Iran TV: Israeli warplanes massing at U.S. airbase in Iraq to strike Iran

• Published 16:33 02.05.11
• Latest update 16:33 02.05.11

• Israel says it had no knowledge of such a strike plan and both the Pentagon and Iraq's air force commander deny the Iranian report.

  By Reuters  
• Iranian state television ran a report on Monday saying Israeli military aircraft were massing at a U.S. air base in Iraq for a strike on Iran.
  The report appeared on the website of Press TV. Israel said it had no knowledge of such a strike plan and both the Pentagon and Iraq's air force commander denied the Iranian report.

  The reactor building of the Bushehr nuclear power plant is seen, just outside the southern city of Bushehr, Iran. Press TV quoted what it said was source close to the movement of Moqtada al-Sadr, an Iraqi Shi'ite cleric who opposes the U.S. presence in Iraq and has close ties to Iran's leaders. Washington's ally Israel accuses Tehran of using its declared civilian nuclear reactor program to conceal a plan to develop atomic bombs that would threaten the Jewish state. Israeli leaders have not ruled out military action against Iran. Read the rest of this story on: Ha'artz