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Talks preferred but Israel ready to strike Iran says ambassador Newscast Media JERUSALEM— U.S. Ambassador to Israel Dan Shapiro said his nation’s military has completed the necessary preparations to launch an attack on Iran’s nuclear facilities in the event that international sanctions and diplomacy fail, The Jerusalem Post reported on Thursday. “It would be preferable to resolve this (the Iranian nuclear crisis) diplomatically and through the use of pressure than to use military force, but that doesn’t mean that option is not fully available. Not just available, but ready. The necessary planning has been done to ensure that it’s ready,” Shapiro told a closed lawyers’ conference in Tel Aviv earlier this week. “We do not know if sanctions and diplomacy will work, so all options are on the table, including the military option,” Shapiro said. The ambassador underscored that President Barack Obama had previously clarified—in meetings with Israeli leaders and public pronouncements—that the United States will do whatever is necessary to prevent Iran from acquiring nuclear weapons. “I think this is a statement that America can take to the bank, that Israel can take to the bank, and that Iran should take to the bank,” Shapiro said. The remarks, some of the harshest to date by a senior American official on Iran’s long-disputed nuclear program, come as Tehran and the P5+1—the UN Security Council’s five permanent members plus Germany—are scheduled to meet in Baghdad next week for a second round of talks. Israel, Western leaders and the UN nuclear watchdog believe that Iran, which has repeatedly threatened to destroy the Jewish state, is clandestinely trying to build a nuclear weapon under the ruse of medical research and power generation. In recent statements and interviews, both Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Defense Minister Ehud Barak have more than hinted that Israel is geared up for a military strike if the P5+1 talks, launched in Ankara last month, fail to convince Tehran to halt its nuclear fuel enrichment. On Monday, Barak sharply criticized as being “too lax” Western requirements for Iranian cooperation and transparency over their nuclear program. “The demands today (of Iran) ahead of the talks are so minimal, that even if Iran accepts all of them it will still be able to continue and make progress with its nuclear program,” Barak told Army Radio. He called on Iran to “completely cease its (nuclear fuel) enrichment activities, including to levels of 3.5 percent” and reiterated that Israel was weighing a military strike if the talks did not prove successful. Barak said Israeli intelligence agencies were aware of the capabilities of the Parchin military facility near Tehran, where the Iranians are operating an high-explosives containment chamber commonly used in testing nuclear weapons, according to a sketch leaked last week. Shapiro, a former member of the House Foreign Affairs Committee and the National Security Council, previously declined comments on whether the U.S. military is rehearsing plans to bomb Iran’s fortified nuclear infrastructure. “We don’t require too much training. We already have a massive military presence in the (Persian) Gulf, don’t we?” Shapiro said in an interview with the Israeli daily Ma’ariv in January. “It is clear that for Israel (Iran’s nuclear drive) is an existential threat. It’s also a threat to other states in the region, to Persian Gulf states and to America and its forces in the region,” he said. The ambassador, who reportedly was not aware that he was being taped at the closed-door meeting this week, said that the U.S. military had not only drawn plans to attack Iran, but had tested them. Shapiro, however, noted that the Obama administration believes that “there is a window—not an unlimited time—in which we can still use diplomacy to achieve our goal.” “At some point we will have to decide if diplomacy has failed. What we want to do is give it any chance,” he said. http://www.newscastmedia.com/talks-with-iran.htm Categories: News Tags: Dan Shapiro, Iran nuclear facilities, Islamic Republic of Iran, Israel ready to strike Iran, Israel war plan for Iran Israel says it has no intention to attack Iran(at the moment) Newscast Media JERUSALEM (Xinhua) — Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak on Thursday refuted recent media reports that Israel is gearing to strike Iran’s nuclear facilities. “At the moment, we have no intention to act (against Iran). However, the State of Israel is far from being ‘frozen in fear,’ or unable to take steps against the threat of an Iran armed with nuclear weapons,” Barak told Israeli public radio. He said that while Israel and the United States were in an agreement on how to deal with the threat, “We don’t see eye to eye on everything.” Barak’s comments came after U.S. military chief General Martin Dempsey said Wednesday that it was unclear whether Israel would alert his country prior to an attack on Iran’s nuclear installations. Dempsey, chairman of the U.S. military’s Joint Chiefs of Staff, also acknowledged that the U.S. and its ally were at odds over the best way to approach Iran’s nuclear program, with the former being convinced that sanctions and diplomatic pressure are the right path to follow. The release of a report issued by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) last month confirmed long-voiced concerns by Israel’s leadership that Iran was clandestinely pursuing a nuclear program with military goals. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and other top Israeli officials have since called on the international community to make an all-out effort to stop Iran’s drive to acquire nuclear weaponry by sanctioning the Islamic Republic’s oil and gas sector and central bank. The U.S. partially heeded the call, announcing a new round of sanctions against Iran on Nov. 21 that target its petrochemicals industry. Britain, France, Canada and some other countries said they would join U.S. efforts to intensify punitive financial measures against Iran. Despite the latest statements by Barak and Dempsey, both Israel and the U.S. have not ruled out the option of a military strike to thwart Tehran’s nuclear drive. Following the publication of the IAEA report, Barak said that Israel was not relying exclusively on “lethal” international sanctions to keep atomic weapons out of Iranian reach. “As long as no such sanctions have been imposed and proven effective, we continue to recommend to our friends in the world and to ourselves, not to take any option off the table,” Barak said. According to Israeli media, Barak and Netanyahu have already sought a cabinet majority for a military strike. Iran insists that its nuclear program is peaceful — mainly geared to produce electricity. Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has warned that a harsh response would follow an attack on his country’s nuclear facilities. http://www.newscastmedia.com/israel-iran.html
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Izrael demantirao planove za napad na Iran Ehud Barak, izraelski ministar obrane, odbacio nagađanja da Izrael planira napasti iranska nuklearna postrojenja Izraelski ministar obrane Ehud Barak u utorak je odbacio nagađanja da Izrael planira napasti iranska nuklearna postrojenja i rekao da nikakva odluka o vojnoj operaciji još nije donesena, javlja Hina. "Rat nije piknik. Želimo piknik. Ne želimo rat", rekao je Barak za izraelski radio u utorak. Ovog tjedna očekuje se izvješće Međunarodne agencije za atomsku energiju (IAEA) o iranskim nuklearnim aktivnostima. "Izrael još nije donio nikakvu odluku o vojnoj operaciji", rekao je Barak. Odbacio je medijska nagađanja da su on i premijer Benjamin Netanyahu odlučili o operaciji. Očekuje se da će izvješće IAEA-e opravdati sumnje da Iran pokušava proizvesti nuklearno oružje, iako tvrdi da program obogaćivanja uranija razvija u civilne svrhe.