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Wednesday, February 17, 2010     GET REAL

Ahmadinejad: Israel planning war this summer

NICOSIA — Iran has charged that Israel is planning to launch a regional war by the summer of 2010.   

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said the Jewish state was conducting intensive exercises in preparation for a regional war. Ahmadinejad said such a war could erupt as early as April 2010.

"According to information we have, they [Israel] are seeking to start a war next spring or summer, although their decision is not final yet," Ahmadinejad said on Feb. 16.


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This marked the first time Iran has suggested an Israeli timetable for a regional war. Over the last year, Ahmadinejad and other senior Iranian officials have warned that Israel was building up its military with intensive maneuvers along the borders of Lebanon, Syria and the Gaza Strip.

"But the resistance and regional states will finish them if this fake regime does anything again," Ahmadinejad told a news conference.

Officials said Iran's military has determined that Israel would not conduct an air strike on nuclear facilities in 2010. They said Israel has failed to persuade its allies, particularly Turkey and the United States, to facilitate such a long-range mission by providing air space for refueling in Iraq or Turkey.

Soon after Ahmadinejad's remarks, Iran's leading proxy warned that it could fire missiles toward Israel's financial center. Hizbullah secretary-general Hassan Nasrallah said his force, reported to contain up to 50,000 missiles and rockets, could strike critical facilities in the Jewish state.

"If you hit Rafik Al Hariri international airport in Beirut, we will hit Ben-Gurion airport in Tel Aviv," Nasrallah said. "If you hit our ports, we will bomb your ports, and if you hit our oil refineries, we will bomb your oil refineries."



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