Ex-Mossad chief: In 2011 Netanyahu ordered military to ready Iran strike
By Stuart Winer
A former head of the Mossad spy agency said that in 2011 Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu ordered the country’s military to prepare to strike Iran at short notice, prompting the spy chief to check whether the premier had the authority to begin a process he was sure would lead to war.
Tamir Pardo made the revelations in an interview with Keshet’s “Uvda†(Fact) investigative reporting show, scheduled for TV broadcast on Thursday evening.
The events unfolded at a time when Netanyahu and then-defense minister Ehud Barak were concerned that the opportunity to hit Iran’s nuclear facilities was slipping away, as the sites would become so well-protected that any attempt to bomb them would be rendered ineffective. Israel feared that Iran was close to producing nuclear weapons, a development it had long vowed to stymie.
Read more at: https://www.timesofisrael.com/ex-mossad-chief-in-2011-netanyahu-ordered-military-to-ready-iran-strike/
So it is said, two different planned strikes against Iran were stopped.
Some members of Mossad have been at loggerheads with Netanyahu. The same can be said for some other parts of the Israeli government. Just because they say this happened, doesn't mean it did as far as I'm concerned.
