“The problem with Iran’s nuclear program is that, for the time being, there is no diplomatic mechanism to make them stop,” said Zohar Palti, the former intelligence director in the Mossad who now heads the Defense Ministry’s political-military bureau, in an interview with the New Yorker magazine.
“There is no deterrent,” he added. “Iran is no longer afraid.”
“We don’t want to reach a point where we will have to ask ourselves how Iran was allowed to enrich to 90%,” Palti added.
On Monday, world leaders and Iran resumed talks aimed at reviving the 2015 nuclear deal. The latest round of talks in Vienna, the eighth, reconvened after a more than five-month gap prompted by the arrival of a new hardline government in Iran. READ MORE
