Israel Stations Nuclear Missile Subs off Iran

Three German-built Israeli submarines equipped with nuclear cruise missiles are to be deployed in the Gulf near the Iranian coastline. The first has been sent in response to Israeli fears that ballistic missiles developed by Iran, Syria and Hezbollah, a political and military organization in Lebanon, could hit sites in Israel, including air bases and missile launchers. The submarines of Flotilla 7 — Dolphin, Tekuma and Leviathan — have visited the Gulf before. But the decision has now been taken to ensure a permanent presence of at least one of the vessels. Each of the submarines has a crew of 35 to 50, commanded by a colonel capable of launching a nuclear cruise missile.

The vessels can remain at sea for about 50 days and stay submerged up to 1,150ft below the surface for at least a week. Some of the cruise missiles are equipped with the most advanced nuclear warheads in the Israeli arsenal. The submarines could be used if Iran continues its program to produce a nuclear bomb. “The 1,500km range of the submarines’ cruise missiles can reach any target in Iran,” said a navy officer.

Source: The Sunday Times , London, May 30, 2010

Author: Uzi Mahnaimi in Tel Aviv

URL: http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/europe/article7140282.ece

Faculty Evaluator:  Peter Phillips, Sonoma State University

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  • Mr. Blair M. Phillips

    If the Zionist governments military, the IDF were to launch two submarine based nuclear weapons against Iran, they could then say that they had destroyed Irans nuclear weapons.
    Then, Zionist owned and controlled media could “control the message” just like the USS Liberty was attacked “in self defense” almost 50 years ago. Or would the citizens of this world read enough alternative media sources like “Project Censored” and chose not to believe the lies?

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  • Clyde

    I have noticed, in life, that the more corrupt a person or organization is, the more paranoid they are that others are like themselves. This becomes a terrible cycle for them that increases their paranoia and their irrational poise.

    So it is, that Israel is like major paranoid.

    Eventually, these paranoids have to be either calmed down and brought to reason, or restrained so that they stop causing harm to others that are not similar to themselves.

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  • mike

    in responce to this one sided article which does not mention at all the attitude of iran constantly threatening to wipe out israel the two above readers only seem to have read one side of the story…the south of israel is constantly under rocket attack from irans proxy “hamas” even though israel has totaly withdrawen from the gaza strip.the north of the country is fenced off against attacks from another iran proxy “hizbula” .both these terrorist organisations are recognised as that by the eu,america,and other countries,and have in their charters “to wipe israel off the map of the world” ….it seems after all the bombing ,terror attacks israel has a right to be paranoid about protecting its citizens ..stop being armchair experts..come and visit israel..see what its like ..

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  • Mark

    More people are killed every year in traffic accidents in Israel than have been killed in total by rocket attacks from Gaza. The rockets are unguided ballistic projectiles that often do not hit any populated area, and they frequently do little damage when they do. This is not to suggest they are good, but they are a fleabite in terms of injury to Israel, instead providing justification for Israel’s steady escalation of force against Palestinians. Israel may have withdrawn from Gaza, but it controls all traffic in and out except a few tunnels from Egypt.

    Ahmedinijad never said Israel must be wiped off the map. This has been debunked repeatedly by people who actually speak Arabic, yet the original lie continues to be circulated by people who obviously don’t even speak one language properly. He said the “regime must vanish from the page of time”. There was no mention of wiping anything off the map, which has a distinctly warlike tone and is why uninformed blockheads and Israel-Firsters continue using it.

    If the United States even made its support for Israel conditional, never mind withdrawing it altogether, Israel would have to make accomodations with its neighbours. As it is, Israel can grin and caper from behind Uncle Sam’s coattails, secure in the knowledge it is protected by a superpower, and thus unaccountable.

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  • Thunderhawk

    If Israel behaved like a civilized nation, it would not have enemies. Like its progenitor and servile benefactor, the US, Both believe that the only way to solve a problem (many of which are of its own manufacture) is to use violence. This is the trait of a pathological criminal of low intelligence. One consolation for the rest of us is that this type usually self-destructs and we are seeing this process starting to happen to them now. Unfortunately, they are incapable of seeing it.

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  • SeriousCitizen

    Military officers, media pundits, and general war mongers all talk about war on Iran as though it would be a video game with no consequences, sort of like the bombing of Iraq’s Osirak reactor in 1981, or Syria’s supposed reactor in 2007. But those were both construction sites. Iran’s Bushehr reactor and its nuclear refinery in Natanz are both loaded with nuclear materials. Bombing them will kill thousands, maybe millions, and contaminate a wide region, including the Persian Gulf where half of the world’s oil comes from. If Israel bombs Iran’s reactors, that will cause the complete collapse of the US economy, which cause violent anti-Semitism in the USA. For Israel and the USA, starting a new war in the Persian Gulf will be a kind of national suicide. They should think of the consequences of more war.

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  • http://obama-watch.com Jim Houle

    This is a poor example of uncensored news. Murdock’s London Times has published this story several times in various guises. It has never been confirmed elsewhere. The confirmed facts seem to be that at least one of these three German made diesel powered small subs that can pack a nuclear tipped missile transited the Suez Canal (north to south) with Egyptian approval. There is no confirmation that it ever entered the Persian (or Arabian) Gulf, not is it likely that either the US, which has an armada of Navy vessels in the Gulf, nor Iran, which controls the Straits of Hormoz, would allow such a transit. The only real fact is the transit of the Suez Canal sometime in June. Israel has a naval base near Elath in the Gulf of Aqaba, which connects to the Red Sea south of Suez, and it may be that the sub has now surfaced there, since it is unable to stay below the surface indefinitely. If your reputation is to stand on the basis of uncensored news and well-checked facts rather than fictions, then citing only The Times as a source, when most of us classify Murdock papers as the work of War Pimps, is irresponsible on your part.

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  • http://obama-watch.com Jim Houle

    London Times also says israeli nukes are off the Iranian coastline. The Israeli sub base at Elath is 1600 kilometers from Natanz, the site Iranian uranium enrichment plant. Any 12 year old with an Atlas could tell you that this is not ” near the Iranian coast” as Murdock’s rag suggests.

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