Britain's Sunday Times newspaper has revealed that Israel has concrete plans for dealing with Iran's nuclear facilities, and is already training pilots for the 2000 mile mission. Nuclear weapons would be used in the strike, to ensure the complete destruction of the plants which are heavily fortified and buried deep underground. Russia has just completed around half its shipment of anti-aircraft missiles for the purpose of defending Iran's nuclear installations, despite the UN sanctions against their nuclear programme. The Israeli intelligence service, Mossad, believes Iran is around two years away from obtaining enough enriched Uranium to manufacture a nuclear warhead.

Quote: "The attack would be the first with nuclear weapons since 1945, when the United States dropped atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The Israeli weapons would each have a force equivalent to one-fifteenth of the Hiroshima bomb. Under the plans, conventional laser-guided bombs would open "tunnels" into the targets. "Mini-nukes" would then immediately be fired into a plant at Natanz, exploding deep underground to reduce the risk of radioactive fallout. "As soon as the green light is given, it will be one mission, one strike and the Iranian nuclear project will be demolished," said one of the sources. 

Some have predicted that such a strike would be carried out in March of this year, for this is the date Ahmadinejad has declared Iran's nuclear facilities will be completed by. Iran has reacted angrily to the news of the Israeli plans, and has stated any actions carried out against the country will cause the Israelis deep regret. Israel has stated the nuclear weapons will only be used to take out Iranian targets if the US does not intervene in the situation. As someone once told me before, now that the Democrats have control of the Senate and Congress, it is doubtful whether America will have the political resolve to come to Israel's aid. Russia and China aren't going to be too pleased when their nuclear plants in Iran come crashing down, and Israel won't be too pleased if they loose any pilots due to Russian-made missile systems and Chinese opposition to hard-line sanctions against Teheran. The result of all this is, it's becoming easier and easier to see how the Gog Magog war as described in Ezekiel 38-39 will eventually unfold.

Ezekiel 38:19-20 
For in my jealousy and in the fire of my wrath have I spoken, Surely in that day there shall be a great shaking in the land of Israel; So that the fishes of the sea, and the fowls of the heaven, and the beasts of the field, and all creeping things that creep upon the earth, and all the men that are upon the face of the earth, shall shake at my presence, and the mountains shall be thrown down, and the steep places shall fall, and every wall shall fall to the ground.

Source Times Online, Persian Journal