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Message: <blockquote data-quote="lkdood" data-source="post: 7444966" data-attributes="member: 92282"><img src="http://static.guim.co.uk/sys-images/Guardian/Pix/pictures/2009/10/5/1254749808621/Israeli-strategic-affairs-001.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />Israel's deputy prime minister said on Monday Israel has the  technological capabilty to make a military strike against Iran,  hardening its language in its campaign against Tehran's nuclear  programme.           Addressing a conference on air power, Deputy Prime Minister  Moshe Yaalon said Israel's experience in carrying out air strikes  against militants along its borders could easily be extended to distant  sorties in Iran.           "There is no doubt that the technological capabilities, which  improved in recent years, have improved range and aerial refuelling  capabilities, and have brought about a massive improvement in the  accuracy or ordnance and intelligence," he said.           "This capability can be used for a war on terror in Gaza, for  a war in the face of rockets from Lebanon, for war on the conventional  Syrian army, and also for war on a peripheral state like Iran," said  Yaalon, a former chief of Israel's armed forces.           Israel, which is assumed to have the region's only atomic  arsenal, bombed Iraq's nuclear reactor in 1981 and launched a similar  sortie over Syria in 2007.           It has rarely used the term "war" in official statements on  how to deal with Iran over a nuclear programme which Israel and the West  believe is aimed at building atomic weapons. Iran denies it has hostile  designs.           Israeli leaders ususally speak only of leaving all options on  the table in addressing the question of possible military action  against Iran, and they have endoresed efforts by U.N. Security Council  powers to impose new sanctions.           Israel's veiled threats against foe Iran have been questioned  by some independent analysts who see the potential targets as too  distant, dispersed and well-defended for Israeli jets to take on alone.           In his address at the Fisher Institute for Air & Space  Strategic Studies, Yaalon posited air strikes to "decapitate or blind"  an enemy by targeting its leadership or early-warning defences.           "As far as I'm concerned, attack remains the best form of  defence," he said.                 Israel saw itself at a de facto war with Iran due to its  sponsorship of Hezbollah and Palestinian Hamas, Yaalon said.           "There is no doubt, looking at the overall situation, that we  are already in a military confrontation with Iran," he said. "Iran is  the main motivator of those attacking us."<a href="http://in.reuters.com/article/worldNews/idINIndia-48365520100510?sp=true" target="_blank"><img src="http://www.reuters.com/resources_v2/images/logo_footer.gif" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></a></blockquote>

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