Robert Erives (11
Nov 2011)
"[Heaven] UK expects
Israeli attack on Iran next month with US logistical
support"
this could start a world war and the
rapture!robert erives
UK expects Israeli attack on Iran next month with US logistical
support
DEBKAfile Special Report November 10, 2011, 9:04 AM (GMT+02:00)
F-15 at Decimomannu air base, Sardinia
A senior Foreign Office official says British government
ministers have been told to expect Israeli military action in
the wake of the UN watchdog report "as early as Christmas or
very early in the new year," the London Daily Mail reported
Thursday, Nov. 10. The ministers were told that Israel
would strike Iran's nuclear sites "sooner rather than later" –
with "logistical support" from the US.
According to the British paper, which has good military and
intelligence ties in London, President Barack Obama would "have
to support the Israelis or risk losing Jewish-American support
in the next presidential election." The bigger concern is that
once Iran is nuclear-armed, it will be impossible to stop Saudi
Arabia and Turkey from developing their own weapons to even out
the balance of nuclear terror in the Middle East.
debkafile's military sources add that Prime Minister Tayyip
Erdogan has told Obama more than once this year, "If Iran gets
nuclear arms, Turkey will get nuclear arms."
The Daily Mail goes on to report that in recent weeks, British
Ministry of Defense sources confirmed that contingency plans had
been drawn up in the event that the UK decided to support
military action.
debkafile refers to an earlier report that the British chief of
staff, Gen. Sir David Richards, paid a secret visit to Israel on
Nov. 2, followed the next day by the arrival in London of the
Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak for talks with British
defense and military heads.
The reference to US logistical support is explained by our
military sources as pointing to the Libyan model of military
intervention whereby France, Britain and Italy spearheaded the
action against the Qaddafi regime while the United States from
"a back seat" laid on satellite and aerial intelligence and
placed at their disposal its logistical supply network,
including the in-flight refueling of bombers and ordnance.
Transposing this model to an offensive against Iran, Israel's
air and naval forces would front the attack on Iran with
logistical and intelligence backup from the United States, while
leading NATO powers France, Britain, Germany, Holland and Italy
would participate directly or indirectly in the Israeli
operation.
Since this attack would almost certainly bring forth reprisals
from Tehran and its allies, Syria, Hizballah and the Palestinian
Hamas and Jihad Islami, it would almost certainly expand into a
wider Middle East conflict, thus also broadening US and West
European military intervention.
Prospects are fading for the alternative to military action -
tough new sanctions able to choke Iran's financial operations
and oil exports after the nuclear agency confirmed its
surreptitious attainment of a nuclear weapon capability.
Wednesday, Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Gennady Gatilov
promised visiting Iranian official Ali Baqeri that "Any
additional sanctions against Iran will be seen… as an instrument
for regime change in Tehran. That approach is unacceptable to us
and the Russian side does not intend to consider such
proposals."
China will certainly go along with Russia on this.
Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's first response to the
IAEA report was to attack its credibility and declare that Iran
would continue its nuclear program regardless of its findings.