Israeli experts are split whether the new deal is merely bad, or a ticking time bomb of a disaster
Miles above Israel’s towns and cities, the decades-long shadow campaign against Iran is playing out.
For the hundreds of thousands of Israelis who live within the vicinity of military airfields, the thunder of jet engines as fighter planes take off is nothing new. Predawn, midday, dusk, the sleek gray planes vanish into the heavens, landing lights winking and afterburners flaring.
What they do up in the blue yonder is classified. But according to a steady stream of media reports — domestic and foreign — as well as striking Iranian proxies to Israel’s north, the Israeli Air Force is intensively drilling an attack on the Islamic Republic itself. The IAF’s new stealth jets have penetrated deep into Iranian airspace, probing the country’s defenses.
Whether those planes actually end up dropping their payloads on Iran’s reinforced nuclear sites has just gotten more likely, or far less so, depending on your perspective on the new “Iran Deal,” whose signing is believed to be a question of time.
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