Yisrael Beytenu party chairman Avigdor Liberman, a former defense minister, wrote on X that “in this confrontation between Israel and the axis of evil, we must win — and without defeating Iran and destroying its nuclear program, we cannot beat either Hezbollah or Hamas.
“In order to stop the Iranian nuclear program, which is already at weaponization stages, we must use all the tools at our disposal,” he continued. “It must be clear that, at this stage, it is impossible to prevent Iran from obtaining nuclear weapons via conventional means.”
Liberman was thus implying that Israel should use unconventional methods to stop the Iranian nuclear program, the most notable of which are atomic bombs. Having served in a variety of high-level ministerial positions throughout his career, including as defense minister, Liberman would be privy to Israel’s nuclear capabilities.
Israel has held a longstanding policy of nuclear ambiguity, in which the country neither denies nor confirms whether it possesses nuclear weapons. For decades, Israel has said that it will not be “the first to introduce nuclear weapons into the Middle East.”
According to foreign reports, Israel has about 90 nuclear warheads in its arsenal. READ MORE
