![]() Israel had pushed Trump to exit the treaty, helping to convince him with information gleaned from a trove of nuclear records that the Mossad, under Cohen, managed to seize in Tehran and bring to Israel in April 2018. Then-prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu showcases material he says was obtained by Israeli intelligence from Iran’s nuclear weapons archive, in Tel Aviv on April 30, 2018. ![]() “I think that if the State of Israel decides to get rid of this program, we will have to do it.”įormer US president Donald Trump pulled out of the JCPOA in 2018, reapplying stiff sanctions on Iran, which has dropped some of its own commitments to the pact and significantly increased its uranium enrichment, raising concerns it is becoming a nuclear weapons threshold state. “I assume it’s going to be complicated militarily, but not impossible,” he said. Cohen was referring to the 1981 Israeli air attack that destroyed Saddam Hussein’s nuclear reactor at Osirak, and the 2007 attack on a Syrian nuclear reactor in the area of Deir Ezzor. “I think Israel should have the ability to fight this aspect alone” as it had done twice in the past, in Iraq and Syria, he said. Though a negotiated solution would be best, Cohen stressed that “Israel will never let Iran have a military nuclear capability.” ![]() In this image, made from an Apvideo released by the state-run TV station Islamic Republic Iran Broadcasting, various centrifuge machines line a hall at the Natanz Uranium Enrichment Facility. ![]()
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