In the case of Middle East politics, one often discovers that: Your enemy’s enemies are your enemies! In the case of a nuclear Iran, Arab nations, people of Semite descent (who are mostly Sunni,) are concerned about the prospect of the Aryan Iranians who are mostly Shiite, having nuclear weapon capability could mean a threat to Arab independence!
In spite of despising the Jews, and Israel, the Jewish State, many Arab leaders see merit in the Semite Jews of Israel having the nuclear weapons that they do, than allowing the Aryan Iran to become a nuclear power that will surely try to dominate the Middle East, and the whole Islamic World. To that end, it is not surprising that the Saudi, Jordanian, and Egyptian leadership is entertaining having Israel as a [strange] bed-fellow that it could become in resisting Iran’s threat to the region…
Israeli routes to attack Iran must include air and sea, and even though Iraq’s airspace is controlled by the United States, it is not one of the selected routes; a clear demonstration of how little Israel trusts Barak Hussein Obama of the United States.
As was stated in our previous blogs, Israeli advanced-technology submarines already tested the Suez Canal as a route towards the Arabian/Persian Gulf; now, as you can see from the following Time article, the Israeli airforce will have the option of using Saudi airspace, as well as sea routes towards Iran. With Iran just announcing its plan for another enrichment plant in spite of a fourth sanction resolution by the United Nations, taking Iran nukes out becomes more imminently necessary; and it is now likely, that in the face of inept United States foreign policy, Israel will have to do it…
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Saudi Arabia gives Israel clear skies to attack Iranian nuclear sites
Hugh Tomlinson
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In the week that the UN Security Council imposed a new round of sanctions on Tehran, defence sources in the Gulf
say that Riyadh has agreed to allow Israel to use a narrow corridor of its airspace in the north of the country to shorten the distance for a bombing run on Iran.
To ensure the Israeli bombers pass unmolested, Riyadh has carried out tests to make certain its own jets are not scrambled and missile defence systems not activated. Once the Israelis are through, the kingdom’s air defences will return to full alert.
“The Saudis have given their permission for the Israelis to pass over and they will look the other way,” said a US defence source in the area. “They have already done tests to make sure their own jets aren’t scrambled and no one gets shot down. This has all been done with the agreement of the [US] State Department.”
Sources in Saudi Arabia say it is common knowledge within defence circles in the kingdom that an arrangement is in place if Israel decides to launch the raid. Despite the tension between the two governments, they share a mutual loathing of the regime in Tehran and a common fear of Iran’s nuclear ambitions. “We all know this. We will let them [the Israelis] through and see nothing,” said one.
The four main targets for any raid on Iran would be the uranium enrichment facilities at Natanz and Qom, the gas storage development at Isfahan and the heavy-water reactor at Arak. Secondary targets include the lightwater reactor at Bushehr, which could produce weapons-grade plutonium when complete.
The targets lie as far as 1,400 miles (2,250km) from Israel; the outer limits of their bombers’ range, even with aerial refuelling. An open corridor across northern Saudi Arabia would significantly shorten the distance. An airstrike would involve multiple waves of bombers, possibly crossing Jordan, northern Saudi Arabia and Iraq. Aircraft attacking
Bushehr, on the Gulf coast, could swing beneath Kuwait to strike from the southwest. Passing over Iraq would require at least tacit agreement to the raid from Washington. So far, the Obama Administration has refused to give its approval as it pursues a diplomatic solution to curbing Iran’s nuclear ambitions.
Military analysts say Israel has held back only because of this failure to secure consensus from America and Arab states. Military analysts doubt that an airstrike alone would be sufficient to knock out the key nuclear facilities, which are heavily fortified and deep underground or within mountains. However, if the latest sanctions prove ineffective the pressure from the Israelis on Washington to approve military action will intensify. Iran vowed to continue enriching uranium after the UN Security Council imposed its toughest sanctions yet in an effort to halt the Islamic Republic’s nuclear programme, which Tehran claims is intended for civil energy purposes only. President Ahmadinejad has described the UN resolution as “a used handkerchief, which should be thrown in the dustbin”.
Israeli officials refused to comment yesterday on details for a raid on Iran, which the Prime Minister, Binyamin Netanyahu, has refused to rule out. Questioned on the option of a Saudi flight path for Israeli bombers, Aharaon
The Times can reveal. From
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Netanyahu, has refused to rule out. Questioned on the option of a Saudi flight path for Israeli bombers, Aharaon , who headed military intelligence until 2006 and has been involved in war games simulating a strike on Farkash Zeevi Iran, said: “I know that Saudi Arabia is even more afraid than Israel of an Iranian nuclear capacity.”
In 2007 Israel was reported to have used Turkish air space to attack a suspected nuclear reactor being built by Iran’s main regional ally, Syria. Although Turkey publicly protested against the “violation” of its air space, it is thought to have turned a blind eye in what many saw as a dry run for a strike on Iran’s far more substantial — and better defended — nuclear sites. Israeli intelligence experts say that Egypt, Saudi Arabia and Jordan are at least as worried as themselves and the West about an Iranian nuclear arsenal. Israel has sent missile-class warships and at least one submarine capable of launching a nuclear warhead through the Suez Canal for deployment in the Red Sea within the past year, as both a warning to Iran and in anticipation of a possible strike. Israeli newspapers reported last year that high-ranking officials, including the former Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, have met their Saudi Arabian counterparts to discuss the Iranian issue. It was also reported that Meir Dagan, the head of Mossad, met Saudi intelligence officials last year to gain assurances that Riyadh would turn a blind eye to Israeli jets violating Saudi airspace during the bombing run. Both governments have denied the reports.
