Published: 11 November 2019
Last updated: 4 March 2024
IN ONE SENTENCE, the US Secretary of State managed on November 7 to define the ultimate nightmare of diplomatic and security decision-makers in Israel and bring all the demons out into the open:
“Members of the international community who are rightly concerned with Iran's latest attacks and provocations should imagine how Iran would behave with a nuclear weapon,” Mike Pompeo said, following the Iranian declaration of the start of phase 4 in its slow withdrawal from the nuclear agreement.
He confirmed the estimate of Israeli intelligence that was published here a year ago, according to which the Iranians will violate the agreement gradually, in slow steps, that will gradually grow, until they reach a range from which they could break through to a military nuclear program within a few months.
Israeli intelligence predicted with astonishing accuracy all that has happened in the year and a half since President Donald Trump declared the US withdrawal from the nuclear agreement, in May 2018.
FULL STORY Pompeo confirms Israel’s nightmare scenario on Iranian nuke (Al-Monitor)
Photo: President Trump with Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin and Vice President Mike Pence look on, June 24 (Reuters/Carlos Barria)
