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Israel claims that the attack impeded Iraq's nuclear ambitions by at least ten years. [18] In an interview in 2005, Bill Clinton expressed support for the attack: "everybody talks about what the Israelis did at Osiraq, in 1981, which, I think, in retrospect, was a really good thing. You know, it kept Saddam from developing nuclear power."
Israel supported Iran during the Iran–Iraq War. Israel was one of the main suppliers of military equipment to Iran during the war. Israel also provided military instructors during the war, and in turn received Iranian intelligence that helped it carry out Operation Opera against Iraq's Osirak nuclear reactor.
This page is subject to the extended confirmed restriction related to the Arab-Israeli conflict. Orchard/Bustan Part of the Iran–Israel proxy conflict Before and after photo of target released by the U.S. government Operational scope Strategic bombing run Planned by Israeli Air Force Objective Destroy the Syrian nuclear site, located in the Deir ez-Zor region 35°42′28″N 39°50′01″E ...
Iran is known to be enriching uranium above the 20 percent needed to run a civil nuclear power plant, with the intention of reaching weapons-grade levels of 90 percent needed to produce a nuclear ...
Israel's first open attack on Iran targets missile sites, but spares oil and nuclear targets, military officials said. The attack risks pushing the archenemies closer to all-out war.
In the late 1970s, Iraq purchased an "Osiris class" nuclear reactor from France. Israeli military intelligence assumed this was for the purpose of plutonium production to further an Iraqi nuclear weapons program, in spite of it being built within the terms of the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons and under the inspection regime of the IAEA.
Israel blew up an Iran sponsored Syrian missile factory after its elite commandos raided it last September. The missiles posed an existential threat to Israel amid its war against Tehran's proxies.
In 1981, Israel carried out Operation Opera in Ba'athist Iraq, in which the Israeli Air Force bombed and successfully destroyed an Iraqi nuclear reactor that was under construction at the Tuwaitha Nuclear Research Centre near Baghdad; the reactor had been attacked and partially damaged by Iran during its Operation Scorch Sword, which had been ...