For more than three decades, the familiar refrain has been echoed by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu: Iran is on the road to developing nuclear weapons.
Since 1992, Netanyahu has consistently claimed that Tehran has been just years -old to acquire a nuclear bomb, addressing Israel’s Nesset as an MP. “In three to five years, we can make CAN that Iran will become autonomous in the ability to develop and produce a nuclear bomb,” he announced at the time. This forecast was later repeated in terrorism of his 1995 book fighting.
The consciousness of imminent threat has repeatedly formulated Netanyahu’s engagement with the United States officials. In 2002, he appeared before the US Congress Committee, advocating for Iraq for the invasion and suggesting that both Iraq and Iran were running nuclear weapons. The US -led Iraq invasion soon followed, but the weapons of mass destruction were not found.
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In 2009, the US State Department, released by WikiLeaks, revealed that Congress had told members that Iran was just one or two years away from nuclear capacity.
Three years later, in the United Nations General Assembly, Netanyahu branded the cartoon diagram of the bomb, explaining its rights that Iran was closer to the nuclear limit. “By next spring, by next summer … they will finish the moderately enrichment and go to the final stage,” he said in 2012.
Now, 30 years after the first warning, Israel has attacked Iran, but Netanyahu said the threat remains an emergency. “If you do not stop, Iran can produce a nuclear weapon in a very short time,” he recently argued, indicating that the timeline could be months, weeks.
These propositions continue despite the statement of US National Intelligence Directors earlier this year that Iran is not building a nuclear weapon.
For Netanyaya, this message has rarely changed in decades – it is a warning to transfer intelligence evaluations and diplomatic developments.
