Attack On Iran To Include Bombing Syria and Lebanon Too

You have to carefully monitor the enemy's publications, because sometimes significant information is slipped in.

For example, the June 25, 2012 issue of Aviation Week & Space Technology, a trade rag for the military-industrial complex and to a lesser extent the commercial aviation industry, had an article under the heading "Defense" [sic] titled "Bombing Iran: U.S. military planners ponder when a kinetic attack might make sense."
["Kinetic attack" is a euphemism for attacking with bombs, missiles, bullets, etc., as opposed to "cyberwarfare," for example. In other words, directly killing people and blowing stuff up.] The story is illustrated with a photo of a B-2 Stealth Bomber dropping a string of bombs. It goes over the outlook from the perspectives of U.S. and Israeli imperialists, enumerates in minute detail the various weapons that would be used [e.g. "Lockheed Martin F-22s upgraded for the use of independently targeted, ripple-fired GBU-39 small-diameter bombs, which are designed to destroy or suppress enemy air defenses," and "The AGM-158 Jassm-ER," the kind of jargon weapons fetishists must drool over] quotes the U.S. ambassador to Israel saying the U.S. is ready to attack, and so on. Cyber and electronic attack were also mentioned as components of a direct military attack on Iran.

But what stood out to me was paragraph 15, which stated:

         "A worrisome issue for U.S. planners is that Iran also has intelligence allies. Syria's surveillance and air defense radars, command-and-control (C2) and sigint [jargon for signals intelligence, the interception of communication signals] organizations share information with Tehran. Any attack against Iran would likely have to travel over Turkey north of Syria, over Jordan and Saudi Arabia to the south, or directly over Syria, Lebanon and Israel. Any of those routes would require electronic or kinetic attack of Syrian radar, communications and C2 centers - some of which are in Lebanon - to hide the approaching force. Alternatively, the fall of Syria's current government could provide enough chaos to camouflage a raid on Iran." [My italics.]

While they're at it, they'll probably bomb the "terrorist" Hezbollah in Lebanon, despised enemy of Israel and seen as a cat's paw of Iran.

ANY of the routes to attack Iran would REQUIRE bombing Syria and Lebanon, they said.

On the magazine's website, the article is split into 3 pages. Here's the link to the third page, which has the paragraph in question.

http://www.aviationweek.com/Article.aspx?id=/article-xml/AW_06_25_2012_p29-465266.xml&p=3