US Intel Assessment: ‘Israel Likely to Strike Iran in Coming Months’

US Intel Assessment: ‘Israel Likely to Strike Iran in Coming Months’

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from 21st Century Wire:

According to a new US intelligence assessment, a preemptive attack by Israel would set back Iran’s nuclear program by “mere weeks or months”, but would also significantly escalate war tensions across the Middle East. 

Now a wanted war criminal by the International Criminal Court (ICC) in The Hague, the Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu seems more desperate than ever to avoid the courts at home and abroad by rebooting perpetual war in the region – and revive his obsession with the Islamic Republic of Iran’s non existent nuclear weapons program. In doing doing so, he risks dragging a vulnerable new Trump Administration into another yet disastrous regional war.

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For the past three decades, the crazed Israeli leader has been sounding the alarm about Iran’s nuclear program, and regularly threatens to attack the country, claiming that Tehran must face a “credible nuclear threat” from Israel – or the United States, if he is able to successfully drag Washington into the maelstrom.

That moment could be approaching soon…


IMAGE: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu shows phase two of his “Greater Israel Project” at the 78th United Nations General Assembly at the UN headquarters in New York on September 22, 2023 

Washington Post reports…

Israel is likely to attempt a strike on Iran’s nuclear program in the coming months in a preemptive attack that would set back Tehran’s program by weeks or perhaps months but escalate tensions across the Middle East and renew the prospect of a wider regional conflagration, according to U.S. intelligence.

The warnings about a potential Israeli strike are included in multiple intelligence reports spanning the end of the Biden administration and the beginning of the Trump administration, none more comprehensive than an early January report produced by the intelligence directorate of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and the Defense Intelligence Agency.

The report warned that Israel is likely to attempt a strike on Iran’s Fordow and Natanz nuclear facilities in the first six months of 2025. Current and former U.S. officials familiar with the intelligence told The Washington Post that the finding derives from an analysis of Israel’s planning following its bombing of Iran in late October, which degraded its air defenses and left Tehran exposed to a follow-on assault. The officials spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss highly classified intelligence.

The Israeli government, CIA, Defense Intelligence Agency and Office of the Director of National Intelligence declined to comment. A spokesman for the White House National Security Council, Brian Hughes, said President Donald Trump “has made it clear: He will not permit Iran to get a nuclear weapon.”

“While he prefers negotiating a resolution to American’s long-standing issues with the Iranian regime peacefully, he will not wait indefinitely if Iran isn’t willing to deal, and soon,” Hughes told The Post.

Hughes declined to comment on the underlying intelligence.

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