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Facing Iran: Lessons Learned Since Iraq’s 1991 Missile Attack on Israel

Facing Iran: Lessons Learned Since Iraq’s 1991 Missile Attack on Israel

March 8, 2010 | Prof. Moshe Arens
The Iranians learned a great deal from the destruction of Iraq’s Osirak reactor by the Israel Air Force in 1981. They dispersed their nuclear program, putting much of it deep underground. There is no single target which, if destroyed, would substantially set back the Iranian nuclear program.