Ex-Mossad Chief Admits: Iran Enriching More Than Under Nuke Agreement
In an interview with Haaretz, former Mossad chief Yossi Cohen acknowledged Iran has been enriching more uranium since former President Trump, with Netanyahu's encouragement, left nuclear deal
The former head of Mossad, acknowledged in an interview with Haaretz that Iran has been enriching more uranium since the American withdrawal from the nuclear deal, a step that former U.S. President Trump took in 2018 with strong encouragement from then-Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
Cohen was asked about the fact that several of his predecessors, such as former Mossad chiefs Ephraim Halevy and Tamir Pardo, criticized Netanyahu for pushing Trump to withdraw from the deal. Cohen, as Mossad chief, oversaw an operation in 2018 to get ahold of Iran’s “nuclear archive,” which helped convince Donald Trump to get out of the deal.
"We had shown the Americans and the world that Iran lied all the way to the deal," Cohen replied. "Iran wasn’t coming clean on many issues that were hidden from the world.”
Cohen did not criticize the withdrawal from the agreement. But Israel’s former Defense Minister Moshe Ya’alon, who also spoke at the conference, called the withdrawal a “huge mistake” and said that it was worse than the agreement itself, which he opposed at the time that it was signed.
https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/watch-one-on-one-with-the-man-who-led-israel-s-covert-iran-war-1.10403338
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https://www.timesofisrael.com/israel-fears-us-will-settle-for-less-for-less-iran-nuclear-deal-report/
Israel beating the drums of war vs Iran? I'd be surprised if they totally broke with the US on this. Interesting that Mossad disagrees so sharply with the Israeli military on the issue. Any foreign-policy anons care to speculate on this?