Are US And Israel Preparing For A Possible Attack On Iran?

Monday, June 25, 2012

Are US And Israel Preparing For A Possible Attack On Iran?

Are US And Israel Preparing For A Possible Attack On Iran?(BI).Israel continues to "prepare all other options" for a strike against Iran's nuclear facilities, as diplomatic talks go nowhere, according toReuters. Talk of a joint U.S.-Israeli military strike on Iran has waned recently, but talk of U.S.-Israel cyberattacks has taken its place.

U.S. defense contracts, Israel's new submarine acquisitions and Iranian military exercises suggest that all sides are getting ready for the possibility of military conflict.

Among recent U.S. defense contracts that could relate to an Iranian attack, Raytheon was awarded a $338 million contract to provide the Navy with 361 Tomahawk cruise missiles in their most recent configuration.
Of those, 238 of the misses will be designed to launch from submarines and the remainder from Navy ships like the Ticonderoga class Arleigh Burke guided missile cruiser currently operating with the 5th Fleet based in Bahrain east of Iran.The Israeli government since Netanyahu with the Kadima party and its Iranian-born leader Gen. Shaul Mofaz.
One senior Israeli figure with close ties to the leadership told Reuters that Netanyahu had made the decision to attack Iran before the U.S. presidential election in November so that the move "will bounce the Americans into supporting them."
Carl in Jerusalem is reporting the following story: A report in the Hebrew daily Maariv says that the United States and Israel will conduct a joint drill on defending against an Iranian attack... in October.The exercise is supposed to simulate an Iranian missile attack following an Israeli attack on Iranian nuclear facilities.
Israel just bought its fourth German-made sub capable of launching nuclear-tipped cruise missiles and German news source Der Spiegel subsequently reported that these are already deployed.
Iran is not sitting idly by, but gathering its 545,000 active military personnel and some of the most advanced military technology of anyone out there. Read the full story here.

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