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Israel pondering about nuking Iran’s nuke sites?

Israel says regular bomb cannot destroy Iran’s nuclear facility  http://www.chinaview.cn 2009-12-28   JERUSALEM, Dec. 28 (Xinhua) — Israel Defense Minister Ehud Barak said on Monday that Iran’s newly-disclosed nuclear facility near Qom can withstand regular bombs. “The facility in Qom is in a bunker and therefore resistant to regular bombs,” local daily Haaretz quoted Barak as speaking to the Knesset (Israeli parliament) Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee……………….

Iran confirmed in September that it is building a new nuclear fuel enrichment plant near its central city of Qom, arousing concern in international community. IAEA board of governors last month passed a resolution in Vienna, calling for the “full cooperation” of Iran to clarify all outstanding issues involving its nuclear program and requiring Iran to stop construction on the uranium enrichment facility near Qom.

Israel regards Iran as one of its major security threats, and has joined the United States and some other countries in accusing the Islamic republic of secretly developing nuclear weapons under the guise of a civil project, a charge Iran firmly denies.

n wake of sensitive and subtle situations between Israel and Iran, military analysts have made some speculation about Israeli-Iranian war scenario.

Noting it as pure speculation, some analysts told Xinhua before that an Israeli attack on Iran would be led by the Israel Air Force, with backing from the Israel Navy and potentially with additional fire power supplied by ground-based intermediate-range ballistic missiles.

Israel says regular bomb cannot destroy Iran’s nuclear facility_English_Xinhua

December 29, 2009 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | Israel, weapons and war | antinuclear, nuclear, nuclear weapons