Israel gets ready to strike at Iran’s nuclear sites – media
MOSCOW, March 29 (RIA Novosti)
Israeli air force have practiced simulated strikes at Iran’s nuclear
facilities using airspace of at least two unidentified Arab countries,
a newspaper published in east Jerusalem reported.
According to Al Manar paper, several Israeli combat jets carried out
in late February bombing drills "targeting" known Iranian nuclear
sites "in two Arab countries in the Persian Gulf, which are close
territorially with the Islamic republic and cooperate with Israel on
this issue."
Al Manar said Israel had received the permission to use the airspace
from the top leadership of these countries and Washington "gave a
blessing" to Tel Aviv to conduct these exercises.
Despite broad international efforts to persuade Tehran to halt its
uranium enrichment, both the United States and Israel have not ruled
out military action if diplomacy fails to resolve the dispute over
Iran’s nuclear program.
Iran, which is currently under three sets of UN sanctions for refusing
to halt uranium enrichment, insists it needs nuclear technology to
generate electricity, while Western powers suspect it of pursuing an
atomic weapons program.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has recently called for the
international community to impose a new set of ‘crippling’ sanctions
on Iran to make the Islamic republic scrap its controversial nuclear
program.