Don’t Bomb Iran

OMID and the University of Utah have published a  detailed study of an attack  on the main Iranian sites alleged to be involved in a weapons programme .   The 5000 figure is from an attack on 4 nuclear sites, not counting the operational Bushehr power reactor.  It’s conclusions have  reportedly received considerable support from other experts.   [...]

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• 2012-04-23 I’m escalating all special operations in foreign countries… Israel’s chief of staff
• 2012-03-30 Israel’s plan to attack Iran put on hold until next year at the earliest – Haaretz
• Azerbaijan denies granting Israel access to air bases on Iran border
• 2012-03-20 War game predicts Israel-Iran conflict disastrous for US
• Majority of Israeli cabinet now support Iran attack
• 2009-10-17 Bolton suggests Israeli nuclear attack on Iran
• 2009-07-16 Israeli Navy in Indian Ocean for possible attack on Iran
• 2009-02-03 Gaza offensive a “preintroduction” to Iran challenge – Israeli Ambassador
• 2008-12-06 Israeli options for Iran attack without US support
• 2008-11-26 Olmert: no US pressure against Iran attack
• 2008-11-24 US pressures Olmert against Iran, Gaza attacks – Time
• 2008-09-03 Secret Israel-Georgia airfield deal for Iran attack: UPI
• 2008-09-02 Dutch intel: US to strike Iran in coming weeks
• 2008-07-18 Iran attack likely in 4-7 months, or we’ll nuke them later says Israeli academic
• 2008-06-27 Congress to demand blockade of Iran – an act of war
• 2008-06-18 Democrats dropped Iran war bill in 2006 – Israeli lobby pressure, says Ron Paul
• 2008-06-11 Bush changes wording: “we’ll give diplomacy a chance to work”
• 2008-05-09 Pentagon resisting Iran attack – about Lebanon
• 2008-05-05 Olmert: we are close to stopping Iran’s nuclear program
• 2007-09-18 World could live with nuclear Iran – US top middle eastern commander
• 2007-09-17 Condi (and France?) starting to support Iran strike
• 2007-09-11 Iran will get bomb by mid 2009 and cannot be deterred: Netanyahu
• 2007-09-03 Pentagon ‘Three-Day Blitz’ Plan for Iran – 1200 targets
• 2007-06-22 Israel air force training for strikes against Iranian nuclear targets
• 2007-06-07 No attack until Nov 2007 – Israel’s deputy PM
• 2007-04-02 Iranian alleges incursion by US warplanes
• 2007-03-30 ‘Fake’ Iraq – Iran maritime border underpins UK kidnap claims says ex-UK ambassador
• 2007-03-25 Democrats allow Bush to attack Iran without Congressional approval
• 2007-02-25 US generals ‘will quit’ if Bush orders Iran attack
• 2007-02-19 US ‘Iran attack plans’ revealed to BBC, (but not to Blair)
• 2007-02-12 US sending third carrier to Gulf, says Newsweek
• 2007-02-10 Nobody planning Iran attack: honest Tony Blair
• 2007-02-04 Iranian ‘capability’ would kill Israel demographically without pushing a button: Israel’s main fear, says defence minister
• 2007-02-03 “Israel does not intend to use military action” : Peres on Iran
• 2007-01-26 Gulf states would support US strike on Iran – MENL report
• 2007-01-06 Israel plans nuclear strike on Iran: Revealed to Sunday Times
• 2007-01-05 Iran war ‘in 2 years’: senior Bush advisor
• 2007-01-03 Israel asks UN chief to expel Iran
• 2006-12-21 US and UK send extra ships and aircraft to Gulf in provocative ‘signal’ to Iran
• 2006-12-12 Arab-Iranian nuclear arms race begins – with Israeli support?
• 2006-11-20 Bush: I would understand if Israel chose to attack Iran
• 2006-11-15 Official says U.S. may mull pre-emptive Iran strike
• 2006-09-03 Israel, US hawks plan for war with Iran and Syria
• 2006-08-25 Israel may ‘go it alone’ in attack on Iran’s nukes
• 2006-08-21 Bush ‘helped Israeli attack on Lebanon’ as prelude to Iran attack: Hersh
• 2006-08-19 Two in three Israelis back attack on Iran reactor : Poll
• 2006-06-15 US poll: 21% think Iran requires immediate military action. 55% think diplomacy will work
• 2006-06-05 Conventional bunker buster bombs could destroy Natanz enrichment facilities
• 2006-06-02 Bolton: “This is put up time or shut up time for Iran”
• 2006-06-01 Top US senator calls for NATO “ring of deterrence around Iran.
• 2006-05-18 Ex UK foreign minister endorses military action if Iran continues enrichment
• 2006-05-16 US spells out plan to bomb Iran – up to 400 targets
• 2006-04-08 The Iran Plans – some US officials seriously planning to bomb Iran, maybe with nukes, Seymour Hersh NYT
• 2006-03-09 Israel has US approval for Iran attack, and can do it – Martin Indyk, ex-US ambassador
• 2006-03-08 Australian navy “repels” Iranian “gunboats” near Iraqi oil rig as Rumsfeld claims Iranian forces operate in Iraq
• 2006-03-05 NATO may help US airstrikes, Israel special forces from Iraq have found secret sites, CIA talking to Turkey
• 2006-02-26 Is the Bush Administration Planning a Nuclear Holocaust? Use of mini-nukes for “non-compliance” Michel Chossudovsky
• 2006-02-23 US refuses to negotiate with Iran, after German leader asks them to.
• 2006-02-22 US blew chance for Iran deal in 2003.. whistle blower reveals Iran’s May 2003 offer
• 2006-02-17 Poll Feb 14 2006: 80% of Americans think Iran would nuke USA if it gets the bomb
• 2006-02-13 US planning to nuke Iran after another 9/11, even if Iran not involved
• US Army: Israel has no military option against Iranian targets, US does? Iranian bomb by
• Australia pressuring IAEA over Iran
• “Use of force comes up whenever we talk to Washington” on Iran, say Euro diplomats
• 2006-01-03 Iran warns against Kuwaiti plan to drill in gas field claimed by Iran
• 2005-12-09 Israeli plan for possible war in March 2006 – Iran getting satellite and anti-missile capability
• 2005-10-30 Iran bomb 12 to 48 months away, learn to live with it: US Army Strategic Studies Institute
• 2005-10-28 Blair hints at military action after Iran’s ‘disgraceful’ taunt
• 2005-10-15 Iran bomb Oct 2005 to Oct 2009, military strike self-defeating says US Army Strategic Studies Institute in 2005
• 2005-09-23 Saudi foreign minister: We fought a war to keep Iran out of Iraq, and now US is handing it to Iran
• 2005-06-21 Scott Ritter opinion – US war with Iran has already begun – 2005
• 2005-01-26 Blair refuses to rule out military strike on Iran
• Israeli Def Min: Iranian nuclear power a “threat to the free world”
• 2005-01-03 Neocons say only pre-emptive strike will work on Iran
• 2003-11-23 Israel serious about pre-emptive strike on Iran, Bushehr “too big” for nuclear power only, point of no return in 2004
• 2003-10-10 Israel planning attack on secret Iran nuclear sites; leaks warning they have nuclear missiles on submarines with US Harpoon missiles; Iran can already make weapons grade uranium