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Israeli TV reports details preparations to attack Iran

18 April 2012 07:36 (UTC +04:00)

Baku. Konul Jafarli â€“ APA. Israelâ€™s Channel 10 TV station broadcast a detailed report on how Israel will go about attacking Iran’s nuclear facilities in the event that diplomacy and sanctions fail and Israel decides to carry out a military strike.
No order to strike is likely to be given before the P5+1 talks with Iran resume in May, the reporter, Alon Ben-David, said. "But the coming summer will not only be hot but tense."
In the event that negotiations fail and the order is given for Israel to carry out an attack on Iranian nuclear facilities, "dozens if not more planes" will take part in the mission: attack and escort jets, tankers for mid-air refueling, electronic warfare planes and rescue helicopters, the report said.
Ben-David said the Israel Air Force "does not have the capacity to destroy the entire Iranian program." There will be no replication of the decisive strikes on Iraq’s Osirak reactor in 1981 or on Syria in 2007, he said. "The result won’t be definitive, but a pilot quoted in the report said, the IAF will have to ensure that it emerges with the necessary result, with "a short and professional" assault.
Ben-David said that if negotiations break down, and Iran moves key parts of its nuclear program underground to its Qom facility, the IAF "is likely to get the order and to set out on the long journey to Iran."
The reporter said military operations could be conducted by f-15 aircrafts, which would be provided with refueling tankers, and assisted by other warplanes and helicopters. Israeli air forces see Syriaâ€™s and Iranâ€™s Russian-made SA 17 and SA 22 missiles as a threat. If the attack realizes, it would be a largest operation by Israel in the last 30 years, the reporter said.