Israel cannot and in the coming years will not be able to stop or even significantly slow down the Iranian nuclear program by military means. This is reported by New York Times from the words of Israeli military experts, current and former security officers.
The American edition quotes the estimates of several anonymous sources in the Higher Military Guide of Israel, which in one voice indicate the impact of the threat of “stop Iran on their own”, which louder sounds from the mouth of the Israeli leadership against the background of the bounce negotiations in Vienna, reports the publication “News Israel “.
To stop the Iranian nuclear program, you must simultaneously strike at dozens of objects, and the main nuclear enterprises of Iran, underground factories in Fordo and Netzenza, practically unacceptable for the Israeli Air Force – To destroy them, military resources are required, significantly exceeding the army of defense. Israel (PCAL).
According to Israeli sources of New York Times, there are no resources for such a large-scale military operation at a distance of thousands of kilometers from its borders – there is no sufficient amount of anti-banner bombs, nor bombers for their delivery, there are no modern means of refueling in the air.
This week, the Israeli Political Observer and the Investigative Journalist Raviv Drucker reported that the former Prime Minister of Benjamin Netanyahu twice denied the IDF in the allocations for the preparation of operational impact plans for Iran and delayed the beginning of training at least one and a half years .. Sources NEW York Times It is said that the Tsakhal had a plan of operation against Iran in 2012, and this plan was preparing for three years. The plan was not launched, and after 2015 the IDF was increasingly engaged in the Iranian direction. In 2017, the Israeli has decided to purchase eight new reflector aircraft, but the Netanyahu government ordered them only in the past March, and the first aircraft from the ordered party will arrive in Israel not earlier than 2024.
The only expert who performed under his name and insisted that the IDF was able to defeat the Iranian nuclear program – the retired General of the Air Force Amos Yadelin. He said that “we have one of the best Air Force in the world, we have very good intelligence in Iran and can do it.” Yadlin stressed at the same time, that would support the military blow to Iran only as a “extreme measure,” when there is no other way out.