Israel Denies Claims It's Preparing Nuke Attack on Iran
Israel's Foreign Ministry is denying a British newspaper report that claims Jerusalem has drafted plans for a low-level nuclear strike on Iran to wipe out its uranium enrichment facilities using nuclear-tipped "bunker busters."
The London Times published in Sunday editions that Israel's intelligence service, Mossad, has determined that Iran will have enriched uranium to make a nuclear weapon within two years.
Iran's president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, has threatened to wipe Israel off the map. If Iran is able to produce nuclear weapons in its underground plants, then "mini-nukes" would be used to destroy facilities at Natanz, Isfahan and Arak, the article claims.
They would be the strength of one-fifteenth of the bombs that went off in 1945 at Hiroshima and Nagasaki and would hit underground to reduce radioactive fallout, the paper said....