It should go without saying that every country has a right to defend itself from a nuclear threat emanating from another country, particularly when that country persistently declares its goals to obliterate it.
IDF Chief Lt.-Gen. Aviv Kohavi is merely reminding the world of the obvious threat from Iran, exacerbated by the weakness of America and its declining president.
As the only democracy in the Middle East and the world’s only Jewish state, Israel is given no choice but to defend its existence in the face of Iran’s flaunting its violation of the 2015 nuclear deal and boasting about its capability to build a nuclear bomb.
“IDF chief: Israel has ‘moral obligation’ to ready military response to Iran’s nukes,” The Times of Israel, July 17, 2022:
Israel’s military chief on Sunday said the country has a “moral obligation” to prepare for military action against Iran’s nuclear program, in the wake of an Iranian claim warning that Tehran is capable of building a bomb.
“Preparing the home front for war is a task that must be accelerated in the coming years, especially in light of the possibility that we will be required to act against the nuclear threat,” IDF Chief of Staff Lt.-Gen. Aviv Kohavi said.
“The IDF continues to prepare vigorously for an attack on Iran and must prepare for any development and any scenario,” he said. “Preparing a military option against the Iranian nuclear program is a moral obligation and a national security order.”
The nuclear threat was “at the center” of the IDF’s preparations, Kohavi said, which include “the allocation of many resources, the acquisition of appropriate weapons, intelligence and training.”
Senior adviser to Iran’s Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei, Kamal Kharrazi, told Al Jazeera earlier on Sunday that Iran has the “technical means” to produce a nuclear bomb.
“Iran has the technical means to produce a nuclear bomb but there has been no decision by Iran to build it,” Kamal Kharrazi said, according to a translation by Reuters….
mortimer says
Who will bell the cat? While Iran may have collected the parts and material to build a nuclear ‘device’, it may not have everything needed to build a genuine bomb.
Biden’s handlers still naively believe they can buy peace with the fanatical, delusional mullahocracy.
Fitna says
Talking accomplishes nothing. Israel already has nukes and they can threaten to obliterate Iran if they don’t immediately dismantle their nuke program.
Every sane person knows Iran’s held hostage by this terrorist regime and it needs to go. 20 years of ‘diplomacy’ has been an utter disaster, time to up the ante.
The Mullahs won’t back down, so Israel should go ahead and take them out, they’d do the world a huge favor. Plus it’ll be a nice warning for the other Muslim Hitlers out there who hate the West and Israel not to mess with us or else…I hope they all choose to mess with us, the world needs a good spring cleaning by ridding itself of IslamoNazis.
Fitna says
Incidentally, that’s how I’m going to refer to Muslims from now on, IslamoNazis, because that’s the best way to describe their fascist ideology which is identical to Nazism in many ways.
It’ll be a good counter to the “Islamophobia” hoax they’re using as battering ram against non-Muslims and opponents of Islam. It’ll also short-circuit the connection btw Islam and Nazism, so people can more quickly become aware that Muslims are the same as Nazis.
Obviously usual disclaimer ‘not all’ there are good Muslims who don’t follow Islam as intended, but the vast majority of them do seek our destruction.
Shema says
Given we have seen top nuclear scientists taken out, I would think the mullahs are in the sights.
Fitna says
Hopefully Shema, but Israel’s leadership is in disarray at the moment, so Iran’s taking advantage of this opportunity to advance their program.
But at least most on the Left and Right agree that Iran must be stopped by any means. If they have a ‘Contingency Plan’ (as the US does for such things), hopefully they’ll enact it too.
I hope at least Israel of all nations learned the lesson of 9/11 that Muslims are hell-bent on destroying the West and our way of life. It’d be totally insane to give them the benefit of the doubt.
What’s scarier than Iran is Pakistan which already has nukes and we need to keep an eye on Saudi Arabia and Turkey to make sure they don’t get them either.
It’d be great if there was a ‘God’ or some enlightened advanced alien that could step in now and stop these religious lunatics from getting and using these weapons, but since there isn’t, it is all up to sane, strong nations the US and Israel to do what’s necessary. Too bad Europe can’t be counted it.
Do these western elites really need more proof in the form of destroyed/nuked cities and millions dead before they finally realize Muslim hate us and want us gone?
Based on how unserious they are about the nuclear threat from Iran, it appears they do.
James Lincoln says
Fitna says
“Obviously usual disclaimer ‘not all’ there are good Muslims who don’t follow Islam as intended, but the vast majority of them do seek our destruction.”
Interestingly, the West’s definition of a “good” muslim (for society) is the exact opposite of the definition given by a devout muslim.
Fitna says
Sadly true James, the less devout a Muslim is, the more we prefer them.
Too bad most Muslims can’t see how toxic their ideology and in turn they are…otherwise they’d leave that death cult posthaste.
john smith says
They wouldn’t be on the verge of obtaining a nuclear bomb had Trump still been President, he would of most certainly put a stop to it. Now with this senile old fart in office, the mullah’s are going full steam ahead knowing well he’ll do nothing at all to stop them.
No sane country wants conflict, but Israel has to make a move because if they don’t the consequences are going to be enormous. Not just for Israel, but the entire world.
gregbeetham says
It isn’t normal practise for military leaders to telegraph their next move to their enemies but this announcement concerning the rabid Iranian Mullah’s makes sense. It won’t deter them most likely because they have devoted their existence to Muhammad’s anti Semitic death cult but they have been on the receiving end of numerous examples of Israeli determination to take action to defend itself so they would have no doubt that there will be a response in the near future should it become apparent that Iran is producing, or about to produce, a functional nuclear device.
Putin was just in Iran and might have mentioned their bomb ambitions in passing, or he might not, but in any case his delusions have similar impact on the future of the human race.
It isn’t productive to try to accommodate or reason with their collective delusions any further, it is time for action.
Walter Sieruk says
This military chief of the State of Israel has not only spoken wisely but also in that same statement he stated the absolute truth.
As the former US President of the United States , James Monroe,had in a speech rightly ,declared
“The right of self-defense never ceases . it is among the most sacred and alike necessary to nations and to individuals.”
Shema says
Agreed 1000%.
He who comes to kill you, kill them first.
Michael Copeland says
Self-defence is the right of every individual and the duty of every government.
https://gatesofvienna.net/2019/03/i-fought-back/