Israel is preparing to attack Iran: reports

ACCORDING to solid intelligence reports, Israel is preparing to attack Iran from the Air and sea-borne missiles, in an attempt to decapitate Iran's nuclear assets.

- FAROUK ARAIE | Johannesburg

The tense and escalating situation in the Persian Gulf Area is rapidly spiralling out of control.

Any drift towards brinkmanship could ignite an inferno that will be difficult to extinguish. The latest deadly attack on Bandar Abbas and its distribution network graphically illustrates that the Mossad has infiltrated Iran's entire infrastructure.

Any military assault on Iran will have global consequences. At no point since the first atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima has the world been closer to the unthinkable. A nuclear holocaust which could potentially spread, in terms of radioactive fallout, over a large part of the Middle East.

An operational plan to wage aerial attacks on Iran "has been in a state of readiness" since 2005. laser laser-guided bomb using a 4000-pound penetrating warhead will be used, before a massive burst of electronic magnetic weapons.