Former Mossad chief Tamir Pardo on Tuesday criticized an alleged Mossad operation against Iran’s Natanz nuclear plant as counterproductive to ending the nuclear threat.
The former Mossad chief, both in his opinion and in recent public appearances, criticizes any Israeli strategy based on publicly hitting heads with the US in connection with the return to the 2015 nuclear deal.
Rather, he wrote that “the United States and Israel share a similar assessment of the Iranian nuclear threat and the regional threat, but are also firmly committed to the same goal of preventing Iran from acquiring nuclear weapons.”
Moreover, he said, “However, in practice, no issue has divided Israeli and American policies and leaders more than the Iranian nuclear deal,” and that it is crucial to move forward “to avoid mistrust and acrimony between the United States and Israel ”, which maneuver characterized around the JCPOA.
Instead of US conferences to reach a new agreement that meets all of Israel’s security concerns, Pardo suggested that Israel support the Biden administration’s two-phase approach – in particular the second phase of JCPOA extension and consolidation.
Sharing with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and current Mossad director Yossi Cohen, who believes that undercover actions combined with sanctions pressure can achieve several Israeli security goals, he said, there is an alternative diplomatic platform to deal with the immediate crisis available. “
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Pardo expressed particular concern that the Biden administration must find ways to reverse Iran’s progress on advanced centrifuges and ensure that IAEA inspectors have free access.