Israeli experts say can ‘cripple’ Iran’s N-infrastructure

‘‘You need to identify the bottlenecks. There are not very many. If you take them out, then you really undermine the project’’ a senior Israeli military source said.

But experts acknowledge that these attacks are not going to be easy. ‘‘They are dispersed, underground, hardened,’’ an Israeli military source said. American analysts are making the point that each facility would require multiple hits before serious damage was done, the magazine reported.

The Israelis, according to the report, are insisting that they have the firepower necessary for the mission including over 100 US-made BLU-109 ‘‘bunker buster’’ earth-penetrating bombs. ‘‘I think they could do the job,’’ the source told Newsweek.

The report speaks of another hurdle in the plans—logistics and the imperative of each target in Iran being assigned a small fleet of aircraft that would include not just the strike force but an accompaniment of plans that would include mid air refuelling aircrafts and radar jamming systems.
US on Iran sanctions
BRUSSELS: Applying economic sanctions on Iran without UN backing would be legitimate if other efforts failed to convince Tehran to halt uranium enrichment, Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of State Kurt Volker said on Monday.
He said diplomacy may yet culminate in a UN consensus to impose sanctions on Tehran, an option which at present splits the five members of the UN Security Council.
“If we don’t do that (reach that consensus), we will face questions about what we do,” said Volker adding, “I don’t believe there is a question of legitimacy for Europe, the US or others to apply sanctions.”
—Reuters