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Israel may target Iran civilian infrastructure as part of military strike, report says

U.S. security sources quoted by The Daily Beast claim Israeli forces plan to use electronic warfare to shut down Iranian electrical grid, cellphone networks.

By HaaretzTags: Iran threat IDF Iran nuclear

Israel intends to electronic warfare on Iranian civilian infrastructures in the event of a strike against the Islamic Republic's nuclear facilities, The Daily Beast reported on Thursday, amid ongoing fallout from a damning report by the United Nations' nuclear watchdog.

Last week, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) released a report stating that Iran was working to gain nuclear weapons' capabilities, a claim that has been made by both Israel and the United States for several years.

	A reactor at the Bushehr nuclear power plant in Iran on August 21, 2010.
	Photo by: AP

The report prompted Israel to urge the international community to act at once to thwart Iran's nuclear ambitions using harsher sanctions, with some estimating that the report gave Israel the backing it needed to undertake a military strike of Tehran's nuclear facilities.

On Thursday, however, The Daily Beast quoted U.S. security officials as claiming that a possible Israeli strike would go as far as targeting Iran's civilian infrastructure, including the country's internet and cellphone networks, as well as its electrical grid.

The Daily Beast, quoting what it said "current and former U.S. intelligence officials," claimed that Israel has developed weapons that could imitate a maintenance cellphone signal that commands a cell network to go inactive, "effectively stopping transmissions."

In 2007, a suspected Syrian nuclear site was destroyed in what many estimate was an attack by Israel Air Force warplanes. A report in Aviation Week & Space Technology not long after the alleged attack claimed that Israeli forces had knocked out Syria's entire radar system as a prelude to the attack.

According to the report, the Syrian radar site was hit with a combination of electronic attack and precision bombs to allow the IAF to enter and exit Syrian airspace unobserved.

Subsequently all of Syria's air-defense radar system went off the air for a period of time that encompassed the raid, U.S. intelligence analysts told Aviation Week.

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Iran Has Been Cowardly Targetting Israeli Civilian Infrastructure & Civilians For Decades Now Through Their Militant Proxy Shock Troops & There Are Grand Plans To Do Even More So In The Future
- Lavi - Seattle
- 17.11.11
- 20:17
18.637
Well that wouldn't be a 'military strike' now would it?
- Welshman
- 17.11.11
- 20:11
17.7230
for 10+ years Israel has shown itself to be a wimp
- GohBokhor
- 17.11.11
- 19:14
- 1536
  @ GoGert....Last I checked Labanon was still digging out of the rubble left after your Hazbola Grandmothers started the fight......... I dont take your call to arms any more seriously than I do when they come from Amadinjads mouth.....
  - Noam
  - 17.11.11
  - 20:32
16.7214
All propaganda. Stop bragging. Iran can be attacked only by the US. Even that will have a high cost for the US.
- Ali Ahmed
- 17.11.11
- 19:04
15.623
Absolutely silly
- TheMan
- 17.11.11
- 19:03
14.513
its not the barking dog u worry about its the biting dog
- alma dinna dad
- 17.11.11
- 18:51
13.7519
hypocrisy
- Preet
- 17.11.11
- 18:30
12.7520
"Israel has developed weapons that could ...effectively stopping transmissions."
- Hugh
- 17.11.11
- 18:25
11.7019
Lunatics abound
- Persian Kitty
- 17.11.11
- 18:10
10.404
Daily Beast?
- na
- 17.11.11
- 17:55
9.9934
once again israel threat not only Iran but civilians. Whats wrong with israel?
- Rem
- 17.11.11
- 17:44
- 946
  That's right. For a certain amount of time you won't be able to use your cellphone. Oh the humanity!
  - Avi
  - 17.11.11
  - 19:30
8.10948
Israel will strike infrastruture.
- ABC
- 17.11.11
- 17:34
- 2039
  infrastructure shutdown
  - delboy
  - 17.11.11
  - 18:59
- 2040
  Did you ever count the women and children that were murdered by Palestinian terrorists?
  - GPS
  - 17.11.11
  - 19:21
7.2323
The first good news is that Iranian infrastructures are not united, not because of security reasons, but because of a weakness in planning!
- Julie
- 17.11.11
- 17:33
6.5635
Do not worry much, all the saber rattling from Israel, US, and EU are just to scare the Iranians. None of the said trio has the stomach for a full scale war with Iran. They are trying to scare Iran so it separate itself separate form Syria so they can bring down Assad. Scare, Divide, and conquer.
- Moshe Zuckerman
- 17.11.11
- 17:31
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Gaza's civilian infrastructure still hasn't recovered from israel's last visit and a lot of Gaza's civilians will never recover.
- Michael UK
- 17.11.11
- 17:26
- 2438
  Perhaps you should not launch rockets for 7 years at major population centers while shouting you'll kill every last one of them
  - Avi
  - 17.11.11
  - 19:28
- 4611
  so your saying
  - RJ
  - 17.11.11
  - 20:08
- 232
  Pot, meet kettle.
  - Melissa
  - 17.11.11
  - 20:13
4.3442
good
- xenantaya
- 17.11.11
- 17:01
- 1428
  no danger!
  - Gordon
  - 17.11.11
  - 17:54
3.4486
They do not know what will hit them, they are playing with the IDF
- Dan
- 17.11.11
- 17:00
- 6143
  Self defence
  - Rob Holland
  - 17.11.11
  - 17:25
- 4326
  Dan the man at the bottom of my can respects the IDF. We are scared.
  - Dex
  - 17.11.11
  - 17:27
2.12320
What a laugh, Iran is 1. 65 million squre kilometers large...at least you can't miss it.
- Walt D
- 17.11.11
- 17:00
1.12549
Israel always targets civilian infrastructure,
- Ashamed
- 17.11.11
- 17:00
- 3255
  Which sets it appart from US,Britain etc . which never do..List of conflicts they had not done it below :
  - Absolute Sweden
  - 17.11.11
  - 17:17
- 5937
  thats because Pal militants frequently mistake houses, classrooms and ambulances for military bases...
  - a reader
  - 17.11.11
  - 17:34
- 8140
  War goes two ways
  - Josh
  - 17.11.11
  - 17:43
- 7135
  And the IDF mistake white phosphorous for rose petals I suppose?
  - teedee
  - 17.11.11
  - 17:56
- 2749
  @1
  - steve
  - 17.11.11
  - 18:10
- 7120
  Nope! Iran has not attacked another country in modern history. Israel does it all the time.
  - Melissa
  - 17.11.11
  - 19:27

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