JERUSALEM | Wednesday, 2 November 2011 11: 00 am EDT
JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israel test-fired nuclear program of Iran a rocket from a military base on Wednesday, two days after Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu warned that"direct and serious threat" is.
Hour introduction to close to Tel Aviv, which had been unknown in advance, coincided with a week long wave of speculation in the local media, the Netanyahu to the safe Cabinet consensus for an attack on Israel arch enemy was.
Netanyahu went Office comment on the reports, the unsourced unconfirmed and some commentators were the misinformation could be designed war jerk in the strengthening of sanctions against Tehran suspicious of foreign powers.
The introduction of Palmachim as the test of a rocket propulsion system described the Ministry of defence on which it was to work out.
"This is an impressive technological achievement and an important step in Israel's progress in the areas of missiles and space, a long time in the planning," Defense Minister Ehud Barak said in a statement.
Israel Radio military affairs correspondent, which is regularly informed of senior officials on defence issues, said that a "ballistic missile" was launched. The term generally refers to long-range missiles for the delivery of warheads.
Israel is widely as to such weapons, known as Jericho, as well as the Shavit to have rockets for the implementation of satellites into orbit. It has with the aid of U.S., which was update the interceptors shoot down missiles on the atmosphere used, to incoming ballistic arrow antenna sign.
The missile fired from Palmachim in a high angle to the sky flew, witnesses told local media a few minutes before the Defense Ministry official, announced the launch.
Dan Meridor, Minister for nuclear and intelligence Affairs and a member of Netanyahu eight-man inner Cabinet, played down the relevance of the launch for Israel look at Iran.
"The two things are separated," he said IDF.
Meridor lambasted as "unprincipled" a flood of newspaper and television discussions, triggered by a front-page report in the top-selling Yedioth Ahronoth daily, about the possibility of Netanyahu and Barak secretly, planned their security chiefs, against the advice with the Iran.
Three other members of the inner Cabinet condemned the Israeli media on Wednesday. No outright denied the speculation, and a Minister, Benny begin, accused the former official of the defense of leaking classified information.
"THREAT"
Iran, which denies nuclear bombs want to make Israel decline wants and then to compare it against the Nazis-Netanyahu-potent rhetoric for a Jewish State born of the Holocaust.
"A nuclear Iran is a serious threat for the Middle East and around the world, and it is of course a direct and serious threat to us," Netanyahu said in a parliamentary address on Monday, echo comments he has made in the past.
None have Netanyahu which take action Israel given. He has said that all options on the table to prevent that nuclear weapons are Iran buildings.
Raviv Drucker, political commentator for Israel's channel 10 television, saw both domestic and diplomatic gains for Netanyahu in the media focus on a military option, an October 18 following prisoner swap with Palestinian Islamist movement Hamas.
Israel, hopes to help international sanctions against the Iranians will include intelligence on military aspects of its nuclear project to stiffen an upcoming release of the UN nuclear watchdog, say Western diplomats. [nL5E7LO18Y]
"This speculation right good for Netanyahu, works, as he handling as sharp can be shown with the Iran, but ' back" from others in the operation (Israel place), ", said printers."
The Israelis bombed Iraqi reactor in 1981 and started a similar sortie against Syria in the year 2007 precedents weight on their veiled threats, similar measures on the Iran if it fails the uranium enrichment on foreign pressure, put an end to areas.
But many independent analysts see the mission as too much for Israel alone against the Iran too.
Although reputation, in the Middle East only nuclear arsenal with a technologically superior Luftwaffe, Israel lacks long range bomber that far distant permanent damage on Iran, distributed and attached facilities transmit can.
"The military option (against the Iran) is no empty threat, but Israel should not jump to lead it." The whole thing by the United States, and as a last resort should be "Moshe Yaalon, Israel said radio Minister for Strategic Affairs, army on Tuesday."
On the other hand, the intensity of public discourse to Iran, Israel's strikes on the Iraq and Syria were surprises. Israeli officials deny even the latter RAID, to discuss the United States as a nordkoreanischer provided reactor amid denials of Damascus against a desert site.
(Writing by Dan Williams and Jeffrey Heller;) (Editing by Louise Ireland)
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