Former Mossad official warns: Iran is edging toward the nuclear threshold
Former senior Mossad official Haim Tomer, in an interview with Radio 103FM, supported the assessment of former Mossad chief David Barnea that the Iranian regime continues to pursue nuclear weapons. Tomer noted that recent shifts in Iranian rhetoric, including suggestions of revising Ali Khamenei's fatwa, stem from international pressure. He stated that he had identified Iranian efforts to develop nuclear capabilities as early as 2002. Tomer criticized the 2018 US withdrawal from the nuclear deal, attributing the decision to pressure from Benjamin Netanyahu, and argued that an agreement is preferable to no agreement as it allows for international oversight.