{"id":1170271,"date":"2021-12-29T18:04:44","date_gmt":"2021-12-29T23:04:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1170271"},"modified":"2021-12-29T18:04:46","modified_gmt":"2021-12-29T23:04:46","slug":"former-mossad-intel-chief-iran-no-longer-afraid-of-diplomatic-backlash-israel-readying-military-action","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/former-mossad-intel-chief-iran-no-longer-afraid-of-diplomatic-backlash-israel-readying-military-action\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Mossad Intel Chief: Iran \u2018No Longer Afraid\u2019 Of Diplomatic Backlash, Israel Readying Military Action"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">30<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fformer-mossad-intel-chief-iran-no-longer-afraid-of-diplomatic-backlash-israel-readying-military-action%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1170271&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Israel is preparing a potential military response to Iran should the Islamic Republic move much closer to becoming a nuclear power.<\/p>\n<p>Iran has \u201cblown through\u201d limits imposed on its nuclear program through the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) agreement negotiated by former President Barack Obama\u2019s administration, U.S. special envoy to Iran Rob Malley told <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/magazine\/2022\/01\/03\/the-looming-threat-of-a-nuclear-crisis-with-iran\">The New Yorker<\/a>. Iran is now potentially within three weeks of enriching enough weapons grade uranium to fill a nuclear bomb.<\/p>\n<p>Iran is pushing forward with its nuclear program as a group of countries led by the U.S. attempt to renegotiate the JCPOA, which former President Donald Trump pulled out of in 2018. Trump withdrew from the \u201cone-sided\u201d agreement,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/trump-to-withdraw-u-s-from-iran-accord-1525800212\">arguing<\/a> that Iran had already violated the agreement.<\/p>\n<p>Prior to Trump\u2019s decision to withdraw, U.S. allies Israel and Saudi Arabia had voiced concerns that the JCPOA did not allow for sufficient oversight of Iran\u2019s nuclear program. The Islamic Republic had repeatedly <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-iran-nuclear-iaea\/iaea-chief-calls-for-clarity-on-disputed-section-of-iran-nuclear-deal-idUSKCN1C12AN\">denied<\/a> inspectors access to Iranian military sites to ensure that Iran\u2019s nuclear program was not progressing toward nuclear armament, which was banned in perpetuity under the agreement. Trump\u2019s decision to withdraw triggered the reimplementation of numerous sanctions on Iran and its top officials, business leaders, and partners.<\/p>\n<p>President Joe Biden has sought to rejoin the JCPOA as Iran has continued to enrich uranium far beyond the limit agreed to in the JCPOA toward the 90% threshold that marks weapons grade. Top Israeli officials, including Prime Minister Naftali Bennett and Defense Minister Benny Gantz, have warned the Biden administration against agreeing to the same deal, voicing the same concerns that clouded the deal several years ago.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe don\u2019t want to reach a point where we will have to ask ourselves how Iran was allowed to enrich to ninety percent,\u201d Zohar Palti, former intelligence chief for Israel\u2019s Mossad and current Israeli defense official, told The New Yorker.<\/p>\n<p>Israel has begun prepping military training for a potential response to Iran\u2019s nuclear program. Gantz pushed the Biden administration to conduct joint military exercises with Israel during a meeting with U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken earlier this month.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe problem with Iran\u2019s nuclear program is that, for the time being, there is no diplomatic mechanism to make them stop,\u201d Palti added. \u201cThere is no deterrent. Iran is no longer afraid. We need to give them the stop sign.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Bennett <a href=\"https:\/\/www.timesofisrael.com\/liveblog_entry\/pm-irans-nuke-program-at-critical-point-israel-wont-allow-it-to-get-weapon\/\">warned<\/a> in September that Israel would take military action against Iran rather than allow the Islamic Republic to build a nuclear weapon.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOver the past few years, Iran has made a major leap forward \u2026 Iran\u2019s nuclear weapon program is at a critical point,\u201d he said. \u201cAll red lines have been crossed. Inspections \u2014 ignored. All wishful thinking \u2014 proven false.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIran is violating the IAEAs safeguard agreements \u2014 and it\u2019s getting away with it. They harass inspectors and sabotage their investigations \u2014 and they\u2019re getting away with it. They enrich Uranium to the level of 60 percent, which is one step short of weapons-grade material \u2014 and they\u2019re getting away with it,\u201d he continued. \u201cIran\u2019s nuclear program has hit a watershed moment, and so has our tolerance. Words do not stop centrifuges from spinning.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"><em>member<\/em><\/a><em>.<\/p>\n<p><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Israel is preparing a potential military response to Iran should the Islamic Republic move much closer to becoming a nuclear power. Iran has \u201cblown through\u201d limits imposed on its nuclear program through the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) agreement negotiated by former President Barack Obama\u2019s administration, U.S. special envoy to Iran Rob Malley told &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":70,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1170271","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1170271","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/70"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1170271"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1170271\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1170271"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1170271"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1170271"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}