/

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