In an interview with the New York Times last month, President-elect Joe Biden restated his intention to return to the 2015 nuclear deal with Iran. Israel opposes this plan because the 2015 deal ensures Iran will become a nuclear armed state.
Media reports over the past few weeks have detailed some of Israel’s plans to convince the incoming administration to reconsider its position. Among other things, the government intends to use the documents from Iran’s nuclear archive Mossad agents spirited out of Tehran in 2018 to show Biden and his advisors that the 2015 deal was based on the incorrect assumption that Iran’s nuclear program was defensive and civilian. The archive proves incontrovertibly that Iran’s nuclear program was conceived and has always been about making nuclear bombs, not medical isotopes. And the purpose of a nuclear arsenal is not to defend against its enemies, but to obliterate them. (Read More)
