Being Independent And Without Foreign Assistance, Former Director Of Israel's Mossad Calls Iran's Nuclear Program Hard To Stop

Iran's Bushehr nuclear facility. (Wikimedia Commons/Tasnim News Agency/Hossein Heidarpour)

JAKARTA - Prime Minister Naftali Bennett has yet to decide on Iran's strategy, although he seems tempted to revert to the previous government's approach, said the former director of Israeli Mossad intelligence, Tamir Pardo.

Speaking at a conference at Reichman University, Pardo said: "The question is, does Israel have a strategy regarding Iran? I think Israel still doesn't have a strategy. But to me, it seems a tendency for Israel to go back to what was before," Pardo said in a statement. conference at Reichman University, quoted from The Jerusalem Post November 24.

Pardo is an outspoken critic of the policies of former prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who advocated a strong and open critique of the US-sponsored 2015 JCPOA nuclear deal, as well as the hopes of President Joe Biden's administration for a return to the deal.

On the other hand, the former Mossad director said with all the loopholes, the deal also had its advantages, noting that Jerusalem should not fight with Washington in public over policy differences over Iran.

Instead, he said Israel should work quietly behind the scenes to convince the United States to step up the deal.

"Can we threaten war all day long?" he asked, explaining the reason again on Tuesday.

"To carry out a single targeted attack, there is no better force than Israel," he said.

However, it contrasts Israel's successful single-target attacks on Iraqi and Syrian nuclear reactors in 1981 and 2007, as a much more difficult situation.

Iran is "not the same opera," referring to the code name for the attack on Iraq's nuclear reactor. "Only the US knows how" to attack Iran's nuclear facilities.

"There will be dozens of counter-story targets in Iraq and Syria that will likely be beyond Israel's capabilities," he said, adding stopping Iran was also more difficult because most of its nuclear program was self-built, it could be rebuilt without foreign help.

As for Iraq and Syria, the main nuclear facilities targeted were all foreign construction and those countries barely had the ability to rebuild themselves.