Fox News
December 4, 2008
Israel is drawing up plans to attack Iran’s nuclear facilities and is prepared to launch a strike without backing from the U.S., an Israeli newspaper reported Thursday.
- A d v e r t i s e m e n t
Officials in the Israeli Defense Ministry told The Jerusalem Post that while they prefer to act in consultation with the U.S., they are preparing plans that would allow them to act alone.
“It is always better to coordinate,” a senior Defense Ministry official told the newspaper. “But we are also preparing options that do not include coordination.”
It would be difficult, but not impossible, to launch a strike against Iran without permission from the U.S., as the American Air Force controls the Iraqi airspace Israel’s jets would have to enter on a bombing mission.
“There are a wide range of risks one takes when embarking on such an operation,” a senior Israeli official told the Post.
Iran, the world’s fourth-largest crude oil producer, maintains that its uranium enrichment activities are aimed at making fuel for a network of planned electricity-generating nuclear power plants and not for developing weapons.
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