The Sunday Times January 07, 2007
Revealed: Israel plans nuclear strike on Iran
Uzi Mahnaimi New York and Sarah Baxter Washington
ISRAEL has drawn up secret plans to destroy Iran's uranium enrichment facilities with tactical nuclear weapons.
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Colonel Sam Gardiner, a Pentagon adviser, said Iran could try to close the Strait of Hormuz, the route for 20% of the world's oil.
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link -
<http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2089-2535310,00.html>
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Colonel Gardiner is right.
It's an open secret that Iran is armed with the peerless Moskit, a Russian anti-ship ramjet cruise missile. The US Navy has no reliable defense against this terrifying weapon, which can be precisely aimed and fired about 100 miles distant from its target, hurtling at supersonic speed.
If provoked, Tehran could make things in the Strait of Hormuz...quite interesting.
Mokit info -
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moskit>
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