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(IsraelNN.com) Israeli Air Force planes have been using U.S. Air Force bases in Iraq to train for an aerial strike on Iran, sources in Iraq's Department of Defense told an Iraqi news network. The report was quoted in Iran as well.

It says there has been night-time activity by fighter jets "on a massive scale" in several U.S. bases and that U.S. troops have stepped up security around those bases. The Iraqi sources added that according to ex-military personnel living in Al-Anbar province, the jets usually arrive at night from the direction of Jordan, enter Iraqi airspace and ;and at a base near Haditha. The sources "estimate" that these are IAF fighters.

The report adds that if jets take off from the U.S. air bases they could enter Iranian airspace "in five minutes" and be over the Bushehr reactor "in record time."