On Wednesday, Israel finally officially admitted that in September 2007, it had bombed Syria’s al-Khibar nuclear facility near the eastern Syrian city of Deir ez-Zur on the banks of the Euphrates River.
Many analysts focused on the specifics of the IAF raid on al-Khibar which was bombed to smithereens with four F15I warplanes, while four F16I jets loaded with electronic warfare equipment jammed Syrian and Lebanese telecommunication and Syria’s air defenses.
Many of these specifics had already been revealed by Israeli investigative reporter Ronen Bergman in his 2008 book “The Secret War with Iran”.
However, the timing of the disclosure suggests Israel could be gearing up for another military strike against a nuclear program in a Middle Eastern country.
Yisrael Katz, Israel’s minister of intelligence, seemed to hint at such an operation when he said that the Jewish state would not allow "those threatening our existence to have nuclear weapons. Syria then and Iran today."
His statement coincided with a Reuters report that dealt with certain developments in the United States where president Donald Trump has indicated he will soon nix the Obama administration brokered nuclear deal (JCPOA) with Iran.
Trump apparently doesn’t believe in a fix of the deal now that the European countries which negotiated the Joint Comprehensive Plan Of Action seem unwilling to impose new biting sanctions on Iran.
Trump’s stance is partly based on Iran’s refusal to grant the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) access to military sites, such as Parchin, where Iran is suspected of having conducted nuclear related activities.
U.S. “officials and lawmakers are nearly unanimous in their prediction that, if the United States and European partners are unable to agree on changes to the Iran nuclear deal, Trump will make good on his promise to scuttle U.S. participation in the deal,“ Reuters reported. READ MORE
