Seeing a lot of comments by “internet experts” on the ME about the Israeli government’s “secret” motivations for this strike. These “subterfuge” reasons are nothing but conspiracy theories. The reason for the strike now is because Israeli intelligence saw a nuclear threat that has lasted too long.
That’s it. That’s the reason. Diplomacy failed. The IRI responded to it with more recalcitrance. The IAEA said the IRI was violating its obligations. All of this happened this month.
This is not new. Israel eliminated Saddam Hussein’s nuclear threat in 1987.
Israel eliminated Assad’s nuclear threat in 2007. For two decades, I have heard this PM, even before he was PM, say what we have spent 2000 years learning: “When someone tells you they want to destroy you, believe them.”
The IRI has regularly threatened to destroy Israel.
A nuclear IRI would have that capability. Israel has said that Iran was reaching the point of enrichment where it would have had enough fully enriched uranium for 15 nuclear weapons. 1/2