Netanyahu Says Israel Won’t be Bound by Any Iran Deal || Isolated Israel Steps Up Threats Against Iran
- Isolated Israel Steps Up Threats Against Iran
by Henry Meyer, https://www.bloomberg.com/
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has twice nearly attacked Iran. Now there are almost daily Israeli warnings of a strike over Tehran’s nuclear program. Trying to decipher the seriousness of the threat is always hard as Israel’s long-standing policy has been to try and intimidate Iran into reining in its suspected nuclear weapons ambitions.
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While Iran maintains its program is for purely peaceful purposes, it’s been enriching uranium close to weapons grade. What’s troubling for Israel’s closest ally, the US, and oil-rich Persian Gulf states, is that the Israelis are feeling increasingly vulnerable. That’s also an issue for vital shipping lines that could end up in the firing-line of any Iranian retaliation.
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Iran has meanwhile been bolstered by a new military alliance with Russia and a Chinese-brokered entente with arch-rival Saudi Arabia. Its regional allies Hezbollah and Hamas have stepped up their targeting of Israel.
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