Leaked cables show Netanyahu’s Iran bomb claim contradicted by Mossad
Source: The Guardian
Binyamin Netanyahus dramatic declaration to world leaders in 2012 that Iran was about a year away from making a nuclear bomb was contradicted by his own secret service, according to a top-secret Mossad document.
It is part of a cache of hundreds of dossiers, files and cables from the worlds major intelligence services one of the biggest spy leaks in recent times.
Brandishing a cartoon of a bomb with a red line to illustrate his point, the Israeli prime minister warned the UN in New York that Iran would be able to build nuclear weapons the following year and called for action to halt the process.
But in a secret report shared with South Africa a few weeks later, Israels intelligence agency concluded that Iran was not performing the activity necessary to produce weapons. The report highlights the gulf between the public claims and rhetoric of top Israeli politicians and the assessments of Israels military and intelligence establishment.
Read more: http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/feb/23/leaked-spy-cables-netanyahu-iran-bomb-mossad
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(25,111 posts)Look at what they are doing. Pres O doesn't love America. Pres O is not a Christian. Pres O was raised as a communist, etc.
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still_one
(92,303 posts)Democrats in Congress, start standing up to crap like this, don't let the republicans or the media distort things