{"id":30956,"date":"2012-02-21T02:00:17","date_gmt":"2012-02-21T02:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/possible_iran_raid_seen_as_a_huge_task_for_israeli_jets\/"},"modified":"2012-02-21T02:00:17","modified_gmt":"2012-02-21T02:00:17","slug":"possible_iran_raid_seen_as_a_huge_task_for_israeli_jets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=30956","title":{"rendered":"Possible Iran Raid Seen as a Huge Task for Israeli Jets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Should Israel decide to launch a strike on Iran, its pilots would have to fly more than 1,000 miles across unfriendly airspace, refuel in the air en route, fight off Iran\u2019s air defenses, attack multiple underground sites simultaneously \u201d\u201d and use at least 100 planes.<\/p>\n<p>That is the assessment of American defense officials and military analysts close to the Pentagon, who say that an Israeli attack meant to set back Iran\u2019s nuclear program would be a huge and highly complex operation. They describe it as far different from Israel\u2019s \u201csurgical\u201d\u009d strikes on a nuclear reactor in Syria in 2007 and Iraq\u2019s Osirak reactor in 1981.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2012\/02\/20\/world\/middleeast\/iran-raid-seen-as-complex-task-for-israeli-military.html\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Should Israel decide to launch a strike on Iran, its pilots would have to fly more than 1,000 miles across unfriendly airspace, refuel in the air en route, fight off Iran\u2019s air defenses, attack multiple underground sites simultaneously \u201d\u201d and<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=30956\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,40,50,143,564,565,203,95],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30956","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-international-news-commentary","category-defense-national-security-military","category-iran","category-israel","category-middle-east","category-science-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30956","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=30956"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30956\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30956"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30956"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30956"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}