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40 years since Operation Opera, attack against Iran 'would be different'
[JPost] - Forty years after Israel destroyed Iraq’s fledgling nuclear program, one of the pilots who took part in Operation Opera warned that an attack against Iran’s nuclear reactors "won’t be the same."...But any operation to take out the Iranian nuclear program "won’t be the same; it can’t be the same," Brig.-Gen. (ret.) Relik Shafir told The Jerusalem Post. In Iran, "it’s all very different, especially how they built their program." Unlike in Operation Opera, Iran’s nuclear sites are spread across the country, some deep underground or in mountains, and surrounded by sophisticated air-defense systems. Shafir was one of eight IAF pilots selected for the mission, including one who would one day become the country’s first astronaut. It was Ilan Ramon’s first operational mission, but not Shafir’s, who was the second youngest of the pilots. ..."It’s a different world 40 years later, but the interests and motivations of humans remain the same. The Middle East and our conflict remains, even though at the time it was with Iraq, and now it’s with Iran." Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2021-06-21 |
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