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Source: https://www.israeldefense.co.il/en/node/55619
A New Strategy to Counter Iran Is Required
(Israel Defense) Amir Rapaport - Now that Iran is de facto becoming a nuclear state, Israel's attention should be towards developing a new strategy in which no Iranian regime would dare wage a nuclear war against Israel. Over the years, Israel has taken every possible method to slow down the Iranian nuclear program, aided by Western partners. Nuclear facilities were sabotaged, Iranian nuclear scientists were eliminated, and a cyberattack using the Stuxnet worm penetrated the control and command array of the centrifuges at the Natanz nuclear facilities. The Israeli defense establishment is in consensus about the inability to end the Iranian nuclear program with one military action, like Iraq in 1981 and Syria in 2007. The Iranians have scattered their plants in various locations, in the depths of the earth. The late Mossad chief Meir Dagan believed that at some point, Israel would be required to shift from a strategy of preventing an Iranian bomb to a strategy of conducting itself under the assumption that Iran is a nuclear power. Facing this new era, Israel will be forced to increase its intelligence supremacy via Iran even more, and make the regime feel completely transparent, so it doesn't dare make that final step towards the bomb. Brig.-Gen. (res.) Nitzan Nuriel, a former executive at the National Security Council, suggested creating a comprehensive network of radars and satellites linked to an array of interception measures that would be able to intercept a warhead over the launching area a mere seconds following the launch. No one is interested in having their own warhead intercepted in their territory and suffering all of the damage meant to be inflicted upon the enemy, especially when unconventional warheads are used.