SATISH SHARMA - not just Rotigraphy.: What Israeli military leaders really worry about -- but cannot talk about -- is losing their nuclear monopoly.

https://x.com/propandco/status/2077900120775921753

The Clinton Wikileak emails lay it out perfectly 

UNCLASSIFIED U.S. Department of State Case No. F-2014-20439 

Doc No. C05794498 

Date: 11/30/2015

“For Israeli leaders, the real threat from a nuclear-armed Iran is not the prospect of an insane Iranian leader launching an unprovoked Iranian nuclear attack on Israel that would lead to the annihilation of both countries. 

What Israeli military leaders really worry about -- but cannot talk about -- is  losing their nuclear monopoly. 

An Iranian nuclear weapons capability would not only end that nuclear monopoly but could also prompt other adversaries, like Saudi Arabia and Egypt, to go nuclear as well. 

The result would be a precarious nuclear balance in which Israel could not respond to provocations with conventional military strikes on Syria and Lebanon, as it can today. 

If Iran were to reach the threshold of a nuclear weapons state, Tehran would find it much easier  to call on its allies in Syria and Hezbollah to strike Israel, knowing that its nuclear weapons would serve as a deterrent to Israel responding against Iran itself.”

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Richard Medhurst

@richimedhurst

At the risk of stating the obvious, it's abundantly clear now that the JCPOA was the long game. They slowed down Iran's nuclear program, made sure there was no weapon, took care of Syria, and then pounced. The Americans play strategy correctly and the lesson here is that ideology