Report: Israeli aircraft flew over Iran on attack test flight
full original article: Report: Israeli aircraft flew over Iran on attack test flight
(It would be much more significant if the overflight was yesterday, and not in 2012...)
Israeli aircraft flew over Iran on attack test flight The Wall Street Journal reports Israel executed a test flight over Iran in 2012 as part of plan to attack Iran’s nuclear facility in Fordow; US sent a second aircraft carrier to the area fearing an outbreak of war.
Yitzhak Benhorin
Published: 10.23.15, 12:45 / Israel News
Source: Report: Israeli aircraft flew over Iran on attack test flight – Israel News, Ynetnews
Israeli aircraft entered and left Iranian airspace in 2012 as part of a test flight for a possible attack on Iran’s nuclear facility at Fordow, the Wall Street Journal reported Friday
The report stated that “nerves frayed at the White House after senior officials learned Israeli aircraft had flown in and out of Iran in what some believed was a dry run for a commando raid on the site.” As a result, the US sent a second aircraft carrier to the area and put fighter jets on alert.
The newspaper wrote a comprehensive investigative report on the crisis of confidence that developed between the US and Israel under President Barack Obama and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. As part of the investigation, intelligence officials and analysts that spoke with the newspaper revealed the Israeli flight over Iran.
Iran’s Fordow nuclear facility (Photo: AFP)
One official said that the US monitored Israeli military activity and eavesdropped on Israeli bases in 2012 after they learned about the flight. New information came in every day but US officials said that some of the information was classified and US security agencies were unable to receive the majority of the messages.
The report states that US Air Force analysts came to the conclusion that Israel did not have the necessary armament and aircraft to demolish the Iranian reactors. This conclusion was transferred to the Israelis, who in response gave the Americans an outline of its own plan: transport aircraft would land in Iran with commando teams to blow the front doors of the nuclear plant at Fordow and sabotage it. Pentagon officials thought it was a suicide mission and pressured Israel to give early warning to the United States, but Israel did not commit itself to doing so.
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So Israel might have done something to prevent Iran's nuclear development, but Obama's America stopped it.