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For decades, Israel's been nuclear armed and dangerous. Its grand strategy dictates nuclear weapons use in response to unspecified "nonconventional" attacks. It also suggests preemptive use against Iran's underground facilities, and has US-supplied bunker buster capability for it. Perhaps a joint US/Israeli attack is planned.
Moreover, Israel's a nuclear outlaw. It never signed NPT and prohibits Dimona facility inspections. For decades, it illegally produced warheads. Heroic whistleblower Mordechai Vanunu exposed it. Knowledgeable experts confirmed it. Media scoundrels suppress it.
Covert Operations and Other Destabilization Tactics
For years, Washington pushed the envelope with Iran. The Bush administration authorized covert CIA destabilization. Congress appropriated $400 million for it. Obama continues similar policies.
In spring 2010, Iranian intelligence discovered the Stuxnet malware computer virus infecting its Bushehr nuclear facility. At the time, operations were halted indefinitely.
Israel was blamed. Washington was also implicated. Calling it a hostile act, General Gholam-Reza Jalali said if Bushehr went online infected, Iran's entire electrical power grid could have been shut down.
On November 12, 2011, an explosion destroyed the Revolutionary Guard's Bid Kaneh base. Seventeen deaths resulted, including a founder of Iran's missile program.
On November 28, another Isfahan explosion badly damaged a uranium enrichment facility. On December 11, a Yazd explosion at a steel mill allegedly linked to Iran's nuclear program killed at least seven.
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