The Iran nuclear deal saw over a hundred billion dollars flow into the coffers of Iran, plus tens of billions more in backroom deals under the Obama Administration. Israel isn’t taking chances with the incoming Biden administration, nor should it, since Biden has promised to reenter the nuke deal and leave Israel out of negotiations.
Iran’s jihadist regime aims to destroy Israel, and ran a massive missile drill over the weekend aimed at neutralizing air defenses.
“Wary of Biden tack on Iran, Israel revisits military options,” by Dan Williams, Reuters, January 14, 2021:
JERUSALEM (Reuters) – Israel is revising military options for a possible clash with Iran, an Israeli newspaper reported on Thursday, as Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s government braces for differences with the incoming U.S. administration on Iranian nuclear policy.
U.S. President Donald Trump delighted Netanyahu by quitting the 2015 nuclear deal with Iran and reimposing sanctions on it that had been lifted in return for limits on activities that could, potentially, produce nuclear weapons in the future.
Tehran responded by breaching many of those restrictions. President-elect Joe Biden wants to rejoin the deal if Tehran – which denies seeking the bomb – returns to strict compliance.
Israel, alarmed by Iranian rhetoric that it is a state that should not exist, is wary of the softer line, even though threats of U.S. military action from Trump did not curtail Iran’s nuclear moves.
A front-page article in Israel’s largest-circulation daily said the military is crafting three options to “undermine Iran’s nuclear efforts or, if need be, counter Iranian aggression, which will soon be presented to the government”.
The paper, Israel Hayom, did not cite any sources. But it went on to quote Defence Minister Benny Gantz as saying: “Israel needs to have a military option on the table.”
Israel has long had plans in place to counter Iran. The article appeared designed to signal that these were now being updated.
During the previous Democratic administration of Barack Obama, which championed diplomacy with Iran, Israel occasionally threatened preventive airstrikes against Iranian nuclear sites.
Some U.S. officials at the time doubted that Israel – whose advanced military includes a reputed nuclear arsenal – could effectively hit Iranian targets that are distant, dispersed and well-defended….
mortimer says
Naïve fools. Peace cannot be attained through surrender.
revereridesagain says
if the senile old fool ends up being the catalyst for a nuclear confrontation guess who the Left will blame it on….
Rarely says
If there is a nuclear confrontation “blame” will be the least of our worries.
peace says
… of course .. it would be Trumps fault for not giving them billions in cash
Infidel says
Ironically, President Trump’s support to both Israel and the Arabs kept Iran safe, since those 2 felt secure. Now that they no longer do, they’ll feel free to lash out at Israel. So much for the myth that Dems enable Peace, and Trump enabled war
gravenimage says
Israel revisits military options in preparation for Biden’s rejoining of Iran nuke deal
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Certainly, Biden is not apt to help Israel survive.