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Time for MOABs?

In the 5th day of Netanyahu’s war on Iran, with the death ratio 10/1 Iran/Israel as Israel likes it (actually it is much higher in their wars on Gaza and Lebanon), news comes that President Trump has left the G7 meeting in Canada a day early to get back for a meeting he called of his National Security Council to discuss Netanyahu’s war. 

Netanyahu wants U.S. military engagement especially the bombing of Fordo and Natanz with MOAB (Mother of All Bombs, which the U.S. developed at high cost specifically for use against Iran, and has only had one trial in Afghanistan). One can guess that the U.S. is already supplying intelligence and munitions, as well as knocking Iranian missiles and drones out of the sky. Netanyahu keeps calling for completing the job of destroying Iran’s uranium enrichment equipment underground at Fordo and Natanz. You can bet that the MOAB developers would welcome its use, to demonstrate what it can do and complete their job. And the Iran hawks in Washington are no doubt using all their influence to get Trump’s decision. 

It will be interesting to see how the President justifies his decision to bomb the country he has been praising and negotiating with. Whatever he says, the world will take at face value as fake news. U.S. reputation will head toward zero, but the President doesn’t care about that. 

What about Iran? Are they just sitting around waiting for the sky to fall? Isn’t it likely that they have powered down the centrifuges at Natanz and Fordo to protect them? And wouldn’t it be dumb not to have moved to safety the UF6 cylinders with 60% (and maybe 20%) enriched uranium? So perhaps MOAB will make a very big crater and that’s about all. 

So, we will hold our breath to hear what our President proclaims.

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