The USA appears to be exerting a moderating influence on Netanyahu’s government. It is unclear whether Israel would be capable of a direct attack on Iran’s nuclear program.
Tehran/Tel Aviv – Ahead of Israel’s expected counterattack after Iran’s rocket attack at the beginning of October, diplomatic channels in the Middle East are apparently running hot. Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu had a “significant” attack on the Iran announced. The USA does not reject a counterattack, but is trying to have a moderating influence on its partners. Israel However, neighboring Arab states recently tried, the US business paper reported Wall Street Journalto get out of the firing line: The Iranian leadership had previously publicly threatened that anyone who took part in any attack on them would be considered “accomplices and legitimate targets.”
Israel’s Arab neighbors do not want to be in the line of fire with Iran
The newspaper wrote that Jordan, the United Arab Emirates and Qatar had also contacted Iran because of Iran’s threat USA and asked that neither their territory nor their airspace be used by the USA or Israel to attack Iran. The newspaper learned this from Arab government circles.
US troops are stationed in all three states and they maintain diplomatic and economic relations with Israel. Jordan was even involved in defending Israel against the Iranian drone and missile attack in April. It was the first direct attack by the mullahs’ regime on the Jewish state, the destruction of which is part of the state’s anti-Semitic ideology.
USA: Arab states don’t want Israeli jets in their airspace
Despite the support in April, it reported that WSJ According to US government circles, most Arab US partner countries have repeatedly set limits in recent months on how far the US military was allowed to operate from their territory. As the confrontation between Israel and Iran increased, these borders would have been drawn ever tighter. For example, several Arab states have informed the Pentagon that they would not accept Israeli fighter jets in their airspace during an attack on Iran.
US: Iran “just one political decision” away from nuclear weapon
Since Iran’s attack, there has been much speculation about the targets of the Israeli counterattack. Israel would have three groups of targets to choose from: bases of the Revolutionary Guards or the regular military, Iran’s oil facilities or the mullahs’ nuclear program, which, according to US intelligence services, is “just a political decision” away from being able to build atomic bombs.
An attack on a nuclear facility would, wrote the exiled media Iran Insightfinally giving the supporters of a nuclear-armed Iran the upper hand in Tehran. The USA clearly rejected such an attack. Attacks on oil facilities could lead to a blockade of the Persian Gulf by Iran and would potentially violate international law.
Is Israel alone capable of attacking Iran’s nuclear program?
The largest site of Iran’s nuclear program is so deep underground that a successful attack requires a GBU-57 bunker-busting bomb, the left-liberal Israeli daily reported Haaretz. This 14-ton bomb can only be found in the arsenal of the US Air Force. Aside from the risk of escalation from such an attack, ex-diplomat Alon Pinkas commented in the newspaper, it is also militarily questionable whether Israel alone is capable of an effective attack on Tehran’s nuclear facilities. Netanyahu’s government could also rely on the US’s promise never to let the mullahs acquire a nuclear bomb.
USA: Negotiations on Israel’s Iran counter-strike are moving in “the right direction”
Meanwhile, negotiations were ongoing between the US and Israel over the nature of the attack. We are moving “in the right direction,” the portal quoted Axios from US government circles. Israeli government circles said that the Israeli plans were still “a little too aggressive” from the US perspective. There will be further talks next week, the report said, and Israeli Defense Minister Joaw Gallant could travel to Washington for talks with his counterpart Lloyd Austin. (kb)
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