Barak: Iranian reactor at Qom immune to 'regular' strike
Defense Minister Ehud Barak told the Knesset's Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee on Monday that Iran's nuclear facility at Qom is immune to a 'regular' strike. If he elaborated, it hasn't been reported in the media here. Iran's recently-revealed uranium enrichment site at Qom "has been under construction for years, and is hidden in bunkers which are immune to a regular strike," Defense Minister Ehud Barak told the Knesset's Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee on Monday.Arutz Sheva notes specifically that Barak did not mention the prospect of a nuclear strike on Qom.
He also mentioned recent clashes between opposition protesters and Iranian security forces, which he called "the crushing of civilians by the regime."
"The free world isn't doing enough," he stated.
But if Qom is immune to a 'regular' strike, it would seem that there could be two ways to destroy it. One would be a nuclear strike. The other would be a giant bunker buster. Too bad deployment of the giant bunker buster has been delayed to December 2010. Could Israel have developed its own Massive Ordnance Penetrator (the formal name for the giant bunker buster)? Hmmm.
posted by Carl in Jerusalem @ 9:46 PM
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Carl - that's all the more reason for an EMP strike on Iran. There is really no cost-effective way of bombing all the Iran nuclear installations and ensuring they can't be quickly rebuilt. So you have to short out Iran's infrastructure, from which it will take the country decades to recover.
Israel will have to decide whether it wants to be politically correct or inflict such damage on Iran that Iran will not be able to harm Israel in any significant way for a long time to come.
That's the real issue.
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