The outgoing deputy head of Israel’s Mossad, named only as “A,” issued a blast at Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s handling of Iran in an interview with Hebrew-language daily Yedioth Ahronoth. “If I look at today, March 2021, then we have a situation in which there is uranium enrichment in Fordow, there is activity in Kashan, there is work at Natanz, they have accumulated 2.5 tons of enriched uranium, and now advanced centrifuges, too. But we are in a democratic system,” A said, appearing to suggest Netanyahu has been at fault, reported the Jerusalem Post.
In addition, A stated that the prime minister had set himself up “in complete opposition” to the Obama administration, and this reduced Israel’s ability to mitigate holes in the Iran deal. Moreover, while the Iran nuclear program is an existential threat and should be viewed as the top priority, the government has wrongly mixed in issues about Iran’s role in the region including its supplying of rockets and other weapons to Hezbollah in Lebanon and to Syria.
