Netanyahu: Iran Nuclear Cancer Removed for Now, but Threat Lingers

On Tuesday, Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu appeared on Newsmax's The Record With Greta Van Susteren. The Prime Minister, speaking of Iran's nuclear program, confirmed some data points we had presumed for some time now, along with pointing out that the Iranian nuclear weapons project has, at least, been dealt a major setback.

That may be something of an understatement.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told Newsmax Tuesday that the war Israel and the United States are involved with against Iran happened in part because Iran was "on the verge of making nuclear weapons."
Netanyahu told "The Record With Greta Van Susteren" that the timing was close.
"We pushed that immediate threat away. We destroyed a lot of their infrastructure, a lot of their centrifuges, a lot of the associated factories and facilities that they use for manufacturing nuclear weapons," he said.
"We knocked out 20 of their top nuclear scientists — 20 of their top nuclear scientists. So we pushed it back considerably."

To paraphrase Shakespeare, military strikes provoke the desire, but take away the performance. There's not much doubt that what's left of Iran's civil leadership and the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), which appears to have seized control of all of Iran's remaining military (which ain't much) would still love to have a nuke to toss at somebody. What's more, PM Netanyahu seems to have few illusions as to who would be first on the target list.

Netanyahu said while Iran no longer has the capability to construct a nuclear bomb, the desire remains.
"It's like when you excise a lump of cancer from your body, you know it may come back. But you know one thing: If you wouldn't do it, you could die," he said.
"And Israel was obviously placed with an existential threat. And America was threatened with a very great danger.

An existential threat is precisely the right way to look at it.

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Here in the United States, we're accustomed to the vastness of our landscape, and believe you me, nowhere is that vastness more apparent than here in Alaska. An Iranian nuke could take out a city, easily; any of the East or West Coast cities could be devastated. But, horrible as that would be, it would still leave most of the United States unscathed, and primed for an overwhelming response. But Israel, now, is about the size of New Jersey, about 8,470 square miles compared to New Jersey's 8,700 square miles, and the population is similarly dense, with Israel's 9.3 million compared to the 8.9 to 9.3 million residents (depending on how you count) in New Jersey. One nuke would do horrendous damage; three or four could wipe out much of Israel's population.

It's also a safe bet that Israel would be first on any Iranian nuke target list. They'd hit Tel Aviv, or maybe Haifa. But they would hit Israel, and it would be a devastating blow, made all the more so by the fact that Israel would certainly respond in kind. Buh-bye, Tehran.

So, as Mr. Netanyahu points out, the United States and Israel may have bought the civilized world some time. Iran will try again; that is, if you'll pardon the expression, sure as shooting. But for now, they're defanged, proving once more that there is no problem that cannot be solved by the suitable application of high explosives.

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