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Israel may bomb Iran over their Nuclear weapons.
The Prime Minister of Israel Ariel Sharon and The Vice President of Iran Gholamreza Aghazadeh are talking about war. We must pray this does not happen.
The British Sunday Times reported Sunday that Prime Minister Ariel Sharon has ordered the Army to prepare to attack Iran's nuclear facilities at the end of March 2006, because Israeli intelligence discovered a number of secret uranium enrichment sites that were disguised as civilian buildings.
The article said that "Israel's armed forces have been ordered by Prime Minister Ariel Sharon to be ready by the end of March for possible strikes on secret uranium enrichment sites in Iran."
The Sunday Times said that Israel had established an intelligence base in northern Iraq, and had even sent forces into Iran. The article also reported that ever since Sharon gave his order last week, the armies "special units" have been on high alert.
In response to the Sunday Times article, Maj.-Gen. (Res.) Amos Gilad, head of the Defense Ministry's foreign policy department, said in an interview to Israel Radio that while a military operation against Iran's nuclear facilities could not be ruled out, Israel was a partner in international diplomatic efforts to address the threat from Teheran. Gilad denied the Times allegations that Israel planned to attack Iran in March 2006.
On Saturday, the same day UN nuclear watchdog chief ElBaradei received the Nobel peace prize, he appeared to warn Israel not to bomb Iranian atomic reactors. "You cannot use force to prevent a country from obtaining nuclear weapons. By bombing them half to death, you can only delay the plans," he was quoted as saying by the Oslo newspaper Aftenposten. "But they will come back, and they will demand revenge." In response to ElBaradei's comments,
Iran's top nuclear official, Gholamreza Aghazadeh, said: "Iran is also losing its patience with them." In a Saturday press conference, Aghazadeh said his country would enrich uranium and produce nuclear fuel in Iran despite the international drive to curb such efforts. "For me, there is no doubt that the process of producing nuclear fuel in Iran will be accomplished," said Aghazadeh, head of the Atomic Organization of Iran. "There is no doubt that we have to carry out uranium enrichment."
Aghazadeh, who is also the Iranian vice president, gave no date for when the processes would start, but stressed they would do so at some stage. Iran has rejected a European offer to shift its enrichment program to Russia to try to break the deadlock over its nuclear program. The plan envisaged Moscow ensuring nuclear material would be enriched only to fuel levels and not weapons-grade levels for atomic warheads. Aghazadeh claimed Iran owns 90 tons of nuclear material that is currently being held in European countries which are refusing to release it. |
