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Report: Israel Preparing to Strike Iran Without U.S. Consent

Thursday, December 04, 2008

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An Israeli Air Force F-16I fighter jet is
seen preparing for take off.

Israel is drawing up plans to attack Iran's nuclear facilities and is
prepared to launch a strike without backing from the U.S., an Israeli newspaper
reported Thursday.

Officials in the Israeli Defense Ministry told The Jerusalem Post
that while they prefer to act in consultation with the U.S., they are preparing
plans that would allow them to act alone.

"It is always better to coordinate," a senior Defense Ministry official told
the newspaper. "But we are also preparing options that do not include
coordination."

It would be difficult, but not impossible, to launch a strike against Iran
without permission from the U.S., as the American Air Force controls the Iraqi
airspace Israel's jets would have to enter on a bombing mission.

"There are a wide range of risks one takes when embarking on such an
operation," a senior Israeli official told the Post.

Iran, the world's fourth-largest crude oil producer, maintains that its
uranium enrichment activities are aimed at making fuel for a network of planned
electricity-generating nuclear power plants and not for developing weapons.

However Israel intelligence sources say Iran has sufficient nuclear material
to make an atomic bomb.

Last month, amid mounting fears in Israel that the U.S. was doing nothing to
prevent Iran from becoming a nuclear power, Ehud Olmert, Israel's Prime
Minister, warned President Bush the last chance of destroying Tehran’s nuclear
bomb-making program was passing.

Iran dismisses the possibility of an Israeli strike.

"We think that regional and international developments and the complicated
situation faced by Israel itself will not allow it to launch military strikes
against other countries," Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Hassan Qashqavi
said, according to the Press TV Web site.

"Israel makes threats to promote its psychological and media warfare,"
Qashqavi said.

A report, published in September in Britain's Guardian newspaper,
claimed that Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert requested a green light to
attack Iran in May but was refused by Bush.

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