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Iran protests to UN over Israel 'war game' campaign
by Staff Writers
United Nations (AFP) Feb 22, 2012


Iran on Wednesday accused Israel of assassinating its nuclear scientists as part of a "war game" while it denied any role in attacks on Israeli diplomatic targets in several countries.

A letter sent by Iran's UN ambassador, Mohammad Khazaee, to the UN Security Council said Israel has been allowed to commit crimes against others with "impunity".

Israel has blamed Iran for a car bomb last week which critically injured an Israeli diplomat in New Delhi.

Georgian officials defused a second device in Tbilisi, while a suspected Iranian bomber had his legs blown off as he hurled a grenade at Thai police.

A number of arrests of people with alleged links to Iranian intelligence have reportedly been made in Azerbaijan.

Iran has in turn accused Israel of financing and training militant groups which it says have killed a number of Iranian nuclear scientists. As tensions rise over Tehran's nuclear program, there is mounting speculation that Israel plans a a military strike on Iran's nuclear facilities.

Khazaee said Israel had made "unfounded allegations and distortions" against his country over the recent attacks and bombings.

Iran "categorically rejects the allegations concerning any involvement of its officials or organs whatsoever in alleged recent terrorist operations against Israeli targets in a number of countries, namely Thailand, India, Georgia or Azerbaijan," the envoy's letter said.

Iran has "suffered from terrorist acts including assassinations of her nuclear scientists due to the tacit and explicit support extended by the Israeli regime to terrorist groups," Khazaee added.

"These operations, as well as attributing the violent acts, are part of the general war game waged by this regime against Iran."

The envoy added that Israel had carried out "covert operations, cyber warfare, psychological war and assassination of nuclear scientists," as well as threatening military strikes on Iran.

"Regrettably, the impunity with which the (Israeli) regime has been allowed to carry out its crimes thus far, has emboldened it to continue and even increase its blatant defiance of the most basic and fundamental principles of international law and the United Nations Charter," the letter said.

Western nations accuse Iran of seeking nuclear weapons, while Iran insists its nuclear enrichment program is entirely peaceful.

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'Israel will need 100 planes to attack Iran'
Tel Aviv (IANS) Feb 21, 2012 - Israel will need at least 100 fighter planes to strike Iran, a media report said Monday.

Israeli forces will also have to fly over 1,000 miles above unfriendly airspace should it decide to attack Iran, the Haaretz daily said citing a report in the New York Times.

According to the Times report, American military analysts and defence officials believe an Israeli strike on Iran's nuclear facilities would be a highly complex operation.

It will be different from Israel's "surgical" strike on Iraq's Osirak reactor in 1981 and also differ from the strike it is believed to have carried out in Syria in 2007.

"All the pundits who talk about 'Oh, yeah, bomb Iran,' it ain't going to be that easy," the report quoted Lt. Gen. David A. Deptula, who retired last year as the US Air Force's top intelligence official, as saying.

The report also cited comments by former CIA director Michael Hayden, who said that Israel is not capable of carrying out airstrikes that would seriously set back Iran's nuclear program, partly due to the distance the aircraft would have to travel.

According to the report, US military analysts believe that Israel will have a serious problem reaching Iran's four major nuclear sites - the urnainum enrichment facilities at Natanz and Fordo, the heavy water reactor near Arak, and the uranium conversion plant near Isfahan.

Israel has three possible routes to those facilities - north over Turkey, south over Saudi Arabia, or a central route across Jordan and Iraq.

US defence analysts believe that the route over Iraq would be preferable, since Iraq effectively has no air defences and the US is no longer defending Iraq's airspace.

According to officials, should Jordan allow Israel to fly over its territory, the next issue for Israel is that the range of its fighter jets falls short of the 2,000-mile round trip.

For this reason, officials say, Israel would need to use airborne refuellers which would need to be protected by more fighter planes, which significantly increases the number of planes needed for the operation.

Source: Indo-Asia News Service



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