“Why all the increased noise and chatter about Iran and explosions that are or are not explosions?  It’s pretty obvious they are either trying to prepare us for something major, or Iran has sabotaged itself accidentally again, or they are just trying to force Iran to make a move.  At any rate, I think it bears careful watching. Israel Matzov by the way is a great blog site for up to date info on current events.”

Re-blogged from Israel Matzov

In an interview with the Daily Beast, outgoing Defense Minister Ehud Barak, who is attending the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, says that the United States has plans for a surgical strike to take out Iran’s nuclear capability.

“What we basically say is that if worse comes to worst, there should be a readiness and an ability to launch a surgical operation that will delay them by a significant time frame and probably convince them that it won’t work because the world is determined to block them,” Barak told The Daily Beast.

The defense minister stated that, while the US was once heavy-handed in its attempts to carry out pinpointed military actions, under the leadership of President Barack Obama, the United States has “prepared quite sophisticated, fine, extremely fine, scalpels. So it is not an issue of a major war or a failure to block Iran. You could under a certain situation, if worse comes to worst, end up with a surgical operation.”

Barak said that even a small-scale series of surgical strikes was a last resort, and that Israel’s preference would be to neutralize the Iranian nuclear threat diplomatically.

Barak called for harsher sanctions against the Islamic Republic, but noted that he did not believe the diplomatic path was likely to succeed in halting Iran’s nuclear drive given Russia and China’s tendency to thwart harsher measures in the United Nations.

What could go wrong?

via Israel Matzav: Ehud Barak: US has plans for surgical strike against Iran.

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