Israel Matzav

Former Mossad chief: It's time to bomb Iran

Speaking at a conference on terrorism in Herzliya on Sunday, Former Mossad Director General Danny Yatom called for the West to attack Iran's nuclear facilities. Yatom has made similar calls in the past.

“Since the sanctions are not enough I am hopeful that the world will come to its senses and reach the conclusion that in order to stop the Iranian nuclear arms race we will have to attack some of their nuclear facilities,” Yatom said in rare comments for a former top Israeli security official regarding the use of military force against Iran.

While some of the Iranian nuclear facilities are scattered throughout the country and are built underground in fortified bunkers, if the world “mobilizes its capabilities” it would be possible to cause enough damage to delay the program.

“If the modern air forces led by the United States mobilizes its capabilities it is possible if not to completely remove the threat to delay it for years to come,” Yatom said.

While refraining from discussing specific Israeli capabilities, Yatom said that if the world failed to meet the challenge, Israel would “retain the right to self defense.”

“Figure out for yourselves what that means,” he then told the audience.

Yatom said that Israel could not live with a nuclear Iran. “I don’t want to be in a situation that I will be sitting in Israel and my fate will be in the hands of others especially when we are talking about a lunatic regime,” he said. “I don’t want to be the subject of an Iranian experiment.”

A survey taken here last year shows that 23% of Israelis will leave rather than be part of an 'Iranian experiment.'

But the odds of the Obama administration taking action to stop Iran are negligible.

What could go wrong?

posted by Carl in Jerusalem @ 2:58 AM