'IDF can stop Iran's nuclear program'

Jesus H Christ on a red carpet. This attack by Israel is becoming more likely by the hour.

Israel is capable of stopping Iran's nuclear program with an independent military strike, a former head of the Israel Air Force who was involved in the 1981 bombing of Iraq's Osirak reactor has told The Jerusalem Post.

According to the former commander, the IAF could use its US-made F-16I and F-15I fighter jets to reach Iran and, if not completely destroy the program, at least cause enough damage to set back the development of a nuclear weapon by several years.

"Israel can do it," said the officer. "All you have to do is pick a number of essential targets and destroy them. This way you delay the process and wait to see what happens," he said.

In 1981, a formation of eight F-16 fighter jets flew just over 2,000 kilometers and destroyed the Osirak reactor near Baghdad. According to the former air force chief, Israel could use its F-15Is - with a combat range of close to 4,400 kilometers - and the F-16Is it purchased in the late '90s, all capable of striking Iran without refueling, much like the operation against Osirak.

Does anyone believe this won't happen? If you do, you might as well move through the looking glass with Alice and leave all your cognitive abilities at the door.

Israel is afraid and they will do whatever they want to protect themselves. Bush? Hahaha. He will encourage them if he hasn't done so already. One way or another Iran will be attacked. After all, that's how Israel and the US conduct foreign policy now.

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