Israel takes a gamble
Frank Gardner
Security correspondent
Israel has taken a huge gamble with what it is calling Operation Rising Lion. Its argument runs that it had no choice, that Iran was already accelerating its work towards building a nuclear bomb and that this was its best and possibly last chance to prevent that from happening.
But the counter-argument is more pertinent today than ever before. And that is that when the dust settles from this latest Iran-Israel exchange of fire enough of Iran’s leadership will survive to now race for the bomb.
Hawks in Iran’s security establishment have long argued that not only is it Iran’s national right to have this weapon but that this would be the best deterrent against future attack.
They will have taken careful note of the different paths taken by Libya and North Korea. Libya’s Colonel Gaddafi gave up his Weapons of Mass Destruction programme in 2003 and eight years later he was dead in a ditch, overthrown by the Arab Spring protests, backed by Western air power.
By contrast, Kim Jong-Un’s regime in North Korea has defied Western sanctions and managed to build up a formidable arsenal of nuclear-tipped ballistic missiles. Nobody is in a hurry to attack North Korea. FULL ARTICLE AT:
Israel targets Iran's nuclear sites and military commanders in major attack - follow live
Israel targets Iran's nuclear sites and military commanders in major attack - follow live
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