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Sunday, September 17, 2017
From the Liveblog of
Sunday, September 17, 2017
Mossad chief reportedly directing hard-line Israel position on Iran
Mossad chief Yossi Cohen is leading Israel’s “hawkish line” on Iran, calling for immediate action to ensure that Tehran cannot attain the bomb, an Israeli TV report says.
Channel 2 on Sunday paraphrases Cohen as asserting: “Today’s Iran is the North Korea of yesterday, and so we need to act now so that we don’t wake up to (an Iranian) bomb.”
Other Israeli security officials, the report says, however, are warning that Israel should not be pushing the US into another Middle Eastern conflict, given what happened when the US tackled Iraq and Saddam’s ostensible weapons of mass destruction over a decade ago.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu toasts outgoing director of Mossad Tamir Pardo (L) and his successor Yossi Cohen, at a ceremony in Tel Aviv, on January 6, 2016. (Kobi Gideon / GPO)
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