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"Israel's possession of nuclear weapons is an open secret. It has a policy of deliberate ambiguity—never confirming nor denying its possession of nuclear bombs. But ever since 1986, the world has had incontrovertible proof of Israel’s, um, weapons program.

That was after Israeli nuclear technician and whistleblower Mordechai Vanunu, um, leaked photographs and documents to Britain’s Sunday Times.
And for publication of those state secrets, Vanunu was kidnapped by the Mossad in Rome, brought back to Israel, and sentenced to 18 years in prison for treason and espionage.

And more evidence came of Israel’s nuclear capability in 2010—that was when The Guardian uncovered official documents from 1975 showing Israel had offered to sell the apartheid government in South Africa, um, nuclear weapons."

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"then in 2023—the world got more confirmation when a junior Israeli minister threatened to nuke Gaza. And that led to the suspension of the cabinet minister for breaching the policy of deliberate ambiguity.
Of course, um, you wouldn’t get kicked out of cabinet, um, for threatening genocidal actions against the Palestinians. That’s perfectly fine. But if you mention nukes, um, you're in trouble."

The Iranian 🇮🇷 hyperstitional nuclear war-machine comes from the near-ending future!
(Or another way to put it is: old Israeli man gets mad at his own fiction and shoots his [somewhat] neighbor)

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"The New York Times is reporting that the administration thought Israel had only set back Iran's nuclear program six months.

They keep jumping around with these dates. Tulsi Gabbard was saying yesterday they're weeks away from a nuke. Netanyahu’s been saying they're months away from a nuke for—what—20 years now?

The U.S. intelligence community, according to CNN, said they were three years away from a nuclear weapon."

US STRIKES IRAN | Mehdi & Trita Parsi Discuss

"We do know that the Iranians very likely had already moved out a lot of sensitive stuff from Fordow, including their stockpile. And their stockpile is the most important thing from their perspective, in terms of having enriched uranium—60%, 20%, and 3.67%.

The reason for that is it takes years to be able to build up. Of course, they had started to do so at a rather fast pace.

If the Iranians want to have a secret nuclear weapons program, it's actually much smaller than having an industrial-scale energy program. So they can do that in that vast country in much smaller spaces."

US STRIKES IRAN | Mehdi & Trita Parsi Discuss

"And you mentioned Osirak in 1981, and people don't realize that when you bomb someone in this way, they're more likely to get nukes, not less. Saddam Hussein did accelerate the nuclear program covertly after 1981.

And Israel saw that as a victory then—and had he invaded Kuwait six months later, he probably would have had nuclear weapons by that point, because I think the consensus is that was a failed strike.

But also, as you say, other countries—if I'm Turkey, if I'm Erdoğan, I'm thinking I need a nuclear weapons program. If I'm Saudi Arabia, I'm MBS, I'm thinking: I don't trust the Israelis or the Americans.

This is only going to increase the proliferation of nuclear weapons in the region."

US STRIKES IRAN | Mehdi & Trita Parsi Discuss

"Absolutely, because it was never about non-proliferation—right?

Just like Gaza was never about the hostages. It was about regime change in Hamas.

Exactly like Iran is not about nuclear weapons, because this is not the way you stop Iran from getting nuclear weapons.

Who were going to be at the table? The Israelis preferred a nuclear Iran that was isolated, contained, impoverished through sanctions, essentially cornered, and with very, very bad relations with the West—
—than a non-nuclear Iran that was open, had better relations with the West, no sanctions, its economy could grow.

Because at the end of the day, this is about what type of geopolitical challenge Iran poses.

The nuclear element is there—it’s not unimportant—but it's not the driving thing here.

Keep in mind, the Israeli Atomic Energy Agency endorsed the JCPOA—the nuclear deal that Obama struck—because from a nuclear non-proliferation perspective, it was an excellent deal.

But from the perspective of Netanyahu—who, as we have seen, wants conflict, wants war, and felt that it was crucial to make sure that the U.S. and Iran never could actually have good relations—then it was a major problem."

US STRIKES IRAN | Mehdi & Trita Parsi Discuss