الخميس، 9 أغسطس 2012

The New York Times: Washington and its allies are seeking to build a missile defense system to counter any Iranian attack


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U.S. government officials said that the United States and its Arab allies are working on building a regional missile defense system in the region in order to protect the Gulf Bmant and oil and military bases from attack by Iran.

The newspaper "The New York Times" on public officials and documents that "the United States and its Arab allies are working on building a regional missile defense system on the Arabian Gulf to protect cities and refineries and oil pipelines and military bases from attack by Iran."

The newspaper said the move was aimed at sending a message sharply to Tehran, has become more immediate with the growing tension with Iran, but they require the partner countries in the Gulf to put aside conflicts and exchange information and coordinate their arsenals for the interceptors to create a defense shield covers all regional allies .

She pointed out that it will deploy radars in order to increase the coverage for early warning in the Gulf region, as well as the introduction of control systems and communications enables the exchange of information with interceptor missiles fired from each country separately.

Therefore, the U.S. Department of Defense (Pentagon) announced earlier this year about a deal involving a missile defense radar sophisticated Arab Emirates, as officials revealed that a similar high-precision radar will be placed in Qatar as well.

The newspaper reported that the regional missile defense system in the Gulf aims to deter any attack by Iran, and if necessary, reduce the impact of the rockets fired on the territory of the allies and U.S. forces.

She pointed to the existence of technical challenges and political way of establishing the system of missile defense unified, it is the technique can not be any missile defense system that is effectively 100%, but in terms of political challenges stem from competition for the historical, which drives the Gulf states to strengthen their security through bilateral relations with the U.S. Nations.

On the other hand, the newspaper "New York Times" in its last report on the shadow war between Israel and Iran, and plans Thikha countries to achieve this, that Israel would prefer to use a direct route through Jordan and Iraq to hit Iran.

There were different estimates of foreign observers, some of whom felt that Jordanians Sagdon a blind eye to the passage of Israeli planes over their airspace, while others said that Oman had considered this a violation of the peace agreement with Israel.

There are two other possible routes are two ways, first through Turkey and Syria and the other across the Red Sea, but longer.

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