'Target Tehran': An important reminder that Iran cheats - review

As America attempts to entice the Ayatollah to rejoin a watered-down nuclear deal, sending billions in sanctioned funds held in South Korea in exchange for four US hostages, the Mossad remains hard at work thinking about innovative ways to slow the Iranian march to a nuclear weapons threshold state. They know the Iranians have cheated before and will cheat again, as the IAEA, the international body in charge of monitoring Iran’s nuclear program, puts its hands over its eyes, mouth, and ears.

The importance of reading a new book titled Target Tehran: How Israel Is Using Sabotage, Cyberwarfare, Assassination – and Secret Diplomacy – to Stop a Nuclear Iran and Create a New Middle East for US policymakers and senators working on the Iran file is, if for no other reason, to remind them that the Islamic Republic is a habitual cheater.

The book is co-written by Jerusalem Post military correspondent Yonah Jeremy Bob and former Jerusalem Report editor-in-chief Ilan Evyatar. The authors’ compelling recounting of Mossad’s theft of Iran’s nuclear archive “showed that Iran had been lying to the international community for years about its nuclear program, falsely claiming that it was only for civilian use.” Undermining the nuclear agreement was a priority for Prime Minister Netanyahu, who needed evidence that Iran still has the desire to have a nuclear bomb, something the archives heist conclusively proved.