Israel attack strategy coming together

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WASHINGTON – Israel’s recent acquisition of a fourth electric-powered submarine from Germany suggests that those vessels, which are capable of firing a nuclear-tipped missile, will play a role in any attack on Iran’s nuclear facilities, regional experts explain in a report in Joseph Farah’s G2 Bulletin.

Israel, which now has four such submarines, intends to have up to six of them.

Other scenarios to attack Iran’s nuclear sites appear to be risky at best and logistically complex with the high prospect of being detected before any such mission could be completed. Israel’s submarines with nuclear-tipped missiles could be used in combination with nuclear-tipped Jericho II missiles that can be launched from Israel itself.

The submarines could venture into the northern Arabian Sea and launch missiles at the hard-to-reach facilities that may be embedded in mountains.

As G2Bulletin recently reported, Israel had positioned two covert ships in the same region to gather intelligence on Iran’s missile and other military activities. The ships reportedly were not warships but civilian-type ships equipped with highly sophisticated command, control, communications, computers, intelligence-gathering and surveillance technology, commonly referred to as C4ISR.

While Israel has some so-called U.S. bunker buster bombs that may be able to penetrate some of these difficult locations, it not only would require high-flying aircraft needing to be refueled a number of times going to the target and returning but there remain issues on what routes the bombers would take.

In addition, some of the Iranian nuclear facilities may be so hardened to the point that even these bunker-busters may not be sufficient. In that case, sources believe that Israel could equip its nuclear-tipped missiles both on the submarines and the Jericho II’s with tactical nuclear weapons to achieve the destruction of the targeted sites.

Sources say that such targeting would not include every nuclear facility but only those which Israel has determined are most critical for the Iranian manufacture of nuclear weapons.

Israel and some Western nations have expressed concern over their belief Iran is developing nuclear weapons.

For its part, Iran vehemently denies such activity is under way with its nuclear enrichment program which it says it needs to refuel its nuclear reactors and for medical research.

In addition, Iran asserts its right to undertake such activity as a signatory to the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty.

Israel, however, is not a signatory and is assessed by the U.S. intelligence community to have more than 200 strategic and tactical nuclear weapons at its disposal.

While Israel officially denies having such weapons, having submarines equipped with nuclear-capable missiles, Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak recently said, is necessary “in the face of the growing regional challenges,” referring to Iran.

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