A threat to the Ayatollah regime, yes.
Former Mossad chief Meir Dagan said Israel should hold off on attacking Iran and that he would prefer that the United States execute any attack.
Dagan also said in an interview aired Sunday on the CBS news program 60 Minutes that he feared an Israeli strike on Iran would lead to a regional war that would see at least 50,000 missiles fired on Israel from Hezbollah in the north and Hamas in the south.
It will be a devastating impact on our ability to continue with our daily life. I think that Israel will be in a very serious situation for quite a time, Dagan told Lesley Stahl. And wars, you know how they start. You never know how you are ending it.
Dagan began the interview by saying that An attack on Iran before you are exploring all other approaches is not the right way how to do it.
He went on to say, No doubt that the Iranian regime is maybe not exactly rational based on what I call Western thinking, but no doubt they are considering all the implications of their actions. They will have to pay dearly and all the consequences for it.
One sign of the Iranians forward thinking, Dagan said, is how they stall through diplomacy.
Dagan pointed out that a nuclear Iran is an international problem, not solely an Israeli one. Thus he believes that the United States could be the ones to attack Irans nuclear program.
If I prefer that somebody will do it, I always prefer that Americans will do it, he said.
Dagan added that an attack would not halt Irans nuclear program, only delay it, and asserted that there are dozens of sites throughout the country, not the four that are spoken about publicly.
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US President Barack Obama will never attack Iran
An op-ed appearing on the website of the most-read Israeli newspaper urges Tel Aviv to realize that US President Barack Obama will never attack Iran or even support an Israeli offensive.
Watching [Israeli] Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahus AIPAC [American Israel Public Affairs Committee] speech, it seems clear that he realized after talking to Obama that Israel is alone in this fight, the article published on Ynetnews said on Monday.
Obama seems to only be worried about a preemptive attack on Iran or the talk of war raising oil prices and thereby harming the US economy and his re-election campaign.
Obama was in fact bluffing to woo Jewish voters and stop an Israeli unilateral attack on Iran, when he claimed to have Israels back, the article said.
Not needing Jewish votes or reelection, the piece continued, If re-elected, President Obama, in his second term, will not attack Iran even as a last resort.
The US, Israel and some of their allies have accused Tehran of pursuing military objectives in its nuclear energy program.
The US and the EU have used this pretext to impose sanctions against Iran, while Tel Aviv has issued threats of a military strike against Irans nuclear facilities. Washington has repeatedly threatened Iran with all options on the table.
The Islamic Republic has strongly refuted Western allegations regarding its nuclear energy program, arguing that as a signatory to the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty and a member of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), it is entitled to develop and acquire nuclear technology for peaceful objectives.
Israels only remaining hope is that Obama will lose the election and be replaced by the Republicans, the article concluded.
