[ April 18, 2024 ]
A former U.S. intelligence official credited Mossad, Israel’s premiere intelligence agency, with making the world a safer place.
Norman Roule, the former national intelligence manager for Iran and an ex-CIA spy on Middle East affairs, said the “heroism” of Israel’s intel people has undoubtedly created a more peaceful world, most recently because of what’s been revealed about Iran’s nuclear designs.
Just a few days ago, Mossad discovered thousands of bits of information that showed beyond a shadow of doubt that Tehran’s nuclear program was anything but benign.
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In an interview with The Algemeiner on Thursday, a former top US intelligence official hailed the recent Mossad operation near Tehran that obtained thousands of documents related to the Iranian nuclear program, saying it showed “the incredible potency, imagination, and heroism of Israel’s intelligence services.”
Information found in the documents was unveiled on Monday in a televised presentation by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who described it as conclusive proof that Iran had consistently lied about the existence and nature of its nuclear program.
Asked about the significance of Netanyahu’s revelations, former National Intelligence Manager for Iran Norman Roule — who also spent three decades at the CIA working on Middle East issues — said, “The world is a much safer place, Israel and America are certainly much safer places, because of the heroism of Israel’s intelligence services.”
He added the Iran operation “would have required great preparation, a great sense of risk, and a type of attention to detail and planning for which Israel’s intelligence services are rightly well-known and rightly praised.”
As to the ramifications of the information revealed, Roule stated, “The material as explained thus far does not seem to change two fundamental judgments: First is that Iran ceased its nuclear weapons program in 2003 as stated in the 2007 National Intelligence Assessment. And second, that Iran has not reconstituted its nuclear weapons program since that time.”
However, he noted, “the fact that Iran has retained a cache of materials of this size and scale is very troubling. It will add strong ammunition for those who claim that Iran’s waiting for restrictions in the deal to end so that it may reconstitute its weapons program. I also believe that the vast quantity of the material is such that, though our judgments have not changed, it will not surprise me if we uncover new information that tells us that Iran has elements of its program it chose to hide from the international community.”
Referring to the P5+1 countries who negotiated the July 2015 nuclear deal with Iran, officially called the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), Roule asserted that the material “shows clearly that Iran has lied to its people, to the P5+1 members, and the world. The cache shows Iran cannot be trusted. And it shows that the JCPOA’s robust inspection effort led by the International Atomic Energy Agency is needed more than ever.”
Nevertheless, he stated, the evidence indicated that Iran could not immediately reconstitute its nuclear program: “It just shows that Iran kept the cookbook, the recipe for the program.”
Asked how Iran would react to Israel’s intelligence coup, Roule replied, “They will respond as usual — by lying, by propaganda. … They will then no doubt have a meeting where they say, ‘Who is responsible for this terrible security failure?’ And they will then watch and see how the West responds to this material. And we need to respond by vigorously pushing the IAEA to investigate all this material, and demanding immediate access to any sites, personnel, and equipment identified in the data. And if Iran does not comply, we need to look at this as a credible justification for a snapback of sanctions.”
“Snapback” refers to the reinstitution of sanctions on Iran that were rescinded as part of the JCPOA. This would be complicated due to the interest in economic investment in Iran that followed the deal.
Asked whether the Israeli intelligence presented by Netanyahu should push President Donald Trump and European leaders to drop the deal or at least insist on significant reforms, Roule stated, “You need to answer this in two ways: First, the main themes have already been known since 2007. And the fact that Iran’s Foreign Minister [Mohammad Javad] Zarif is a liar has been known to everyone for years. So there’s nothing new here. Also, the information that is put forward in Prime Minister Netanyahu’s presentation was previously shared — per press reports — with President Trump, so he knew this as well. I think that what Prime Minister Netanyahu’s presentation does is it carefully explains to the American people and to the world the nature of this discovery.”
The consequences of this “underscore the need to push Iran back very hard in all areas, and that includes Iran’s threat to Israel and the region and its ballistic missile program. And I believe strongly that this pressure will require sanctions if we are to avoid conflict, and that Europe in the coming days must produce a legitimate, reasonable, and serious sanctions proposal against Iran to deal with its regional and missile program as well as its nuclear issues.”
Roule noted that the problem with Iran was not confined to its nuclear program, but also its regional aggression, manifested by its direct intervention in the fighting in Syria and its sponsorship of terrorist and military proxies in Lebanon and Yemen.
“Because Iran’s nuclear weapons program has been dismantled and is under such international oversight, I think the most serious threat to stability and lives in region will come from Iran’s work with proxies and surrogates in Yemen and in Syria,” Roule said, pointing out this was not merely a threat to Israelis and Arabs, but also the many others who live and work in the Middle East.
“The missiles shot against Riyadh are a threat to the citizens of dozens of countries, not just Saudis, so this is an international threat,” he stated. “And the persistent efforts of Iran to build air defenses, missile, and other terrorist facilities in Damascus should be seen as a threat to the lives of Israelis as well as to Jordan and to the many thousands of other nationalities who are fortunate enough to live in these wonderful countries.”
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18 Comments
5 years ago
I am proud of Israel and congrats to the Mossad extraordinaire!
I would be lost without Israel. Looking forward to my fifth visit in the beautiful Jewish state of Israel.
Shabbat Shalom
G-d bless the Mossad and their bravery and intelligence!
5 years ago
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Mossad is the Best!
i wanted to migrate to israel …but …alas …. they took my DNA sample …
5 years ago
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SemurJengkolMaknyus
Israel is a beautiful country.
I have friends who have lived there and they say it is a very difficult place to live because you live under constant threat from the Arabs. Iran threatens Israel every single day.
You can’t get into a taxi driven by an Arab as they can kill you.
My friend said the Arabs cut a Jewish boy up and sent his body parts home to his parents.
D
5 years ago
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Mossad is the Best!
ISRAEL is a valuable ally.
takes out the nuclear reactors of Radical countries when we can’t for public relations concerns.
Now Mossad intelligence. they execute terrorists when we can’t. and gather intelligence.
D
5 years ago
I guess sanctions are a useful strategy in this case.
5 years ago
Mossad must stand strong against the rising tide of Islamic jihad!
5 years ago
Unfortunately, the Western powers have chosen not to learn from Mossad and its decades of intelligence gathering and its other endeavors against this blood cult, Islam. Islam is constructed around a lie, a deep-seated doctrine of bigotry, perversion, mass-murder of those deemed infidels. This is why Israel will not be duped or ensnared, unlike the Western imbeciles, by this spurious and apocalyptic cult. Israel will endure long after the West’s capitulation to Islam.
5 years ago
Not a big deal. The stealing of half a ton of Iranian Top Secrets. Not a Big Deal at all. When you realize that Israels’ scientists have perfected a Star-Trec Cloaking Device. With the cloaking shied activated, any school kid could of waltzed in and gotten whatever they wanted. Shucks.
5 years ago
This is all part of the Mossad’s training, they know that every muslim is a liar, working from there, obtaining evidence is usually possible as muslims are braggarts and cry bullies too.
5 years ago
while mossad works to protect Israel. CIA , FBI , NsC, State dept , DOJ works to protect Democrat crooks.
Clinton mafia still active after Trump takeover as they killed another witness 
to email investigation http://tinyurl.com/y8p9cv5l
They know their hold overs in FBI / DOJ /NSC will help them out !
Unless they are totally purged including Left/Liberal judges not involved in the cases
to keep out their bias …its uphill task to prosecute them.
5 years ago
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Suresh
Clinton mafia was responsible for the murders of philanthropic Barry Sherman and Honey Sherman.
Trump was right Hillary should be in prison!
5 years ago
Israel is a small country. One nuke and it’s gone. They have to keep on their toes.
5 years ago
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Alleged-Comment
And yet, Israelis rate very high on the ‘happiness’ index, far above Americans in their joy in being alive.
5 years ago
It is interesting to note that Mossad keeps a hit list in the vault of its director outlining individuals deemed undesirable and/or dangerous about the world and each newly elected PM has to sign off on it as his first duty in office. Ever wonder who assassinated those scientists working on Iran’s nuclear program? I’ll give you three guesses and the first two don’t count.
5 years ago
Jordan a “wonderful country”? A “wonderful country” whose constitution specifically prohibits Jews from being citizens and prohibits Jews from wearing any identifying religious attire while traveling in their country and has lax punishments for honour killings and is in fact nothing but the typical totalitarian, religious apartheid muslum state.
