Netanyahu: I̶r̶a̶n̶ 'brazenly lied' about nuclear program, continued work after deal

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Netanyahu: ̶I̶r̶a̶n̶ 'brazenly lied' about nuclear program, continued work after deal

https://www.timesofisrael.com/pm-iran-lied-about-nuclear-plans-continued-to-expand-program-after-deal/

Knesset authorizes PM and defense minister to declare war alone

"62 MKs back, 41 oppose law spearheaded by Justice Minister Ayelet Shaked and Avi Dichter permitting cabinet to launch military operations without government approval, and in extreme cases, only requires green light from prime minister and defense minister.."

https://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-5247005,00.html

[Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty]

"Four UN member states have never accepted the NPT, three of which are thought to possess nuclear weapons: India, ISRAEL, and Pakistan."

"Iran is a party to the NPT."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NNPT

NYTimes Again Ignores Israel’s Nukes

https://consortiumnews.com/2013/10/02/nytimes-again-ignores-israels-nukes/

The truth about Israel's secret nuclear arsenal

"Israel refused to countenance visits by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), so in the early 1960s President Kennedy demanded they accept American inspectors. US physicists were dispatched to Dimona but were given the run-around from the start."

"The lead American inspector, Floyd Culler, an expert on plutonium extraction, noted in his reports that there were newly plastered and painted walls in one of the buildings. It turned out that before each American visit, the Israelis had built false walls around the row of lifts that descended six levels to the subterranean reprocessing plant."

"In fact, US involvement went deeper than mere silence.. ..CIA deputy director.. ..informed a dozen officials from the US Nuclear Regulatory Commission that the agency suspected some of the fissile fuel in Israel's bombs was weapons-grade uranium stolen under America's nose from a processing plant in Pennsylvania."

"Not only was an alarming amount of fissile material going missing at the company, Nuclear Materials and Equipment Corporation (Numec), but it had been visited by a veritable who's-who of Israeli intelligence, including Rafael Eitan, described by the firm as an Israeli defence ministry "chemist", but, in fact, a top Mossad operative who went on to head Lakam."

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jan/15/truth-israels-secret-nuclear-arsenal

[Written back when the Grauniad had cred and cachet.]

Israel & Iran: Double standards on nuclear weapons

http://www.david-morrison.org.uk/iran/iran-israel-double-standard.htm

"And I think that while they are certainly pressing, in my opinion, for a nuclear capability, I think that they would see it in the first instance as a DETERRENT. They are surrounded by powers with nuclear weapons -- Pakistan to their east, the Russians to the north, the Israelis to the west, and us in the Persian Gulf " -- Robert Gates, Former CIA Director [2006 Senate confirmation hearings for secretary of defense]

Israel's Worst-Kept Secret

"Nuclear weapons did not deter Egypt and Syria from attacking Israel in 1973, Argentina from attacking British territory in the 1982 Falklands War or Iraq from attacking Israel during the 1991 Gulf War,"

"Israeli-American historian Avner Cohen has written that U.S. adherence to this policy evidently grew out of a September 1969 meeting between President Richard Nixon and Israeli Prime Minister Golda Meir. No transcript of the meeting has surfaced, but Cohen said it is clear the two leaders struck a deal: Israel would not test its nuclear weapons or announce it possessed them, while the United States wouldn’t press Israel to give them up or to sign the Non-Proliferation Treaty, and would halt its annual inspections of Dimona, the site of Israel’s Negev Nuclear Research Center."

https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2014/09/israel-nuclear-weapons-secret-united-states/380237/

From September 2012:

Netanyahu's bomb diagram succeeds – but not in the way the PM wanted

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2012/sep/27/binyamin-netanyahu-cartoon-bomb-un

29 months later:

Leaked cables show Netanyahu’s Iran bomb claim contradicted by Mossad

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/feb/23/leaked-spy-cables-netanyahu-iran-bomb-mossad