Will Israel attack Iran again?

Discussion in 'International News' started by JBigjake, Nov 10, 2006.

  1. JBigjake

    JBigjake Member+

    Nov 16, 2003
    Will Israel attack Iran?

    While it's off-topic, please feel free to provide links to any such proof or showing. I read one article suggesting deaths of Iranians in Lebanon, but IM claimed at the time that the New York Sun article was unsubstantiated. http://www.nysun.com/article/36326 Here's another: http://www.breakingnews.ie/2006/07/15/story267958.html
    P.S. Only Persian-American in NFL gets laid out: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Qu1_4U1i3w http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T._J._Houshmandzadeh#Personal_life
     
  2. Iranian Monitor

    Iranian Monitor Member+

    Aug 18, 2004
    Nat'l Team:
    Iran
    Re: Will Israel attack Iran?

    The reason the Zelzal missiles were not used is two-fold. First, and foremost, Iran did not want those missiles spent. If they had been used, those missiles would not be available as part of Iran's deterrent force in case of a conflict with Israel. Second, a decision to fire those missiles at Tel Aviv would have risked broadening the conflict, possibly forcing Iran to directly intervene. Iran preferred to let the conflict remain one between Israel and Hezbollah.

    Of course, the Israelis claimed a substantial percentage of the Zelzal missiles were destroyed by the IDF. But even the Israelis never claimed they had destroyed all such missiles and that kind of claim would stretch all credulity since the IDF does not even know exactly how many Zelzal missiles Hezbollah has and where they are all kept.

    While I cannot pretend to know exactly how many, if any, of the Zelzal missiles might have been destroyed by Israel, my own best guestimate based on reading the conflicting accounts and sources is that one Zelzal battery was indeed hit by Israel in the first few days of the war. It seems that once that Zelzal battery was successfully hit by the Israelis, Iran decided not to authorize Hezbollah to try to use the Zelzal missiles for the reasons I stated earlier.

    I should note here that Hezbollah did fire various Fajr MLRS rockets up to and including the last day of the war. However, the Fajr rockets should not be confused with either the Zelzal missiles (e.g., Zelzal-2 and Zelzal-3). And certainly not with the Fateh110 missile, which Iran would in all likelihood have provided to Hezbollah as well. Israel cannot even confirm or positively deny that Hezbollah has been supplied the Fateh110 missiles, much less know all their locations to destroy them.
     
  3. DamonEsquire

    DamonEsquire BigSoccer Supporter

    Sep 16, 2002
    Kentucky
    Club:
    Leeds United AFC
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    Re: Will Israel attack Iran?

    See there you have it. That is why you can build containers and burry them in sea. You could even house them like those torpedo fins. You could also dig an intracant ventilation system and burry them in the ground just like Consumate Hussein>>>>>>
     
  4. AsanoAram

    AsanoAram Member

    Apr 14, 2005
    Re: Will Israel attach Iran again?

    The regimes in Iran and Israel are the best thing that could have ever happened for both countries.
    Whenever their is failure at the domestic level both sides bring up the whole Israel-Iran issue, while secretly there are all sorts of contacts between the two.
     

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