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Iran warns of a heavy price for planned joint US-Israel military exercises. Photo/Illustration
“Providing conditions for military commanders to test Iranian missiles with real targets will cost the aggressor a heavy price,” the Nournews news agency, which is affiliated with Iran’s main security agency, said on its Twitter account citing an unnamed military official. Al Arabiya, Sunday (12/11/2021).
It was previously reported that US and Israeli military leaders would discuss possible military exercises for the mission to destroy Iran’s nuclear facilities. The mission against Tehran would be taken in the worst case scenario.
Plans for discussing the military drills were revealed by a senior US official on Wednesday.
A senior US official told Reuters the possible military drills would prepare for the worst-case scenario against Iran, in which nuclear negotiations fail and US and Israeli leaders call for a military strike.
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In January, Israel’s army chief Aviv Kohavi announced that he was instructing the military to draw up a new plan for an attack on Iran’s nuclear program. The IDF received billions of shekels of additional funds to prepare for such attacks as part of the recently passed national budget.
Last month, Kohavi told the Knesset (Parliament) Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee that the military was accelerating operational planning and readiness to confront Iran and its military nuclear threat.
Although Israeli officials have stressed that Israel can carry out strikes without coordinating with the United States, some analysts doubt the IDF’s ability to do so, as some Iranian facilities are buried deep enough underground to require extremely powerful munitions, currently only available to the US. .
Reports in recent weeks suggest that the Israeli military is ill-prepared to deal with Iran and is months or further away from an actionable plan.
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