US used Iran as cover-up for Israel's nuclear weapons: Analyst
Press TV has talked to Jim W. Dean, the managing editor of Veterans Today from Atlanta, and Lawrence J. Korb, a former US assistant secretary of defense from Washington, about the threats posed by Israel’s nuclear arsenal.
Jim W. Dean believes that it is “an open secret” within the United States’ intelligence and defensive services that Israel’s nuclear program is in violation of the US law; but nothing can be said publicly, because it makes Washington’s aid to Israel illegal and turns the whole non-proliferation efforts to “an international joke.”
During all these years, Dean added, instead of focusing on Israel, the US has tried to deviate the public opinion towards Iran’s nuclear program through baseless accusations.
“The US was also involved in the killing of Iranian scientists, giving the cover that they must have an illegal nuclear weapons program or otherwise they wouldn't be killing Iranian nuclear scientist and we know now that those scientists were murdered just to give a cover reality that Iran was a threat,” he underscored.
“So, it's very timely that this story is coming out now and hopefully it will get this back on the front burner and have the American public finally demand from this public officials why they have we been lied to on such a massive scale for so long.”
However, Lawrence J. Korb asserted that Israel’s nuclear weapons have been mainly devised for “deterrence,” adding that Tel Aviv became a nuclear power years before the establishment of Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) and “therefore, technically, it is not the violation of the law.”
“They [Israelis] got them originally to deter attacks from other countries in the region like they had in 1967 and 1973 when they were the smallest country in the region and you had a lot of the countries there that didn't even recognize their existence,” Korb argued.
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