Friday, August 29, 2003
I'd be awfully surprised if they didn't have at least a plan to take out the mad mullah's nuclear facility. Not to do so would border on the criminally negligent it would seem to me.
Expect much seething and whining if this actually happens.
Inside the Ring - The Washington Times: Inside the Ring
Israel has ready a plan to bomb Iran's Bushehr nuclear-power plant should the Persian Gulf coast facility, now under construction, begin producing weapons-grade material, an insider tells us.
This source says Israel has mapped out a route its jet fighters would take to destroy what is designed to be a two-reactor plant. A successful strike would ensure that the radical Tehran regime does not develop nuclear weapons. Iran has tested 600-mile-range ballistic missiles that can reach Israel and carry nuclear, biological or chemical warheads.
Russia has signed an $800 million contract to provide two reactors for the plant near the port city of Bushehr. The United States opposes the deal, as well as any nuclear program in Iran.
Israeli F-16s penetrated Iraqi airspace in 1981 to bomb the Osiraq nuclear-power plant, at the Tuwaitha nuclear center near Baghdad. Analysts believe the action, while condemned by the international community, kept Saddam Hussein from acquiring the bomb.
U.S. Central Command has contingency plans for war with Iran, but there is no active discussion of invading a country that President Bush has put in the "axis of evil." Still, some in the Pentagon talk unofficially of what would be needed to take out the Bushehr plant.
Advice to Russia: Get your money up front.
Update: Lots of interesting commentary in this LGF thread, including a good post pointing out that with Iran's natural uranium deposits, bombing the reactor may not be suffucient.
