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| Iranian advisor: We'll strike Dimona in response to U.S. attack |
| 2006-03-09 |
| By Yossi Melman, Haaretz Correspondent If the United States launches an attack on Iran, the Islamic republic will retaliate with a military strike on Israel's main nuclear facility, an advisor to Iran's Revolutionary Guard said. The advisor, Dr. Abasi, said Tehran would respond to an American attack with strikes on the Dimona nuclear reactor and other strategic Israeli sites such as the port city of Haifa and the Zakhariya area. Haifa is also home to a large concentration of chemical factories and oil refineries. Zakhariya, located in the Jerusalem hills is - according to foreign reports - home to Israel's Jericho missile base. Both Israeli and international media have published commercial satellite images of the Zakhariya and Dimona sites. Abasi, a senior lecturer at Tehran University, was quoted in the Roz internet news site, identified with reform circles in Iran. Iranian affairs experts believe Abasi's statements are part of propaganda battle being wages by all sides - including Israel and Iran - in the lead up to next months United Nations Security Council debate on Iran's nuclear program. At this stage, the possibility that sanctions will be leveled at Iran are extremely low. |
| Posted by:anonymous5089 |
| #15 til now...have you heard about Global Warming? |
| Posted by: Al Gore 2006-03-09 23:40 |
| #14 2b, actually, most of the Revelation is a retrospection rather than a prediction. A prediction only in the sense that some events tend to repeat themselves. There was a degree of repetition in remote past, but for some 2800 years, things were relatively quiet. |
| Posted by: twobyfour 2006-03-09 23:37 |
| #13 what say we not destroy the temple mount and rebuild? Sheesh... thousands of years of guys standing on the street corner saying "the end is near" and we have to live in the generation where the predictions in Revelations is starting to seem less abstract by the day. What say we let that one wait for another generation or two? |
| Posted by: 2b 2006-03-09 22:48 |
| #12 Pretty simple really attack Israel and in the hour and bulldozers show up and level the Dome of the Rock, occupy the site and start putting back up a temple. That is while steel rain falls on Iran as well. |
| Posted by: SPoD 2006-03-09 22:32 |
| #11 Qom, Isfahan, and other hoooooly sites need to feel the burn if an exchange occurs. Who can deny the exchange was religiously based on teh Iranians' part. Take out the holy sites, the MM's wealth, their familes, their lives (hiding, shaking under some bunker), and let the Iranian people start over |
| Posted by: Frank G 2006-03-09 20:46 |
| #10 Spell it out quite clearly to Iran. Striking a peaceful country's nuclear reactor is like landing a dirty bomb. An appropriate level of response is to reply with nuclear weapons. I'm confident that some here are asking how we have any right to insist Iran does not strike Israel's nuclear reactor while we are about to bomb out their nuclear facilities. Simple fact, Israel is a peaceful country, Iran is not. If Iran had just STFU and mumbled into its beard while making nuclear bombs in its spare time, they might have gotten away with it. Instead, Ahmadinejad insisted upon blithering away with some of the most reprehensible and vitriolic rhetoric to be seen in decades. Bearing that in mind, we are obliged to go in and smash all of Iran's toys, all the while telling them to lay off of anyone else's goodies. To repeat, Israel needs to inform Iran that a single missile launched at Dimona will turn Tehran into a luminous car park. I'm sure that Israeli guidance systems are far superior to Iran's and there won't be any near-misses.. |
| Posted by: Zenster 2006-03-09 19:12 |
| #9 haifa, BTW, is a city with a large Arab minority. |
| Posted by: liberalhawk 2006-03-09 16:57 |
| #8 Even if the Iranians could pull it off (which I seriously doubt), striking the Dimona nuclear reactor is a death sentence for Iran. Israel already has nukes, and I very much doubt they're at Dimona or anywhere else that Iran could identify. For a while I was viewing the diplomatic approach as worthless, but now I see the value: Iran's leadership is going so publicly stark raving mad that much the world will welcome its decapitation in another month or two. |
| Posted by: Darrell 2006-03-09 16:07 |
| #7 An... An... An... If you hit me - I SWEAR I will hit your sister! She's in TROUBLE if you so much as touch a hair on my head! |
| Posted by: Leigh 2006-03-09 15:41 |
| #6 both equally effective, too. |
| Posted by: mojo 2006-03-09 14:56 |
| #5 And with all due respect to BH and JG, ducking and puckering are not mutually exclusive. |
| Posted by: Matt 2006-03-09 14:38 |
| #4 So if we attack Iran, they will destroy Israel and if we don't attack Iran, they will destroy Israel. Hmmm, hang on while I go find that book on game theory. |
| Posted by: SteveS 2006-03-09 14:14 |
| #3 With all due respect, BH, the answer is *pucker* |
| Posted by: Jolumble Grineng7960 2006-03-09 14:05 |
| #2 And if that is the case, then what will your sorry asses do? Duck. |
| Posted by: BH 2006-03-09 12:55 |
| #1 And if you fire a missile at Dimona, and it doesn't make it to anywhere near there, then what will you do? Will you fire more missiles that may not make it there? And if that is the case, then what will your sorry asses do? |
| Posted by: Anonymoose 2006-03-09 12:44 |