ISRAELI F-35 TO ELUDE IRANIAN S-300 MISSILE DEFENCE

“…  “Israeli” fighter aircraft model F-35, “Stealth,” took off on its maiden flight… The arrival of the F-35 to Israel — simultaneously with the supply of S-300 missiles from Russia to Iran — preserves Israel’s qualitative edge over Middle East skies. “In most cases, the F-35 is able to elude the radar of the S-300… The Stealth [aircraft] was built for exactly this purpose and will give us freedom of movement even against this new development.” http://www.al-monitor.com/pulse/originals/2016/08/israel-air-force-prepares-for-receiving-f-35-jets.html?utm_source=Boomtrain&utm_medium=manual&utm_campaign=20160804&bt_email=aatherton@twc.com&bt_ts=1470327848982 

RUSSIA SIGNS S-300 MISSILE CONTRACT

"Russia has signed a contract to supply Iran with sophisticated S-300 surface-to-air missiles... the first batch could be delivered 18 months after Iran has specified the S-300 type that it wants... The $800m (£545m) contract, signed in 2007, was frozen by Russia in 2010 because of the international sanctions. President Vladimir Putin unfroze it in April... The S-300 can be used against multiple targets including jets, or to shoot down other missiles. The S-300B4 variant - delivered to the Russian armed forces last year - can shoot down any medium-range missile in the world today, flies at five times the speed of sound and has a range of 400km (248 miles)... the missiles could be used to protect Iranian nuclear sites from air strikes... a defensive weapon."
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http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-34767012

ISRAEL ALMOST ATTACKED IRAN THREE TIMES

"... former Israeli defense minister, Ehud Barak, revealed new details to his biographers about how close Israel came to striking Iran’s military facilities in 2010, 2011 and 2012... in 2010, the military chief of staff said Israel lacked the “operational capability”; in 2011, two key ministers waffled at the last minute; and in 2012, the timing did not work out because of a joint United States-Israel military exercise..."
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http://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/22/world/middleeast/israel-came-close-to-attacking-iran-ex-defense-minister-says.html?smid=nytcore-ipad-share&smprod=nytcore-ipad&_r=1

RUSSIA LIFTS BAN ON SENDING S-300 ANTI-MISSILE SYSTEM

"... Putin signed a decree lifting Russia's own ban on the delivery of S-300 anti-missile rocket system to Iran... after Moscow canceled a corresponding contract in 2010 under pressure from the West... "

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/04/13/russia-iran-missiles_n_7053940.html

2007 BACKGROUND:  S-300 MISSILES ADDED TO NUCLEAR SITE DEFENSES

"... (Iran) just signed a contract for the supply of another Russian anti-air weapon, the highly sophisticated S-300, rated the most effective killer of ballistic missiles on the market... Moscow has designed the multi-layer air defense system to make Iran proof against Israel’s Air Force and the ballistic missiles in its armory...  the S-300 system uniquely zaps high-flying, medium-range ballistic missiles of the type which is the backbone of Israel’s surface missile units at a distance of 1-40 km. Together, they lend Iran air superiority over any missiles and aircraft. Another of S-300’s significant features is its advanced guidance method which relies on a single phased array radar to trace missiles in the air. This reduces its deployment time to five minutes; secondly, the missiles are sealed rounds and require no maintenance over their lifetime..."

--DEBKAfile (Israel), December 26, 2007

http://www.debka.com/index.php

URANIUM STOCKPILE NOW INADEQUATE TO MAKE BOMB

"... the International Atomic Energy Agency has confirmed that... Iran’s most sensitive nuclear stockpile – uranium refined to a fissile concentration of 20 percent . . . had declined significantly for the first time in four years and was now well below the amount needed for one bomb... Since halting this enrichment under last year’s deal, Iran has diluted some of the material to lower-level uranium and converted some into a less proliferation-sensitive oxide form… Iran lacks the capacity to take the 19.25% enriched uranium up to bomb grade, and there is no evidence that it has solved the many thorny technical problems involved in bomb-making..." 

http://www.juancole.com/2014/02/breakthrough-ignoring-stockpile.html

JEWISH HOSPITAL IN TEHRAN

"Dr. Morsadegh, the director of Tehran's only Jewish hospital,… has never thought about leaving the Islamic Republic, for the simple reason that Iran is his home. "I speak English, I pray in Hebrew, but I think in Persian," said Dr. Morsadegh, a surgeon who is also a member of Parliament. "I am Iranian. Iranian-Jewish."… last week the government of President Hassan Rouhani donated $400,000 to the Dr. Sapir Hospital... For more than 50 years it has been a meeting point for Iranian Jews and Muslims and the most prominent Jewish charity in the capital… About 96 percent of patients are Muslim, like most of the hospital's employees… Though the Jewish population of Iran is dwindling — now at about 9,000, according to an official census by the Statistical Center of Iran, though other estimates range to 20,000 — the country has the largest number of Jews in the Middle East after Israel…."

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/02/10/world/middleeast/jewish-hospital-at-home-in-iran.html

IF U.S. ATTACKS IRAN

"... it now is clear that a US attack on Iranian nuclear installations would be met with little support in the Muslim world. It would also be met by a military response that would collapse the last vestiges of America's political power in the region...  it is likely that America's friends will fall by the wayside, the Gulf Arab states will tremble in fear, the 138,000 US soldiers in Iraq will be held hostage by an angered Shi'ite population, and Iran will respond by an attack on Israel. We would now dare say the obvious - if and when such an attack comes, the United States will be defeated..." 
http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/HJ14Ak01.html