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.Silverstein points out there is no mention of Iran's likely, nay, inevitable retaliatory strike. Read more hereA barrage of tens of ballistic missiles would be launched from Israel toward Iran.? 300km ballistic missiles [R.S.-this might be a reference to the Popeye Turbo] would be launched from Israeli submarines in the vicinity of the Persian Gulf.? The missiles would not be armed with unconventional warheads [WMD], but rather with high-explosive ordnance equipped with reinforced tips designed specially to penetrate hardened targets.
The missiles will strike their targets?some exploding above ground like those striking the nuclear reactor at Arak?which is intended to produce plutonium and tritium?and the nearby heavy water production facility; the nuclear fuel production facilities at Isfahan and facilities for enriching uranium-hexaflouride.? Others would explode under-ground, as at the Fordo facility.
A barrage of hundreds of cruise missiles will pound command and control systems, research and development facilities, and the residences of senior personnel in the nuclear and missile development apparatus.? Intelligence gathered over years will be utilized to completely decapitate Iran?s professional and command ranks in these fields.
After the first wave of attacks, which will be timed to the second, the ?Blue and White? radar satellite, whose systems enable us to perform an evaluation of the level of damage done to the various targets, will pass over Iran.? Only after rapidly decrypting the satellite?s data, will the information be transferred directly to war planes making their way covertly toward Iran.? These IAF planes will be armed with electronic warfare gear previously unknown to the wider public, not even revealed to our U.S. ally.? This equipment will render Israeli aircraft invisible.? Those Israeli war planes which participate in the attack will damage a short-list of targets which require further assault.
Among the targets approved for attack?Shihab 3 and Sejil ballistic missile silos, storage tanks for chemical components of rocket fuel, industrial facilities for producing missile control systems, centrifuge production plants and more.
Yesterday, in the Guardian, Harriet Sherwood wrote an article, Israeli speculation over Iran strike reaches fever pitch. Subtitled, "The talk is now of a timetable of weeks, rather than months, and before the US elections in November", Sherwood observes,
In the past few days, the Israeli public has been hit by a blizzard of speculative articles suggesting a military strike against Iran's nuclear sites is imminent.She concludes,The talk is now of a timetable of weeks, rather than months and some observers believe that Israel will act in the runup to the US presidential election ? at a time when it could be difficult and damaging for President Obama to withhold his backing in the face of a hawkish and vehemently pro-Israel opponent, Mitt Romney, who has already indicated his support for unilateral action by the Jewish state.
There are still those who believe Netanyahu and Barak are playing a dangerous game of bluff aimed at forcing America's hand. But, for now, those who believe Israel is heading towards war are speaking with louder voices.One such contrary view is expressed by Larry Derfner over on +972 who wrote last Friday? The miraculous antiwar uprising of the Israeli establishment Here's a flavour:
An uprising within the Israeli establishment is preventing an insane war from being started. In how many other countries could such a thing happen? This is a proud moment for Israel?s democracy.But Derfner's measured optimism is countered on the same blog by Ami Kaufman who writes, The Iran war fear factor is starting to settle inPeople don?t realize what a miracle is taking place in this country. A revolt by the Israeli military/intelligence establishment and Israel?s best reporters, helped along by President Shimon Peres and ultimately enabled by the Obama administration, is stopping an insane war from being launched by Israel?s two ideologically insane political leaders, a war they?ve been planning for years.
The eight-member inner cabinet, or ?octet,? which in recent weeks has been reported to be split evenly between pro-war and anti-war ministers, has now tilted anti-war, write Nahum Barnea and Shimon Shiffer today in Yedioth Aharonoth. Not coincidentally, this shift comes as the heads of all the military and intelligence branches continue to stand solid as a rock against Bibi and Barak?s plans. They haven?t budged from their position that an Israeli attack without America behind it ? and America isn?t ? would do little damage to Iran?s nuclear facilities in return for a lot of death and destruction in this country, and end up strengthening Iran while weakening Israel, especially its relationship with the U.S.
And I?m pretty scared these days, too. Everybody says something different every other day. We?ll bomb Iran, no we won?t, yes we will. As if everybody is an expert. You?d probably have more chances guessing it right by plucking the petals of a flower: ?We bomb them, we bomb them not. We bomb them, we bomb them not. We bomb them!?
My mind says we probably won?t attack. But my heart? That?s a different story? Because my heart tells me that deep down inside, Bibi?s a nut job. He could actually do it.Whether you are an optimist or pessimist, we only have about eight weeks to wait for the US Presidential elections to find out whether Bibi is bluffing.?
Source: http://stephensizer.blogspot.com/2012/08/bibis-armageddon.html
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