The Times of London found someone who is not proven liar Uzi Mahnaimi to get an Israeli official to say that Israel is going to attack Iran.
Israeli aircraft have conducted a long-range mission designed to prepare for a possible strike on Iran’s nuclear facilities and to send a message to the world that it is ready to take military action if diplomacy fails to halt Tehran’s atomic programme.
An Israeli political official familiar with the drill, held early this month, said that the Iranians should “read the writing on the wall . . . This was a dress rehearsal, and the Iranians should read the script before they continue with their programme for nuclear weapons. If diplomacy does not yield results, Israel will take military steps to halt Tehran’s production of bomb-grade uranium.â€
Here’s my problem with the Times of London: I don’t trust their sources after their willingness to publish Mahnaimi’s outright lies over the years (including one that Israel was working on a “genetic bomb” that would only target Arabs, a scientific impossibility, and a lie that refuses to go away, thanks to the Times’ article).
So while I know the IAF conducted a practice run that included flying the distance needed to fly to Iran, and I know that the IAF is preparing for the possibility of bombing Iran’s known nuclear reactor sites (and quite probably the ones the public doesn’t know about, as the Mossad has long infiltrated Iran), I am taking the above story with a shaker of salt. I don’t care that it’s a new reporter. The Times has proven itself to be an unreliable source of Israel news.
On the other hand, the “leak” could be the Israeli way of warning Iran that there will be action taken. Sometimes officials are tasked with leaks that are meant for precisely the people who react to them.
And Iran has reacted.
Iran called Israel a “dangerous regime” on Saturday after a US paper reported that the Air Force (IAF) had carried out a large military exercise, apparently a rehearsal for a potential bombing of Iran’s nuclear facilities.
Yeah, yeah, yeah. Because Israel isn’t anything at all like the country that funds and trains Hezbullah, Hamas, Palestinian Islamic Jihad, the Mahdi Army, and terrorists all over the world. And yes, that would be Iran—the world’s most dangerous regime. Projection. It’s the Arab/Islamic way.