{"id":2091,"date":"2007-12-22T04:12:04","date_gmt":"2007-12-22T04:12:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/war-terrorism\/intel-israel-to-attack-iran-ultimately\/2091\/"},"modified":"2007-12-22T04:12:04","modified_gmt":"2007-12-22T04:12:04","slug":"intel-israel-to-attack-iran-ultimately","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/war-terrorism\/intel-israel-to-attack-iran-ultimately\/","title":{"rendered":"Intel: Israel to attack Iran ultimately"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana\" id=\"ctl00_ContentPlaceHolder1_lblBody\"><strong>A former senior US intelligence official says Israel will ultimately attack Iran in order &#8216;to defend its nuclear monopoly&#8217; in the region. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I came back from a trip to Israel in November convinced that Israel would attack Iran,&#8221; said Bruce Riedel, the former CIA official and senior adviser to three US presidents, including George W. Bush, on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>Riedel said his conversations with Israeli officials and Mossad proved to him that Tel Aviv is planning to strike Iran&#8217;s nuclear sites.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;And that was before the NIE [US National Intelligence Estimate]. This makes it even more likely,&#8221; Newsweek quoted Riedel as saying.<\/p>\n<p>Political pundits believe the Israelis consider the recent US intelligence assessment as a signal of Washington&#8217;s reluctance to follow the Zionist regime&#8217;s hawkish policies towards Iran.<\/p>\n<p>Riedel added that the Bush administration&#8217;s failure to discuss the NIE report with Israeli intelligence agencies before its release on Dec. 3 only complicated the problem for Israel.<\/p>\n<p>The prevailing view among Israeli intelligence officials is that the NIE has isolated the Zionist regime in its attempts to portray Tehran&#8217;s nuclear program as a threat.<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.presstv.ir\/detail.aspx?id=35827&amp;sectionid=351020104\">MD\/HGH\/RE<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A former senior US intelligence official says Israel will ultimately attack Iran in order &#8216;to defend its nuclear monopoly&#8217; in the region. &#8220;I came back from a trip to Israel in November convinced that Israel would attack Iran,&#8221; said Bruce Riedel, the former CIA official and senior adviser to three US presidents, including George W. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[34,67],"class_list":{"0":"post-2091","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-war-terrorism","7":"tag-iran","8":"tag-israel"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2091","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2091"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2091\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2091"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2091"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2091"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}