"He said he was “absolutely confounded” by comments former Mossad head Meir Dagan made last month, when he warned Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu against a military attack on Iran and said this would trigger a regional war and spur on the Iranian nuclear program.
In Bolton’s view, a military strike – which he said the US could do better than Israel, but of which Israel was capable – is critical to protecting the world from a nucleararmed Iran; something that he said would change the regional and global balance “forever, irreparably, badly.”
He likened Dagan’s comments to the US National Intelligence estimate in 2007, which said Iran was no longer pursuing a bomb, and said the comments were not only inaccurate, “but also destructive, and something that will take time to get over.”
“I am not a shrink; I don’t know what motivated him to do it,” Bolton said of Dagan, a man he said he respects. “But I think factually it is incorrect in a lot of respects.”
Not only should Israel strike Iran, Bolton said, but it should have done so three years ago, when the Iranian program was less advanced and Israel had a sympathetic friend like George W. Bush in the White House.
“The likely outcome right now of Iran’s nuclear weapons program is that in a very short time, Iran is going to have nuclear weapons. That is the near-certain outcome.
Diplomacy isn’t going to work, it hasn’t worked; sanctions aren’t going to work, and they haven’t worked. Computer viruses are wonderful things, but they are not going to work. The Iranians are very close and they have been for some time, and the only reason why they are not rushing is because they are not worried anybody is going to do anything. So they can build up their capacity almost at leisure”.............READ MORE
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