COMMENTARY | An AFP report that Israel has equipped a flotilla of German-made submarines with nuclear-equipped missiles constitutes an ominous development in the game of nuclear brinkmanship in the Middle East.
Despite repeated denials, it has been accepted that Iran is developing a nuclear arsenal. While,according to the U.K. Guardian, the U.S. has been conducting cyberattacks against Iran's nuclear program as well as attempting to impede it via diplomacy and economic sanctions, Israel has maintained the right to stop Iran's nuclear aspirations by military means.
The Belfer Center has concluded Israel has the ability to strike at Iran's nuclear facilities, many of them underground in hardened position, using long-range F-15s armed with American supplied bunker buster bombs. But such an approach would be risky and might involve heavy casualties among Israeli pilots.
A flotilla of nuclear armed submarines, positioned in the Persian Gulf perhaps, might provide an alternative way of taking out Iran's nuclear program and, at the same time, providing a lesson in what happens when an enemy of Israel contemplates using nuclear weapons.
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