On this Holocaust Memorial Day, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said, “it is the duty of the world to stop Iran from obtaining nuclear weapons, but above all it is our duty [Israel’s] to stop Iran from obtaining nuclear weapons.”
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Iran on my mind
I can’t sleep.
How awful. I’ve had such a long day, and now I’m lying in bed, and all I can think of is Iran. Will we or won’t we? Should we or shouldn’t we? If we do, will the Americans join in? Or will we be in this on our own?
It seems like today, more than most days, was ‘let’s talk about Iran’ day. Ashkenazi talked about it, Yadlin talked about it, Dempsey talked about it. Time Magazine wrote about it. The New York Times had a big story about it. The Institute for Science and International Security released a report about it today. Continue reading
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ElBaradei’s nuclear nightmares
First nightmare: UN Nuclear watchdog IAEA chief Mohammed ElBaradei says the likelihood that terrorists will detonate a nuclear weapon poses the greatest risk to world security, surpassing proliferation threats from Iran and North Korea.
From Bloomberg:
“There is a lot of interest on the part of extremist groups to obtain nuclear material,” ElBaradei, director-general of the International Atomic Energy Agency, said in Vienna during the annual conference of the 145 nations in the IAEA. “It’s the No. 1 security threat right now.”
Nightmare #2: But the IAEA can’t do anything about it because the UN nuclear agency is out of cash. “I must stand here today and let you know that all is not well with the IAEA,” ElBaradei said.
That’s pretty bad news, considering the threats this agency is meant to address [See Nightmares 1 through 8]. Continue reading
Now I’m worried
You know, I’ve been following the story of Iran’s march towards nuclear capabilities for years, but tonight, more than in the past, I feel in my bones what I think I’ve known all along: that this story is not going to have a happy ending, and that Israel and Iran may go to war over this issue.
Tonight I heard Deputy Defense Minister Gen. [res] Matan Vilnai say at the Herzliya Conference that a nuclear Iran is unacceptable to him as a citizen of Israel, and as deputy defense minister. He said that Iran is led by a regime motivated by extremist, radical and apocolyptic ideologies, and that the regime has no problem turning their entire population into martyrs. Vilnai: “Iran, and this is no secret, is a country run by fanatics.” Continue reading
Former Mossad chief: Only force will stop Iran
From the beginning of Teheran’s march towards a nuclear capability, Israel has attempted to convince the world of the danger posed by a nuclear Iran. According to a former Mossad director, should Israel remain alone in its efforts to thwart Iran’s nuclear ambitions, it has only one viable option before Iran achieves its goal: to strike its most important nuclear facilities and set its program back by several years – this, instead of attempting to wipe out its program entirely, which may be beyond Israel’s ability. And once the Iranians recover and begin advancing – which they will – strike them again and again, until they decide to pursue a different path.
Speaking to The Jerusalem Post ahead of next week’s Seventh Annual International Institute of Counter-Terrorism (ICT) Conference at the Interdisciplinary Center Herzliya, former Mossad chief and current ICT chairman Shabtai Shavit says only military force can stop an Iran bent on achieving nuclear capability.
