Israel – Iran – and the Bombs

The recently appointed Head of Israel’s legendary Mossad warned that "Iran is working at this very moment to realize its nuclear dream under the cover of international protection, [...] with lies and concealment, Iran is in a constant state of advancing its plan to create weapons of mass destruction."

 

Israel should know and perhaps this is also why it is so worried. After all, lying and concealing to create weapons of mass destruction is exactly what Israel itself has done, from the very beginning, in 1958, when some 1500 French engineers and technicians built a nuclear reactor in Israel’s desert town of Dimona. The cover story was that it was a... textile plant. This same "textile plant", experts believe, has produced between 90 and 400 nuclear warheads, which Israel now possesses.

 

The reactor was built long before Israel became a client-state of the USA, which became suspicious of the secret goings-on in the Israeli desert, and demanded to be allowed to visit the site. Israel prevaricated, lied, and misled. For years, Israel lied and cheated the whole world as to the true purpose of its Dimona project. It still is, according to Israel, a research facility only. A super-clandestine organisation was established by Israel for the acquisition, by any means possible, including theft, of materials and equipment,including bomb-grade uranium, which it required for its bomb production.

 

Israel will still not allow supervision by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA). Indeed, like India, Pakistan and North Korea, Israel has never signed the international nuclear non-proliferation treaty (NPT).

 

Understandably, Israel and other countries are worried about the Iranian nuclear programme. It is, however, somewhat ridiculous for the head of Israel’s Mossad to bemoan “Iran’s lies and concealment”. As far as nuclear plans and programmes go, Iran is as honest as Israel.