"Efforts to persuade Iran to freeze its programme of uranium enrichment are entering a dangerous new phase. Viewed from Tehran, the west is playing a classic game of good cop, bad cop. The good cop, the EU foreign policy chief Javier Solana, tells them that a package of incentives is still on the table if they halt enrichment. The bad cop, Israel, sends 100 fighter planes 870 miles into the eastern Mediterranean (the distance between Israel and Iran's main enrichment plant at Natanz) for an exercise designed to show military readiness for a long-range attack," an article published by The Gudardian reads.
According to the author of the article, Israeli message to the US is quit eclear: "If you are not prepared to act, we will and soon."
"Israel would buy time by destroying Natanz and other sites, but not enough to forestall the eventual outcome," the article reads.
"Any US president would think long and hard about the power of Iran's revolutionary guards to undo the tenuous progress achieved in Iraq, for which he, as commander in chief, has paid with the lives of 4,106 of his troops. There is also Afghanistan and the Strait of Hormuz through which 90% of Gulf oil passes. And that is before you even get to Hizbullah's long-range rockets. A ball of fire, the phrase of Mohamed El Baradei, the head of the International Atomic Energy Agency, would not even begin to describe the fallout from an Israeli attack,"the author concludes.
