{"id":36212,"date":"2018-07-26T17:34:21","date_gmt":"2018-07-26T22:34:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=36212"},"modified":"2018-07-26T17:34:21","modified_gmt":"2018-07-26T22:34:21","slug":"us-preparing-to-bomb-irans-nuclear-capabilities-as-soon-as-next-month-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=36212","title":{"rendered":"US Preparing To Bomb Iran&#8217;s Nuclear Capabilities As Soon As Next Month: Report"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"block-zerohedge-page-title\" class=\"block block-core block-page-title-block\">\n<h3 class=\"page-title\"><span class=\"field field--name-title field--type-string field--label-hidden\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/news\/2018-07-26\/australian-defense-officials-say-trump-prepared-bomb-iran\">US Preparing To Bomb Iran&#8217;s Nuclear Capabilities As Soon As Next Month: Report<\/a><\/span><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"block-zerohedge-content\" class=\"block block-system block-system-main-block\">\n<article class=\"node node--type-article node--sticky node--view-mode-full\" role=\"article\" data-gtm-vis-recent-on-screen-2077925_22=\"1513\" data-gtm-vis-first-on-screen-2077925_22=\"1513\" data-gtm-vis-total-visible-time-2077925_22=\"100\" data-gtm-vis-has-fired-2077925_22=\"1\">\n<div class=\"node__content\">\n<div class=\"clearfix text-formatted field field--name-body field--type-text-with-summary field--label-hidden field__item\">\n<p>As the White House convenes a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/after-trumps-threat-to-iran-white-house-convenes-a-policy-meeting-1532597520\">policy meeting<\/a> on Iran Thursday involving senior Pentagon officials and cabinet advisers under national security adviser John Bolton, and after a week of\u00a0intense saber-rattling by President Donald Trump and his Iranian counterpart Hassan Rouhani, <strong>a new bombshell report by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.abc.net.au\/news\/2018-07-27\/donald-trump-may-be-prepared-to-strike-iran-sources-say\/10037728\">Australia&#8217;s\u00a0<\/a><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.abc.net.au\/news\/2018-07-27\/donald-trump-may-be-prepared-to-strike-iran-sources-say\/10037728\">ABC<\/a>\u00a0<\/em>says the White House is drawing up plans <em>to strike Iran&#8217;s alleged nuclear facilities as early as next month.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Senior figures in the Australia&#8217;s Turnbull government have told the ABC they believe the US is prepared to bomb Iran&#8217;s nuclear capability. The bombing could be as early as next month. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.abc.net.au\/news\/2018-07-27\/donald-trump-may-be-prepared-to-strike-iran-sources-say\/10037728\"><em>\u2014ABC report<\/em><\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Crucially, <strong>Australia is part of the so-called &#8220;Five Eyes&#8221; global intelligence partners<\/strong> which includes\u00a0the US, UK, Australia, Canada and New Zealand, and plays in a key role in hosting top-secret facilities that guide American spy satellites.<\/p>\n<p>According to the breaking report,\u00a0<em>ABC [Australian Broadcasting Corporation]<\/em> has learned the following based on statements of key <a href=\"http:\/\/www.abc.net.au\/news\/2018-07-27\/donald-trump-may-be-prepared-to-strike-iran-sources-say\/10037728\">senior defense and intelligence officials<\/a>:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em>Senior Government figures have told the ABC <strong>they believe the Trump administration is prepared to bomb Iran<\/strong><\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>They say Australian defence facilities would likely <strong>play a role in identifying possible targets<\/strong><\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>But another senior source, in security, emphasizes there is a difference between providing intelligence and &#8220;active targeting&#8221;<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/sites\/default\/files\/inline-images\/trumpbbc_0.jpg?itok=BKKJ6fiv\" data-image-external-href=\"\" data-image-href=\"\/sites\/default\/files\/inline-images\/trumpbbc_0.jpg?itok=BKKJ6fiv\" data-link-option=\"0\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/sites\/default\/files\/inline-images\/trumpbbc_0.jpg\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/inline_image_desktop\/public\/inline-images\/trumpbbc_0.jpg?itok=BKKJ6fiv 1x\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" data-entity-type=\"file\" data-entity-uuid=\"51015cd9-15db-4283-8ccb-56f39bc0b7b8\" data-responsive-image-style=\"inline_images\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The report cites high level Aussie government officials who say that\u00a0secretive Australian defense and intelligence facilities would likely cooperate with the United States and Britain in <strong>identifying targets in a strike on Iran<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>One particular facility, <strong>the\u00a0<em>Pine Gap joint defense facility<\/em> in the Northern Territory, would play a significant targeting role in joint US-led strikes on Iran<\/strong>, according to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.abc.net.au\/news\/2018-07-27\/donald-trump-may-be-prepared-to-strike-iran-sources-say\/10037728\">the report<\/a>, it&#8217;s\u00a0&#8220;considered crucial among the so-called &#8216;Five Eyes&#8217;\u00a0intelligence partners&#8230; for its role in directing American spy satellites.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>And further, other agencies are expected to play a role:<\/p>\n<p>\u2026click on the above link to read the rest of the article\u2026<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US Preparing To Bomb Iran&#8217;s Nuclear Capabilities As Soon As Next Month: Report As the White House convenes a policy meeting on Iran Thursday involving senior Pentagon officials and cabinet advisers under national security adviser John Bolton, and after a week of\u00a0intense saber-rattling by President Donald Trump and his Iranian counterpart Hassan Rouhani, a new [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[8119,441,827,4318],"class_list":["post-36212","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geopolitics","tag-australian-broadcasting-corporation","tag-iran","tag-united-states","tag-zerohedge"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36212","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=36212"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36212\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36213,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36212\/revisions\/36213"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36212"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36212"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36212"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}