Le Canard Enchaîné, a French weekly newspaper famous for its humorous tone and penchant for uncovering leaks, is reporting on indications that the Israeli military is planning to launch ground strikes into Iranian territory some time after December.
The report cites a meeting between Israeli army chief Lt. Gen. Ashkenazi and French Gen. Jean-Louis Georgelin in which Ashkenazi reportedly said the military had abandonded plans to bomb Iran, but was considering deploying its elite forces to the nation to launch ground attacks instead.
In this event, the Israeli forces would sneak into Iran and conduct sabotage missions against the nation’s nuclear infrastructure. They would also attempt to assassinate top scientists. The claim was bolstered by reports that the Israeli military has ordered reservists from its elite units home in recent weeks and placed an order for combat ration for the soldiers.
The Israeli government has repeatedly threatened to attack Iran, citing the nation’s civilian nuclear program as a grave threat. Despite reports to the contrary, they insist they have not abandoned plans to attack.
Naive question, but isn't this an act of war? Can you imagine any other country doing this and what the response would be? Imagine if any country sent covert operatives into the US to sabotage industrial facilities and assassinate a bunch of people. They'd be bombed back to the stone age.
CanadaGuy–they did :^/
Goute's Dr Faustus is GOOD LESSON FOR THOSE IDIOTS WHO WANT TO WAGE WAR IN THIS DISTURBED WORLD .
blah, blah, blah… every week you read about some silly story about how isreal is going to attack Iran next week, next month, in 2 months time, blah, blah. Its the same old propaganda going on for years.
The source of all the blah-blah is Israel itself. The Zionists are trying to throw disinformation around to obscure what they're really doing. The one thing you can bet your last piece of FedGov play money on is that the Zionists are NOT scheming to unleash a peace offensive.
This is just more rhetoric from Israel who know any attack from them would unite most Arab nations with Iran leading the charge in retaliation. Israel is fast becoming a rogue state and any aggression would quickly confirm this.
This is misdirection at best. Why would Israel put troops, even highly skilled troops, on the ground in Israel? Even if they could get in and attack targets successfully, how many would they really be able to hit and how could they carry enough explosives to be effective? And of course those troops would have essentially no chance of getting out alive. If Israel is going to do something, they would do it from the air. Iran is not likely to be able to stop such an attack and Israel would not suffer much loss. With all of that said, there's still the simple fact that attacking Iran would be so ridiculously stupid because of the blowback that I don't israel will doing anything except talk to try to create an advantage for the west in negotiations.
Sorry, 'on the ground in Iran'.
It's true we hear rumours and propaganda all the time about Israel's potential actions. However, in this case, I believe there could be something to it. The newspaper involved "Le Canard Enchaîné" (the "chained" or "jailed" duck) is a famous French newspaper, almost 100 years old. It's satirical and non-traditional (their current website almost looks like a french version of the drudge report) and has a circulation of close to half a million (that's half the New York Times.)
It's also famous for its investigative journalism, and has access to leaks from high-level government sources. I remember reading about them in high school back in the eighties. While this newspaper likes to make jokes, it isn't a joke itself. It's one of the most respected, and oldest, newspapers in France.
The information they are reporting on, from French government sources, is likely well founded. They (and the French government) could be victims of Isreali disinformation, but aside from that, they should be considered a very reliable source. They've broken their own "watergate" type stories several times in their history, and should not be dismissed.
please. Israel is just trying to spook the U.S. into bullying Iran on their behalf by convincing the world they will attack iran themselves and set the whole region on fire, creating a mess for U.S. policy. It's basically blackmail – "handle Iran for us or we will do something stupid and create havoc for you in the middle east!" they aren't going to attack Iran, certainly not by themselves and probably not at all.
More likely, they will unleash their crack commando team on Gaza. They don't have the stones for some Ninja suicide mission against Iran.
Silly! Silly!
I cannot but laugh when I hear the tireless refrain that Israel is the only Democracy in the Middle East. Besides the US, Israel is the most warlike nation on earth. Their treatment of the Palestinians is barbaric. Their fear-mongering over Iran's alleged nuclear weapons program nothing but a ruse. Furthermore, America's problems with so-called terrorism are directly tied to their unvarnished economic, diplomatic and military support for what has become an Apartheid state…Israel.
Our best Congress that money can buy has their lips firmly attached to the rump of this, the Middle East most notorious regime, an alleged ally who spies and steals from the US with regular abandon while bent on depriving their Arab population a voice or even an humanitarian existence in this tortured land. Doesn't anybody remember the USS Liberty? This is the real Israel.
America had better wake up and reconfigure their relationship with Israel before they drag us into a war with Iran…enough already!!
I cannot but laugh when I hear the tireless refrain that Israel is the only Democracy in the Middle East. Besides the US, Israel is the most warlike nation on earth. Their treatment of the Palestinians is barbaric. Their fear-mongering over Iran's alleged nuclear weapons program nothing but a ruse. Furthermore, America's problems with so-called terrorism are directly tied to their unvarnished economic, diplomatic and military support for what has become an Apartheid state…Israel.
Caring only about re-election and campaign contributions, our best Congress that money can buy has their lips firmly attached to the rump of this, the Middle East most notorious regime, an alleged ally who spies and steals from the US with regular abandon while bent on depriving their Arab population a voice or even an humanitarian existence in this tortured land. With friends like this…who needs enemies?? Doesn't anybody remember the USS Liberty? This is the real Israel.
America had better wake up and reconfigure their relationship with Israel before they drag us into a war with Iran…enough already!!
The French newspaper that reported the story may be credible but Israel officials are not.
The truth is that if Israel were going to put bodies on the ground inside Iran there is no way any of their officials would be giving that information to the media – that's not how they work.
So you can be sure it's another bout of "lets see if we can scare Iran into doing something silly"….
…. and not so much as a peep from any western govt. Which begs the question, just how manny puppet leaders does Israel control.
Probably just another "leak" to test public opinion of said ground option, like the Telegraph 45,000 troops "leak" was meant to solicit reactions.
They've been talking about this subject for as long as I could remember. First of all, Iran is certainly not an easy target, why? Because of its population of 70 Million men and women, the size of the country and its military capability. Israel is no match for this giant country and its committed people, it will be a suicide mission for this tiny country even though with all the military help that they'll gain from the United States. If the US steps forward with a military strike then the entire Middle East will become a ball of fire and the US empire will fall to its knees. We shouldn't be expecting a short war after all. This war will last for many years before it ends, so where the money will come from in order to finance such a war?
The news media will say that Iran's conventional forces are no match for Israel but they will forget to mention Israel couldn't defeat the small Hezbollah militia during the 2006 Lebanon war also called the 2006 Israel-Hezbollah War and known in Lebanon as the July War. In reality Israel was defeated by the fierce resistance of Hezbollah fighters, the only success Israel accomplished during that war was that the Air Force targeted civilians and severely damaged Lebanese civil infrastructure, and displaced approximately one million Lebanese but they couldn't break the spirit of Hezbollah fighters. Iran is another ball game because they are completely independent to manufacture weapons such as missiles, Jet fighters, tanks, helicopters, speed boats, submarines and laser guided missiles. A lot of these manufactures are deep underground and undetected by the CIA. In conclusion, it's a lost cause for Israel unless if they want to commit a suicide. The difference between an Israeli soldier and an Iranian soldier is that the Israeli fears death unlike the Iranian or the Arabs in general. You can't beat that spirit.
Muslim Spirit is easily broken by MTB – Massive Thermonuclear Bombardment.
Do you have any idea how many Iranians will be left after being hit with 100 (or more!) 1 megaton bombs? It might even take them 1000 years to reach the 70 million mark again.
That's exactly why the Iranians need to have the bomb in order to protect themselves against these very serious threats "Massive Thermonuclear Bombardment".
It's hard to believe anyone could be so evil as to even imagine using any nuke nowadays and killing 100's of thousands of human beings or more. Who is really doing the "threatening" & how evil is it? Who is the real threat to mid east peace & WORLD peace if not Israel? …its clearly a danger to all….& perhaps to Israelis most…As "james said"…. the whole show there is based on theft & murder & deception.
Strange comment. Israel has beaten that 'spirit' everytime since Israel was founded. Considering the tiny country of Israel, vastly outnumbered and surrounded by hostile arab states has won every war they have fought since their founding in 1948 including defeating 3 arab armies in 6 days in 1967. The million man Iraqi army in 'the mother of all battles' lasted 3 days against US forces, but Iran fought that same army for 8 years – and could not really win. Like the Iraqi forces, Egyptian or Syrian forces, the Iranians are a paper tiger with outdated equipment, a poorly trained airforce, and weak in military strategy compared to a sophisticated fighting force like Israel or the US. As far as Hezbollah, they are not a regular army and therefore winning a war against them must be measured differently. Israel pounded the hell out out of them and their leaders were hiding in underground bunkers. Hezbollah has been quiet and not fired a missile since that war because they know the shit kicking they took from Israel and they are not anxious to have it happen again. It is also well know that Israel barely used about 1/100 of its air and ground power in the Hezbollah war.
Why doesn't the un apply santions against Isreal for their nuclear wepons. Better yet why doesn't the world powers invade Isreal and destroy the stockpill of warheads.
Can any nation now commit an act of murder or act of war and then just casually say "we felt threatened"? I thought this, in itself, is a war crime? My bet is, it is partly a smokescreen to divert attention from "Israel International" & the NWO & war profiteers stealing everything they can (& from us too) AND, destroying everything they can't control. I don't think they will ever control the Arabs because they have had 5000yrs of "tricks" & they are too smart! And why would they want to. I suspect the "Arab world" is no more dangerous to any of us if we do the the right thing than our next door neighbour with a kitchen knife. According to Israel's "defence" "rationale" we would need to kill or "control" all our next door neighbours? We ought all be making friends & learning from each other not dropping bombs on human beings. And this "Innocent civilians" stuff what a joke…are opposition soldiers also not presumably "innocent" too? It SMELLS to me like war profiteers and thieves & their bankers are raping the west and beyond by buying our politicians and running 24/7 propaganda. I would look to the FED & IMF & World Bank "relationship" for some answers?
It is more likely that Israel will use drones, at least for most missions. Iran is very far away, and Israel can't afford to have commandos captured. Drones can carry nasty isotopes into the entrances and ventilation ducts of Iran's underground facilities, and can assasinate people if their locations and movements are well known. Scientists and engineers generally go to and from work every day at predictable times, which makes them easy to target. Drones can also drop robotic ground vehicles that can enter underground facilities, and stage a nuclear weapons "accident". Drones are deniable if they have a good self destruct mechanism.
It will be really funny if we hear that Iran had a couple of nuclear accidents and their prime facilities are contaminated with fission products.
It will be really funny if we hear that Israel has been exterminated by a an Iranian nuclear bomb. How's that Andrewp111. The killing of innocent children, women and men is funny to your understanding of human values. Hey, it will be really funny to see your entire family dying by the fact that they have been contaminated with fission products, that will be really cool to watch. Ha ha ha.
(SIGH). The world would bu such a peaceful place if it wasn't for Israel. And of course America too.