Saudi Arabia has conducted tests to stand down its air defences to enable Israeli jets to make a bombing raid on Iran’s nuclear facilities, The Times can reveal.
In the week that the UN Security Council imposed a new round of sanctions on Tehran, defence sources in the Gulf say that Riyadh has agreed to allow Israel to use a narrow corridor of its airspace in the north of the country to shorten the distance for a bombing run on Iran. To ensure the Israeli bombers pass unmolested, Riyadh has carried out tests to make certain its own jets are not scrambled and missile defence systems not activated. Once the Israelis are through, the kingdom’s air defences will return to full alert.
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Passing over Iraq would require at least tacit agreement to the raid from Washington.
ReplyDeletePassing over Saudi and the Gulf is no different. There are dozens of US air force bases in the region. If the Israelis pass over, and the Americans fail to go up and confront them, they will be held accountable by Iran for complicity in the attack and will face dire consequences.
<span>And it will certainly result in the closing of the narrow Strait of Hormuz where roughly 40 percent of world oil transits. The last thing the world economy needs now is an oil-shock that would derail the present feeble economic recovery. </span>
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