Israel would not be passive simply because the majority of the world was willing to look the other way on Iran’s nuclear program.
Incoming
Mossad director David Barnea on Tuesday gave a threatening speech against Iran,
alluding to potential future assassinations of its nuclear scientists and
attacks on its nuclear facilities.
"The
Iranian [nuclear] program will continue to be met with the full power of the
long arm of the Mossad," Barnea said. "We are very familiar with the
different components of the nuclear program and we are very familiar personally
with the officials involved in it and also with the officials who direct them.”
Though
most of Barnea’s statements below were distributed to The Jerusalem Post and
other outlets by the Prime Minister’s Office, the above veiled threat was
reported by Yediot Aharonot.
The
incoming Mossad chief said that, “Iran is acting even at this very moment to
realize its nuclear vision, under international auspices. Using the [nuclear]
deal and without it, with lies and with concealment, Iran is more advanced than
ever toward developing a weapon for genocidal destruction.”
He said
that the spy agency would undertake a mix of operations and the use of advanced
technologies – likely a reference to cyber attacks among other capabilities –
to keep the Islamic Republic in check.
Barnea
thanked Cohen, adding that some real-time comments Cohen made during operations
had made a huge and fateful difference and that his personal contribution had
been critical.
Further,
he said that Israel would not be passive simply because the majority of the
world was willing to look the other way on Iran’s nuclear program.
“We will
not act according to the idea that ‘majority rules’ [among the nations] since
that same majority will not be stuck with paying the price for their mistaken
evaluation of the threat,” he stated as reported by Yediot.
https://www.jpost.com/israel-news/new-mossad-head-barnea-hints-at-continued-assassinations-attacks-on-iran-669807