Israeli Ex-Official: Netanyahu Fear-Mongering over Iran Nuclear Abilities
by alethoAl-Manar | May 9, 2014
An
Israeli former official said that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is
fear-mongering over Iran’s nuclear program, warning that a strike on the
Islamic Republish will lead to an all-out war.
Brigadier
General (res.) Uzi Eilam, who for a decade headed the Israel Atomic
Energy Commission, said that Netanyahu is employing needless
fear-mongering when it comes to Iran's atomic aspirations, in order to
further his own political aims, Israeli website Ynet reported on Thursday.
Meanwhile, Eilam does not believe that Tehran is even close to having a bomb, if that is even what it really aspires to.
"The
main issues are still ahead of us, but it is definitely possible to be
optimistic. I think we should give the diplomatic process a serious
chance, alongside ongoing sanctions. And I'm not even sure that Iran
would want the bomb – it could be enough for them to be a nuclear
threshold state – so that it could become a regional power and
intimidate its neighbors,” Eliam said.
"Besides,
what good would bombing do? It would only unite the Iranian people
behind its government, and provide it with an incentive to continue the
project, with far more resources. Bombing would achieve the direct
opposite of what we desired."
Eilam
was one of the central figures in the development of the Zionist
entity’s nuclear and missile programs over the last half century.
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