Iran doesn’t take Obama’s military option seriously, says Oren

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The Times of Israel:

Ex-ambassador to the US warns the Iranian nuclear program is a multiple existential threat to Israel, says its much harder now for Israel to intervene

David Horovitz

December 30, 2013

 

The rogue Iranian nuclear program represents not just an existential threat to Israel, but a multiple existential threat to Israel, the former Israeli ambassador to the United States said in an interview. Were Iran to attain a military nuclear capability, Michael Oren elaborated, it would not need to perfect a missile delivery system in order to target Israel with nuclear weaponry, but could do so via other delivery systems, such as a simple container aboard a ship. Its attainment of that capability could also prompt the nuclearization of the entire Middle East.

 

 

Moreover, Oren warned, there was nothing that would indicate the Iranians believe US President Barack Obama would ever resort to force to prevent them from attaining the bomb.

 

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Oren also detailed a series of historical instances where the two countries had differed dramatically on critical issues in 1948, 1956, and 1967 and where, ultimately, Israels prime ministers took dramatic actions in defiance of the United States. He stressed that this did not necessarily mean Netanyahu was about to strike Iran. Israel has the most to gain from a diplomatic solution, he emphasized. But the meaning of Jewish sovereignty is that you dont outsource your fundamental security.

 

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