Credit: Asia Times
By Gareth Porter
WASHINGTON – Two recent interviews apparently given by Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak provide evidence that the new wave of reports in the Israeli press about a possible Israeli attack on Iran is a means by which Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Barak hope to leverage a US shift toward Israel’s “red lines” on Iran’s nuclear program.
An interview given by a “senior official in Jerusalem” to Ynet News on Wednesday Israeli time makes the first explicit linkage between the unilateral Israeli option and the objective of securing the agreement of President Barack Obama to the Israeli position that Iran must not be allowed to have a nuclear weapons “capability”
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