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Source: Jerusalem Post
 The IDF is drawing up options for a strike on Iranian nuclear facilities that do not include coordination with the United States, The Jerusalem Post has learned.
While its preference is to coordinate with the US, defense officials have said Israel is preparing a wide range of options for such an operation.
“It is always better to coordinate,” one top Defense Ministry official explained last week. “But we are also preparing options that do not include coordination.”
Israeli officials have said it would be difficult, but not impossible, to launch a strike against Iran without receiving codes from the US Air Force, which controls Iraqi airspace. Israel also asked for the codes in 1991 during the First Gulf War, but the US refused.
“There are a wide range of risks one takes when embarking on such an operation,” a top Israeli official said.
Several news reports have claimed recently that US President George W. Bush has refused to give Israel a green light for an attack on Iranian facilities. One such report, published in September in Britain’s Guardian newspaper, claimed that Prime Minister Ehud Olmert requested a green light to attack Iran in May but was refused by Bush.
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Posted by: admin in USA, iran, tags: Barack Obama, Douglas Feith, Fuel Imports, Global War On Terrorism, iran, Islamic Republic Of Iran, John Bolton, Military Attack, Military Buildup, Military Supplies, Neoconservatives, Oil Exports, Paul Wolfowitz, U S Navy
 Map of Iran- Click for larger image Source: globalresearch.ca
A familiar coalition of hawks, hardliners, and neoconservatives expects Barack Obama’s proposed talks with Iran to fail — and they’re already proposing an escalating set of measures instead. Some are meant to occur alongside any future talks. These include steps to enhance coordination with Israel , tougher sanctions against Iran , and a region-wide military buildup of U.S. strike forces, including the prepositioning of military supplies within striking distance of that country.
Once the future negotiations break down, as they are convinced will happen, they propose that Washington quickly escalate to war-like measures, including a U.S. Navy-enforced embargo on Iranian fuel imports and a blockade of that country’s oil exports. Finally, of course, comes the strategic military attack against the Islamic Republic of Iran that so many of them have wanted for so long.
It’s tempting to dismiss the hawks now as twice-removed from power: first, figures like John Bolton, Paul Wolfowitz, and Douglas Feith were purged from top posts in the Bush administration after 2004; then the election of Barack Obama and the announcement Monday of his centrist, realist-minded team of establishment foreign policy gurus seemed to nail the doors to power shut for the neocons, who have bitterly criticized the president-elect’s plans to talk with Iran, withdraw U.S. forces from Iraq, and abandon the reckless Global War on Terrorism rhetoric of the Bush era.
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Source: spacewar.com
Iran’s Revolutionary Guards have arrested a spy network linked to Israeli intelligence who tried to gather information on Iranian nuclear and military programmes, the guard’s chief said on Monday.
“The intelligence bureau of the Revolutionary Guards Corps has recently discovered a spy network linked with the Israeli Mossad,” Mohammad Ali Jafari said on state radio.
“This network sought to gather important information from the Guards’ military section, the country’s nuclear centres and some security officials,” he said.
“Very good information as well as equipment that this network were supplied with have been discovered and people will be informed of the evidence in the near future,” he said.
Jafari did not specify how many people were detained or where and when the group was arrested.
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Source: Exodus Times
Israeli Air Force Commander General Ido Nehushtan claims his forces are ready to follow any order to thwart Iran’s nuclear programs.
“The IAF is a very robust and flexible force … ready to do whatever is demanded,” the Nehushtan told German magazine Der Spiegel on Tuesday.
He added, however, a military strike against Iran’s nuclear facilities “is a political decision” and has nothing to do with Israel’s military capabilities.
Tel Aviv and Washington have repeatedly accused Tehran of pursuing a military nuclear program, a claim denied by the Islamic Republic. Israel has said it will not rule out any option to prevent Iran from developing a nuclear program, insisting that the use of military force is a legitimate option.
The Nehushtan interview coincides with recent remarks by former Israeli military general, Moshe Ya’alon, who said that Israeli armed forces have the ‘right capabilities’ to launch a successful strike against Iran.
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Iran tests-fires a new generation of surface-to-surface missile, state television reports on Wednesday, November 12.
Iran’s armed forces have staged frequent manoeuvres in recent months, coinciding with speculation of possible U.S. or Israeli strikes against the Islamic Republic over its disputed nuclear ambitions.
“Iran successfully test-fires new generation of ground-to-ground missiles,” state television said in a scrolling headline. The missile has the name Sejil on its upper body.
Iran has said it would respond to any attack on its territory by targeting U.S. interests and Washington’s ally Israel, as well as closing the Strait of Hormuz, a vital route for world oil supplies.
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