The groundwork is laid, the foundation is under construction

The Christian Science Monitor's Daily Update on Terrorism & Security for September 24 discussed, as I did a day earlier, a possible connection between the US providing Israel with 5,000 smart bombs (including 500 "bunker-busters") and the confrontation with Iran over its nuclear program.

Israeli foreign minister Silvan Shalom told the UN General Assembly in New York on Thursday, that "Tehran has replaced Saddam Hussein as the world's No. 1 exporter of terror, ... threatening the Jewish state and the entire world," reports the Associated Press.

Earlier in the week the Israeli foreign minister told members of the UN that Iran must be taken before the Security Council over its nuclear program, and that it posed a threat not only to Israel, but to the world because "Tehran's missiles can reach London, Paris and southern Russia," reports AP.

Watch this space. Very carefully.