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Source: https://www.express.co.uk/news/world/2068984/real-reason-israel-had-launch
What If One of the Iranian Missiles that Got Past Israeli Air Defenses Had a Nuclear Warhead?
(Sunday Express-UK) Col. (ret.) Richard Kemp - Israel and Iran are not "trading blows," as some have phrased it. Israel is dealing strategic devastation on Iran, eliminating much of the terrorist regime's military top brass and key nuclear scientists, and attacking nuclear weapons sites, air defense systems, and offensive drone and missile capabilities. Meanwhile, Iran is lashing out with drones and ballistic missiles fired into Israel's population centers, deliberately killing and wounding civilians. For the last two nights I have heard ballistic missiles roar overhead and seen Israel's impressive air defenses knock some of them out of the sky. What if just one that did get through had been armed with a nuclear warhead? Vast numbers would have been killed. That's why Israel had to launch this pre-emptive assault on the Islamic Republic. Israeli intelligence and the International Atomic Energy Agency both saw that Iran was on the cusp of obtaining nuclear weapons capability. The rest of the world should be grateful to Israel because a nuclear armed Iran would have threatened us all. All wars are terrible but sometimes they have to be fought to prevent an even worse evil. The writer, a former commander of British forces in Afghanistan, was chairman of the UK's national crisis management committee, COBRA.