When will Israel attack Iran?

Israel's threat of military action against Iran's alleged nuclear weapons programme is not a bluff, the country's deputy foreign minister has told Sky News.
Danny Ayalon issued the warning in the same week America and the UN called on the Islamic Republic to swiftly accept an offer from Western nations to export its uranium and have it processed abroad.
"The one who's bluffing is Iran, which is trying to play with cards they don't have," he said.
"All the bravado that we see and the testing and the very dangerous and harsh rhetoric is hiding a lot of weaknesses."

Mr Ayalon accused Iran of stalling tactics, saying: "If Iranian behaviour and conduct continues as they have exhibited so far, it is obvious that their intentions are only to buy time and procrastinate."
The minister also refused to rule out the use of military options by Israel or other nations against Iran if other measures fail.
Israel and America do not accept Tehran's claims its nuclear programme is only for civilian purposes.
Israeli analysts say the country is finalising its plans to attack Iran if necessary.
Dr Ronen Bergman, author of The Secret War With Iran, said if current trends continue, an Israeli strike will be inevitable.
"If history continues on its current path - yes, at the end of the day, Israel will attack," he said.
"The Iranians have expressed no willingness to stop the project. They see it as a necessity as an insurance policy for the regime to have the bomb."

The challenges of carrying out such a strike 1,000 miles from home against well-defended, deeply-buried nuclear facilities are considerable.
But so are the risks - Israel could expect a counter attack from Iranian allies, Hizbollah and Hamas, and terrorist attacks worldwide.
It would incur the wrath of America and the condemnation of European allies.
It would also risk handing Iran the moral high ground and giving the Islamic Republic an excuse for pursuing the bomb in earnest.
But observers in the Middle East believe all those considerations are secondary to the Israeli government's top priority.
"Israel is a tiny country. Israel cannot even sustain even one nuclear blast," said Dr Bergman.
"Therefore from the Israeli point of view the only way to combat it is not by a balance of deterrence but by preventing the other side from having it in the first place."

HurtinAlbertan wrote:Probably never. If Israel attacks Iran, it would be the dumbest PR move in Israeli history. It would likely sway public opinion against Israel permantly.

grumpy old man wrote:

HurtinAlbertan wrote:Probably never. If Israel attacks Iran, it would be the dumbest PR move in Israeli history. It would likely sway public opinion against Israel permantly.

I doubt it.

But Israel will make every effort to ensure the world knows that Iran is threatening Israel and Israel is merely defending themselves.

That said I don't see it happening. I suspect Israel has enough nukes to take out all their enemies and the Arab world knows it. Nobody wants to start that war...

JTF wrote:
I don't believe that we get the real story of what's happening within Iran here through the mainstream media. I've come across a few articles lately that speak to this but can't remember where. Others must have read this also?

rosencrentz wrote:Anyone who thinks Israel is "finalizing" a plan to attack Iran, doesn't know anything about Israel!
The plan is ready, finalized, and WE are depending on the USA, that great country that defends all democracies in the Middle East, to try and get Iran from completing their development of a nuclear bomb.
Does anyone remember Israel took out Iraq's nuclear facility, with aid from the USA?
Anyone wanting to know the details of the attack P.M. me or MizP, as we both have the plans! lol

JTF wrote:However, U of Ottawa professor Michel Chossudovsky, Director of the Centre for Research on Globalization (CRG), says that Israel would not attack would the explicit backing of the US.

Well Duh.

RogerStrong wrote:Right-wing blogs and sites like Infowars and WorldNetDaily were telling people that Israel would attack Iran in 2007. They had to, to get US support, before the 2008 election campaigns started.

Then they told us that Israel would attack in mid-2008. They had to, to get US support, before the 2008 election itself.'

Then they told us that Israel would attack around December 2008 - January 2009. They had to, to get US support, before the power was handed over to the Democrats.

That attack has been Real Soon Now, every few weeks ever since.

Of course, just do a Google search on israel iran attack 2006, to find endless predictions on an attack in 2006. The same goes for 2005, 2004, 2003 etc.

The attack will still be Real Soon Now in 2015.