Iran has been a part of Jewish history since Biblical times. The biblical books of Ezra, Nehemiah, and Esther tell the story, life, and experiences of the Jews in Persia.
From the establishment of the State of Israel in 1948 until the Iranian Revolution in 1979, Israel and Iran had a fairly close relationship. Their military ties and projects were kept secret. They had also been cooperating in the development of a joint missile project.
Ahmadinejad was elected president in August 2005. Since then, he has consistently attacked Israel and its right to exist. He was quoted as saying. “The Israeli regime must be wiped off the map.” The Iranian attempt to develop nuclear capabilities alongside threats from the current regime has prompted Israel to warn Iran that it is prepared to undertake unilateral military action. Israel will take such action as long as the international community does not stop the development of Iranian capabilities to develop nuclear weapons.
In 2005, Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon gave the green light to IDF Special Forces to plan possible attacks on uranium enrichment sites in Iran.
The US Department of Defense is aware of that option and is cooperating with the Israelis on this issue.
There is a secret Israeli plan to attack the Iranian nuclear enrichment facilities in Natanz. It could be executed using special nuclear bunker destroyers developed by Israel.
Those penetrating bombs are far more effective than the US GBU-39 penetrating bunker bombs that the Bush administration sold to Israel.
It could be done with a single strike and the Iranian nuclear project would be wiped out.
A declassified secret CIA document from October 1994 deals with Iran’s pattern of assassinations.
Iran’s policy of assassinating opponents has changed little under President Ali Hashemi Rafsanjani. The number of killings committed by Iran has remained virtually constant during Rafanjani’s tenure. Since 1989, Iran has carried out an average of five murders a year, and Tehran-backed groups, particularly radical Turkish Islamists, average another two murders a year.
Key objectives have remained largely unchanged during Rafanjani’s tenure. Most of the Iranian assassination targets are members of the Mojahedine Khalq or the Kurdish Democratic Party of Iran (KDP-I). Iran attacks these two groups far more frequently than the third key Iranian target, the supporters of the former Shah of Iran’s son.
Some specific targets have changed to accommodate alterations in Iranian foreign policy, Saudi diplomats came under fire during 1989 and 1990, shortly after Saudi Arabia executed the Kuwaiti Shiites responsible for the 1989 Hajj bombings, but they have not been attacked since. Iran rarely depends on surrogates to carry out assassinations of Iranian opponents.
Iran often relies on surrogates for attacks on non-Iranians. Iranian-backed Turkish Islamic groups, for example, have been responsible for killing a handful of secular Turkish journalists and a member of Parliament since 1989.
In addition, attacks on foreigners in Turkey, including the attempted assassination of Jewish businessman Jak Kamhi (1993) and the bombings that killed US serviceman Victor Marvick (1991) and Israeli security officer Ehud Sadan (1992), were They have linked with Iranian-backed Islamic groups.
Although the pace and targets of Iranian assassinations are not changing significantly, a review of the assassinations since 1989 suggests that Iran is killing fewer opponents in Europe and more in Southwest Asia, particularly Turkey and Iraq.
We suspect that this change is due to Iran’s interest in protecting its diplomatic and economic initiatives in Europe.
We note that the decline in murders in Europe began in 1993, when Iran began to experience difficulties repaying external loans and the United States increased pressure on European countries to suspend credits to Iran. The countries surrounding Iran, particularly Turkey, Iraq and Pakistan, offer a host of targets, and the assassinations in those countries result in fewer diplomatic reactions for Iran than the assassinations in Europe. Despite the apparent shift from Europe and the increased focus on killings in Southwest Asia, we have seen several suspected killings of opponents in Europe over the past year.
We cannot confirm that they were made by Iran and we have not included them in our statistics. These attacks include: January 17, 1994. Bagarmossen, Sweden. A member of the KDP-I was seriously injured by a letter-bomb addressed to his wife, also a member of the KDP-I, according to the defense attaché. October 11, 1994. Oslo, Norway. William Nygaard, Norwegian editor of Salman Rushdie’s novel The Satanic Verses, was shot near his home.
Iranian threats with its aggressive attempts to develop nuclear weapons have forced Israel to prepare for preventive action.
There have been many signs, public and covert, that Israel is and has been conducting exercises for such an act. One of those exercises, according to certain sources, was the attempted landing at Budapest airport by two civilian aircraft in March 2010.
Another source claims that the secret plan is to generate a diversion near the main target in Iran by such civilian aircraft while at the same time military bombers will hit the target. The distance from Israel to Iran is somewhat less than that from Israel to Hungary …