This is nothing new....

The renewed threat comes as earlier in October, Ephraim Sneh, a former Israeli deputy defense minister, said that time was running out for action to stop Iran's nuclear enrichment program.

"If no crippling sanctions are introduced by Christmas, Israel will strike," Sneh said. "If we are left alone, we will act alone."

It's a former minister, and it's being reported many many times before.

They probably will, but not alone.

If they want to act alone, let them die alone. Leave US Troops out of this

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I wish there was a quick way to make a timeline of the threads saying Israel will attack Iran by such and such time. The others didn't live up to their hype and neither will this one.

Israel isn't going to attack Iran.

Why Christmas? What's Christmas to Jews and Persians? Riiiigghhhhtttt!

Thats the pot calling the kettle black, Israel won't let inspectors into their nuclear reactors or areas. But anyway, they won't attack unless they are guaranteed backup from the US. For the simple fact that they can't launch enough sorties to attack Iran except for the reactors. And after they attack the reactors it's no guarantee that they hit them or even destroy them. Then Iran will have been attacked and will respond by launching missiles into Israel. Remember, their targeting and rockets are alot better and accurate than Iraq and they haven't been hit with sanctionsfor years either. So everything they will be firing at will be hit on target. Israel can't afford to trade shots with a country that has more money and more weapons than they (including a large population and the ability to attack them.). They need the US to help to stop any blowback and/or attack their ability to respond.

Go ahead Israel, attack Iran. Turn the rest of the world against you, start another pointless war.

With its credibility already in shambles, an attack on Iran would pretty much make Israel the bad guys in everyone's minds, possibly even the US. They want to go it in alone, assure their own destruction, go ahead. I just pray that this is all just words and no action; any kind of war between Israel and Iran would cause the world millions of deaths, and could even possibly upscale into a full world war if people are as ignorant as they have always been. This would be a sad day indeed.

Obamas shift on the Polish shield has brought Russia back into the equasion -will Medvedov put the pressure there on Iran ?
Its significant that Iran is warning Russia of its obligations to comply with a contract signed 2 years ago for defensive missiles.
even if Israel did go it alone it would still drag the region into play.
Iran has stalled and stalled.
America cannot afford this war which would undoubtedly be a precedent to WW3-Obama knows it and so does Russia and China.
No doubt without the US lifting a finger,they will be accused of starting it-its a no win situation.

Please consider the source...Presstv, Iran's national spin.

Presstv has been proven to spin as well as outright lie on a number of occasions.

Just use the search function to see on ATS as well as google.

This crap has been going on forever. let's get on with it already. I need something else to watch on the news besides political reruns.

Oh yay! A Christmas War. Why didnt they say Channukah?

Seriously though? Someone reign Israel in. They're gonna blow up the world, these non-signatories to the NNPT and owners of uncontrolled and unaccounted for nukes themselves. Why are all the rules different for them? I call for sanctions on Israel due to their continued threats and spouting of this kind of inflammatory smack talk!

Israel's been trying to drag the U.S. into an attack on Iran for a decade now. Probably only the shrewd-as-a-fox, attention-grabbing, crazy talk and actions of Ahmadinejad getting all eyes on this have avoided Iran having gone the way of Iraq thus far.

Edit to add...on second thought, again, why did they say Christmas in this article? Neither Israel nor Iran is very Christian. What gives?


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