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Former Mossad Head Warns of Nuclear Iran

(Jerusalem Post) Yaakov Lappin - Former Mossad chief Danny Yatom on Wednesday told a security conference at Bar-Ilan University: "There is a big argument over whether to attack Iran or not....Some say Israel will pay a high price, no matter who does the attacking....As difficult a price it may be, and even if those predicting apocalyptic results are correct - and I don't think they are - this is still not as bad as the threat of an Iranian nuclear bomb." Israel can't afford "to wake up every morning and ask, 'Will they go crazy and throw a bomb on us or not?'" It was impossible to stake the nation's security on predictions that a nuclear Iran can be deterred and that the Iranian regime would not launch a nuclear attack, he said. Yatom acknowledged that rocket attacks would likely ensue from Lebanon and Gaza following a strike on Iran, but added that Israel's response would be "so painful and crushing that rockets will come to an end." "Civilian facilities and infrastructures in Lebanon and Gaza will be hit. Innocent civilians could be hurt. But the barrage of rockets will no longer be falling over our heads."
2011-11-24 00:00:00
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