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U.S. and Israel Planning Joint Attack On Iran
The Jerusalem Post reports today that the United States and Israel are planning a joint military operation to take out Iran’s uranium enrichment facilities.
The report appeared in Foreign Policy following a speech by presidential candidate Mitt Romney on foreign policy, including Obama’s stance on Iran.
“Iran today has never been closer to a nuclear weapons capability,” Romney said in a foreign policy address delivered at the Virginia Military Institute. “And it has never acted less deterred by America.”
CFR member and visiting scholar at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, David Rothkopf, reported that the White House and Israeli officials “assert that the two sides behind the scenes have come closer together in their views [regarding Iran] in recent days.”
According to the Post, Rothkopf quoted a “source close to the discussions” as saying that a surgical strike aimed at Iran’s enrichment facilities “might take only ‘a couple of hours’” at best and would be conducted by air using bombers and drones.
“Advocates for this approach,” according to Rothkopf, “argue that not only is it likely to be more politically palatable in the United States but, were it to be successful – meaning knocking out enrichment facilities, setting the Iranian nuclear program back many years, and doing so without civilian casualties – it would have region wide benefits. One advocate asserts it would have a ‘transformative outcome: saving Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, reanimating the peace process, securing the Gulf, sending an unequivocal message to Russia and China, and assuring American ascendancy in the region for a decade to come.’”
In addition to its nuclear program, the United States has stated it will attack Iran’s civilian population.
The U.S. is “reluctantly” considering additional covert action against Iran, according to the Christian Science Monitor. The plan calls for air strikes on power plants and other sites “that could impact Iranian civilian populations.”
In August, Richard Silverstein, who specializes in reporting on the Israeli national security state, posted a leaked document revealing details on the Israeli plan to strike Iran. The document states that Iran’s “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” by the Israelis.
The nuclear reactor at Arak and the nuclear fuel production facilities at Isfahan will be targeted, according to the document. Other toxic chemical targets will be destroyed including “missile silos, storage tanks for chemical components of rocket fuel, industrial facilities for producing missile control systems, centrifuge production plants and more.”
In November, Eli Lake, writing for The Daily Beast, cited current and former U.S. intelligence officials who said Israel’s target list includes Iran’s electric grid, internet, cellphone network, and emergency frequencies for firemen and police officers.
“The existence of a program designed to cripple crucial civilian infrastructure not related to Iran’s nuclear program reveals that the Israeli-U.S. plan is to reduce the country to a Stone Age condition much the same way Iraq was leveled in 2003,” we wrote at the time.
On October 5, we reported on a report released by the Hinckley Institute of Politics at the University of Utah delving into the human and environmental consequences of an Israeli military strike on Iranian nuclear facilities.
“In our assessment, it is highly likely that the physical and thermal casualties as the result of the strikes will exceed 5,000 personnel at the nuclear sites. The secondary civilian casualties as a result of exposure to the release of toxic and radioactive materials could increase this number to over 80,000 citizens,” the executive summary states.
If the Foreign Policy report is correct, it now appears Israel and the United States may be ready to strike Iran’s nuclear facilities and produce a catastrophe that would rival Chernobyl in their toxic and deadly effects.
11 Comments on "U.S. and Israel Planning Joint Attack On Iran"
BillT on Wed, 10th Oct 2012 3:35 am
One fool following another. WW3 is in the making. Are you ready for drones dropping bombs on your wedding party?
Worse yet, $10 rationed gasoline? No food? No ATMs working? No…
Arthur on Wed, 10th Oct 2012 10:55 am
That is the only significancy of the upcoming election: yes or no war against Iran, read WW3. Let’s face it, the US are a zionist run colony, as it ever has been since 1913 with the launching of the FED, the main cash cow of the international maffia. The zionist world however is split about the question of attacking Iran. The rightwing Likud wants war now, the Israeli left does not. Likud owns Romney (via Romneys jewish handler Dan Senor), the left owns Obama (via Obama’s jewish handlers Jack Lew & David Axelrod).
Netanyahu/Likud needs the war to divert the attention away from 9/11, which was his work.
The Israeli left understands the risks better:
– US-Israeli jets are going to destroy a installations in Iran. Nobody can do anything about that.
– Iran sinks every tanker in the Gulf and refineries at the other side of the Gulf. Nobody can do anything about that, short of an invasion by US troops. Iran knows it is backed by China and Russia and knows that the destroyed hardware will be repaired by them after the war. Iran knows that after victory, SA will be divided by Iran (Shia part) and Turkey (Sunni), currently busy expanding it’s neo-Ottoman empire into Syria, thanks to foolish western regimes.
– The oil flow will stop to the West, which hurts Europe most, except Germany, that gets all it’s fuel from Russia.
– Germany will be pushed into the arms of Russia, avoiding the alternative of committing suicide, because Russia could halt energy deliveries. Russia owns Germany because of it and much of the rest of Europe, except Britain.
Zionist run Anglosphere does not have a shred of a chance of winning this war, as they could not even defeat Vietnam or Afghanistan. Expect majority mexican US states like Texas to refuse to die for Jeruzalem/Washington and secede. USA exit from history. China will invade Australia with European consent.
Kenz300 on Wed, 10th Oct 2012 12:43 pm
Republican neocons love wars especially when other peoples children fight them and other people pay for them. They will spend another trillion on the military while giving themselves another tax cut.
Arthur on Wed, 10th Oct 2012 1:31 pm
There is no difference between Dems and Reps when it comes to war. In fact major war mongers like Wilson (WW1), Roosevelt (WW2), Johnson (Vietnam) and Clinton (Serbia) were democrats. But presidents in the US are merely poster boys, selected as candidates by the powers that be. In fact the zionists controlled the Democrats since 1913, with the single exception of JFK, who stepped out of line when he wanted to abolish the FED, wanted to prevent Israel to get nukes, warned against ‘secret societies’ shortly before his assasination and was a Hitler admirer, all big no-no’s in US politics in the eyes of said powers and his fate was sealed. Oh, and JFK was so foolish to nominate a Texan jew as his running mate, assuring that a few bullits were enough to catapult this character into power without a laborious election process. The first thing LBJ did was signing the immigration act, that flooded the US with people from the third world (more than 50% of the new born today is non-white), turning every city into Camden, St. Louis East and Detroit in the long term. ‘Under’ Reagan the illustrious zionist neocons entered the scene and made sure the traditional white GOP, became a zionist operation as well, making the US of today even more zionist controlled than under Roosevelt, where Roosevelt then had to secretly manouver the US into WW2. These days the American body politic can openly state it’s intentions about ‘policing’ the world, without a peep of resistance from the American public, who have yet to realize that they will be pushed into a war against the rest of the world, as a playtoy of zionist dominated Washington.
Arthur on Wed, 10th Oct 2012 4:59 pm
Scanning the names in the article: Rothkopf, Silverstein, Eli Lake… hmm, wonder what their background is…
So Rothkopf is a member of the CFR…
Study this list:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Members_of_the_Council_on_Foreign_Relations
Co-Chairman of the Board Carla A. Hills
Co-Chairman of the Board Robert E. Rubin
Vice Chairman Richard E. Salomon
President Richard N. Haass
Hmmm, that is 3 out of 4, including the president Haass (the real president of the US).
Not going to thoroughly check the rest of the list but it must be at least 50%.
This is the ‘American Supreme Soviet’. Forget about Obama and Romney. US policy is made here and nowhere else.
Remarkable though that these people only represent 2% of the US population… isn’t that ‘discrimination’? Are these people not worried about the charge of pursuing supremacy? Oh wait, only Euros do that, as the ADL never becomes too tired to point out.
The situation is a bit like Russia 1918 and Germany 1932. Germany did not like to suffer the same fate as the Russians did, who got all their aristocrates (best people) murdered in the bolshevik revolution, and decided to act. How about you, America? What are you going to do, since you are only marginally protected by the Constitution, or what is left of it after 9/11?
Still trouble understanding why the US choose the side of the USSR and merrily decided to destroy the European mother civilization? Do you realize that Europe will not be on your side if push comes to shove? Just like France and Germany (and Russia) were not on your side in 2003?
Anyway, it looks as if the CFR has not yet decided to wage war. Recently Kissinger said publicly that it will be the US (read: CFR) who will decide about the war and not Israel (read: Netanyahoo). I think they will wait until after the election. If it turns out to be Romney, then the American public has de facto given the green light for war, considering the statements made by Romney. And if not, it will be war anyway.
Nuclear on Wed, 10th Oct 2012 6:09 pm
The 1st thing Iran will do after attack is to launch missiles on Saudi Seaports loading Oil. Are we ready for $200/barrel of Oil.
Why not we all buy bikes / e-bikes as a emergency measure. This will also help us exercise and become healthy.
VP on Thu, 11th Oct 2012 12:28 am
I think the managers of this site needs to come to grips with anti-Semitic postings that appear here.
Arthur on Thu, 11th Oct 2012 11:01 am
VP is here to defend the ethnic interest of his own group and their ownerwship of the US. VP has shown no interest in contributing his thoughts about the energy problems but is here for thought control purposes only. In VP’s view Americans are supposed to die for their Israeli masters and shut up about it and do as they are told. China, Russia, Europe, South-America and the muslim world will fight the US, if we have to, a war nobody wants, except the clique in Washington, whose interests VP represents.
Again, the easiest way to defeat this maffia and warmongers is to support the 9/11 truth movement, which is a direct path leading to the downfall of the mob. You owe it to your children.
But tell me VP, is it not true that the leadership of the CFR for 75% consists of your people? Are we not allowed to say that? What do you think this is, your good old USSR? Is it not true that Netanyahoo is pushing for a war? Relax VP, here is a cigar… now tell us, the goyim, your thoughts… we are all ears.
(LOL expect total silence from VP)
Arthur on Thu, 11th Oct 2012 11:15 am
Please read carefully this piece from one of the few remaining US resistance fighters, Paul Craig Roberts:
http://lewrockwell.com/roberts/roberts372.html
What path are you chosing? The one that VP wants: the semitic path of USSR 2.0, a dictatorsship and being the world’s bully and torture at home? Or are you going back to your European roots and heritage of personal freedom and Constitution and rule of law?
You do not have to side with me, I can handle VP/Alan Cecil with two fingers in my nose; defending freedom of speech is enough.
Arthur on Thu, 11th Oct 2012 3:43 pm
Meet Ben Nitay (0:13). He might be familiar to you, in fact he should. Peculiar that he can’t get his name straight. This is the guy that ordered the Mossad to let 9/11 happen and now wants your kids to die in his WW3.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lixYEZ9M_dU
Question to VP: so when again may we expect the… any… 9/11 trial to happen? Isn’t it about time, 11 years after the fact? I mean, the US has a gigantic intelligence apparatus behind it, so it should be simple to bring the perps behind that gigantic operation to justice. Or is it that the judge does not like to indict himself? Or should they waterboard KSM a little more? I mean torture is accepted in the US, like in the USSR of former fame.
Arthur on Fri, 12th Oct 2012 4:08 am
Here is the new reality in the ME:
http://news.antiwar.com/2012/10/10/iraqi-pm-warns-turkey-not-to-try-to-drag-nato-into-syria-conflict/
Thanks to the insane US invasion of 2003 and the toppling of sunni Saddam, now Iraq belongs to Iran, because of the shared Shia religion. A nice liitle Shia superpower. And next SA is on the menu. And there is of course Syria, still belonging to the Teheran-Bagdad axis. But it looks like that Syria could fall, thanks to western intervention and Turkey is lusting on gobbling up the resulting ruins. Syria probably will descend in chaos and endless ethnic cleansing. But it is a risky game for Turkey as well, because the Kurds now get their chance of escaping from Syria and ally themselves with the Kurds in Iraq… against Turkey. The result could be an independent Kurdistan, between a Shia bloc and Turkey ruling over the sunni part of the ME, including Mecca in SA. The Gulf provinces will go to Teheran-Bagdad.