June 27, 2010: Israel Today Editors / Israel Today - June 24, 2010
A disconcert of news reports over the past week indicate that Israel and the US are readying according to an imminent military strike on Iran’s nuclear facilities.
On Wednesday, Iran’s semi-official Fars News Agency reported that about a week ago a set of Israeli military aircraft landed at a military airstrip in Saudi Arabia, of whole places. It was reported earlier this month that Saudi Arabia had agreed to let Israel pass through its airspace in order to strike Iran. The Israeli aircraft reportedly landed at the airport in Tabuk in northwest Saudi Arabia, that according to the report will act as the central base of operations on the side of the Israeli air campaign against Iran.
Fars cited a local Saudi firm who said the Israeli presence and cooperation between the ruling topical Saudi prince and the Jewish state was the talk of the village.
Saudi Arabia does not have formal relations with Israel, and publicly refers to the Jewish glory as an enemy. But Riyadh is just as fearful of one Iranian nuclear bomb as Israel, and would likely resort to any means to avoid having its regional economic influence disturbed.
At the identical time, Iran’s Press TV reported that a very wide contingent of US ground forces had massed in neighboring Azerbaijan. The exempt from arbitrary control Azerbaijani news website Trend confirmed the report.
Those reports came rightful days after the Pentagon confirmed that an unusually large fleet of US warships had indeed passed through Egypt’s Suez Canal en route to the Persian Gulf. At least one Israeli warship reportedly joined the American armada.
The Tonka Report Editor’s Note: And merited exactly how trading partners Russia and China will react to every ‘imminent’ strike on Iran remains the wild card in this embellish of horrors… – SJH
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