- Haaretz poll: Israelis evenly split over attacking Iran
- Iran says united and ‘ready for war’ with Israel
- Iran military head warns of ‘heavy damage’ should Israel attack
- Decision to attack Iran must be made with a clear mind
- UK military steps up plans for Iran attack amid fresh nuclear fears
- US fears uncoordinated Israeli strike on Iran
- Halper: Israel may attack Iran so that we won’t hear the word ‘Palestinian’ for another 5 years
- Netanyahu trying to persuade cabinet to support attack on Iran
- Let’s bomb Iran: old song, new lyrics
- US planning Iran attack? Tehran ready for worst
Saker Message:
I for one do not believe this and also about the Greece crisis.
To understand why here is my analysis :-
The Aegean sea, Mediterranean coast of Cyprus, Israel and Lebanon have vast hydro carbon resources. You are talking trillions $$. Currently Greece, Russia and Israel have cornered these resources. Lebanon has been shut off. Israel has no official borders and claims the resources off Lebanon and Palestine. HezB has gone on public and said that it would attack any platforms which begins drilling on Lebanon’s coastal borders. Iran is in a conundrum. What should it do?
Turkey wants a share of this loot and is showing that without it they can cause problems. Their best bet is to get the USA in, so the power play with Syria is to threaten Russia. The power play with Israel is to get in with the USA.
It has been all worked out. I worked on these explorations in the mid 80’s it not new.
USA want to replace Russia, hence why this debt crisis is going from one extreme to another. Germany built the Nord Stream at great expense to become a energy hub, yet again the Zionist have shafted Germany and France.
Today I found this translation of ‘The Yinon Plan’ that was made in 1982.
Translater: Israel Shahak.
http://members.tripod.com/alabasters_archive/zionist_plan.html
Guess there must be an IAEA meeting coming up then….
To any and all who view comments, it is well worth getting hold of a copy of Israel Shahak’s 1997 book Open Secrets, if only for the chuckle factor of reading his critique of Israeli discourse on Iran from the mid-1990’s, and comparing it to its current, near-identical iterations.
It seems this threat to attack Iran is different than the others. Before we relied on media leaks. Now we Have Shimon Perez and Ehud Barak openly talking of war.
Does this make any sense? Assuming they want to attack, isn’t there some benefit to the element of surprise? If Iran is taking them seriously, what can it do to prepare for the intended attack, if it thinks there will be one in the next few days or weeks?
@Lysander: as always you are asking the right questions. I wrote so much about the (IMHO) inevitable attack on Iran… Would it make any sense? Hell no! But the Israelis are not rational actors, they are quite crazy, delusional, and infinitely arrogant. And they correctly believe that the USA will do everything and anything to bail them out should they do something stupid.
As for the Iranians, I am confident that they have no other choice than to be on a 24/7 battle alert assuming that an attack could come literally from any direction and at any time. What can they do about it? First and foremost, not present lucrative targets. The fact is that the recent history has shown that a country which does a good job preparing for an air campaign can very effectively deceive the attacking air force. In Kosovo NATO achieved exactly *nothing*, at least in military terms. I have no reason to believe that the Iranians are not at least as sophisticated as the Serbs, so my guess is that an Israeli strike will achieve nothing (even if the corporate ziomedia will, of course, present it as a stunning success).
I have been predicting an attack on Iran since so many years already that I probably sound like a broken record, but I still stand by my prediction: an attack on Iran is inevitable.
I very much hope that I am wrong.