Secret diplomatic spy cables obtained by Al Jazeera and The Guardian reveal that Israel's Prime Minister, Binyamin Netanyahu, made claims before the United Nations regarding Iran's nuclear capabilities which were contradicted by Israel's own intelligence establishment.
Per The Guardian:
Netanyahu’s dramatic declaration to world leaders in 2012 that Iran was about a year away from making a nuclear bomb was contradicted by his own secret service, according to a top-secret Mossad document.
It is part of a cache of hundreds of dossiers, files and cables from the world’s major intelligence services – one of the biggest spy leaks in recent times.
Brandishing a cartoon of a bomb with a red line to illustrate his point, the Israeli prime minister warned the UN in New York that Iran would be able to build nuclear weapons the following year and called for action to halt the process.
But in a secret report shared with South Africa a few weeks later, Israel’s intelligence agency concluded that Iran was “not performing the activity necessary to produce weapons”. The report highlights the gulf between the public claims and rhetoric of top Israeli politicians and the assessments of Israel’s military and intelligence establishment.
This is the man Speaker John Boehner arranged to speak before Congress
behind President Obama's back. Because he's a leading world 'expert' on Iran's nuclear capabilities and "
the perfect person to deliver the message of how serious this threat is" from Iran.
Oops.
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David Harris-Gershon is author of the memoir What Do You Buy the Children of the Terrorist Who Tried to Kill Your Wife?, recently published by Oneworld Publications.