Israel To Attack Iranian Nuclear Facilities?
So now I read that Israel says it will attack, bomb, and destroy anyone it likes, whenever it likes. I think this is laying the groundwork for an Israeli assault on Iran’s uranium reprocessing facilities. The US often uses the Israeli military as proxies for politically sensitive operations, and Israel did the much the same thing in 1981, when Israeli jets destroyed Iraq’s French-built Osirak nuclear reactor near Baghdad.
The attack raised a number of questions of interpretation regarding international legal concepts. Those who approved of the raid argued that the Israelis had engaged in an act of legitimate self-defense justifiable under international law and under Article 51 of the charter of the United Nations (UN). Critics contended that the Israeli claims about Iraq’s future capabilities were hasty and ill-considered and asserted that the idea of anticipatory self-defense was rejected by the community of states. In the midst of this controversy, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) came under fire from individuals and from governments who complained that the Vienna-based UN agency had failed to alert the world to developments at Osiraq. IAEA officials denied these charges and reaffirmed their position on the Iraqi reactor, that is, that no weapons had been manufactured at Osiraq and that Iraqi officials had regularly cooperated with agency inspectors.
1981, meet 2003!