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ISRAEL is preparing to strike Iranian nuclear plants if faced with a revenge attack for the death of a top Tehran commander last week.
Netanyahu‘s war cabinet has been locked in crunch meetings over fears that Iran will launch an assault as Middle East tensions threaten to boil over into all-out war.
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The targeting of nuclear sites with Israeli rockets could fuel chances of a global conflict
Israel’s plans come after Iran threatened to retaliate and bragged about its weaponsNow a Western security official has revealed that Israel will respond to any attacks by striking Iran‘s nuclear targets directly.
Israeli forces have been conducting air force drills in preparation for the dangerous escalation, Elaph News reports.
Tehran’s embassy in Syrian capital Damascus was destroyed in a suspected Israeli strike last Monday – killing several top brass commanders.
General Mohammad Reza Zahedi died alongside six senior members of Iran’s twisted terrorist army, the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps.
Iran’s formidable Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei quickly hit out with revenge threats and vowed to “defeat the Zionist regime”.
Snarling Tehran President Ebrahim Rasi said Israel’s alleged blast “will not go unanswered”.
Experts told The Sun that retaliation by Iran, behind terror groups including Hamas, Hezbollah and Houthi rebels, would spark a global war.
Former British tank commander and military analyst Hamish de-Bretton Gordon described the countries as “sworn enemies”.
In the six months since war broke out between Hamas and Israel, Iranian terror proxies have wreaked havoc across the Middle East – fanning the flames of a potential global conflict.
Hours after Iran threatened to strike Israel in revenge, national security defences shot up and the army jumped to action in preparation for the worst.
Israeli soldiers had planned leave cancelled and reservists were called up.
GPS across the country was also shut down as air defences and missile stores were shored up.
A fuming Netanyahu hit back that Israel knows how to defend itself – and would harm anyone who posed a threat.
The PM raged: “Iran has been acting against us for years..We will know how to defend ourselves.
“And we will act according to the simple principle: that those who harm us or plan to harm us, we will harm.”
Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei prays over the coffins of the seven IRGC officers killed in the strikeNuclear sites in Iran
IRAN, a formidable and dangerous world power, is home to a number of nuclear sites.
It is thought to have active nuclear sites, research reactors and uranium mines.
Arak plant – satellite pictures of this plant near the Iranian town of Arak surfaced over 20 years ago.
It contains a heavy-water reactor with plutonium that can be used for nuclear bombs.
Bushehr nuclear power station – this power plant is a combination of Russian and German engineering.
It’s nuclear reactor is operating at 100% power and the site is home to enriched uranium, used for nuclear bombs.
Gachin uranium mine – home to uranium ore concentrate, or yellowcake, which can be transformed into enriched uranium ready for nuke bomb assembling.
Isfahan conversion plant – yellowcake is converted here into three dangerous substances.
Hexafluoride gase used in the enrichment process, uranium oxide used to fuel reactors and metal used in the cores of nuclear bombs.
Natanz uranium enrichment plant – this is Iran’s largest enrichment base.
It’s made up of three underground buildings and is closely watched by the international community.
Parchin military site – south of Tehran, this site is focused on research and the production of ammo, rockets and explosives.
Concerns have been raised that it is also used as part of Iran’s nuclear weapon development.
Qom uranium enrichment plant – a heavily fortified and initially secret facility where Iran carries out uranium enrichment.
Iran is littered with nuclear power plants, research facilities and reactors.
An attack targeted at one of these could mark an unprecedented escalation in an already volatile environment.
There is no way to tell exactly how Iran would respond or whether either country would resort to actually dispatching nuclear weapons.
It did publish a worrying graphic just days ago showing nine different types of Iranian missiles capable of reaching Israel.
Some can fly at a top speed of 560mph, but most of Tehran’s terror collection can reach a range of 1242 miles.
Top Iranian general Mohammad Reza Zahedi who was killed in the Damascus blast
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Iran revealed a list of the destructive missiles it could launch at Israel
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