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Recent Wargames suggest they will – Is Israel going to do our dirty work for us? BBC News and the New York Times report that Israel just carried out what seems to have been a “rehearsal” for an attack on Iran’s nuclear facilities.

The US has admitted that more than 100 Israeli fighter jets took part in maneuvers over the eastern Mediterranean and over Greece during the first week of June. BBC News quotes a Pentagon official as saying, “They wanted us to know, they wanted the Europeans to know, and they wanted the Iranians to know. There’s a lot of signaling going on at different levels.” This implies that the US DIDN”T know about it ahead of time, but of course we did.
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On January 23, two major undersea internet cables were cutoff the Egyptian port of Alexandria, and it was widelythought to be an accident involving a ship leaving the port.Then a cable was cut in the Persian Gulf. It was severed intwo places, off Dubai and off the Iranian port of BandarAbbas. The effect of these cuts was to slow the internetdown across the region, and to virtually curtail internetactivity in Iran. Now two more cables have been cut, andauthorities are declining to speculate about the reason.
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Last week, two fiberoptic cables carrying internet trafficwere cut in a supposed accident involving a ship near Egypt.Now a third cable has been cut off the coast of Dubai. Thethird cable segment lies between the United Arab Emiratesand Oman, about 40 miles from Dubai. All three cuts arebeing blamed on ships dragging anchors due to heavy weatherin the Middle East, but the cutting of so many cable oversuch a short time has inevitably led to rumors that it wasdone intentionally, either by elements seeking to isolateone country or another from the internet, or by terroristactivity. According to internet network status reports as ofFebruary 3, Iran has lost all internet service.read more