U.S. and Israel Plan Attacks on Iran

March 2nd, 2012

Via: Bloomberg:

Obama administration officials are escalating warnings that the U.S. could join Israel in attacking Iran if the Islamic republic doesn’t dispel concerns that its nuclear-research program is aimed at producing weapons.

Four days before Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is scheduled to arrive in Washington, Air Force Chief of Staff General Norton Schwartz told reporters the Joint Chiefs of Staff have prepared military options to strike Iranian nuclear sites in the event of a conflict.

“What we can do, you wouldn’t want to be in the area,” Schwartz told reporters in Washington yesterday.

Pentagon officials said military options being prepared start with providing aerial refueling for Israeli planes and include attacking the pillars of the clerical regime, including the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and its elite Qods Force, regular Iranian military bases and the Ministry of Intelligence and Security. The officials spoke on condition of anonymity because Pentagon plans are classified.

“There’s no group in America more determined to prevent Iran from achieving a nuclear weapon than the Joint Chiefs of Staff,” Joint Chiefs Chairman Army General Martin Dempsey told the House Budget Committee yesterday. “I can assure you of that.”

Separately, unnamed U.S. officials told the Washington Post that U.S. military planners are increasingly confident that sustained attacks with the Air Force’s 30,000-pound (13,608 kilograms) “bunker-buster” bombs could put Iran’s deeply buried uranium-enrichment plant at Fordo out of commission.

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8 Responses to “U.S. and Israel Plan Attacks on Iran”

  1. LoneWolf says:

    Are we on the verge of World War Three simply because Israel is jealous of Iran?

    ISRAEL WANTS TO SEND American CHILDREN TO DESTROY THIS AWESOME CITY?

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=7y_AqbcGFGg

    THE WOMEN OF IRAN ARE EXTREMELY BEAUTIFUL!!!

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JaCgxc1KWbc

    Please Russia protect this wonderful country as well as Syria. US/Israel is completely insane.

    The USA is home to many educated Iranians/Syrians.
    For example, some of the best doctors/researchers in the Houston, TX medical field.

  2. LoneWolf says:

    The Real United States of Israel

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dufRwQFHPO0

  3. Dennis says:

    Can’t put my finger on exactly why, but for some reason I doubt this is going to happen. Maybe an attack of some sort but not as part of an invasion like Iraq or Afghanistan.

  4. Dennis says:

    The grammar Nazis are coming for me…scratch that comma.

  5. The REAL reason is not nuclear. The REAL reason is:
    Iran presses ahead with dollar attack
    Last week, the Tehran Times noted that the Iranian oil bourse will start trading oil in currencies other than the dollar from March 20. This long-planned move is part of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s vision of economic war with the west.
    http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/commodities/9077600/Iran-presses-ahead-with-dollar-attack.html

  6. steve holmes says:

    WWWS? (what would W say?) “They hate us because of our credit line.”

  7. Shikar says:

    Dennis Says:
    “Can’t put my finger on exactly why, but for some reason I doubt this is going to happen.”

    I really hope you are right on that one as I do tend to feel the same way. I don’t know if that’s just self-calming at work to limit the coming horror. We do have a tendency to do that after all, we humans.

    When you factor in the economic and ideological impetus behind all this part of me can’t see it not happening. There’s too much riding on it just terms of messianic cults alone that currently hold sway. They’ve been gagging for this for some considerable time.

    It scares the crap out of me to see it looming into view. More deaths more destruction. Immensely depressing.

  8. RBNZ says:

    I think it will happen. “They” want to bring about a new world order. They want islam, judaism and chrisitanity gone. A great global war would work wonders towards this end.

    Just the thing they need to keep the music playing in their game…

    2012 has been mentioned as a “window of opportunity” to bring about global governance.

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