Saturday, October 24, 2015

Here's What An Israel Attack On Iran's Nuclear Facilities Might Have Looked Like


By Armin Rosen, Oct 23, 2015 Business Insider

For the better part of the past decade it was one of the most consequential questions in international affairs, with an answer that could potentially spark a war between two Middle Eastern military powers.

Just how close was Israel to attacking Iran's nuclear program? And if Israel ever launched a preventative strike on Iran's nuclear facilities, what would such an operation actually look like?

A blockbuster report by the Wall Street Journal's Adam Entous provides one possible answer. According to Entous, Israel planned a daring — and, in the US' view, disastrous and even suicidal — commando raid on Iran's Fordow nuclear facility in the early 2010s. Fordow is home to 2,700 uranium enrichment centrifuges and is housed inside a hollowed-out mountain on an Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps base. 

 
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