Ya'alon: War with Iran inevitable

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Ya'alon: War with Iran inevitable

By Reuters
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1023146.html


Former Israel Defense Forces chief of staff Moshe "Boogie" Ya'alon said yesterday that Israel will not be able to avoid a military confrontation with Iran, and called on the international community to stand up to Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad as it did against Nazi Germany.

"Today, we in the West are facing the same situation, the lack of decisiveness toward a threat no less severe than that which Hitler posed in 1939," said Ya'alon yesterday, after Ahmadinejad publicly vowed to stop any attacker before he can "pull the trigger." Advertisement


The United States and its allies are seeking to step up UN sanctions on Iran over what they see as a bid to build nuclear arms. Iran denies this.

Speaking at a military parade, Ahmadinejad said the sanctions have not worked. "Iran is not in a position to show even the smallest flexibility against the bullying of the enemies. Those who wish ill for Iran will gain nothing but regret," he said. "The enemies of humanity ... had imagined that by military attack, and economic and scientific sanctions, they could break down our revolution and our nation."

Iran says it would respond to an attack by the U.S. and Israel if any such assault was made.

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Le Figaro.fr - some North Korean experts are involved in developing nuclear missiles by the Iranian regime on a site that was previously not identified, said today in Vienna the group of exiled opposition National Council of Resistance Iran (NCRI).

"The number of North Korean experts visiting Iran for a few days or a few months to help develop nuclear warheads can be counted in tens," said Ali Safavi, a spokesman for the organization.

According to him, these experts intervene "for at least two years" on a secret military site in the Hemmat Khojar region, south-east of Tehran, where according to the NCRI seven companies are involved in the adaptation of ballistic missile medium-range Shahab-3 With nuclear warheads.

The NCRI said that based on sources "within the regime" presented satellite photos of the alleged site to the press, while the Board of Governors of the 'International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) met this week in the Austrian capital, Vienna.

"We handed these documents to the IAEA. We now put the challenge to inspect the site," said Safavi.

The UN agency, which seeks to establish whether Iran's nuclear program is strictly civilian, cannot however conduct an on-site inspection.

On September 22, the IAEA presented its members with documents and pictures suggesting that Iran had tried to modify the warhead of the Shahab-3 to accommodate a load.