Nuclear strike on Iran

Facts about Israel's nuclear arsenal:

• In 1986, Mordechai Vanunu an Israeli civil servant who worked in the state-owned nuclear industry, in a meeting with Sunday Times reporters in London revealed the Israel's top secret of having gained control of a growing stockpile of nuclear warheads.
• Some weeks later after revealing the Israelis top secret, Vanunu was abducted by Israeli's espionage in Rome and was brought back to Israel. Before a secret tribunal, Vanunu was tried and sentenced for eighteen years in prison with eleven of those years in solitary confinement. Since his release, Mr. Vanunu has been prohibited from travel abroad and been arrested four times.
• Experts rank Israel third or fourth behind only the USA, Russia and possibly France in holding the largest stockpile of nuclear weapons.
• Israel refuses to become a party to the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT).
• Israel’s Shavit rocket has been used to launch satellites into orbit, and the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists reported that the Shavit could be converted to an ICBM with a range of 7,000 miles allowing an Israeli nuclear strike anywhere in the Middle East as well as eastern and western Europe and Central Asia.
• Additionally, Israel now has a fleet of Dolphin class submarines armed with cruise missiles capable of carrying nuclear warheads. Military experts have been reporting the presence of Israel’s Dolphin class submarines in the Persian Gulf for the past two years ostensibly to support US naval operations in case Iran attempts to close the Straits of Hormuz.
• According to The Sunday Times, there has been a slight re-calibration of the plans for the war against Iran. Rather than a direct American nuclear strike against Iran’s hard targets, Israel has been given the assignment of launching a coordinated cluster of nuclear strikes aimed at targets that are the nuclear installations in the Iranian cities: Natanz, Isfahan and Arak.

Revealed: Israel plans nuclear strike on Iran, The Sunday Times, January 07, 2007

Iran: Pieces are in place for escalation, by Colonel Sam Gardiner, January 16, 2007